2009 was a year full of bands exploiting their back catalogues, often by issuing high price deluxe editions along with more consumer friendly priced options, usually with less material. Here is a list of this listener's picks for some of the past year's best box set reissues and live offerings.
The Alternative Press tour began in 2007 with Circa Survive, Cute Is What We Aim For, As Tall As Lions, and Envy On The Coast. Since then it has played host to bands such as All Time Low, 3OH!3, and San Francisco natives Set Your Goals, to name a few. The tour has always featured bands that Alternative Press Magazine describes as "bands you need to know.
Echo Times: What is your major or area of interest? Pierson: All things that make a mark, or can be changed to become something new. Echo Times: What is the art discipline that you identify with? Pierson: Graphic design, jewelry making, and costume design.
College of Marin graduate Don Lewis has volunteered for 15 years at the Sundance Film Festival, helping with whatever needed doing. He returned to the festival last month, but this time as a producer of a feature film. The film is called "The Violent Kind," a horror flick shot entirely in and around Petaluma.