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Posts Tagged: Music
Good Start for DIO Fest
“It’s great, now that it’s in full-swing,” Tony Mills of the band Big Baby Guru says Saturday afternoon, gripping a red Solo cup of lager. “We’re on a fast learning curve.”
No Sleep ‘til Camp Krem
It’s getting warmer in Santa Cruz these days, festival season is brewing and the North Pacific String Band’s Stevee Stubblefield sits in a friend’s courtyard, wrapped around a breakfast beer and a fresh printed poster for an event that ripped through his contact list like a lawn mower a few months ago.
Blackbird Raum: Santa Cruz Radicals
In the mid-2000s, Blackbird Raum unexpectedly took Santa Cruz by storm. Rising up out of a community of squatters and travelers in 2004, they were set up like a folk-jug ensemble, but played with the intensity and political leanings of an anarchist crust punk band.
Gold Awards 2013: Music & Nightlife – Editor’s Picks
From the best bands to the best bars, our staff’s picks for the best in Santa Cruz County nightlife.
Gold Awards 2013: Arts & Culture – Editor’s Picks
The best of the Santa Cruz County arts and cultural experience, as chosen by our staff.
Chop Tops Go International
Santa Cruz rockers The Chop Tops have been tearing up local and international stages for nearly two decades now, taking traditional rockabilly and chucking out the owner’s manual, boosting the power, streamlining the chassis, and hot rodding it into something that’s all their own.
Gold Awards 2013: Music & Nightlife – Reader’s Picks
Our readers pick the best music and nightlife in Santa Cruz County.
5 Things to Do in Santa Cruz This Weekend, March 22-24
This weekend it’s the annual, PaddleFest, the art of trees, underground hip-hop and more in our top picks.
Michelle Shocked Cancelled in Santa Cruz
The longtime Santa Cruz favorite managed to alienate not just her fans here, but pretty much everywhere, when she went into a nasty anti-gay rant Sunday night at Yoshi’s in San Francisco
