March 29th, 2009 10:02pm
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You had to know it was coming. Up until this point, Aaron Milligan-Green – the street musician activist who has collected 1,500 signatures in a petition to overturn a Santa Rosa noise ordinance banning street music – had only been warned.
On Saturday afternoon, two bicycle cops ordered him to stop playing drums and leave Depot Park in Railroad Square, threatening to confiscate his instruments and arrest him. He was eventually …
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March 25th, 2009 08:21pm
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Remember when Seven launched to massive fanfare, touting hot
DJs, San Francisco
ambience and $230 VIP tables?
Then came the fights, unruly bouncers, shootings, frequent cop
calls and strict city of Santa Rosa
supervision.
Now, three years later, the Seventh Street ultralounge is changing ownership and will eventually re-open as a new nightclub.
Gianni Messmer said he and fellow Seven owners Nabi
Baitsaeed and Brad Yust have been bought out by building owner Gerry Buhrz.
Escrow closes in …
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March 24th, 2009 06:04pm
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I don’t really care if you spend your life illegally downloading
music. Go ahead and torrent your days away, bit by bit. Fine by me. But when Will Oldham, aka Bonnie
“Prince” Billy, aka the latest Audio Paranoid Skitz, ruins advance copies of
his new album – just for the sake of circumventing all you pirates out there – I’m a bitter
man.
Imagine pushing play on the first song (”Beware Your Only Friend”) and …
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March 20th, 2009 07:54pm
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You won’t find many father-daughter combos like Midori and Ron Longo.
She’s the 16-year-old singer who left Ursuline to pursue the Rock ‘n’ Roll Dream. He’s the Red Condor tech startup CEO who stepped down to pursue the Rock ‘n’ Roll Dream Part II.
Read the story here….
On stage, as Midori and Audioclique, she’s the young voice and magnetic face of the band and he’s the bandleader, guitarist and primary songwriter. The …
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March 19th, 2009 07:43pm
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A few weeks ago, I interviewed San Francisco filmmaker Jennifer Steinman and
wrote about her new film “Motherland,” the powerful documentary that got a sneak
peek on opening night of the Sebastopol Documentary Festival. If you missed it,
here’s the story.
The film chronicles a group of grieving moms – two of them
from Sonoma County – who travel halfway across the
world to find themselves again.
I had a hunch it would do well on the …
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March 18th, 2009 02:46pm
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Just to catch you up to date:
Last week I blogged about street musician, Aaron Milligan-Green, who’s sick of being harassed by police for playing live music in downtown Santa Rosa.
Taking the power to the people, he’s gathering signatures for a petition to overturn the noise ordinance restricting his art form.
So far, he has around 1,500 signatures. He’s shooting for 5,000 before he submits it to the City of Santa Rosa.
The …
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March 13th, 2009 01:59pm
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It hasn’t been announced yet, but it looks like Sheryl Crow will play the Wells Fargo Center in September.
Sounds like Levi Leipheimer’s wife, Odessa Gunn, had something to do with luring her to Wine Country(they’re still buds from Crow’s old Lance Armstrong days).
Tickets should go on sale in April or May. Check back here for more info. Also, Huey Lewis has been booked to play WFC for the first …
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March 11th, 2009 07:18pm
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The blokes from Leeds, one of the most unlikely funk scenes outside
of Newfoundland, started out at the Boom-Boom
Room on their first America
tour four years ago. Now they’ve finally graduated to the house across the
street: The Fillmore, headlining under the purple chandeliers this Friday
night.
But, don’t bother gassing up the car. Just sit
tight here in lovely SoCo as they migrate northward to blow out Hopmonk on
Sunday.
I talked to New Mastersounds frontman Eddie …
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March 8th, 2009 04:06pm
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Legend has it Swiss cowherders came up with the yodel eons ago as a way of communicating across alpine meadows, both proving their virility to the Swiss misses and losing their voices in a half hour or less.
Early settlers smuggled it to Appalachia and eventually it wound up on a Jewel album.
Saturday night, Dan Hicks played Simon Cowell at KRSH’s Twangfest yodeling competition at the Mystic Theatre.
Behold the video:
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March 7th, 2009 11:01pm
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The other night, while watching the Rhythmtown-Jive band blow horns, bang drums and parade through Railroad Square for Mardi Gras, I spotted a guy who joined the parade late, chiming in with a lonely cowbell.
Once we got over the “Dude, more cowbell!” moment, which took a few minutes, he explained why he was also carrying a clipboard with him.
Meet Aaron Milligan-Green. He’s 21 and goes to SRJC. And he’s sick …
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Your Daily Dose. Whenever. Whatever. Wherever. Trolling Sonoma County and beyond, John Beck looks for cracks in the pop facade.
