September 28th, 2007 07:41pm
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I caught up with Tevya Jones, frontman for Wisdom, the local
hip-hop/reggae band that just wrapped a SoCal tour with Steel Pulse (which included
an Anaheim gig down
the road from a Groundation show, small world).
Wisdom was originally booked for a solo show Saturday night
at the Mystic Theater, but now they’re opening for Stephen Marley in a sold-out show
Sunday.
The Steel Pulse tour materialized after Tevya ran into the
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September 26th, 2007 01:41pm
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When your boss ducks out for a three-martini lunch, click on this: We are the world. We are monoface.
When your boss shuts his office door for a quick nosepick, take the Idiot Test.
When you fail, play How to Keep an Idiot Busy.
When your boss calls in sick, play the piano at your desk all day.
When that gets old, track down the No. 1 song in America on your birthday.
Reminder: …
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September 25th, 2007 01:18am
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Maybe I’m in a mellow mood, but my favorite new release this week is Iron and Wine’s “Shepherd’s Dog.”
Sifting through whatever dropped today, I gift you a new mix tape:
1.”Boy with a Coin” / Iron and Wine
2. “The Pretender” / Foo Fighters
3. “You Don’t Know Me At All” / Betty LaVette
4. “Seahorse” / Devendra Banhart
5. “Lovesong of the Buzzard” / Iron and Wine
I made this Flash Music Player at MyFlashFetish.com.
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September 22nd, 2007 09:15pm
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Staying true to his love of anything built before 1948, Keith
Tardell brought back his Hot Rod Revolution fest for a second year in
Penngrove.
And even though rain threatened all day, at least a few
hundred road warriors showed up: A healthy mix of the young rockabilly crowd
with tats, rolled up jeans and Bettie Page bangs and the old-school DIY car-club
guys – diehards like Vern Tardell who can fix anything and build anything.
Tony …
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September 20th, 2007 03:17pm
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For years a fist in the gut of corporate punk, Against Me!
is now the essence of corporate punk, touring the country on their Warner
Brothers/Sire debut “New Wave.”
Wednesday night at the Phoenix Theater, there was nothing homogenous
or reeking of a “sell out” in the song “Americans Abroad” – a political rant
denouncing America’s global reach while frontman Tom Gabel and bassist Andrew
Seward spat vocals back and forth like a two-headed dragon and …
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September 19th, 2007 07:25pm
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Campus MovieFest at Sonoma State
wrapped on Monday. After scoring free cameras and laptops on Sept. 11, student
auteurs had a week to cast, shoot, edit and slap together a movie.
Now the moment of reckoning has arrived. The best of the lot
will premiere at 7:30 p.m. Friday at Person Theatre at Sonoma State. To get in the mood, here’s a sneak peek of director Jon
Finger and Team Mojok’s making-of doc:
Top films screened …
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September 18th, 2007 06:19pm
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Full disclosure: This is not really a blog at all. It’s a straight up show advance. A feel-good interview with Against Me! frontman Tom Gabel. It was supposed to kick off a big, fat, fall music preview, but since that seems stuck in limbo at the moment (due to unmentionable technical difficulties), I felt the need to hurry up and barf this out (voila!) before the show with Matt …
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September 14th, 2007 05:36pm
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You’d think boat racing in Lake County would be just that: boats screaming around pristine Clear Lake, stirring up wakes and throttling inboards.
Think again. It’s more like cars pulling old abandoned boats around Lakeport Speedway. They tried pulling them on trailers, but the axles proved nearly fatal (a la Roman chariot races).
So they decided, why not just pull boats around a raw track? When hot fiberglass dust nearly blinded …
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September 11th, 2007 04:42am
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Shaken or stirred, the fine line between whimsy and gimmickry (or homage and kitsch) can be dicey. Pink Martini was cruising along Monday night, globe-trotting through vintage cool. Every song, a scene; the cinematic deluge of notes projecting a sea of images.
Singer China Forbes slipped from Portuguese a la Brazilian samba to Spanish by way of Cuba and then French cafe. Short of Icelandic, there may have been some Croatian …
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September 9th, 2007 12:40am
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All that jazz, or better yet all that is jazz today – not just yesterday’s golden era when jazz earned its badge as the most American of idioms; that undefinable genre that claims Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, Jack Kerouac’s “bop prosody” and Kenny G as strange fruit on the same family tree – was on display Saturday at Jazz on the River in Guerneville.
Jazz bikinis. Jazz water cannons. Jazz …
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Your Daily Dose. Whenever. Whatever. Wherever. Trolling Sonoma County and beyond, John Beck looks for cracks in the pop facade.
