Eugene, OR certainly missed a great show last night. The Surf Roots Tour, featuring Tamarama, The Green, Stranger and Anuhea, stopped at the WOW Hall, but only 25 or so people came to see it. A small audience didn’t affect the artists, however: each act performed with great enthusiasm and transformed the tiny concert hall
Last Friday, I saw the California Guitar Trio at The Coach House in San Juan Capistrano, and it was a great show. I first became aware of this group when I was working at The McDonald Theatre in Eugene. CGT, Neko Case, Public Enemy, and The Decemberists are the acts that won me over with
Fred Van Vactor, a singer/songwriter and friend of mine from Eugene, is participating in a project I’m coordinating for DXG, documenting his life and career with one of their cameras for their blog. I just posted his first episode, which I’m embedding below, but I wanted to share here that if you are an musician,
One of the highlights of my career this year so far was staging the fourth annual Bach Remix at The District, a nightclub and venue in Eugene, Oregon. My partner in this endeavor was a friend from graduate school, PhD candidate DJ Food Stamp, a.k.a. Andre Sirois.
I want to publish interviews with bands and musicians I love here, but I am a terrible interviewer. As gifted as I am with writing in “spin,” I stink as a straight journalist. Having made my peace with that, I decided to try to come up with a generic list of interview questions that I