Your ears do so much for you without complaining. The least you can do is treat them to Film Streams’ upcoming Silents in Concert series at the Ruth Sokolof Theater. Now, don’t let the oxymoron-itude of “silent concerts” freak you out. Starting on Tuesday, Oct 4 at 7 pm, the Alloy Orchestra will perform new […]
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Portals opens new dimensions in performance art
Oct. 5-6 Portals The Kaneko, 1111 Jones St. 7:30 p.m., Tickets from $15 to $40 402-341-3800, www.thekaneko.org An April program at KANEKO offered a preview of the mixed media work, Portals. Virtuoso violinist Tim Fain and filmmaker Kate Hackett provided tantalizing glimpses of a phantasmagoric experiment in performance and social media. KANEKO director Hal France […]
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The Return of Fizzle Like a Flood
Doug Kabourek didn’t look much different than when I first saw him slumped like a homeless college student in the back of Sokol Underground during a Her Space Holiday show, circa 1999. I had just begun going to rock shows alone — a big step for me, but one I knew I’d have to take […]
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Big Harp releases new music video
* Two bits of Saddle Creek Records news from the past week. Big Harp, the Americana-tinged indie duo of Chris Senseney and Stefanie Drootin-Senseney, released a video for “Everybody Pays” off their just-released debut album White Hat. The video, which premiered on IFC.com, was directed by Danny Drysdale and shot in the California desert. The […]
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Label Luck
Nick Lowe may have proclaimed his appreciation for his record company with his tongue-in-cheek ode “I Love My Label,” but San Francisco garage rocker Ty Segall genuinely is head over hills for his musical home, Drag City Records. “Drag City is the f–king best man. They’re really cool and they give a shit,” Segall says. […]
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A New Groove
Mat Kearney set his acoustic guitar aside during the songwriting sessions for his new album, Young Love. The Nashville-based Kearney instead created tunes by starting with programming beats and grooves on a computer, then building songs around the rhythmic skeleton. “It’s probably not the most traditional album I’ve ever made,” he says. Kearney says it […]
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October 1 Megafaun
Based in Durham, North Carolina but hailing from Wisconsin, the psychedelic rock trio, Megafaun, knows a thing or two about traveling. They are almost always on tour. Brothers Phil and Brad Cook met percussionist Joe Westerlund in 1997 while they were all at the H.O.R.D.E. Festival, apparently sharing in their mutual love for bands like […]
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FASH FLOOD
Fiery Fashion Hosted by Miss Colorado North America 2012 Maegon Coble, Fashion on Fire will take place Saturday, October 1st. In addition to a fashion show, admission includes cocktails, appetizers, music, art, a silent auction and more. Featured designers include Fella, Shawntelle Kuhlmann, Lameesha Stuckey, Buf Reynolds, Juantiesha Christian, Karen Gaines, Rasheena Nichols, Monnie Winslow […]
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Alberta’s Joyous Blues
In the early 1980s I had the pleasure of seeing Alberta Hunter perform her captivating mix of bawdy blues, ballads and gospel tunes. Hunter was bewitching, her love of the music was infectious. She was in her mid-80s. The last time I saw her perform she had to be helped onstage in a wheelchair, but […]
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The Digital Diamond
“It’s hard not to be romantic about baseball.” Or so drawls Billy Beane, the restless Oakland Athletics general manager depicted in “all caps” by Brad Pitt in Moneyball. It’s a hard statement to deny, whether or not the phrase “America’s pastime” even means anything in our always-connected, always-at-war modern age. That conflict—idyllic nostalgia versus cruel […]