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After 28 years of being their fan, I realize I’ll never be as cool as Superchunk

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Three short films about fm

1. Leslie Marie Cook of Los Angeles and Brooklyn, December, 2020, original song “Women On The Wall” making of video in her home studio; 2.Monica Walker, of Palo Alto, busking or singing for fun in the new parking garage near … Continue reading

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When Harpo played his harp it was a mystery

I got a post card from Jonathan Richman and it stopped me dead in my tracks, to take out my handheld computer and order #4 on his bandcamp bundle. I had to pulldown my mask to make this happen. When … Continue reading

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Candye Kane, truly gifted

Live your life, play your part. Let the feelings flow from your heart. You can’t change the tide, you can’t change the sea you just gotta be who you were born to be. I wouldn’t be alive now if it … Continue reading

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Lisa Fay Beatty

I’m watching the documentary “Hype” about the Seattle grunge music scene, a very 1990s experience, but when the screen flashed to 7 Year Bitch, I thought of my friend Lisa Fay Beatty. Lisa was the guitarist for the Mudwimin, who … Continue reading

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Six singles released by Earthwise’s Lions With Wings imprint on Bandcamp

Lions With Wings, the content platform spearheaded by Mark Weiss of Earthwise Productions as a work-around for a cancelled concert series, has released a total of six songs, with more in the works, Weiss says. The songs are: 1) Dayna … Continue reading

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Aloha to drummer Amy Cesari from Downtown North Palo Alto

Although this rock ‘n’ roll drummer has been in the biz almost as long as I have it suddenly dawned on me her story. I knew because Maya told me that when Tori quit the band with chronic illness in … Continue reading

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Caroline Davis, Covid-ear not concert, solo sax, effects and found protest, 2020

I am listening to this person do a 35 minute solo sax performance on the internet. Yesterday she led a Lee Konitz program on line with Stanford Jazz Workshop. I meant to go but it came and went. I have … Continue reading

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Turn of the Stew

My name’s Stew And I like screw A—- And by **** From on high Or down in front. Uniting Wall Street And Van Brunt Hanging chads or run Jeremy I’m now the long-time kind of guy. On my stake or … Continue reading

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Six five oh livestreams in the 212

Rockwood Music Hall of Manhattan is promoting a set of ticketed livestream concerts, with Molly Tuttle and Vienna Teng. What caught my eye here in Plasty is that they are both Peninsula slash South Bay artists. Molly is from Palo … Continue reading

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