January 31st, 2008 03:55pm
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Five A.M. lead singer Trent Yaconelli still remembers “this guy who came in with a shaved head and a yellow motorcycle helmet.”
He was one of about a dozen people who stumbled on a random gig at club 1351 in St. Helena.
“I remember asking him, ‘Are you meeting someone?’ And he said, ‘No, I’m here to see you guys.’”
The motorcycle magi turned out to be a wealthy St. Helena benefactor who …
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January 25th, 2008 05:58pm
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Touching down at The Phoenix Theater Saturday night, The
Phenomenauts return to the site of their latest video. They shot footage for
the new song “Man Alone” last year at the Phoenix and they’re threatening to
screen a “world premiere” of the video at the show (8 p.m., $12).
We caught up with the space rockabilly band at their Oakland
warehouse compound earlier this week so Professor Greg could demo the
Streamerator 2000 – a …
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January 24th, 2008 04:23pm
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Champion of recycled junk and castaway heirlooms, artist
Monty Monty is known mostly for his magical assemblage. The whimsy of motion – spinning
wheels, turning bicycle gears, swinging pendulums – gives his junkyard art a
hands-on kinetic energy.
And every once in awhile the pieces talk back to him. You
might even call it music.
“The cool thing about sound and music versus the assemblage
is that this is immediate, you know – whack! Sound, there it …
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January 23rd, 2008 06:30pm
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By now it seems as if Terry Gilliam truly is cursed. Nearly a decade ago, the “Brazil” director had to scrap “The Man Who Killed Don Quixote” after a barrage of calamaties, natural disasters and sicknesses. It made for a decent documentary (”Lost in La Mancha”), but not a tidy track record for investors who seem wary to bankroll his surreal adventure projects
Now along comes “The Imaginarium of Doctor …
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January 18th, 2008 06:27pm
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While Pat Jordan is bouncing around on stage Saturday night
at the Russian River Brew Co., feel free to shout out “Heart on My Sleeve”!
Not exactly “Freebird,” it’s a new ditty he’s been working
on. I’m sworn to secrecy. But maybe if you beg hard enough, he’ll share it with you.
Also, guitarist Simon Illg, formerly of the Memphis Kings, “is
pretty much a band member now,” he says. “He just has to pass …
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January 17th, 2008 02:21pm
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Not far from the towering grain silo that reminds Petaluma of its past (yes, the one you see from 101 as you speed past), lies an unassuming warehouse along a potted dirt road.
It’s where they produce “a grapefruit extractive based on a diphenyl hydroxy benzene formula from bioflavinoids,” among other things.
Or at least that’s the way Santiago drummer Josh Drake describes it.
The former egg storage facility also happens to be …
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January 11th, 2008 04:54pm
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Wearing the crown of “2007 Best DJ in Las
Vegas,” hometown boy Joey Mazzola returns to Santa Rosa tonight to reign over the two-year
anniversary blowout at Seven.
It’s only fitting since he played the first-ever show at the
downtown under-fire club. Mazzola (no relation to the legendary union boss) and
Seven impresario Gianni Messmer go back at least 15 years, spinning at clubs in
San Francisco
and the occasional turn at the Last Day Saloon.
Tonight, …
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January 10th, 2008 05:09pm
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I call up Henry Butler, ask him what he’s doing today.
“Just watching a little football.”
No score yet. Skins v. Seahawks.
Blind since infancy, the wayward blues pianist obviously
isn’t being literal, but when you stop and think about his love of photography
and the images he’s exhibited in galleries around the country, “watching the
game” is second nature.
A club he’s playing for the first time comes together like this:
“When I get to that room …
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January 9th, 2008 07:22pm
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Joni’s CD release show for “A Bird’s Heart” is at 6 p.m. Thursday (Jan. 10) at The Last Record Store, Santa Rosa. Check her out, rehearsing on the big daddy Steinway in the Cabaret Room at the Wells Fargo Center:
Also, here are few stills Tom Kearns (thanks for the lighting and the wheeling of the beastly Steinway, dude) took at the shoot:
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January 4th, 2008 02:59pm
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It seems like at least a year now, we’ve been hearing about
Les Claypool’s jam-band mockumentary “Electric Apricot: The Quest for Festeroo.”
My buddy Don Lewis was one of the first to review it, giving it kudos on
Film Threat.
It made the festival rounds. The tongue-in-cheek “Hey, Are
You Going to Burning Man?” song became an anthem for burners the world over. Riding
the buzz, National Lampoon finally picked it up for distribution.
Now, it finally …
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Your Daily Dose. Whenever. Whatever. Wherever. Trolling Sonoma County and beyond, John Beck looks for cracks in the pop facade.
