“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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
by Tim Stelloh
Will Stenberg talks about the Kerosene Kondors, music on the Mendocino Coast and the building of a small, rural music scene.
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 ener getic, it could not fully convey the amazing, sad, strange, inspiring, [...]
by Steve Heilig
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, [...]
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. [...]
Along with 499,999 others on a countercultural pil grimage 40 years ago, I was heading for the Wood stock 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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
