June 29th, 2007 06:42pm
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The one and only
Tommy Tutone
unplugs for a FREE acoustic
set at the Russian River Brewing Company at 5 p.m. Sunday, with Johnny Campbell
of The Pulsators on drums.
No, despite requests, he won’t play “Jenny (867-5309)” the entire
time (the calypso version, the metal years, elevator muzak, salsa!).
But, yes, people are still obsessed. So much that 25 YEARS
LATER they can’t stop calling the number. Click here to find out what happens
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June 29th, 2007 02:52pm
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Tom Waits may live in Sonoma
County, but your odds of seeing him
perform locally increase astronomically if you live in Oakland
or Vancouver or New York.
But still you insist on slumming it in the Wine Country
while holding your breath and scavenging the dump for signs of a castaway porkpie hat
or his carpool-weary Lexus.
Just for you, the Last Day Saloon stages a rare homage of
sorts on Sunday: Inside A Broken Clock …
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June 25th, 2007 05:41pm
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This year, I channeled my inner Bubba and took the leap – Infineon, the final frontier. After nearly 10 hours of ear-shattering, beer-splattering spectacle, I offer a few next-day impressions:
1. The Jagermeister booth should reinvent itself as The Jager Mister, for cooling off fans and showering them with alcohol.
2. Since half the fans seemed unaware that Booker T. Jones had ever sung before (or was even singing now), try staging …
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June 23rd, 2007 05:24pm
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The suspense had been building for weeks, maybe months. I wanted to know: Would the think tank at Pixar – oh surely they wouldn’t, it’s far too obvious, too literal, too bush league – but alas would they regurgitate UB40’s “Rat in Mi Kitchen” for the “Ratatouille” soundtrack?
We can all picture the chase scene: Ladles flying, knives diving to the floor, as Remy, the rodent Thomas Keller in training, scurries …
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June 22nd, 2007 04:21pm
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Flaunting one of the sexiest after-dark voices in the business, Eleni Mandell
filled the room with sweet murmurs and innuendo last night at Cafe Du Nord in San Francisco.
“I hope you’re having a good time,” she told a swaying crowd.
“I am. I’m wearing brown.”
Right. Funny how brown does that to you. Imagine black.
And so she did, in deep husky vocals not far from where Cat
Power and Jolie Holland overlap: “I wore …
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June 21st, 2007 12:00am
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estimated listening time: 2:46
Before Sierra Leone’s Refugee All-Stars play the Sierra Nevada World Music Festival in Boonville this Saturday and Great American Music Hall Friday, bandleader Reuben Koroma talks
about his exile during the civil war, his rediscovery of the power of music and
his return home….click on the links to listen:
when civil war blood flowsrun and hide, seek cover in anotherman’s land and find music
sing the songs of freedom:living like a …
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June 20th, 2007 04:23pm
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Making the most of what is possibly the most underappreciated prime real estate in the San Francisco Bay, Noise Pop and Another Planet Entertainment are teaming up for the first-ever Treasure Island Music Festival Sept. 15-16.
The two-day indie-rockapalooza stages Modest Mouse, Thievery Corporation, Spoon, Gotan Project, DJ Shadow & Cut Chemist, Built To Spill, M.I.A., Clap Your Hands Say Yeah and many more.
Organizers are calling it “the first music-based event …
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June 19th, 2007 04:35pm
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Cheryl Nixon is one tough cookie. While the owner of Friar
Tuck’s is busy renovating the space vacated by Sweet Lou’s (and formerly the Inn
of the Beginning), she’s more than happy to talk about the ever popular karaoke
night, which will continue on Wednesdays and Saturdays.
“The college kids love it,” she says. “We’re gonna get the
karoake and DJ nights up right away. The bands, if we have any bands, are down
the road.”
She’s …
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June 15th, 2007 05:59pm
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Mingle
with hottie Burleskimos in furkinis at Ice Flo, a Burning Man
fundraiser at 8 p.m. Saturday at the Sebastopol Brewing Company, 268 Petaluma Ave.
Tunes by Baby Seal Club and Pumps: Fire, dance by Amrita Bollywood Dancers
and the Tribal Fire Collective. $10. 823-7837.
Dip in
the river (but beware …
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June 15th, 2007 02:54pm
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More than two decades after bowing out of The Police in his prime, Sting couldn’t suppress a smirk Wednesday night as he sang “You consider me the young apprentice.”
But blown up on towering video screens, veins popping out of his neck, pogoing around the stage with his pawn-shop bass, it’s as if he never aged. Anchoring every song, his voice has held up amazingly well, echoed at every turn by …
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Your Daily Dose. Whenever. Whatever. Wherever. Trolling Sonoma County and beyond, John Beck looks for cracks in the pop facade.
