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January 2011 Edition

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In this Edition

Featured Artists

Artist Resources

Music Reviews

Book Reviews

Publisher Essays

Cinema

About RARWRITER.com

Archives

 

 

Strange Stories

 

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RARadio

Written Arts

Fine Arts

Fashion & Design

Media

Public Policy and Politics

Soundscan Charts

 

 

SPECIAL REPORTS

 

Artist

Dream Project

 

 

 

 

Artist

Management

 

 

 

 

 

Blues

Series

 

 
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES

 

MUSIC EDUCATION: Doug Strobel's "You Can't Get There From Here" Music Education Series

 

POLITICAL OPINION: Sam Broussard's Advice to Republicans

 

THE "LINKS AT RARWRITER"
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Canada
Chicago
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Japan
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Nashville
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New York City
Philadelphia
Phoenix
San Diego

San Francisco
Scandanavia
Seattle
United Kingdom

 

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MUSIC REVIEWS
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RAR reviews LPs from Sam Broussard (Veins), Edo Castro (Sacred Graffitti), and Elizabeth Kay (My Fugitive Years). Also read reviews from RARWRITER contributors Doug Strobel and Diana Olson.

BOOK REVIEWS AND MORE (click here): This edition, RAR takes a long look at Philip K. Dick, Edgar Allan Poe, Samuel Clemens and The Iowa Writer's Workshop. Read earlier RAR reviews, including a look back at David Halberstam's The Reckoning, and Alan Greenspan's book "The Age of Turbulence."

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ARTIST INDEX:

Click here to go to the Index page to find the artists profiled on the Links at RARWRITER.

 

J. Vermeer -  "The Artist In His Studio"

 

"THE LINKS AT RARWRITER" - Links to information on creative communities of the following cities, regions and countries:

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ARCHIVES: Selected features from past editions.

 

RARADIO: Click here to go to the RARadio page to hear innovative acts from across the spectrum of musical genres.

 

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RARWRITER.com Annual "State of the Union" Report 2008-2009.

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RARWRITER.com is exploding with new readers, new artist profiles, and new business opportunities. Would you like to become involved as an editorial contributor? If you are a great writer or photographer with particular knowledge of your creative community, and you are looking for publishing credits, contact us at Rick@RARWRITER.com for a copy of the RARWRITER Contributor Prospectus to learn what involvement can mean for you.-RAR

 

 
 
 

 

 

 

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"Valhalla of Decadence"

L.A. Rocker Tony Gamble (left) has been through quite a lot over the past six years, including album releases, rock tours, and shows at the annual NAMM conference, where he represents ESP Guitars.

And...oh yeah, there was that murder, that body found in a trash bag in a dumpster wearing Tony's watch...

Oh-oh...

Tony Gamble is a RARWRITER Featured Artist in this edition, where he discusses the book he is writing on his experiences surrounding a highly publicized murder case in L.A., his childhood in Malibu, growing up with the Z-Boys of Dogtown and the children of famous rockers, and his plans for the future.

Click here to read the Tony Gamble exclusive.

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Artist Management Series

Could DIY Mean the End of the Paternalism that Killed Michael Jackson?

Chris Daniels (pictured left) has been a frontline performer from Colorado for three decades and counting. With his band Chris Daniels & The Kings he has recorded a dozen albums, played with B.B. King, Uncle Cracker, Blues Traveler, The Neville Brothers, Delbert McClinton, Sister Hazel, Sheryl Crow, Robert Cray, Taj Mahal, Al Kooper, Bonnie Raitt, Ziggy Marley, The Fixx, and many others. His previous bands Magic Music and Spoons were also important in Colorado music history.

All of those years of performing and managing his own career have taught Chris a great deal about the music business, which he has parlayed into an assistant professorship at the University of Colorado, where he teaches Music Business classes. Among his acolytes in the classroom have been Colorado band The Fray.

In this edition, Chris Daniels adds important insights to RARWRITER.com's Artist Management Series. Click here to read his article on the new "Do It Yourself" ethos that exists among young music makers. Will their Internet savvy and hands-on approach to career planning change the way musicians do business? And what will it mean to the traditional artist management industry?

"Who Proofreads this Stuff!?!"

Colorado buddy Steve Ignelzi writes to ask - "Colorado legend 'Christ' Daniels? Who proof reads this stuff?"

The sharp-eyed bassist of Boulder's Girls On Top party band, along with other jazz ensembles, refers to an error in the most recent email blast for RARWRITER.com that carried this bit of editorial carnage - "Colorado music legend Christ Daniels, who also happens to be an assistant professor at the University of Colorado..."

"Chris was not that popular..." writes Ignelzi of the errant elevation of Chris to Christ status. "Maybe, John Lennon and Beatles were..."

Steve's point is well made. Not that it will likely make any difference, but I promise to do better or find a proofreader. - RAR

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Trower Drummer Bill Lordan's Rock Life

 

Bill Lordan, pictured left, has been in the high ether of the rock, funk and soul universe for 40 years. Coming from humble beginnings in Minnesota, Lordan caught on with soul groups The Amazers and The Esquires, perfecting his chops at Harlem's Apollo Theatre, the only white guy in otherwise Black ensembles. Success in that company led to the big time with Gypsy, The Mystics, Sly and the Family Stone and the Robin Trower Band.

Bill Lordan, working with RARWRITER.com contributor Diana Olson, has written his autobiography, From the Basement to the Coliseum, charting his long and successful career. They are currently in negotiations with publishers. Lordan remains an active player, winning an L.A. Music Award as recently as 2004 for his compilation album "The Best of BLX" (i.e., the Bill Lordan Experience).

Click here to read a brief excerpt from the book and listen to MP3 from his "Best of..." LP.

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Trauma, Unrest and Need

Something Big Is Coming

by RAR

If social history means anything at all - and it does, usually more than we can comprehend as it is happening - we are about to experience something fresh, new and revitalizing; something through which the human spirit will be reborn, at some level, and aspects of living will be reinvented for a new age.

What we may go through to get to this new place may not be pleasant. In fact, it will likely be awful.

What will transpire, however, will inspire generations to come while antiquating the thinking of generations that have gone before. Mankind will not be transformed but as a global community we may feel that we have been.

We will fall under the spell of a new avatar, who will tap into that channel of communications that exists incomprehensibly within our human beings and vibrates at the core of our response to the world we experience.

It happened in the 1930s, during the ironically dubbed "Great Depression", the first world-wide socio-economic phenomena in human history, which ushered in a new age of planetary engagement and awareness. In that "event" we had the key ingredients of change: traumatic disruption to the status quo, social unrest including broad public disillusionment with ideas previously considered "sacred", and open expressions of need.

We turned on the radio, tuned into film, and opened our hearts in hopes that our voids would be filled with something hopeful, imbued with salvation. And while we met on the battlefields of Europe, Africa, the Pacific Isles, and Asia, we slaughtered to the sound of an odd entreatment, of big bands crashing wildly on brass and skins and melodic metals, Sinatra stepping forth from Tommy Dorsey's army of sound to rev up the romance, and build the launch pad of the next generation, which was pop culture.

It wasn't all for the good, of course. In electrifying the young people of "the Greatest Generation", Sinatra and his counterparts paved the way for a transition to youth culture that had the unfortunate effect of bidding adieu to some of the greatest contributors of the first half of the 20th century: George and Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, Duke Ellington... Sinatra, to his everlasting credit, always made it a point to introduce his songs with references to their composers, their arrangers, and to his supporting musicians.

The establishment of pop culture, with its emphasis on youthful themes, became a catalyst itself in the 1950s, in which trauma took the form of the "Korean Conflict", there was growing civil unrest in the south, and the needs of the nation included growing economic disparities featuring pockets of devastating poverty, and this in a nation that now stood astride the globe and claimed the 20th as the "American Century".

This combination of societal pressures coupled with technological change ushered in "the age of Elvis", who married visuals with music in a way that changed the way people expressed themselves thereafter, and in turn opened the door for "race music" to enter into the panoply of the new pop culture. Big wheels turning indeed.

Trauma to the new pop culture world, which by then had become a televised event, came in the form of a rapid-fire series of bullets discharged in Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. It was a crack in the newly formed cosmic egg, to borrow a title of the times. Trauma, Unrest and Need, the holy triumvirate of change, unsettled horsemen on the road to apocalypse, rode us into the next age, the "Age of Aquarius" whose avatars were The Beatles, whose spell we have remained under these many years.

Who will it be now, that the cycle of trauma, unrest and need is upon us anew; possibly not fully vested yet? The shock may be soon to come, and it feels unsettling. The trials of life, gnashing of teeth, rending of hair...it is precursor to what will eventually be, which will likely be profoundly positive, for hard times tend to strip humanity to its core, and while this often reveals the worst in us, the thing that always prevails in the end is love, the best in us. However dysfunctional we become as groups and individuals, the one shared aspiration we have without question is the need to love and be loved. The Beatles got it right and they produced a brilliant tribute of sound in celebration of the insight.

Now it is someone else's turn, someone who is somehow gifted with light the way the previous avatar's of change were. They will always be artists, rather than politicians, business people or religious leaders, because art, and particularly music, transcends all human experience, speaking uniquely to each and every one of us even as the entire world hears and shares its sound.

It is magic, and the next Cosmic Magician is out there somewhere. Maybe this time this person will be a Black or an Asian. We haven't seen a female avatar as yet, but it could be part of what will change. Whatever color, and whether boy or girl, the person will be as a Shaman, confident and wise in his or her ways, though likely without pretension. He or she will be young and it is almost a certainty that "we" do not know at this time whom he or she is.

Someone does though. Maybe there are friends who notice a certain flash in someone in their company that seems other than that coming from anyone else. There will be charisma and nascent creativity that will start to grow by staggering bounds. There will be fun and energy. There will be organic phenomena, like people skipping work to go hear this agent of change sing and play, drawn to the flame like a moth to a light, and lines will grow around the block where this "change artist" sets up to play. And word will get out through the Internet and social networks, and the message will somehow obliterate the competing, numbing buzz of those who don't yet know that they are of a time already past.

They won't have seen or heard anything like this.

And the spirits and the minds of people worldwide will be changed through some future event, some Ed Sullivan moment when some cosmic MC will step before the cameras to say "Now yesterday and today our theater's been jammed with newspapermen and hundreds of photographers from all over the nation, and these veterans agreed with me that the city never has seen the excitement stirred by these youngsters from..."

And the camera's will pan to the new light, and the world will be born anew.

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The Beatles, 1964, rehearsing back stage for the "Ed Sullivan Show". There is a nice account of the story behind the booking of The Beatles for the series of Ed Sullivan shows they did in early 1964, which introduced them to American audience, thus bringing "Beatlemania" across the pond from Britain to the U.S. Click here to read the back story.

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Robert Johnson and the Mariachi

RARWRITER.com's residient musicologist Douglas Strobel has always had an inordinate fascination with the stories behind every minute aspect of our cultural history, particularly as it relates to his favorite music subject, the Country Blues.

The snippet (left) of the famous R. Crumb cover for the "King of the Delta Blues Singers" LP that, quite after the fact, introduced iconic bluesman Robert Johnson to most of the world, is the type of thing that would capture Doug's attention. He would head off to the library to do a little research the old fashioned pre-computer era way, reading books on arcane topics, which would tell him about guys like those depicted in the brilliance of the R.Crumb drawing.

This edition, Douglas Strobel contributes "Robert Johnson and the Mariachi" (click here to read).

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Stuff We Missed While Away

As regular visitors to RARWRITER.com no doubt know, this site has been paralyzed for weeks while fighting off invasions of viruses that had us tagged for avoidance by the watchdogs at Google. In the time it took to overcome the security threats we missed some events we would have otherwise shouted out about. Here are a few things that happened in our absence.

Steve Conn and Chuck Rainey Play Portland Show - Nine-time Grammy-nominated singer and songwriter Steve Conn and legendary bassist Chuck Rainey (Steely Dan, Aretha Franklin) played a special show at The Venetian Theatre in Portland, Oregon in August. Joined by guitarist Ken Scandlyn and drummer Don Worth, Jr., the old bulls opened for The Purple House Big Band, a group of extraordinary young players from the Portland area. This show represented a send off for several of the young players who are departing for studies in Boston at the prestigious Berklee School of Music this fall.

Lucas Ohio Premieres the "New Shamblers" - Lucas Ohio Pattie premiered his next generation Shamblers with a show at the venerable Armando's in Martinez (CA) in early September. Joining Lucas were bassist Don Bassey (Volker Strfler Band), guitarist Don Fox, and drummer Steve Trovao. Lucas' song "All Good People" from his Steps Toward Home CD is featured on San Francisco radio station KFOG's Local Scene 6 CD, which benefits the Music in Schools Today non-profit organization. The program promotes music education in public schools and youth centers in low income neighborhoods, as it has since 1983. The CD and merchandise related to Local Scene 6 CD are available from KFOG’s website at www.kfog.com. Also on the bill at Armando's were Misner and Smith (Sam Misner and Megan Smith), whose profile has oured since their song "Madeline" won the 2007 West Coast Songwriters Association’s Song of the Year competition. RARWRITER.com musicologist Douglas Strobel opened the show.

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THIS WEEK'S REAL DEAL:

Notes from RAR

You're Stupid!

When Mia Michaels says that - "You're Stupid" - on the hit TV show "So You Think You Can Dance" it is a supreme compliment. Unfortunately, when I get told that same thing it is invariably because of something I have done. I am not astonishing in any way, just "stupid" in the traditional sense.

This edition I have posted a review of country showboat Michael ONeill's new CD (click here to read the review), and "stupid" is what he thought I was when I commented on the strength of the players on the recording, prompting this instant message from his iPhone:

"Holy shit the players on this record are the best of the best,
Dony Wynn drums / Robert Palmer - Brooks and dunn
Will sexton bass. Charlie sextons brother
Lloyd mains Dixie chicks
Carl bromel -my morning jacket
Goggle these folks
Randy korhs"

So chastened, I did some "Goggling" and learned about some great talent in the process.

 

Dony Wynn, who plays drums on Ain't Leavin' Your Love, is most closely associated with the late Robert Palmer, with whom he played for years, but he got his first big-time tour experience as a teenager playing with Dr. John. Other of his associations have been with Brooks and Dunn, Steve Winwood, Patti LaBelle, and Wang Chung. He has one of the coolest Websites around at http://www.donywynn.com/ , which is packed with clever design, intelligent writing and memorable lines, like this: My good friends, Jim Keltner and Jeff Porcaro, supreme drummers each, both subscribed to the fact that beatmasters are old souls who were drummers in past lives..."

 

That introduction of Will Sexton as "Charlie Sexton's brother" is understandable as a context setter - Charlie Sexton came to prominence as guitarist with Bob Dylan through Dylan's resurgence in the late 1990s and into the new millennium. Charlie has gone on to produce Lucinda Williams, tour with Eric Clapton, and launch his own band, Arc Angels, with Tommy Shannon and Chris "Whipper" Layton of "Double Trouble" (Stevie Ray Vaughn's rhythm section). For all these reasons, Charlie Sexton's name has resonance, but he and his brother Will (pictured left in a photo by Todd Wolfson) share a provenance in Austin, Texas, where Will performs constantly, and both were taught guitar by Austin legend W.C. Clark, the "Godfather of the Austin Blues". Will and Charlie were in the same band, "Will and the Kill", which in 1988 released an album on MCA that was produced by Joe Ely and featured Jimmy Vaughn on some tracks. Will went on to collaborations with Waylon Jennings, Roky Erickson (psychedelic), and punker Johnny Thunders. He was in the "New Folk Underground" and he co-produced Ruby James with his brother Charlie.

Lloyd Maines is the multi-instrumentalist producer of the Dixie Chicks, and father of Dixie Chick Natalie Maines. He was a member of the Joe Ely Band and played with Guy Clark, Butch Hancock, Terry Allen, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Golden Bear, and other Texas musicians. He was a member of The Maines Brothers Band in the late 1970s and early 1980s and has contributed to alt-country releases, including Uncle Tupelo's Anodyne and Wilco's debut, A.M.. The Grammy Award winner has produced and recorded Butch Hancock, Rita Hosking, Jerry Jeff Walker, Charlie Robison, the Lost Gonzo Band, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Wayne Hancock, Owen Temple, Robert Earl Keen, Terri Hendrix, Pat Green, Roger Creager, Two Tons of Steel, and The Waybacks.

Carl Broemel is an American rock musician. He currently plays the guitar, pedal steel guitar, saxophone and sings back-up vocals for the Louisville, Kentucky band My Morning Jacket. Broemel was listed among Rolling Stone's "20 New Guitar Gods" along with My Morning Jacket front man Jim James under the title of "Skynard-Art Theorists." He released a solo album titled "Lose What's Left". (from Wikipedia)

 

Randy Korhs came to prominence playing with Hank Williams III and Tom T. Hall, and later the Canadian band Continental Divide. Other associations have been with Holly Dunn,  John Cowan and Dolly Parton. In 2001, he released his debut solo album, A Crack In My Armour, on Junction Records. In 2004, Parton recorded a duet with him, “It Looked Good On Paper,” for his third album, I’m Torn, on Lonesome Day Records. It spent eight months on the bluegrass charts, rising into the Top 5. To date, Kohrs has played on more than 500 albums, ranging from those by such legends as Hank Thompson and Jerry Reed to current and recent chart-toppers Trick Pony, Dierks Bentley and The Wreckers. In the bluegrass domain, he has recorded projects for Larry Sparks, Rhonda Vincent, Mark Newton, Bradley Walker, Lou Reid, and 3 Fox Drive, among others. (Largely from his MySpace site.)

 

 

 

"The One I Love" -  David Gray

"Babylon" - David Gray

 

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Click here to go to Doug Strobel's review of Tia Carroll's recent show at Armando's in Martinez.

 

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Bohemians in Your Town!

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Don't take RAR's word for it! Click here to go to Vlad's MySpace to hear his work!

 

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Brian Gore - Guitarpoet

Speaking of spectacular acoustic guitarists, modern classicist Brian Gore is one everyone should know.  You can get a quick dose by visiting his site at http://guitaristbriangore.wordpress.com/%3Cbr%3E%3Cbr%3EHope and watching his videos, which are also available on YouTube. You can also listen to his tunes at http://www.myspace.com/guitaristbriangore.

From his MySpace - "I have a gift for melody that for a long time was bewildering to me. Fortunately, I've had many mentors; Peppino D'Agostino and Alex de Grassi on the 'steel string' side, Andrew York and many others on the 'nylon string' side. As time has gone by, through the help and inspiration of my mentors and guitar idols, I've managed to develop a decent craft for songwriting on guitar. One thing I've done which has really helped, is to put words to the melodies. I have songs with words that I perform in shows, but primarily, I choose to frame my songs as 'guitarpoems.' That's why I call myself a 'guitarpoet.' I now have a small cadre of students myself who are following in my footsteps, and a book on fingerstyle guitar, called "Fingerstyle Guitar, Technique and Creativity.'"

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Sungha Jung - 12 Year Old Prodigy

Sungha Jung is a South Korean youngster and a gifted finger-style guitarist. His innate sense of rhythm is wonderful, as is his almost preternatural calm, all on full display in his video performances of tricky compositions such as the "Mission Impossible" theme. The links following lead to his MySpace site, YouTube videos, and his official Website.

http://www.myspace.com/jungsungha

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5IXa2pNGVj8

www.sunghajung.com/

Young Jung, who was brought to the attention of RARWRITER.com by a high school classmate of RAR's from 1968 - thank you Randy Makings - is endorsed by Lakewood guitars.

 

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"Finger Style" Guitar -

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New $12 Million Home

41-Year Old Freight & Salvage Starts Fresh

Throughout its entire four-decade existence, Berkeley's legendary Freight & Salvage acoustic music venue has been a small, intimate setting that has been a springboard for some of the world's top music talent. As San Francisco Chronicle music writer Joel Selvin reports, "Alison Krauss played there when she was still in high school. Nickel Creek appeared at the club when its members were all still teens. Linda Ronstadt joined her old pals Carol McComb and Kathy Larisch a few years ago. Over the years, everybody in the acoustic music world has come to know Berkeley's Freight & Salvage and, although the club was famous for its hospitality, it could lack for something in creature comforts for performers." That list of well-known talent has included: Ralph Stanley, Dar Williams, Shawn Colvin, Alasdair Fraser, Dan Bern, Ricky Skaggs, Cheryl Wheeler, Odetta, R. Crumb and the Cheap Suit Serenaders, Ani DiFranco, Brownie McGhee, Mike Marshall, Savoy-Doucet, Cajun Band, David Lindley, Utah Phillips, Kate Wolf, Norton Buffalo, David Grisman, Kaki King, Vienna, Teng, Bill Kirchen, Nickel Creek, Alison Krauss, Edgar Meyers and Mike Marshall, Tin Hat Trio, Greg Brown, Country Joe McDonald, and many more. Top level talent will be a great deal more comfortable now that a new Freight & Salvage has opened at 2020 Addison in Berkeley, just up the street from the original location. The old building is shown above left, while an artists rendering more or less depicts what the new club looks like at its new location at 2020 Addison.

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Joel Selvin, San Francisco Chronicle Senior Pop Music Correspondent, wrote the following piece on the new location of the Freight & Salvage, which for the past 41 years has been one of Berkeley, California's and the nation's top venues for acoustic music.


The aged, reclaimed wood that covers the walls of the room comes from the old garage originally in the space, lending the room the look of a weathered barn, the perfect note to strike for the magnificent new home of Freight & Salvage, the 41-year-old acoustic music emporium set to open its new $12 million headquarters next week in Berkeley.

The new Freight will take its place, across the street from the Berkeley Repertory Theater in the culture gulch in downtown Berkeley, as a major arts institution, riding a rising tide of interest in acoustic music driven in part by the annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival presented by financier and aficionado Warren Hellman, who also happens to be chairman of the Freight's fundraising campaign and a keystone donor himself. "There's a much broader audience, not a mass-market audience, but a much broader audience than we've been getting at 1111 Addison," said Steve Baker, a former attorney who has been running the Freight since 1983.
 

Go to http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2009/08/16/PKO0193URS.DTL to read Joel Selvin's article.

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PRESS RELEASES - (click here to read the following)

PLAY AT CANADA'S LARGEST NEW MUSIC FESTIVAL

 

 

 

 

Railroad Earth Takes the Both Coasts on Fall/Winter Tour

 

 

 

 

Pianist Monika Herzig Discovers Peace on Earth Is More than Just a Dream

 

 

 

 

 

Production House Seeking Mixed and Mastered Hip Hop

 



 

 

EOTO: Fall Tour & New Album

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

GRAMMY WINNER PRAISES NORTH AMERICAN TRIBES

 

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Mi2N NEWS

Click here for additional news from Mi2N, the Largest Music Business & Technology News Resource.

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EVENT CALENDAR:

Featured Colorado Venues

Click here or on the graphic above to go to Nissi's Calendar page.

Click here or on the graphic above to go to the Fox Theatre in Boulder, Colorado's Calendar page.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Click here or on the graphic above to go to the Lannie's in Denver, Colorado's Calendar page.

 

 

NEW YORK CITY SHOWS

 

 

Listings compiled by Oh My Rockness - click here to go to their site for a complete listing of NYC area shows.

 

 

TISWAS' INDIE PARTY CHART

http://www.tiswasnyc.com/Tiswas/html/live2.html 

 

 

LOS ANGELES SHOWS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

HAPPENIN' HARRY, pictured here with Jimmy Fallon, hosts two popular hard rock all-star shows weekly in L.A.. Click here for information on his MySpace site about what he has planned this week.

 

FEATURED SF BAY AREA VENUES

Armando's in Martinez (CA) - Armando's is something of a work of art in its own right. Named after owner Roy Jeans' talented singing-chef grandfather, Armando, the small venue is a constant art piece in motion. From creative wall pieces and textures to the canvases more commonly called chairs and tables, you will find yourself enveloped in talented art, both audible and visual.

First Street Café in Benicia (CA) - The Upstairs provides a soothing environment to enjoy a quite evening with friends, dining on selections from the appetizer or dessert menus, sipping wine, beer or gourmet coffee. First Street hosts a range of live entertainment, from quiet guitar-based troubadours to R&B. The venue has just begun hosting open mic nights.

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U.S. CHARTS

 

 

For chart news and information on the widest range of artists, check these important sites:

 

 

NEW MUSIC WEEKLY - COLLEGE RADIO CHARTS

Published: 3.20.2009
LW TW Artist - Album (Label) TWP TWP
1 1 BECOMING THE ARCHETYPE - Dichotomy (Solid State) 1343 1343
2 2 SYMPATHY - Anagogic Tyranny (Bombworks) 1298 1298
3 3 A PLEA FOR PURGING - Depravity (Facedown) 1235 1235
5 4 DEMON HUNTER - Live In Nashville (Solid State) 1200 1200
6 5 DELIVERANCE - Deliverance (Retro Active/Bombworks) 1152 1152
7 6 BELIEVER - Gabriel (Metal Blade) 1056 1056
8 7 INCRAVE - Dead End (Nightmare) 1008 1008
10 8 MY SILENT WAKE - A Garland Of Tears (Retro Active/Bombworks) 976 976
9 9 DECYFER DOWN - Crash (INO) 976 976
11 10 JUNKYARD PROPHET - The Price (Junkyard) 960 960
14 11 GOURDS - Haymaker! (Yep Roc) 221 133
12 12 RYAN ADAMS - Cardinology (Lost Highway) 214 201
13 13 SHEMEKIA COPELAND - Never Going Back (Telarc Blues) 138 133
15 14 TONY FURTADO - Deep Water (Funzalo) 130 132
16 15 RUTHIE FOSTER - The Truth According To Ruthie Foster (Blue Corn Music) 123 124
18 16 PINK - Funhouse (LaFace/Zomba) 112 115
-- 17 RACONTEURS - Consolers Of The Lonely (WB/WEA) 80 --
-- 18 ALL THESE QUIET HOURS - Advance Sampler (Ubique) 80 --
23 19 NINE INCH NAILS - The Slip (The Null Corporation) 80 80
22 20 EL TANBURA - Between The Desert And The Sea (World Village) 80 80
24 21 DAN AUERBACH - Keep It Hid (Nonesuch/Reprise) 80 79
21 22 MICHAEL W SMITH - A New Hallelujah (Reunion/PLG/Sony) 79 80
26 23 BRANT MILLER - Medicine Wheel (Nanjo) 79 79
19 24 BEN KWELLER - Changing Horses (ATO) 79 80
30 25 KELLY CROOK - Can't Stop (Mini Mogul Music) 78 78
-- 26 NEIL YOUNG - Fork In The Road (Reprise/WEA) 77 --
33 27 ROMEO - Get Low (GoDigital Media Group) 77 77
25 28 MANAFEST - Citizens Activ (BEC/Uprock) 77 79
34 29 CALL TO PRESERVE - From Isolation (Facedown) 76 76
20 30 IAN MCLAGAN - Never Say Never (2:59) 76 80
32 30 TRISTANIA - Illumination (Steamhammer SPV) 77 74

 

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BILLBOARD

http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/index.jsp

 


 

PROOF THE END IS NEAR: Barbra Streisand reclines at the top of the Billboard 200 with Love Is the Answer (Columbia).

 

 

 

Top 40
CHR/Top 40
Rhythmic

Adult
Hot AC
AC
 

 

 

BUT NOT OUT: Jay Sean with Lil Wayne tops of  Billboard's Top 100 singles chart with "Down" (Interscope).
 

 

Urban
Urban
Urban AC

Country
Country

MR. AMERICA: Toby Keith's "American Ride" (Capitol Nashville ) is at  #1 on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart.


Rock
Alternative
Active Rock
Rock
Triple A
Americana

THE EYES HAVE IT: Paramore Tops Billboard's Alternative Albums Chart with Brand New Eyes (Fueled by Ramen)

SoundScan Charts
Hot Digital Tracks
Billboard 200
Hot 100
Top Country Albums
Top Latin Albums
Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums


 

BRUTALLY FUNNY: Austrian Death Machine tops Billboard's "Heat Seeker's Albums" chart with "Double Brutal" (Metal Blade).

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CHARTS ALL OVER THE WORLD The most complete listing of links to record sales and play charts worldwide.

 

PARTY TEEN: Miley Cyrus' "Party in the USA" tops Billboard's Top Digital Sokngs chart.

Latin
Latin Pop
Regional Mexican
Tropical
Latin Rhythm

Christian
Christian AC
Christian CHR
Inspo
Christian Rock 

Gospel
Gospel

Jazz
Smooth Jazz

 


Canadian Charts
Canada AC - Sarah Mclachlan, "U Want Me 2" (Nettwerk ) #1 5 weeks
Canada Hot AC - NICKELBACK, "GOTTA BE SOMEBODY" (EMI MUSIC CANADA)  #1 3 weeks
Canada Rock - KINGS OF LEON, "SEX ON FIRE" (RCA/RMG) #1 2 weeks
Canada Country - SUGARLAND, "ALREADY GONE" (MERCURY) #1 2 weeks
Canada CHR/Top 40 - KEVIN RUDOLF FEAT. LIL WAYNE, "LET IT ROCK" (CASH MONEY/UNIVERSAL REPUBLIC)  #1 3 weeks

European Charts

 

TRANSLATING ABROAD: David Guetta ft. Akon's "Sexy Chick" is at  #1 on Billboard's "European Hot 100" chart.

Australian Charts

ARIA CHARTS - Australia's Music Chart. All links lead to ARIA.com. Once there, drop down the Aria Charts menu to select from a list of charts, including:
 

Top 50 Singles - The Black Eyed Peas, "I Gotta Feeling" (Interscope)

Top 50 Albums - Michael Jackson, The Essential Michael Jackson,  (EPI/SME)

Digital Track - The Black Eyed Peas, "I Gotta Feeling" (Interscope)

Top 20 Australian Singles - The Black Eyed Peas, "I Gotta Feeling" (Interscope)

Dance Chart - The Black Eyed Peas, "I Gotta Feeling" (Interscope)

Country - Taylor Swift, Fearless (BIG/UMA)

Urban Albums - Hilltop Hoods, State of the Art (CGE/UMA)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Japanese 

Charts

 

TOP MP3 DOWNLOADS IN JAPAN

 

Airplay World Official Top 100
The most popular singles on the radio compiled from a worldwide sample of 2650 Top 40 Radio Playlist Charts and provided by Top40-Charts.com every Saturday.

 

Rank- SONG / ARTIST
 

1 - Boom Boom Pow - Black Eyed Peas
2 - Halo - Beyonce Knowles
3 - We Made You - Eminem

4 - Right Round - Flo Rida
5 - Day 'N Nite - Kid Cudi

6 - Poker Face - Lady Gaga

7 - Love Sex Magic - Ciara & Justin Timberlake

8 - Jai Ho (You Are My Destiny) - A. R. Rahman & Pussycat Dolls

9 - Know Your Enemy - Green Day

10-Sugar - Flo Rida





 

 

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