Cypress Hill Smokeout returns with Sublime with Rome, more

Start heating up the vaporizers and medicating your glaucoma: Cypress Hill Smokeout is returning on March 3 to the NOS Events Center in San Bernardino. 

Pre-sale tickets for Guerilla Union/Live Nation customers go on sale Wednesday and to the general public on Saturday. The bill features a slate headlined by Sublime with Rome, Wiz Khalifa, Cypress Hill, and Korn. Other artists scheduled to perform include Latin music legends Cafe Tecuba and the Dirty Heads. More artists will be announced closer to the date of the show. As in past years, the event will double as a concert and medical marijuana expo. Provided medical marijuana patients have a valid prescription from a doctor, there will be a designated area where they can smoke.

Ticket prices range from $86 to VIP packages of $461. 

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Photo: Cypress Hill. Credit: Cypress Hill. 

Cypress Hill percussionist Eric Bobo unveils 'Maestro'

Sometimes, it's just genetic. How else to explain Eric Bobo, son of Willie, the famed Latin jazz percussionist who played with (among others) Cal Tjader, Mongo Santamaria, Tito Puente and Carlos Santana?

Even if the name Eric Bobo doesn't immediately ring a timbale, readers have inevitably heard his work. Probably often. He was playing with his father's band at age 5 and took it over for a year at the age of 15 after the elder Bobo passed away. Later, he joined the Beastie Boys, playing percussion during their classic "Check Your Head" and "Ill Communication" run.

Then, after meeting Cypress Hill at the 1994 Woodstock, Bobo switched to the home team and has vividly contributed to the pan-Latin flair of the act's later sounds.