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- Story: Live Releases It’s First Concert DVD (Thursday, April 9, 2009)
... ed an accompanying CD of the concert that also includes two new studio songs ... , very pleased with it. And the fact that it was our first one it was nice tha ... hat it was our first one it was nice that it was so good. What was it that ... that it was so good. What was it that came together for this DVD that made ...
- Story: John Prine Comes to the Arlington (Thursday, October 26, 2006)
... st January, it was instantly obvious that one of America’s most gifted l ... ook longer before I got enough songs that I actually felt that I could go in a ... ot enough songs that I actually felt that I could go in and do a record. I don ... oming a father. I’m not saying that’s the reason it took me so lon ...
- Story: Getting Better with Age (Thursday, October 26, 2006)
... st January, it was instantly obvious that one of America’s most gifted l ... ook longer before I got enough songs that I actually felt that I could go in a ... ot enough songs that I actually felt that I could go in and do a record. I don ... oming a father. I’m not saying that’s the reason it took me so lon ...
- Story: Locals Only Music Issue, Version 2.0 (Thursday, September 18, 2008)
... y. The reason was to create an issue that offered thanks—and a much-needed v ... ibles). The issue was such a success that it seemed clear that The Independent ... such a success that it seemed clear that The Independent’s Locals Only Musi ... bands and a series of live showcases that would ultimately determine (by fan v ...
- Story: Coyote Fire: Sept 22-Oct 1, 1964 (Wednesday, September 30, 2009)
... reekbeds, there are refreshing pools that are clear and crisp in springtime. ... viding a soft cathedral-like setting that is beautiful. The sandstone is Eo ... eries of triangular-shaped flatirons that rise dramatically from the shoulder ... the juxtaposition of sea and summit that gives Santa Barbara its unique chara ...
- Story: KT Tunstall Talks Touring, Posing, and Living the Dream (Thursday, May 1, 2008)
... ouring like crazy. I know. It’s great. (Laughs). This is my dream year. It ... ronger voice than you left with. And that’s really how I find it. I’ve bee ... every night is very good for me. That’s good to hear that you like touri ... ood for me. That’s good to hear that you like touring, because with such ...
- Story: This Is Not a Tourist (Friday, July 11, 2008)
... The first things we agreed to were that Sebastian would take pictures and St ... t it added so much to the experience that I recommend it without qualification ... ugh it all yet, but somehow the fact that I missed out on all the barrel tasti ... al tourist, consider the possibility that there are other visitors here too, p ...
- Story: Enter the Allosphere (Thursday, November 6, 2008)
... onic music. “You’re doing that, by the way,” laughs our host, “ ... ost, “by touching the handrail.” That makes me jump. “It’s okay,” sh ... tors will be completely bombarded by sounds and sights of physical phenomena pro ... we sweep. It’s appropriate that the first thing Kuchera-Morin shows ...
- Story: Featured Bands (Thursday, September 27, 2007)
... ghtened post-punk reveries. Maybe it sounds like an uncomfortable mix, but it’ ... you combine classic rock influences that range from Johnny Cash to Tom Petty, ... an intricate combination of elements that include Mick Jagger, highly advanced ... on which to stand, intriguing lyrics that make mention of a daddy “on the ro ...
- Story: Eating (Thursday, October 15, 2009)
... husiastic embrace of the one product that’s been identified as Santa Barbara ... ate-burnt almond, Turkish coffee, or that summertime staple, peppermint. Old-t ... teria, 684-3811 For a sleepy town that morphs into a tourist mecca, Carpint ... Mi Fiesta Market go back far enough that most Boomers hereabouts were kids wh ...
- Story: Kevin Spracher (Friday, June 1, 2007)
... of the songs in this compilation is that they begin promisingly but quickly g ... ger than you’d like, and there’s that crazy uncle who doesn’t belong. ... since I was five years old and know that it is the greatest city in the world ... t, my English teachers will tell you that my style is mature and my unique voi ...
- Story: The Grownup’s Guide to Indie Rock (Thursday, August 20, 2009)
... author with the names of said bands. That way he can continue on in this grand ... rrowing from traditions. I’d guess that about 20 people seriously listen to ... rawing from obvious 1960s influences that hang thicker in the air than patchou ... han patchouli oil on a Deadhead. But that’s just a first impression. ...
- Story: Voices of the Evacuated (Friday, November 14, 2008)
... h addresses have burned, reports are that more than 2,500 people have evacuate ... the fire either. Robinson explained that because they were so close to the Te ... to take with them, despite the fact that they are “very fire conscious and ... nd a mental list of pictures on wall that we wanted to take.” After her d ...
- Story: Q Is for Quartet (Saturday, November 22, 2008)
... on. It’s commonly believed that the string quartet is the best test ... an’s capabilities. One might argue that speaking eloquently about a string q ... Barbara new music consortium Current Sounds. Salaff has been a member of the ... uartets, the Carter quartets—works that are just astonishing. The kinds o ...
- Story: Last Calls (Thursday, July 27, 2006)
... between father and son, however, is that Tommy cooks and Jimmy didn’t. ... great “front door man.” That difference aside, both father and so ... to gauge new acquaintances, assuming that if they couldn’t appreciate t ... cle is, in all honesty, the hardest that I’ve ever had to write. That&# ...
- Story: Letters 11/2/2006 (Wednesday, November 1, 2006)
... respected by the news staff. During that time, personnel turnover was slow. G ... ky; in addition to the medical care that ensured her physical recovery, my br ... wded court system won’t work. That’s why last year the Juvenile C ... of California weighed in, claiming that such a proposition would increase t ...
- Story: Joel Aurora (Friday, June 1, 2007)
... 12 varied and richly layered tracks that comprise Armchair Apocrypha, the lat ... dent. Of course, you wouldn’t know that by glancing at the current Top 40 ch ... lent of fast food on modern-day MTV. Sure, there are a few notable exceptions ... ge, the mainstream is full of albums that I would just as soon use as coasters ...
- Story: Talking with Jack Johnson (Tuesday, February 5, 2008)
... t.com — this Thursday, February 7. That to-be-released article is based on t ... dio without using Pro Tools. How was that? It was definitely different. Th ... ly different. The main difference is that it feels nice to use the solar-power ... nd there are lots of positives about that as well. But doing it on an analog t ...
- Story: Arnold Revs Up The People's Machine (Thursday, September 21, 2006)
... -blow account of the recall campaign that propelled Schwarzenegger to politica ... -blow account of the recall campaign that propelled Schwarzenegger to politic ... current California political system that leaves the reader chilled to the bo ... roblem, as Mathews demonstrates, is that initiatives cost millions to qualify ...
- Story: First King of the Festival (Thursday, February 1, 2007)
... ara. This is the extended version of that Q&A, which appears in an edited form ... ormance of a lifetime—and one that’s likely to land him the Oscar ... ara. This is the extended version of that Q&A, which appears in an edited ... ;t but I wrote a line in the article that said I hoped it was over by the tim ...
- Story: An American Adam in the Big Eden (Thursday, July 20, 2006)
... bition space on East Anapamu Street. That’s just five days away, and the cav ... is still literally roaring with the sounds of multiple power tools and teams of ... extension cords snaking this way and that, scores of electricians, carpenters, ... bition space on East Anapamu Street. That’s just five days away, and th ...
- Story: Why the Biggest Acts Love to Play in Our Backyard (Thursday, May 1, 2008)
... the Alltel Pavilion in Walnut Creek (that’s in North Carolina) to the Waikik ... a year to create the peculiar magic that is the Santa Barbara Bowl experience ... Free Outdoor shows like the ones that start this weekend, when ’80s tita ... nd I thought, ‘How much extra does that cost?’” The moon, of cour ...
- Story: The Best of the Rest (Thursday, September 27, 2007)
... e, and Kravitz-inspired guitar solos that seem more fit for arena shows than a ... band craft socially conscious songs that are understated, poignant, and melod ... its way into your heart with a sound that’s a little bit T.Rex, a little bit ... solos cross genres to create a sound that is 100 percent rock ’n’ roll. Cu ...
- Story: 2007 Surf Issue - Surf Season Returns (Thursday, October 25, 2007)
... ow a few of the unique personalities that help make Santa Barbara surfing the ... ng, swirling kaleidoscope of culture that it is. From former world champions a ... ou what I am not involved in — that would be way easier.” Since moving ... ting — home. It was a rare day that Bull didn’t ride his bike to the b ...
- Story: Revisiting Tragedy (Tuesday, April 24, 2007)
... “Should we or shouldn’t we?” That was the question being debated the o ... s of Isla Vista in a staff editorial that had run the day before about the sho ... bout the shootings at Virginia Tech. Sure, it was a moot point—the article ha ... was an admirable sentiment, and one that most rational people can clearly agr ...
- Story: The Woodard File (Tuesday, February 6, 2007)
... study in compromise. Of course it is that, the necessarily compromise-driven t ... g news from the 2007 Oscar front was that the great and endlessly interesting ... rying, in the late ‘80s, noted that the gig is as much social as it is m ... 20;No,” Isham retorted, “that’s why John (Williams) got the ...
- Story: Jessica Small (Friday, June 1, 2007)
... album, Cinematic Americana, the band sounds as though it is ready to take part i ... ana, and Alice in Chains. I realized that I didn’t have to conform to what g ... uld pioneer into the realms of music that actually meant something more than w ... edding dress. As idealistic as it sounds, I want to be a music writer to init ...
- Story: Ben Harper Gets Ready for Hard Rocking Times (Thursday, September 17, 2009)
... name goes, I can’t help but notice that there aren’t seven of you in the l ... at do the R7 guys bring to the table that couldn’t be done with the Innocent ... a different musician in you, so…. That’s the job of a musician, to never ... , no doubt. Ah, I hope I haven’t. That’s the one thing; you can never do ...
- Story: The Mind of Matt McAllister (Thursday, July 6, 2006)
... ng sides co-exist beautifully — is that Matt McAllister is the undisputed fu ... ie Ramos. Their rapport is so strong that you feel as if you’re participatin ... McAllister is the ego, the executive that finds equilibrium between primitive ... d is the id, the irreverent wildcard that asks the questions we’re all think ...
- Story: The Price of Redemption (Thursday, June 7, 2007)
... is a healer of epic proportions and that he speaks the word of God, so The In ... a love/hate relationship. I’m like that guy terrified to tell his girlfriend ... assume, because of one simple word, that I am in their club? But perhaps m ... drome of simply slipping into a life that is comfortable. Like the mother who ...
- Story: Letters from a Santa Barbara Soldier in Iraq (Thursday, June 28, 2007)
... a new kind of explosive device here that cuts through our armor. In my armor, ... a new kind of explosive device here that cuts through our armor. In my armor, ... lice’s Major Crimes Unit in a land that seemed at times nothing but major cr ... o had an imperishable sense of humor that would serve him well within the Iraq ...
- Story: Monkeys He Will Make of Men (Tuesday, September 19, 2006)
... ctive and record label Hieroglyphics that’s home to such underground stars S ... a battle with Legionnaires' disease, that he didn’t even know the band’s D ... ctive and record label Hieroglyphics that’s home to such underground sta ... a battle with Legionnaires' disease, that he didn’t even know the band&# ...
- Story: Summer Camp Guide 2009 (Thursday, April 9, 2009)
... ve age and level appropriate classes that will work towards our weekly perform ... n movies, plus a visit to the studio that makes The Simpsons. Year-round anima ... is a full-day, week-long music camp that teaches kids the basics of playing t ... r Band Camp This is the 20th year that Nick Rail Music has put on a Summer ...
- Story: Zaca Fire Impacts Will Linger for Years (Thursday, October 18, 2007)
... ng more than 240,000 acres in a fire that took nearly two months and more than ... $120 million to put out. For a blaze that turned out to be historic in proport ... ng more than 240,000 acres in a fire that took nearly two months and more than ... $120 million to put out. For a blaze that turned out to be historic in proport ...
- Story: Thumbs Up for Santa Barbara News Room (Wednesday, April 4, 2007)
... ch 22 issue of Independent mentioned that the eight were readying the site for ... e wanted to clear any misconceptions that we were anything but completely thum ... palm tree there? Interesting to note that current News-Press staffers aren’t ... in town writing intelligent stories that remind us of what we’ve missed. ...
- Story: Write On! (Thursday, June 7, 2007)
... ctional show — by a fictional band that happens to be called Drew Mackie and ... y having them "politely bash" it — that is, perform the delicate tightrope w ... night was a loud, kick-ass reminder that they are here to stay and more stell ... for a band as well-known as Incubus sounds intimidating—unless you are Simon ...
- Story: Highbrow to Get-Down (Thursday, October 16, 2008)
... $3 million raised and a credibility that only fame confers in America. A cult ... ssured every year. This is the place that hosted Bob Marley, Joni Mitchell, Th ... re in the last 40 years can tell you that the bowl rocks, with the weight of h ... St., 963-4364 “I’m delighted that the community recognizes the museum ...
- Story: Local Heroes 2008 (Wednesday, November 26, 2008)
... eir lives with such grace and energy that all our lives were enriched without ... the outer edges of the Goleta Valley that sacrificed their fruits to the advan ... , was exactly the type of protection that Goleta needed. Even more, Bosio, wor ... out the whole experience, explaining that eventually his 125 acres of avocadoe ...
- Story: Feeling the Future (Thursday, October 25, 2007)
... ose above me, / So clear and sharp / That all my senses / Ring with it. / I fe ... ut on behalf of the many generations that will follow us. Her name for the tim ... ith the needs of future generations. That’s what I’m going to be talking a ... g society. This is a vast revolution that affects every part of our lives and ...
- Story: Blue & Green Guide 2006 (Thursday, May 18, 2006)
... ming — fingers crossed — that we unveil our annual Blue & Green Gu ... fingers crossed — that we unveil our annual Blue & Gree ... land, one of our majestic neighbors that we see across the channel when the s ... e description of the exact landscape that can be found right now on Santa Ros ...
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