Month: June 2023

RMAF Nixes 2020

Denver’s Rocky Mountain Audio Fest (RMAF) has canceled its 2020 show. In an email to exhibitors signed “Your Friends, Marjorie and Marcie,” show director/owner Marjorie Baumert and Operations Director Marcie Miller state, “The course of action that we must take to remain a viable entity is to cancel our show for 2020. As we stated…

By JohnValbyNation June 29, 2023 0

Recording of July 2020: Earth

EOB (Ed O’Brien): Earth Capitol (24/88.2 streaming). 2020. Flood and Catherine Marks, prods.; Alan Moulder, Stephen Marcussen, engs. Performance **** Sonics **** Calling himself EOB, songwriter/singer/guitarist Ed O’Brien has released his first solo album after 35 years with Radiohead. Over the decades, bandmates have branched out for high-profile projects—Jonny Greenwood writes film scores and Thom…

By JohnValbyNation June 29, 2023 0

VIDEO: Being the Elite – ‘Betrayed’

Video — Opening — Click Here: New Zealand Kiwis rugby storeAfter giving an autograph seeker their "house show signatures" at an airport, the Bucks went shopping to open up this week's show.  Ryan Nemeth attends Writer's Guild strike — The Hollywood Hunk spoke to several writers out on the picket line this week. He asked…

By JohnValbyNation June 29, 2023 0

Listening #169: Altec Flamenco

On a bright, warm day in September, at the memorial gathering for our colleague Wes Phillips, I overheard John Atkinson, in pre-ceremony conversation, discussing men’s fashions: “What’s popular these days,” he said, with a degree of puzzlement that stopped short of disapproval, “is very long hair on just the top, with nothing on the sides…

By JohnValbyNation June 29, 2023 0