Articles by Mike Robinson

Doheny Beach Blues Festival May 19 & 20, 2001

by Mike Robinson
March 12, 2004

Face it - blues is made to be played in one of two places: at a nightclub late at night, or on a wide-open California beach in early summer! And if you really like dem blues, the Doheny Beach Blues Festival (Dana Point, California) is ready to serve you up with exactly what you like, no matter what flavor it is.

Blues is a fairly specialized musical genre - some people say it's just “five notes, three chords, and real ...

Action Figure Party: Action Figure Party

by Mike Robinson
November 1, 2001

I thought Art Good was nuts. There, on the Sunday morning lineup of the 2001 JazzTrax Catalina Island Festival was this band, “Action Figure Party."

“Action Figure Party?!"

The band consists of twentysomething musicians from bands like “Garbage," “Buck Cherry," “Incubus," and “Beck." One of the musicians' names is “Flea." Another goes by “Yogi," and a third, with the more-promising sounding name of Sean Lennon, plays ... umm ... turntable??

While some of my friends quietly decided that maybe they ...