Archive for July, 2008

Live Dates!

July 25th, 2008 by

Perhaps some of you have noticed that our live dates calendar has been pretty…bare. Not any more! There’s a whole bunch of stuff going on this weekend, and if you go to the live dates page (or just look at the list on the right of the home page) you can click on the event [...]

Alec Haavik Friction Five “Ye Shanghai” Release

July 21st, 2008 by

Just coming out of the oven, the new and first cd of Alec Haavik Friction Five (who are still are first Featured Artist) is going to be released this next Thursday, July 24th. This is the invitation: Alec Haavik Friction Five’s  first CD!!!! named “Ye Shanghai”, for our famous hip-hop / ska / surf-rock version [...]

YuYinTang Last Tuesday

July 20th, 2008 by

Once upon a time, not so long ago, my personal mantra was “tighten the screws, relax the sphincter.” It came to me in a dream, and this brilliant, cosmic, east-meets-west prescription for success and self-mastery was a powerful revelation to all who heard it until I forgot about it a few weeks later. At YuYinTang [...]

Blues of the 60s

July 14th, 2008 by

Assuming my calculations are correct, I have about forty-eight hours left to be in my fifties, and despite the fact that my lieu de naissance and Nevada are a time zone apart, the fact that Nevada indulges in Daylight Savings Time while Arizona doesn’t, means that the fateful time (around 5:00 PM, the beginning of [...]

Listen to Flight of the Conchords

July 14th, 2008 by

We just got this from Saucy, on what it may be the beginning of his posting for layabozi.com, Saucy says: Hey guys, would like to introduce you to a group that you may not have heard of. They are a New Zealand duo called Flight of the Conchords…. I reckon this two tracks are pretty [...]

Sunday Jam at LOgO

July 9th, 2008 by

Last Sunday night I ended the wonderfully hot weekend at LOgO listening live amateur and not so amateur Rock. After the ‘cut-da-wave’ DJ from England at Shelter – The Bug – LOgO’s Jam Session was very refreshing. I made it on time to listen 6 or 7 songs of the Ska Band “No. 1 Korea”, [...]

Guillermo, Guillermo, Everywhere!

July 7th, 2008 by

I missed most of the Guillermo Klein media explosion last month, when it seems like all of New York was overwhelmed with happiness that he was visiting from Barcelona to make his first appearance at the Village Vanguard. There were a preview/feature and a concert review at the New York Times, an album review and [...]