Yearly Archives: 2020

SOUND AND SOUL: It Makes Sense: Jim Pugh of the Little Village Foundation on Music, Diversity & Service

Check out this insightful interview with LVF founder Jim Pugh at Sound and Soul: "Little Village has never actually sold one CD because we don’t own any of the CDs. I give them– and downloads in any format– it’s all owned by the artists. It’s not by the record label. I don’t pay them. [...]

SOUND AND SOUL: It Makes Sense: Jim Pugh of the Little Village Foundation on Music, Diversity & Service2020-11-20T18:07:05+00:00

OAKLAND CIRCA 1973

A.P.U.M.E.C. HALL I’d shlep my stuff out of my broken down van and through the backdoor. I’d beg somebody to help me gorilla the Hammond B3 organ up the few steps to the stage. APUMEC Hall- it stood for something I never knew what- was a rickety old Mexican dance hall on East 14th (now [...]

OAKLAND CIRCA 19732020-11-20T18:07:06+00:00

Casey Van Beek and the Tulsa Groove

Casey Van Beek and the Tulsa Groove - Heaven Forever Casey Van Beek was born in Holland but raised in Los Angeles from the age of five, and fit right in to the burgeoning local ‘60s rock scene. By his teens he was playing bass [...]

Casey Van Beek and the Tulsa Groove2023-06-25T01:01:16+00:00