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Monday, June 30, 2014

All the bands, all the music, all day long at SacTown Rocks! Photos here!

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It was a full day of music; Sacramento's music scene, new and more mature, were well represented at SacTown Rocks . And there were sight...
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Sunday, June 29, 2014

SacTown Rocks, and everyone had fun. Local music, the city rocked!

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Put in motion by 98 Rock's Pat Martin, SacTown Rocks took over several blocks of Capitol Mall, between the Capitol building and the go...
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Saturday, June 28, 2014

Today Sac town rocks... literally, SacTown Rocks!

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Capitol Mall, 3pm to 10pm today, Budweiser and 98 Rock present SacTown Rocks : an open-air festival in the middle of Sacramento, on Capitol...

Aftershock 2014: more bands to be announced on July 1st!

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Who do you think they will be? Here's a clue: there will be bands who did NOT play Monster Energy Aftershock last year... Watch the...
Sunday, June 22, 2014

Jetlag music, new one to look (listen) out for: Rag'N'Bone man

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Driving up the M1 in England today, from Heathrow airport to Leicester, listening to Radio One all the way, several DJs, don't remember ...
Thursday, June 19, 2014

Looking forwards to open air shows and festivals--a few lined up!

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While I'm doing a lot of travelling this year, I do intend to cover a few shows or a few hundred! Looking forwards to the festivals: Aft...
Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Beautiful, beautiful Ireland: here's your virtual tour.

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Recently, I've been doing a lot of travelling with my new job at Smartling  (oh, you thought taking music photos paid the mortgage? Not...
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Monday, June 16, 2014

Classical music, why it's important, and what the UK is doing about it

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I know I've said it before, but I feel incredibly lucky to have grown up and been educated at a time when the arts, including music and ...
Saturday, June 14, 2014

In Dublin's fair city, I can't help singing about Molly Malone

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Everywhere you go in the centre of Dublin, Ireland, you'll find music in one form or another. Buskers on the street in Temple Bar, ...
Monday, June 9, 2014

Gone too young: Rik Mayall, star of The Young Ones, one of the great comedians of our time, has gone

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Sigh. Another of the people who, while "only" as close a part of life as the other side of a television screen, was a big part of ...
Sunday, June 8, 2014

There's whiskey in the jar. There is, I tasted it.

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I've been in Ireland all week, spend this weekend driving around some of the most beautiful countryside that I have ever seen. Earlier i...
Saturday, June 7, 2014

Some of the best performances are totally unexpected

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All this week, I've been in Dublin, Ireland, for work: TAUS (Translation Automation Users Society) and Localization World conferences a...
Thursday, May 29, 2014

... and the lineup includes Five Finger Death Punch again!!! AWESOME!!!!!

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Aftershock 2014 lineup is published:   http://aftershockconcert.com  Looks like there are still a couple of to-be-announced bands--keep ...
Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Aftershock 2014 lineup coming tomorrow! Let's rock!

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This time tomorrow, we'll know the lineup for this year's Aftershock festival in Sacramento. Who do you want to see? Everyone, righ...
Monday, May 26, 2014

Joy and Madness, Sacramento Music Festival (sacmusicfest) 2014

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Another Sacramento band, well worth seeing live, is Joy and Madness . Old-school funk, soul, R&B driven by high-energy, and they'll ...

Up the kazoo!! It's the Ophir Prison crew in action.

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No, I don't listen to kazoo bands. No, I've never had the occasion to listen to a prison band. Temperence society? Isn't that th...

Collective Soul, on stage at Sacramento Music Festival (sacmusicfest)

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Collective Soul took the stage at Sacramento Music Festival last night, Sunday's headliners, bringing rock to the still-mostly-jazz-bu...

Sacramento Music Festival (SacMusicFest), Jimmy Pailer and the Prophets

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One thing I love about jazz festivals is that they always, without fail, introduce me to something, someone new. OK, so SacMusicFest is no l...