BeatNonStop A Weblog by Chris Macias Bee pop music critic Music geek (n. myü-zik 'gEk) 1: A person who proudly wore KISS commemorative pajamas in third grade. 2: A person who owns multiple copies of the same album, still buys vinyl and has a room dedicated to 2,000 or so CDs and records. 3. A person who wrote a five-part series about traveling with a local band in their stinky van - and loved every minute of it. 4: Chris Macias, the Bee's pop music critic, serving Sacramento's music scene since 1999.

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June 5, 2005

Good morning

Whew, Saturday turned out to be an amazing day for music, and now I'm getting my bearings back with some coffee. French roast, come to papa.

Anyway, I spent all day Saturday at the Heritage Festival and was exposed to much sun and just as much great music. Highlights included Lydia Pense & Cold Blood getting funkier than should humanly be allowed, Th' Losin' Streaks' garage rock hijinks - which included singer Tim Foster jumping in the nearby river at the end of their set - and the guitar heroics during Jackie Greene's set. The downside was that it was allergy hell with all the cottonwood blossoms floating in the breeze.

Later Saturday night, I headed to the Blue Lamp for the Raigambre/Lado Oriente show. Lado Oriente kicked off its set with some wonderful son jarocho music from Mexico, and then went buckwild with the best cumbias you'll hear this side of Colombia. Raigambre got down with its own cumbias and Latin funk, and basically had the capacity crowd going nuts. I just loved this show.

It was definitely a long Saturday, but in a couple hours I'm about to do it all over again. I'm checking out day two of the Heritage Festival, and then I have to jam downtown to finish my Heritage Festival wrap-up story for Monday's Bee. Once I'm done with my deadlines, I'm heading to the Press Club for the "Ikon Records Story" CD release party.

Better pour another cup of coffee.

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