It’s another vinyl showdown in Old Town tonight at 8 p.m. at The Siren’s Song (free). The weekly 33 and a Third rap, funk and hip-hop sock-hop is curated by turntablists Goldylocks and Fade for your dancing pleasure, and if you happen to want more out of the shindig then remember that the mic is […]
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Vinyl for the Soul
This week includes an important day for your local music scene, sandwiched right between 4/20 and Earth Day. It’s Record Store Day, a barely decade-old bridge between the music collecting public, independent record stores (what’s left of them) and the recording industry (what’s left of it). Why would I mention an ostensibly commercial holiday in […]
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DJs, St. Paddy’s and a Gut-string Quartet
John Steinbeck set his 14th novel Cannery Row in the height of the Great Depression, in a town dominated by one industry: fish canning. We live in such a place now — wait. I was going to write an introduction about a changing mono-economy, its effect on the local culture and how the citizens view […]