The Black Crowes to play the Pozo Saloon

August 25, 2007 | Comments Off

Up the California coast, not far from San Luis Obisbo, just over the Questa pass and down a long road is the little known valley towards Santa Margarita is the town of Pozo. Here lies the Pozo Saloon a shack of a building and a nice grassy field that has […]

Friday night Santa Barbara was graced by the lively and forever young Crissy Hinds and her Pretenders. The energy was electric and following a stellar set by The Stray Cats. I have heard the The Pretenders put on great shows and have always loved their tunes. Its amazing to me that […]

Somehow I came across the Charm School album from Bishop Allen a few years ago. I think it was from a website recommendation or some developer that lived with them and what I found was one of the most catchy, cleanest and certainly most “popie” indie albums of the 00’s. […]

Mp3 Toys

July 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment

I have tried practically every Mp3 jukebox that I have found. There are some that are wonderfully designed, there are some that are bastards of many a generations of coding and there are those that are “kinda cool”. Whether its the big boys like MusicMatch, Napster, Rhapsody, Windows Media or iTunes. […]

Sometimes you get angry when you discover a great site. Angry not because the site creators were smarter and more motivated than you but angry because the site has been live for sometime and you didn’t know about it. This is exactly the case with CriticalMetrics.com. Which I think […]

A new site called Bandsintown.com has launched in the last few weeks. The site keeps you up to date on when, where and who of your favorite bands (and related artists) are playing in a town near you. A very simple idea that appears to have been done very well […]

  Norah Jones opened the 2007 Santa Barbara Bowl season Friday night to a sold out audience.  It was a subdued crowd for a subdued act on a gorgeous star filled night.  Norah is an amazing singer.  Something about her silky smooth phrasing makes it very easy to like her.  Her big brown eyes and […]

Ryan Adams has released (or is about to) his latest album Easy Tiger. With only a few listens under my belt I am unsure of the impact that this particular album will have. It seems to lack any real punch and so far only a few songs stand out at all. […]

  Every once in a while a random listen to a band results in a wonderful surprise.  In this case I was perusing through eMusic.com’s Alt Country genre section and uncovered a fantastic new band.  The Loose Salute.  They sound as if they were hatched from the same egg that spawned Beechwood Sparks and Tim […]

   I forgot how much I liked Cake.  Their infectuous grooves, their overly simplified back beats, their witty and often odd lyrics combined to create one of the best bands of the mid nineties.  While the world was deep in a grunge filled depression Sacramento’s Cake emerged to fill a much need void of joyous […]

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