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The Locust, dressed as bugs, drew a crowd outside The Rubber Rose on the Ray Street stage. |
Music industry 101
Inaugural North by North Park festival gives bands a chance to learns the ins-and-outs of
By Nina Garin
STAFF WRITER
If anyone out there has rock star ambitions, there's something you should know: There are two vastly different sides to the music industry. Obviously, the great side is all about rocking out, adoring fans and free drink tickets. The not-so-great side – the one creative people tend to ignore – includes things such as booking shows, self-promotion and trying to getting paid.
CLASSICAL MUSIC REVIEW
SummerFest opens with fire and passion
By Valerie Scher
CLASSICAL MUSIC CRITIC
La Jolla Music Society SummerFest launched its 23rd season with a scintillating, sold-out concert that showed just how eclectic, and interesting, the festival has become. “Opening Night: Fire and Passion” brought together works by two Argentinian composers – Osvaldo Golijov and the late tango master Astor Piazzolla – and music of Johannes Brahms, that paragon of 19th-century German romanticism. As unlikely as the combination was, it worked.
Lee Grant's Outtakes
Ravings, rants, quirks and quibbles
HBO's “Generation Kill” (9 p.m. Sundays, repeats during the week) slithers under the skin, irritating emotions, eliciting a combination of pride and outrage. You care about these men of First Recon Battalion, at the apex of the American invasion of Iraq, trained at Camp Pendleton (“Camp Pendleton, Oceanside, California, is rolling with impunity,” one guy shouts).
Annual Jewel Ball visits the Roaring '20s
Las Patronas returned to the 1920s Saturday with their 62nd Jewel Ball. They called it “Speakeasy.” They did it with a galaxy of vintage automobiles, vintage movies, vintage decor and vintage dance tunes played by the band named NRG. Will this year's ball make a million? Probably. (Last year's did.)
