A weekly audio postcard from the wide musical world of America’s best-loved band!
The Extra-Terrestrial Highway, southern Nevada Van Morrison Astral Weeks Live at the Hollywood Bowl. Sublime performance! Rita saw the show live at the Greek Theater in Berkeley a few weeks ago. Songs from the Road Band, As the Crow Flies. I know Mark Schimick from his work with Larry Keel. I guess this is a … Read more
Rita and I left Oakland at 10 am and drove to Lee Vining CA via the Sonora Pass. Lunch at the Diamondback Grill, dinner at the Whoa Nellie Deli. After listening to a CD of the set I played Saturday night with Zac Matthews and Bear Kittay, we plugged the iPod into the stereo and … Read more
The Rex Foundation‘s home page now features a music stream with contributions from a great number of the musicians who support Rex by donating portions of their concert revenues and/or performing at Rex events. I am proud to be one of those supporters. Also on the Rex page right now: a profile of Donna Jean … Read more
TONIGHT! Friday, May 15: With Zac Matthews and Bear Kittay, UNPLUGGED, at the Nomad Cafe, 6500 Shattuck Avenue, Oakland (near the Berkeley line) Sunday, May 17: Rubber Souldiers, the Raveups, and others perform “’60s British Explosion Unplugged!” at the Freight and Salvage, 1111 Addison Street, Berkeley May 23: Desert Rocks Music Festival, Moab UT. ALO, … Read more
This just in from famed New York DJ Dennis Elsas: I just posted a pretty cool Jerry/Grateful Dead video piece from 1984 (when i was doing TV stuff for PM Magazine) on my website archives. Rolling Stone picked it up as an item this week. Here’s a link to the piece, and the Rolling Stone … Read more
My friend, progressive talk radio host Angie Coiro, is out of town for a week, so I get to fill in for her tonight, 6-8pm pacific on San Francisco’s Green 960 AM. You can listen online and join the live-blog chat here. I’ll be talking with one of the creators of The Story of Stuff, … Read more
This just in: Tara Nevins [of Donna the Buffalo] will be a special guest performing with BK3 on upcoming dates. BK3 is Bill Kreutzmann‘s trio. As a founding member of the Grateful Dead, Bill has played drums at every one of the Grateful Dead’s shows. Hutch Hutchinson (Bonnie Raitt) and Scott Murawski (Max Creek) will … Read more
I will be cohosting The Angie Coiro Show on Green 960 (960 am) in San Francisco this evening, 6-8pm Pacific Time. Green 960 streams online, and there’s also a live blog while we’re on the air. We’re still working out the topics, but I am pretty sure the first hour will be all about food: … Read more
NPR is looking for suggestions for “All Songs Considered.” I’d sure like to be nominated, if anyone feels like suggesting me. A message from Bob Boilen: It seems a fair exchange: We tell you about great music; you tell us about great music. One downside, though, is this: The music, email and Facebook messages you … Read more
Via Boing Boing. Read about it here.