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Blue Plate Special is San Francisco Bay Area guitarist Will Bernard's fifth release as a leader and his second for Palmetto Records, following the star-studded groove-fest, Party Hats .

New Orleans is a lot of things to a lot of people, but to the guys in the band Galactic , it's the motherland of funk.

Posted by Keith Spera, Music writer, The Times-Picayune September 19, 2008 5:05AM Categories: Hot Picks Judith Owen performs Friday, Sept.

The bluegrass festival features Wild Creek, Whiskey Before Breakfast, Biggest Little BG Band, Cool River Trio, Carolina Special, Lacy J. Dalton & the Dalton Gang and more Oct.

Knight rider They say he's like Cash or Prine or Springsteen. But Chris Knight really has his own sound, and he's shown it by cutting five albums in five years.

8 p.m. Sun., Sept. 7, Exit/In (2208 Elliston Place, 321-3340), $12 Celebrated jam-band drummer Stanton Moore's trio strips a lot of the hip-hop-flavored funk of his more famous group, Galactic, in favor of more straightforward jazz/funk grooves that let him take center stage to flex his polyrhythmic muscle. The trio's traditionally minded tunes might not be as hip or stylistically ear-grabbing as Galactic's, but they'll provide a display of prowess that no local rhythm geeks should pass up. With that in mind, Moore is also hosting a pre-show drum clinic at Exit/In at 6:30 p.m. Admission is free with a ticket to the concert, $5 at the door otherwise. - D.P.

Biography Eric Terdjman is a composer and producer of Electronic Music . Influenced by many kind of music like Jazz, Funk and Hip Hop, Eric has produced many musics for other artist: by his experience with ...

There are reasons not to see Bob Dylan at the Jazz Aspen Snowmass Labor Day Festival.

Following are reviews of recent CDs by musicians who will be showing their faces in the valley in the weeks ahead.

Profanity charges brought against hip-hop artist Raymond "Boots" Riley after his performance at a Virginia music festival have been dismissed, a court said.

Lucas School House has scheduled two shows in September that may be of interest of St.

Blogwire Boots Riley, emcee for Oakland-based hip-hop group the Coup, was guest performing with funk band Galactic on June 21st at... Ear Bud ... are in the process of missing one of this weekend's best damn ...

Blogwire We hope everyone had a loud and proud weekend. We sure did, and we'll have a wrap-up of Saturday's Houston... HouStoned Boots Riley, emcee for Oakland-based hip-hop group the Coup, was guest performing ...

Whoever coined the idiom "as easy as pie" probably never made one. Or if he or she did, the dirty cheater used one of those detestable, pre-made crusts and filled it with 19th-century instant pudding.

Blogwire Bauss: Fire on the mountain, lightning in the air I apologize for my absence from the blog this week, especially given that I should be updating people on what's... Humboldt Blogs sans NCJ Saturday: ...

Alan So, artistic director of the experimental music festival Soundwave>Series, decided to have a portion of this year's Move>Sound theme on an AudioBus, a stage that moves to the rhythm of traffic lights and ...

Bone gristle popping from continuous grinding This could be my last day at the Village Voice.

Less than a week after his taped interview with activist and revolutionary Mumia Abu-Jamal [ click to read ], The Coup 's Boots Riley was charged by Norfolk, Virginia Police for using profanity in public.

Organizers of a Town Point Park festival ordered a performer offstage and pressed charges against him Saturday night after they say he used profanity twice within a two-minute period.

All weekend long thousands of people flocked to Norfolk's downtown waterside for the annual Bayou Boogaloo Festival.