What was the first concert you ever went to? Which one was the best? These are questions I love asking people because not only are they interesting, but they show the lasting power of music. No matter how embarrassing we may now view our attendance at our first show, we can’t help but smile and […]
Andy Powell
Andy Powell is a congenital music lover and hosts The Album of the Week Show on KWPT 100.3 FM Tuesdays at 6 p.m.
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Let Me Stand Next To Your Fire
Since you’re a loyal “Setlist” reader, you know I am not above exploiting my children in order to fulfill my word count. In general, I’m just not above exploiting my children. So, not too long ago I found myself showing parts of the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival to my 9-year-old son. The context or reasoning […]
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Keepin’ It Eire
St. Patrick’s Day is upon us (or past us, depending when you read this), the day us non-Irish look to simplify and reduce an entire culture to a Hallmark-esque version of binge-drinking balderdash ending in a black-out. Then there’s the day after St. Patrick’s Day, when we are biologically reminded that we are not Irish […]
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What’s New is Old Again
As perhaps some of you with teenagers are accustomed, I occasionally have the pleasure of listening to pop radio stations while playing chauffeur to a 13-year-old. I know these radio stations serve the vital function of connecting the youth to new music that’s coming out and, although the radio industry is not the powerhouse it […]
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Frost Ahead, Frost Behind
Steve Kimock, no stranger to Humboldt County, returns this week to share new songs from his upcoming release, Last Danger of Frost. Frost is not yet firmly behind us here, and the tone of Kimock’s guitar sounds at times crystalline and icy, but never cold. Some of the acoustic tracks off of the instrumental album […]
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Mark Lovelace
Humboldt County 3rd District Supervisor Mark Lovelace is serving his final year in office as the chair of the board. But the San Jose native and former punk rock club busboy won’t stop playing music anytime soon. He grew up listening to big band jazz music and the crooning of Bing Crosby with his parents. […]
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Rob Wall
Humboldt County residents are lucky for countless reasons. One of those is that, due to our rather small population, we have a real opportunity to get to know our elected officials and public servants. As with many in the “public sphere,” it’s easy for us to think we know who a person is by glancing […]
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All Together Now
In our hyper-partisan 21st century world, you’d be forgiven for thinking that we, as Americans, don’t like ourselves very much. Although more and more of us profess to drop out of the two party political system, we still tend to be quite tribal and quarantine ourselves into like-minded camps. Drive a Chevy truck? Your friends […]
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Half a League From Stardom
I’ve been told by more than a few people to check out the 2013 documentary 20 Feet From Stardom. Winner of an Academy Award, the film is about a few singers with tremendous voices who played the role of “backup singer” to many bands over the decades. I’m still unclear what’s taken me so long […]
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The Sound
What is the “Southern California Sound”? I heard the term recently mentioned in regards to a band playing The Depot on Friday (The Donkeys) and although I immediately had an idea of what the sum of that sound is, the individual parts that make it up were a bit more troubling to identify. The artists […]
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Keepin’ It Real
What separates good art from bad art? What is an underlying characteristic of art that lasts through the ages? What is it that makes a painting worthy to hang indefinitely at a museum? What is it that ensures a song will be played on the radio for decades as opposed to dying a quiet death […]
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Getting Out
As many of you parents know, finding the time to make it out to live music shows can be just as difficult as staying awake/sober until the 9 p.m. start time. This isn’t completely exclusive to the breeders in our community, but applicable to all of us at the mercy of aging. Young and underemployed? […]