“John M. Perkins is an American civil rights leader. Born in Mississippi to a sharecropper, he grew up in the dire poverty and bitter racism of the time. At the age of 17 his older brother was murdered at the hands of a town marshal, so he fled the state vowing never to return. Yet in 1960 Dr. Perkins and his wife, Vera Mae Perkins, felt compelled to go back to help the poor in rural Mississippi.” Read more...
The 6th Annual Switchfoot Bro-Am presented by Hurleywill feature performances by Timmy Curran, Dynamite Walls, Jon Foreman and Friends, OK Go, Chris Shiflett & The Dead Peasants, The Almost, Kate Voegele and Young the Giant. The concert/surf contest will take place on Saturday, June 26th, at Moonlight Beach in Encinitas. Read more...
Switchfoot’s Jon Foreman gave us a special first-ever acoustic performance of “Mess of Me” during our interview with him for Project Rhythm Seed UNDERGROUND. The interviews can be seen here on our site or by visiting our Vimeo Site.