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Victor Wooten

By Jonathan Zwickel
Feb 14, 2008

Known primarily for his role as bassist in Bela Fleck's Grammy-winning New Grass Revival band the Flecktones, Victor Wooten is a phenomenal composer and bandleader in his own right. Widely respected by fellow musicians and acclaimed by the bass cognoscenti (he's the only three-time winner of Bass Player magazine's Bass...
Sunshine Daydream

The Open Grass Music and Art Festival

By Jonathan Zwickel
Jan 18, 2007

Perpetually clad in flip-flops and baggy shorts, flaunting the kind of deep skin tone and shaggy golden hair only a lifetime on the beach can achieve, Sammy Zuniga doesn't look like your typical music impresario. But local music fans know the international vagabond sophisticate as the founder of Lake Worth's...
Feathers

Synchromy (Hometapes)

By Jonathan Zwickel
Nov 9, 2006

We considered running for this review a roll call of every genre and reference point that Feathers touches upon in this five-song EP. But then we realized we simply don't have the space. Yes, this is merely an album of music. But it distills so many far-flung and arcane touchstones...
Comets on Fire

Avatar (Sub Pop)

By Jonathan Zwickel
Aug 31, 2006

Eureka! Scientists just discovered that Comets on Fire is the missing link in rock 'n' roll evolution. The hard-hitting noiseniks provide the connection between late-'60s vintage Grateful Dead and Paranoid-era Black Sabbath, long theorized but until now never established. A few savvy researchers, including Comets themselves, saw this coming: The...
How You Philling?

Phil Lesh

By Jonathan Zwickel
Jun 22, 2006

You know what they say: Lesh is more. Or is it, "Bass great, Lesh Philling?" Whatever — you could probably care Lesh. But unLesh you've been living inside a VW microbus for the past 40 years — actually, because you've been living inside a VW microbus for the past 40...

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