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Following up on the booking agent and singer, we have the guitar player and entrepreneur.

Jukebox the Ghost’s Tommy Siegel and Citizen Agency’s Chris Messina:

Apparently they have a triplet, Josh Roth.

Great work, Samantha!

San Francisco* has all kinds of interesting events going on. Here are some of my favourite off-the-beaten-path activities:

Storytelling

Porchlight

Science

Ask a Scientist
Down to a Science (haven’t been yet)

Music

Paul’s San Francisco House Concerts (yes, that’s me)
Drew Pearce’s House Concerts 
Songwriters in the round, hosted by Heather Combs

Literature

Writers With Drinks

Talk Show

The Heather Gold Show

Tech

SuperHappyDevHouse
BayCHI  

* Okay, so a few of them are just out of town. 

I somehow forgot the Long Now’s Seminars on Long Term Thinking. These are excellent, and I’m even a Long Now charter member.

Enric Teller shared a video of Sam Shaber goofing off at my most recent house concert.

Eric Carter and Enric Teller posted some photos of last month’s fantastic Anya Marina house concert.

Did you hear Bob Dylan is releasing an album of Sarah McLachlan covers? It’s called Mumbling Towards Ecstasy.

While the big four record labels are still stuck in the previous century, technology continues to democratize the music industry. Not only do we have cheap multitrack recording software and online distribution, but we’re seeing some interesting funding models as well.

In September, Wired covered Nettwerk’s return to good-guy status, helping the Barenaked Ladies break free of their label (and make $6 per CD instead of under $1).

TechCrunch ran with news of SellaBand, a German company that brings the distributed funding model (of, say Prosper or Kiva) to music.

And this week, my friend Travis reminded me of Amie Street, which introduces demand-based pricing (get in early to get cheap music). And it’s all MP3s, no DRM.

(See also my previous post on recommendation services.)

Theresa Ballin writes in to let me know Kendall Payne will be performing a free concert as part of St. Joseph of Cupertino School’s “Family Fun Festival.”

She’ll be on from 1-3 pm on Sunday, October 8.

I received this email from the Howie Day mailing list:

HOWIE PERFORMING AT ‘NINA’S NIGHT OUT’
Howie will be playing “Nina’s Night Out” sponsored by Mix 94.1,
with all proceeds to benefit the Rape Crisis Center.

Oh, the irony.

1. Luke Doucet/Broken (and other rogue states)
2. Kyler England/Live Wire
3. Jason Mraz/MR. A-Z
4. Sylvie Lewis/Tangos & Tantrums
5. Libbie Schrader/Taking the Fall
6. Samantha Murphy/Somewhere Between Starving & Stardom
7. Josh Rouse/Nashville
8. Pocket Dwellers/PD-Atrics
9. Erin McKeown/We Will Become Like Birds
10. Sarah Harmer/I’m a Mountain
11. Kathleen Edwards/Back to Me
12. Emm Gryner/The Great Lakes
13. Great Big Sea/The Hard and The Easy
14. Adrianne/Down To This
15. Charlotte Martin/Darkest Hour
16. Anya Marina/Miss Halfway
17. Tristan Prettyman/twentythree
18. Krister Axel/Permanent Friday Night
19. Peter Bradley Adams/EP
20. Dave’s True Story/Nature