Comment Archives: stories: Music
Re: “The Cat Man of West Oakland”
Hey Adam, maybe you can help my daughter Barbara and her boyfriend Max. they moved to Athens St off San Pablo on December 21st and their beloved and somewhat elderly grey and white female cat "Smokey" snuck out. She has been missing since then. she is a bit shy and has little "V" shaped nips in both ears. We have contacted the pounds in the area but have had no luck. My email is lauraeden711@gmail.com if you have seen a cat that could be Smokey. thanks for the kind work you do! Sincerely, Laura Eden
Re: “The SFJAZZ Center and the Rise of the Nonprofit Model”
Thanks for that angle on philanthropy from the musician's perspective, Ian, and the discussion on the 'academization of jazz' that followed. Great to see the community's responses to these issues/trends.
Re: “The SFJAZZ Center and the Rise of the Nonprofit Model”
Can jazz survive in a corporate glass block? This stuff just won't die, will it? I consciously won't go to a place like this. What's bad for jazz is, you can't measure how many people subconsciously avoid going to a dead glass and steel box. You'll never measure that.
But for those who are true believers the emperor still has new clothes: "glass walls that merge the sidewalk with the main lobby" or, in other words, there is no there there.
Oh yeah, they'll survive like Berkeley Rep. I remember when the awful Roda Theatre opened and two women seating next to me were looking around and one of them said "This is what I imagine the inside of a prison looks like." Oh, I'm sure they still have their subscriptions...but you just can't measure those things or know for sure.
Re: “The SFJAZZ Center and the Rise of the Nonprofit Model”
Nice piece! You might be interested in a discussion the SFJAZZ building sparked about big-money philanthropy in jazz vs. low-budget local gigs on my blog last year: http://iancareyjazz.com/blog/2010/05/a-tho…
Re: “A$AP Rocky”
Loving A$AP’s album, can’t stop listening to it! check out the video for the title track “LONG.LIVE.A$AP”, so good: http://bit.ly/13zk78X
Re: “Becoming Jhameel”
Thanks great job, I wanted to know who Jhameel is as a person. I like him and I like his music. Interestingly, I am a retired teacher.
Re: “Toro Y Moi Eases Into Adulthood”
I had a bad thing happen to my right arm and I just started trying to play again. I need help in my guitar lessons... maybe you could suggest a good guitar lesson to get back in shape.
I had gone through this site:
http://www.guitarists.net/guitar_lessons/
Thanks!!
Re: “Young Musicians Program Still Ensnared in Controversy”
I would say that Daisy Newman's actions are a disgrace to the university, only the university's refusal to remove such an obviously incompetent director does not speak highly of the university itself. The Office of Equity and Inclusion (could there be a more obviously Orwellian name?) has been neither equitable nor inclusive.
Re: “Lil B”
im here from the task force to say that youre not listening hard enough
Re: “The Art of Noise”
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Re: “The Art of Noise”
the good news is that neither the cerebral attitude nor the graduate degree are required to make noise! humor, absurdity, and self-effacing attitudes are essential components to many local noise acts, and out-of-town acts who stop in oakland to play. there is also the brutal wall-of-noise cathartic approach to experimental music - again, no professional training is needed! not into the harshness so much? want something a little mellower? still not interested in grad school? great news! you can make droney soundscapes or hypnotic minimalist electronic collages without any schooling in the subject. it is also helpful to know that, even if you do have extensive schooling in noise, you can still make 100% genuine noise without meticulously calculated instrumentation, without an artist statement, without a plan, without rehearsing, and without an uncomfortably quiet intellectual atmosphere. the audience is free to cough out loud, razz the performers, crack open a beer, laugh, and talk above a whisper in many local venues - they don't even check CVs at the door!
Re: “Chronicling Music History”
The interview with Alexandra and the Starlight band now available http://www.musicliferadio.com/2012/11/067-…
Re: “Beyond Two Turntables and a Microphone”
DJ DANYAH IS AWSOME!
Re: “Doseone, Take Two”
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Re: “Local Licks”
I listen to all the albums I review multiple times. I thought New Spell had a lot of potential, especially Leanne Kelly's vocals. Hope the band keeps at it rather than feels discouraged.
Re: “Doseone, Take Two”
right on @knoncents
Re: “Local Licks”
wtf is up with the New Spell review? i listened to it and am wondering if you listened to the same album. you lost a lot of credibility with me.
Re: “And That's a Rap”
I would encourage you Rachel to go hard in archiving the Hip Hop industry in 2012-2013. I say this because rap music has recently emerge into a more diverse art form than ever. It has mixed with jazz, country, rock, classical, as well as other alternative genres.
Re: “No Names, More Noise”
This is quite a beautiful concept, and I'm also an experimental artist, with intentions of touching listeners with true attention spans, and a taste for the outer cosms of sound