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Jake Bellows has a problem that every band would hope for: His new album New Ocean has completely sold out on the CD format. And he hasn’t even officially toured behind the record yet. “We ran out a little quicker than we anticipated,” Bellows says. “We still have some vinyl, which is good.”

The Invisible Woman reveals Charles Dickens well kept (and much too young) secret.

 On the morning before Gov. Jerry Brown was due to give his state of the state address, one of the closest things Brown has to an opponent was making a whistlestop run through the Central Coast. (The only opponent, that is, unless you count the Republican former Goldman Sachs banker who ran the Troubled Asset Relief Program under Presidents Bush and Obama, or the state assemblyman who founded the California Minutemen Party and once tried to bring a loaded handgun on a commercial airliner)…