Hello Troubadourians! At some point, every musician gets bored with their playing and/or their instrument. Learning new songs or learning a new technique can do the...
After eight straight years of record-setting drought, the rain finally came to California. The Sierra Nevada mountains are packed with snow, ensuring full rivers and lakes...
The new full-length album by The Silent Comedy is Enemies Multiply, and the title says a lot about the content. The rockers have been together since...
Here I am a record on a jukebox, A little piece of plastic with a hole—oooh! Play me. Buy me then you play me then my...
My favorite “toy” from my childhood was a record player. It was kid-sized friendly, suitable for playing the Golden Records series of fairy tales and nursery...
The Marcia Forman Band’s latest is called Generations. The new EP is a family affair for alto sax player Forman and her husband, violinist Floyd Fronius...
Note: This is the first installment of a new column, celebrating recorded music of all kinds… kinda like Lou Curtiss’ column but not. It’ll run alternately...
On the local scene since before the turn of the century, Christopher Dale has racked up numerous nominations and awards, and as a solo artist he...
If we were to choose one person to represent North American folk music, the obvious choice is Pete Seeger (1919–2014). He brought songs out of the...
