Category archives for: Music

In the Name of Love, Buy the Record

by Nicholas Heller

In the Name of Love, Buy the Record

“Speed me into a wedding so I can stop being a threat to the women of the world.”
According to Will Stenberg, lead man of the local rock band The Kerosene Kondors, your incentive to buy his third solo album, Will Stenberg: Home Recordings, Volume 1, 2002-2009, is to raise money for his upcoming wedding. But I’m [...]

The Night Of The Living Deadheads

by David Yearsley

The Night Of The Living Deadheads

One of my college friends was a Deadhead. He had crates of cassette tapes with labels like “Bucknell, 1971”, Stanford 1973”; “Fillmore East 1970.”  Of an eve­ning he would navigate through these hundreds of cas­settes and pull out “the greatest version” of a given Dead song, “Truckin’”, “Crazy Fingers”, whatever. He’d put the tape in [...]

One hell of a wisecrackin’ duet

by Sara Liner

This coming Saturday, the 23rd, you can catch Angie Rose and Cas Sochacki, at Lauren’s Café in Boonville (9 P.M, $5.) The wisecracking, bantering couple who regularly play and sing with a larger ensemble of musicians known as The Blushin’ Roulettes.

Rock’n'Roll & Brain Drain on the Mendocino Coast: A Q&A with Will Stenberg of the Kerosene Kondors

by Tim Stelloh

Will Stenberg talks about the Kerosene Kondors, music on the Mendocino Coast and the building of a small, rural music scene.

Fela’s 15 More Minutes Of Fame

by Steve Heilig

Perhaps the most popular play “on Broadway” in New York City is “Fela!” — the story of the most famous musical, and probably political, figure to ever emerge from West Africa. It’s received rave reviews and is said to be most entertaining. But however energetic, it could not fully convey the amazing, sad, strange, inspiring, [...]

Monk, For The Record

by Steve Heilig

Monk, For The Record

In Michael Ondaatje’s wonderful novel “Divisadero” — a most memorable part of which is set in Sonoma County — the jazz of Thelonious Monk is likened to “imprisoned birdsongs.” Leave it to a superb novelist to distill the indescribable, but many others have felt likewise.
One of his few pianistic peers, Bill Evans, found Monk’s spare, [...]

Keevan Labowitz from Kenya

by AVA News Service

Keevan Labowitz from Kenya

I found a note in the faculty room at AVHS and think it deserves a broader audience. These are excerpts not the entire text. “What’s up music lovers!? So I am currently living in Kenya trying to help out a new organization that I started. I mainly work in Manyatta, the largest slum in Kisumu. [...]

Woodstock At 40

by Paul Krassner

Woodstock At 40

Along with 499,999 others on a countercultural pilgrimage 40 years ago, I was heading for the Woodstock Festival of Music & Love. I was wearing my yellow leather fringe jacket for the first time. In one of the pockets there was a nice little stash of LSD. If you happen to be brand-name conscious, then [...]

Kind Of Blue At 50

by David Yearsley

Kind Of Blue At 50

Miles Davis’ “Kind of Blue” was released 50 years ago this coming Monday: August 17, 1959. That was ten years after, and ten degrees cooler, than the little big band of Miles’ “Birth of the Cool.” With “Kind of Blue” the baby had grown up: sleeker, more earnest, now distrustful of irony, and also cagier, [...]

What Else Was Jackson Going To Do For An Encore?

by Lawrence Livermore

What Else Was Jackson Going To Do For An Encore?

Though I was never a huge fan of the man or his music, there’s no denying that Michael Jackson was prodigiously talented, and if I didn’t enjoy his classic work as much as a few hundred million others did, that’s probably more a matter of my having spent the 80s rather monomaniacally wrapped up in [...]

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