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When you hear the guitar, you know instantly that it is in the hands of Marcus King. No one in the blues or Southern rock pantheon ever played…
Not every popular musician has a taste for Serbian poetry. Then again, Sam Beam, aka Iron & Wine – he took the name from a sign at a gener…
Some argue that a musician’s physical environment can affect their sound, how they approach music. Think, for example, of the punk rock scene …
Singer-songwriter Nikki McCartney wasn’t born in Monterey County. Rather, she chose it as a base from which she has been pursuing her career a…
If something is different about Cindy Alexander, it’s not the power of her lyrics. The singer-songwriter, who has held on to the edgy credibil…
It’s impossible to imagine Bright Eyes without the notoriously trembling voice and the poetics of Conor Oberst, its frontman (vocals, guitar, …
Divine intervention, contact with the other side, ghosts. Whatever you call it, jazz guitarist Bruce Forman will tell you he doesn’t believe i…
Gary Meek’s two previous albums were “straight-ahead jazz,” he says. “All acoustic, and this Monterey-based saxophonist and keyboardist found …
Like a phoenix rising from the ashes of the Northern California wildfires and amid the devastation of a global pandemic, popular fusion duo Fi…