Tag: music

MoonPie, a local jazz, bossanova and blues group, will perform at Linnaea’s Cafe in San Luis Obispo Saturday, February 4 from 8-10 p.m. MoonPie has performed locally since 2001 and has been continuing their “evolution and refinements of jazz standards” according to MoonPie flute player Pete Ryan. Other members of the group include the young and […]

Holly Burke Dee Dee Bridgewater, a Grammy and Tony award-winning vocalist, and the Hollywood Jazz Orchestra will honor jazz legend Ella Fitzgerald with a tribute concert entitled “Dear Ella” tonight at the Christopher Cohan Center. Bridgewater, whose first singing job was as a member of the legendary Thad Jones/Mel Louis Big Band, has also performed […]

Mariecar Mendoza Oh Boy! How the world seems to be taking to this man – from music snobs to hipsters; musicians to wannabes; Christians to heathens; Heartland Americans to urbanites; punks to emos; creamos to extremeos and club-Goers. Or, to put it simply: Everyone. Just about anyone with ears has heard this man soothe their […]

Nick Coury Cal Poly’s Christopher Cohan Center will be colored indigo on Thursday with Amy Ray and Emily Saliers, known in the music industry as the Indigo Girls. I recently talked with Ray, guitarist and singer of the duo, about their music and playing in San Luis Obispo. Mustang Daily (MD): Hey, how’s it going? […]

Mariecar Mendoza Do you ever get down about how most albums that come into existence are extremely easy to sing along to? If not, it’s OK, this just happens to be yet another one of my sustained quirks. Sure, it’s nice to sing along, but it is much harder to write lyrics and music that […]

Ryan Chartrand Boards of Canada, hailed as the most important band of electronica music in recent years, has returned with its third album, cryptically titled “The Campfire Headphase.” The group, most praised for its genius expedition into ambient techno on 1998’s album “Music Has the Right To Children,” hasn’t changed its sound all that much. […]

Mariecar Mendoza (MM) Mariecar Mendoza, Diversions editor (YR) Yuri Ruley, drummer for MxPx   MM: What is the question you hate getting asked the most by reporters? – So I don’t ask it. YR: Not that I hate it, but it’s the most asked question of all time, which is “What does MxPx stand for?” […]

Jen Boudevin The hills of San Luis Obispo will be alive with the sound of music as the Cal Poly Symphony celebrates the mountains in its fall concert. The symphony begins its 2005-2006 season at 8 p.m. this Saturday with a performance entitled “Inspired by Mountains” in Harman Hall in the Performing Arts Center’s Christopher […]

Mariecar Mendoza Don’t know what MxPx stands for? Well, that means one of two things: you’re not a fan or you’re not looking hard enough. Either way, don’t ask Mike, Tom or Yuri – they’ve been asked the question thousands of times. Instead, save your breath for something like “You guys rock” or “One-more-song” chants […]

nick coury By Nick Coury It is Tuesday night when the regular crowd, a surplus of beer-battered 20-somethings, shuffles in and slouches around the room, which contains a long skinny bar with a stage and a pint of Firestone for two and a quarter. It is a place called Frog & Peach, a local hotspot […]

Garrett Leight The eclectic musical sound of Ozomatli will be blaring tonight at The Graduate with special guest State Radio. The event kicks off Ozomatli’s two-month tour. A decade ago, 10 Los Angeles performers decided to push the boundaries of music with their diverse musical backgrounds to make what critics call a motley of urban […]