Le Cornucopia du Musique
- Ceremony’s new record is called Rohnert Park. The cover photo is awesome. I talked to vocalist Ross Farrar about it before the band left for Korea; it’ll be in the Bohemian next week. “I have mixed...
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Krukow: “And that’s a wrap. Stick around for the postgame show. Our next broadcast is WE DON’T CARE. The first pitch is at WE DON’T CARE. The Giants are the World Series champions.” Read More
View ArticleTom Waits Releases Chapbook to Benefit Sonoma County Homeless Charities
Tom Waits has always been an advocate for the homeless, whether in songs like “On the Nickel”—a beautiful ballad from Heartattack and Vine about Los Angeles’ Fifth St.—or in lending a song to the...
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Don’t Get the Band Back Together
Reunion tours are out of hand, yes, but that’s a longer rumination for a longer day. Let us simply enjoy this story of Harley Flanagan, founding bassist for seminal New York hardcore band the Cro-Mags,...
View ArticleDub C Crew, “Wine Country”
Forget 40s of Old English. Forget Patrón. Here’s Moe Green, Cameron Washington, and Jairo “Rojah” Vargas with “Wine Country”—filmed in Sonoma: Read More
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Happy 153rd Birthday, Recorded Sound!
All lovers of vinyl need to check this out. It’s the audio of the earliest known gramophone recording, which is the grandfather of the modern vinyl record. Sure, Thomas Edison had his cylinders in the...
View ArticleMeet the Last Audio Cassette Factory
If you’re a record collector, you’ve probably read that there are very few vinyl pressing plants left in the USA today, causing massive delays for popular releases on vinyl. But, if you’re a cassette...
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Vinyl, Mp3s, Sermons, Reissues
While researching my Bohemian article on the independent music industry phenomenon of including free mp3 download coupons inside of vinyl LPs, I had the pleasure of talking to a number of labels whose...
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This Is The Greatest Day of My Life
I actually let out a loud, high-pitched scream when this arrived in the mail today.
View ArticleThe Rock-a-Fire Explosion
I’ve been holding back on this one, waiting for a Monday morning. Nothing to erase the beginning-of-the-week doldrums like an animatronic pizza parlor band doing a spot-on Usher jam. Right? Warning:...
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Ralph Stanley for Obama
There’s a million musicians out there lending their support for Obama, but for some reason, this radio ad recorded by Ralph Stanley touches me the most. The ad is currently playing in Stanley’s home...
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Farewell to Yma Sumac
She died over the weekend in Los Angeles. A recluse. Fixated on the 1950s. There’s plenty of great Yma Sumac records to remember her by—Voice of the Xtbay and Legend of the Sun Virgin are her more...
View ArticleWears the Late Crown
This has got to be one of the most amazing newspaper corrections I’ve ever seen.
View ArticleRounding Up
And It Don’t Stop: There was a lot of talk about rap fading away this year, just like there has been each year since, oh, around 1986. What sat beneath the talk was the fact that radio wasn’t hip-hop’s...
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Krukow: “And that’s a wrap. Stick around for the postgame show. Our next broadcast is WE DON’T CARE. The first pitch is at WE DON’T CARE. The Giants are the World Series champions.”
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Venues, Week of March 1
Green Music Center 1801 East Cotati Ave., Rohnert Park. gmc.sonoma.edu. Inspired by resilient forests, Treelogy is performing at Sonoma State University. 7:30pm, Thursday, March 2. $25-75. North Bay...
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