April 30th, 2009 02:59pm
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As the Dead make their way across the country, dropping in on Obama at the Oval Office (where they spotted a vase of scarlet begonias), jamming with Branford Marsalis and taking over Madison Square Garden,
the reviews have been nothing but love poems.
Well, except for Hartford.
It sounds like they were a little off that night.
Even the fans are under the microscope. Here’s the way a
Slate reviewer sized up the adoring audience:
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April 29th, 2009 04:13pm
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And that’s just opening night. The next day is Derby Day at
The Vine, the new downtown Santa Rosa
nightclub replacing Seven Ultralounge. Look for a big fat hat party, bourbon
tastings and mint juleps galore.
When new manager Aaron Buhrz finally gets to the part about
the country band, I realize he’s not kidding.
“I think on Memorial Day we’re gonna have a ‘kick off the
summer party’ with a country band and good barbecue.”
A twang …
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April 28th, 2009 10:40pm
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Before Bassnectar, aka Lorin Ashton, unloads his Wobbly Factory sound system and homegrown brand of “omnitempo maximalism” Monday night at Hopmonk Tavern, I asked the Berkeley DJ if he would shed some light on his creative process.
First listen to a preview clip of his new single “Art of Revolution”:
Then listen to what was on his mind as he put it all together….
Before the story comes out Friday, here’s a little …
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April 27th, 2009 01:30am
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That’s the name of the new nightclub taking over the former
Seven space on Seventh Street in downtown Santa Rosa.
Aaron Buhrz, who runs The Beauty Bar in San Francisco and is the son of building owner Gerry Burhz, will manage The Vine, launching an
opening party Friday night. He also says they’re gearing up for Wednesday Market
nights.
The building is undergoing renovations – inside and outside.
Other than that, I don’t know a lot …
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April 24th, 2009 07:05pm
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More than a few actors and directors have made the pilgrimage
to Texas to woo the Johnston family and score the movie rights to
the life story of Daniel Johnston – the bipolar outsider artist and musician
championed by everyone from Kurt Cobain to Tom Waits and the subject of the riveting
2006 documentary “The Devil and Daniel Johnston.”
Until now, they’ve all failed.
So what was so different about Petaluma High grad Gabe
Sunday?
“I did my …
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April 24th, 2009 01:08pm
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It’s the kind of thing that comes to you while holding a
flapping chicken with both hands and watching the Green String Farm Band make
music in a chicken coop: What came first, the band or the farm?
Actually, it started with a schoolhouse.
Fifth-generation Petaluma farmer-singer-songwriter Arann
Harris was invited out to an 1860 schoolhouse among the goats and chickens and
baby bok choy on the eastern outskirts of Petaluma. It seemed like a fitting
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April 20th, 2009 05:31pm
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Everyone’s all fired up about today being April 20th – the day the stars align to celebrate that pesky little weed known as cannabis.
Odd as it may seem, The Huffington Post and The New York Times of all websites take a pretty dedicated stab at demystifying the roots of 420 – the toker’s siren call the world over.
Trivia: You may remember the 2003 marijuana bill voters approved was named …
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April 18th, 2009 10:48pm
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When I ran into keyboardist Matt Berkeley a half-hour before the gig, he just smiled and shook his head: “This is a once in a lifetime event. I’ve been trying to tell all my friends what a big deal this is.”
No kidding.
A 50-piece orchestra. Cinematic jazz arrangements. Bursting horns – so furious, the players can’t help but shoot out of their seats for solos that clock faster than a lit …
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April 17th, 2009 01:43pm
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You can always hit the local brew and chew and drink up Jake
Mackey blues at Russian
River on Saturday.
Or wander down to the Last Record Store for the
vinyl-palooza Record Store Day on Saturday. Volker Strifler Band and Bob
Livingston go on at 1 p.m.
Or watch as Austin singer-songwriter Bob Livingston never bothers to plug in Saturday night at one of the most intimate venues around – Studio E in Sebastopol.
Or, if …
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April 15th, 2009 10:59pm
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Chatty and trippy as usual, Devendra Banhart busted out new material off his upcoming “extremely painful to mix” album Tuesday night in a sold-out show at the Independent in San Francisco.
Taking a page from “Death in Venice,” “Chin Chin, Monk Monk” starts off with: “When I was a young boy, I had a lot of young boys. Now that I’m an old hag…” before diving into a sea of weird …
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Your Daily Dose. Whenever. Whatever. Wherever. Trolling Sonoma County and beyond, John Beck looks for cracks in the pop facade.
