AltWeeklies Wire
Monterey County’s Most Ambitious Musicians Seize South By Southwest’s Unique Platformnew
Wearing only tight green briefs and a Robin Hood hat, Rushad Eggleston dangled upside down like a bat from a rusting, two-story-high piece of scaffolding. Somehow, he managed to hold onto his oversize cello while he sawed on it like a frantic lumberjack.
Monterey County Weekly |
Stuart Thornton |
03-25-2010 |
Music
Kerouac's Big Sur Dreams -- and Nightmares -- are Memorialized in New DVD/CDnew
F-Stop/Atlantic Records is honoring the 40th anniversary of Jack Kerouac's death on Oct. 21, 1969 with the release of a 98-minute documentary and accompanying CD about Big Sur, both titled One Fast Move or I'm Gone: Kerouac's Big Sur.
Monterey County Weekly |
Stuart Thornton |
10-15-2009 |
Books
Extra Golden Is a Gigantic, Festive Burst of Soundnew
After Ian Eagleston traveled over to Africa to document the Benga music of Kenya, the musician returned home with something more than his doctoral thesis: a new group called Extra Golden.
Monterey County Weekly |
Stuart Thornton |
05-07-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Saving Birds from Burning in Big Surnew
As the wildfire in Big Sur carpeted more and more of the region's steep coastal mountains, the biologists of Ventana Wildlife Society's condor rehabilitation project realized the uncontrolled blaze could prove deadly for eight condors contained in a large aviary directly within the fire's predicted path.
Monterey County Weekly |
Stuart Thornton |
07-11-2008 |
Disasters
MC Lars' Star Tracknew
The already ambitious MC further expands his sound.
Monterey County Weekly |
Stuart Thornton |
12-14-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: MC Lars
Flashback '67new
Forty years after the Monterey Pop Festival made history, the Summer of Love Tour brings back some of the rock heroes of that era.
Monterey County Weekly |
Stuart Thornton |
07-26-2007 |
Music
Save Internet Radionew
A bill in Congress could stop a federal agency from killing off a great musical resource.
Monterey County Weekly |
Stuart Thornton |
07-12-2007 |
Media
Tags: radio
For Kenny Neal, Blues Healsnew
The swamp blues player returns to the music after being sidelined by a series of tragedies.
Monterey County Weekly |
Stuart Thornton |
06-22-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Kenny Neal
Night Shiftnew
Working the graveyard with the folks who don't sleep.
Monterey County Weekly |
Stuart Thornton |
11-16-2006 |
Business & Labor
Tags: business & labor
Deep Royal Bloodnew
For 13 years, Will Oldham has been releasing beautiful folk, country and rock with unexpected lyrical turns under various names, including Palace, Palace Music, and Bonnie "Prince" Billy. In a rare interview last week, he spoke about his newest work.
Monterey County Weekly |
Stuart Thornton |
01-21-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Will Oldham, Superwolf
