February 28th, 2007 07:26pm
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After a momentous 2006 that saw “decemberunderground” debut at #1 on the charts (the exact date: 6.6.06), AFI is back on the road again, playing UC Davis Thursday night and Eureka Municipal Auditorium next Friday (3/9).
Singer Davey Havok took a quick Hollywood studio break while wrapping up the next Black Audio album (his electronica side project with AFI guitarist Jade Puget) to chat about old stuff, new stuff and a …
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February 28th, 2007 02:51pm
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The opening soiree at the Mezzanine was all about skin – The Extra Action Marching Band letting it all hang out in G-strings and bikinis and sweaty doughboy Har Mar Superstar drooling funky R&B love anthems, stripped down to his tighty whities (alas blue) with his gut hanging out in a big fat grin.
Kicking off six nights of musical mayhem in San Francisco, the 15th annual indie fest spotlights a …
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February 25th, 2007 09:30pm
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Ahhhh, the gowns and the glory, the stars and the starstruck, the irresistible crap and pageantry of it all:
Finally, after 10 hours of red-carpet pomp and cleavage (Hot
this year: Gowns with pockets! Even hotter: E!’s “Glam-A-Strator,” think John
Madden but with America’s
Next Top Model’s Jay Manuel doing the limp-wristed scribbling, dissecting
fashion no-nos. Tipper Gore looking hot!!! As usual, but not as hot as Sally
Kirkland doing her best Stevie Nicks), everyone has …
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February 22nd, 2007 04:40am
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I gotta admit I’d heard some bad news about Todd Snider. A friend went to his show on Sunday at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco and said the Nashville neo-folkie was just plain off his game.
He kept rubbing his eyes – at least that’s the way the story went. He forgot some lyrics and played around an hour before booking it off the stage – something the …
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February 20th, 2007 08:12pm
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It’s no secret that the two fattest promoters in the Bay Area -
Bill Graham Presents and Another Planet Entertainment – have been making a big
push into Sonoma County for the past five years.
The problem is there’s no big
venue to work with -
and no one wants to pony up the cash to build one.
That’s why, a few years ago, BGP corralled 10,000 graying
boomers into a random practice field at Sonoma …
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February 15th, 2007 03:28pm
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Hanging out in the beer garden before the Dolly Parton
concert, waiting for Dolly drag queens who never arrived, I stumbled on the
lovely Jessica Montoya.
Actually, I ran into Dolly Parton first, smiling at me from
her back in a fully realized tattoo, as Montoya crouched over to light a
cigarette.
“People say I look like a punk rocker,” she said. “But I
just love Dolly – what’s there not to love?”
I’d just met the real …
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February 12th, 2007 04:10am
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It’s been said before and I’ll say it again: The Grammys are lame.
So
much for the obvious.
But every year, like Japanese talk shows, George
Bush, midget tossing and Michael Jackson, it’s hard not to watch.
We
all know it’s a big fat pat on the back. An industry love letter to
itself – in this case a stubbornly desperate industry at odds
with the Digital Age.
So why watch? Maybe it’s the spectacle. The overkill. The cheese. …
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February 11th, 2007 11:52pm
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It’s been said before and I’ll say it again: The Grammys are lame.
So much for the obvious. But every year, like Japanese talk shows, George Bush, midget tossing and Michael Jackson, they’re hard not to watch.
We all know it’s a big fat pat on the back. An industry love letter to itself – in this case a stubbornly desperate industry painfully at odds with the Digital Age.
So why watch? …
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February 8th, 2007 07:17pm
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Dolly wakes up early. Like when the rooster crows. Picture
12 kids growing up in a Unabomber-size shack in the Smoky Mountains
and you have a glimpse of her childhood.
So it’s no surprise lil’ miss rise-and-shine likes to do her
interviews early in the morning, before she gets around to the day’s business -
which lately has been holing up in a studio recording with Emmylou Harris and
Rodney Crowell and reworking a twangy cover …
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February 7th, 2007 04:15pm
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Former Velvet Teen drummer Logan Whitehurst was many things to many people.
A comic genius who never cussed (he preferred “Pants!” instead). The guy who drove the band bus away from the club when everyone else had had too much to drink. A caring soul who is sorely missed not only by the local music community, but around the world. (A Japanese fan club assembled a thousand paper cranes in his …
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Your Daily Dose. Whenever. Whatever. Wherever. Trolling Sonoma County and beyond, John Beck looks for cracks in the pop facade.
