Gnarls Barkley and New Pornographers ar set to headline the first-ever Slow Food Rocks festival in San Francisco next weekend.
The event will take position August 29-31, with the music festival running August 30 and 31 at the Great Meadow at Fort Mason in Golden Gate National Park. It is sponsored by Slow Food Nation, a nonprofit organization designed to inspire and empower Americans to build a food system that is environmentally sustainable and healthy.
Also on the bill are Ozomatli, G. Love & Special Sauce, Medeski Martin & Wood, and the John Butler Trio.
The event will also feature film a slow-food tasting and marketplace. For tickets and further selective information, visit Slowfoodnation.org.
--By our Los Angeles staff.
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Wednesday 27 August 2008
Friday 8 August 2008
Jeff Martin - Spoons: A Collection of Remixes, Collaborations and Interpretations
Jeff Martin's first two albums - 2001's 'Still' and 2004's 'Spoons' - got more or less lost in the post-2000 avalanche of Wexford Street troubadours - a shame, because both are special and Martin is a serious and imaginative talent. And, as the line up for this redux record shows, he has some heavyweight admirers.
Here locals like Decal, Chequerboard, Stephen Shannon and the Dublin Guitar Quartet and bigger names like John McEntire (Tortoise), Minotaur Shock, David Pajo (Papa M, Slint) and John Parish culture up 'Spoons' in their own peculiar way.
While some tracks are more than immediate than others, thither are flashes of splendour throughout - Pajo's work on 'Anyone's Pocket' ranks among his own career's best - and, crucially, your delectation is non dependent on having heard the source material.
Martin will have a new collection out soon; in the meantime this is a fine way to savour the past and anticipate the future.
Harry Guerin
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