Category Archives: music

if you can hear it and it does not grate your ears, ambient or intentitional with a story melody or not, major and minor chords, the community rather than the industry if possible; if not the answer then a pretty good guess, and the people who live it; basie miller satchmo and the king of all sir duke

Motherhips in early May in Big Sur Folk Yeah!

Posted on April 24, 2012 by markweiss86

Tim Bluhm and Greg Loiacono, and various other Mother Hipsters have played sundry shows for Earthwise Productions in Palo Alto, mostly in the 1990s. They also played The Edge numerous times, produced by other peoples. I last saw Tim and … Continue reading →

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Mexican wrestling mask: or, hero with two or three faces

Posted on April 24, 2012 by markweiss86

Hear Music, the retail chain that became part of Starbucks, underwrote a pilot series of Sundays in the Park at Mitchell Park in Palo Alto; the first show featured Los Straitjackets, the second Maria Muldaur, who actually replaced Blind Boys … Continue reading →

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Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Moscow

Posted on April 23, 2012 by markweiss86

Chicago Symphony Orchestra with Riccardo Muti performed in Moscow last week, for the first time since 1990. The U.S. Ambassador Michael McFaul spoke to the crowd in Russian as part of the program, and held a press conference with Muti. … Continue reading →

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Announcing Earthwise Productions Institute and news-reading service, not necessarily in that order

Posted on April 23, 2012 by markweiss86

WE RECOMMEND YOU BUY THIS BOOK: Niners Stadium price shows how stakes are rising, by Gwen Knapp, who the very busy doctor, dad and blogger from the midwest Dr. Brian Moore, a transplanted New Englander helpfully or perhaps wishfully remembers … Continue reading →

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Yeh for Microsoft Store Opening

Posted on April 19, 2012 by markweiss86

I’m not on a drug. But I got all goose-bumpy at the grand opening at Stanford Shopping a Simon Property merely to be within 48 hours and one thousand yards of Adam Levine and his band, who I estimated will rake in about three hundred thousand dollars for their playing along and pomping and circumstancing. Continue reading →

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You Are Plural band at SFMOMA museums

Posted on April 17, 2012 by markweiss86

I hesitate to call You Are Plural a singular sensation. I caught their set at SFMOMA members party Saturday but could not stay to harass them or buy what looked to be pretty cool little needlepoint patches or somesuch homemadities, … Continue reading →

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It wasn’t God who made honky tonk Anglim

Posted on April 17, 2012 by markweiss86

Clare Rojas the successful visual artist who performs and writes as Peggy Honeywell the slightly less successful musician has a new album out which you can hear for free here, at Soundcloud I mean. Actually, it may be that she … Continue reading →

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Eric Turner “Angels and Stars” on Leno

Posted on April 11, 2012 by markweiss86

with lupe fiasco tiny tempah and a band that could take the roots running fulls. plus or minus tarik trotter cooking show about sliding a banana into a tortilla, or that’s what I hearded, non Garrison style Continue reading →

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Kepi Is Real

Posted on April 3, 2012 by markweiss86

I caught this candid picture of the great Kepi (from Sacramento, from Groovie Ghoulies) loading in at Eric Fanali’s first Rockage event in February. He gave me a copy of his new cd, plus a cdr for Valentine’s with a … Continue reading →

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Happy Dao, and how!

Posted on April 3, 2012 by markweiss86

“Happy birthday, Dao. From Mark” that was a text I sent to my former client, the singer-songwriter, novelist and mom Dao Strom, who lives in Portland now, at about 9:45 last night, as Terry and I were both falling asleep … Continue reading →

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