International Goof-Off Day

Reese Witherspoon celebrates her birthday today, she's 36 and the latest rumor is that she is 12 weeks hapai.

The Muppets have finally secured their place in Hollywood history with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Their latest movie was released on DVD this week. I wish I could have watched it with my son's but it was still a fun movie.

More Cowbell! There's going to be a cowbell concert next month to help mark the 15th anniversary of the partnership between the rock band Phish and the ice cream maker Ben & Jerry's. Both the band and the company are from Burlington and are planning the world's largest cowbell ensemble on April 14. Proceeds from the event will go towards the band's charity to help the state recover from Tropical Storm Irene. The performance will be lead by Phish drummer Jon Fishman. 

Sports rumor...Tim Tebow may be heading to New York...

Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" has fallen a notch on Britain's best-selling album list. It was surpassed by Adele's 21. 

We had a great visit with the Harlem Globetrotters Wednesday morning. Tickets for the game/show May 12 go on sale Thursday morning at the Blaisdell Box Office and all Ticketmaster locations.

More concert news...

This note just came in from Tom Moffatt's office:

Iconic British rock group YES will stop in Hawaii on their way back from a tour of Australia and Japan, with concerts at the Blaisdell Concert Hall on Friday, April 27^th and the Maui Arts & Cultural Center's Castle Theater on Sunday, April 29^th! Both shows will begin at 7:30pm.

It's the first day of Spring...when a young (hey...and an old man's) man's attention turns to thoughts of...

Nobody throws a party like Jimmy Buffett! The weather for the day was a little iffy...but by the time the shell echoed with Hot Hot Hot, and Jimmy took to the stage, the skies had cleared and I think even the clouds were dancing! It's always fun to watch Parrott Heads in full battle gear. There's something that happens to a crowd when Jimmy plays and sings that we need to bottle and spread around the world! 

March Madness will meet up with rockers KISS when the legendary band performs a free concert along the Mississippi River in downtown New Orleans to celebrate the NCAA Final Four. Kiss will kick off The Big Dance Concert Series on Friday March 30.


Superstars Ann and Nancy Wilson of Heart are preparing to release their new box set. Strange Euphoria is a four-disc, 50 song collection of huge Heart hits, previously unreleased demos and rarities. The release happens June 5. The box set by the way, will be in the shape of a Heart! They'll also have a new studio album called Fanatic coming out on October 2. There's also a summer tour in the works.

Really???? It was on this day in 1990, the Colorado legislature made it legal to tear the "Do Not Remove" tags off mattresses.


It's also Proposal Day...if you're ready go ahead and pop the question!


Not the biggest news of the day...a swimmsuit model has been arrested on charges of heading an international meth ring...thinking out loud, "where do you hide the meth in a thong"...okay I'll stop.


Good news...(okay wishful thinking on my part)...Kate Hudson is not married, Goldie tweeted late Monday, "Darling once again twisted the truth. They aren't married."


New on movies on DVD today: 

• Carnage (Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz, John C. Reilly)
• The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo (Daniel Craig)
• Hop
• The Muppets (Amy Adams, Jason Segel)
• The Sitter (Jonah Hill)
• Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (Gary Oldman, Colin Firth)

Thanks for listening and have a wonderful first day of Spring!

Monday Monday...


#1 at the Box Office this weekend: 21 Jump Street...$35 million. I saw the premiere the other day and it really is funny and well written. Lot's of sex humor, just so you know. Here's the complete Top Ten:


1. 21 Jump Street, 35 million
2. Dr. Seuss' The Lorax, $22 million
3. John Carter, $13.5 million
4. Project X, 4 million
5. A Thousand Words, $3.75 million
6. Act of Valor, $3.6 million
7. Safe House, $2.8 million
8. Journey 2: The Mysterrious Island, $2.4 million
9. Casa De Mi Padre, $2.2 million
10. This Means War, $2.1 million 

Speaking of St. Patty's Day...a new survey found Washington D.C. to be the "drunkest city"! There are more heavy drinkers in Washington D.C. then anywhere else in the US. No wonder we're in such a mess! Here's the complete list:


1. Washington D.C.
2. New York, New York
3. Chicago
4. Austin
5. Boston
6. Denver
7. San Francisco
8. Portland, Oregon
9. Philly
10. St. Louis


By the way the lightest drinkers are in Las Vegas.


If you're reading this on Monday...Spring offically begins today! (like we notice...)


Goldie Hawn let it slip that her daughter, Kate Hudson is married. The lucky guy is Muse frontman Matt Bellamy.

Dancing with the Stars...Season Premiere tonight (Monday 3/19/12)...it's season 14, here are the new line-up of celebs, Jack Wagner, Family Matter's Jaleel White, Sherri Shepard, Melissa Gilbert, Disney star  Roshon Fegan, William Levy, Extra host Maria Menounos, pop singer Gavin Degraw, Opera Singer Katherine Jenkins, Gladys Knight, Green Bay Packers star Donald Driver and tennis great Martina Navratilova. 


And finally...Angry Birds Space lands this week...Thursday March 22 a new game will join the Angry Birds line-up. Angry Birds Space takes the war between the Angry Birds and their pig foes to outer space. Fans will enjoy 60 new challenges and 6 new charactors to join the battle. Zero gravity comes into play in this edition, and the game creators say you really have to think about what's going to happen with your shots because there are so many more options. Some of the familiar characters have brand new superpowers, like Yellow Bird now has laser targeting capabilities.


And finally finally...I didn't get a chance to play the new Jethro Tull on Friday so it's coming up this morning, listen for it and let me know what you think.

Aloha Friday...

First, a huge Mahalo to Laura Prados for stopping by this week with a gift of a pair of drum sticks and a few spares too! I broke my last stick going into our "More Cowbell" weekend and haven't had a chance to pick up a new pair. Thanks Laura!

End of another era...Did you hear that Encyclopedia of Britanica is no longer going to be published. I have to really thank them for giving me a lift in 

life! If it wasn't for two of them I wouldn't have been able to reach the table at dinner time!

...Bummed that the Stones are going to wait to next year to celebrate their 50th anniversary. However they may play a few select cities, let's hope Honolulu is on that list.

Great News this morning: Elton John is ready to release a new album come the fall called the "The Diving Board". T-Bone Burnett served as John's producer on the project. It's a return to John's early recordings featuring piano, bass and drums. T-Bone just finished up a project for Lisa Marie Presley which will be out May 15th.

The powers-that-be at Magnoia pictures have picked an unforgettable release date for the forthcoming Bob Marley documentary, Marley. The date 4/20!

I hope you get a chance to catch the Jimmy Buffett show this Sunday at the Waikiki Shell! Congratulations to Verle Heyer of Makakilo who won the Ultimate Parrot Head Experience! Here's Verle picking up his prize this morning with his family along with Bart Da Silva and me.

Of and speaking of concerts, Tom Moffatt's office just announced that Melissa Etheridge returns to Hawaii at the Blasidell Concert Hall on Monday, July 23rd at 7:30 pm and one show at the Maui Arts & Cultural Center's Castle Theater on Tuesday, July 24 at 7:30 pm.

See you at 6 am!

DOOBIE BROTHER DIES OF CANCER...Mike Hossack, longtime drummer for the Dobbie Brothers' has died of cancer. Mike was 65. He was the drummer during the band;s heyday, during the early 70's. He rejoined the band in 1987 and stopped performing two years ago. His work can be heard on "Listen to the Music" and "China Grove". He served in the Navy during the Vietnam war and is survived by his son and daughter. He died at his home in Wyoming on Monday.

We're back, okay I'm back. My goal is to sit down at least a few times a week and keep you up to date on the happenings in the world of Rock and Roll, here at the radio station, and share the cool things happening in your world too. So when something exciting happens to you, drop me a note at edkanoi@msn.com. 


Everybody is buzzing about the new restaurant that Gene Simmons of Kiss plans to build on Maui. The chain is called Rock & Brews. He also has plans to build them in Los Angeles, Denver, Atlanta and Tokyo. According to a company statement, when you're there, you should feel like you're backstage of a rock event. 

This Friday someone is going to win what we're calling the Ultimate Parrot Head experience! We're going to set you up the Holiday Inn Waikiki Beachcomber Hotel this weekend with dinner for two, an invitation to Jimmy's pre-show party, goodies from Margaritaville and 6th row seats to the show! It's been a lot of fun "finding Jimmy's lost shaker of salt." Congratulations to all of our finalist and as of this writing you two more days to qualify. Jimmy Buffett plays plays the Waikiki 


We're still standing! Check out our music news section of the web site, it's great to see our music doing so well, Bruce Springsteen is so close to #1 with his new album and the Beatles are now on Billboard's Money Makers list based on the sales of their catalogue on ITunes.