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Music review: Oakland Opera does Stravinsky (San Francisco Chronicle)
The odd proportions of the Oakland Opera Theater’s scrappy new all-Stravinsky double bill begin to make perfect sense once you think in culinary terms. The show, which opened over the weekend in the company’s bare-bones warehouse space near Jack London…

Music Review: Michael Franti & Spearhead All Rebel Rockers
Political music doesn’t have to be boring, and dance music doesn’t have to be mindless. I attended my first reggae concert in 1980. Peter Tosh, one of the founders of the Wailers along with Bob Marley, was playing an outdoor concert at what was then The Ontario Place Forum in Toronto, Ontario. In those days it was simply a covered stage surrounded by maybe twenty to thirty rows of seats, and grassy hillside where you could park your…

Jake One|White Van Music (review)
After taking some time to clean up my apartment, which entailed listening and going through over 100 unlabeled CD’s (I’m never making a “mixtape/playlist” CD-R ever again, it’s strictly iTunes/iPod only from now on), I decided to sit back and listen to Jake One’s latest release entitled White Van Music. Being a bigger fan of underground Hip Hop tha