The secret sale of KUSF, the SFBOT festival, new releases from S.F. Bay Area twangers, vinyl junkies sharing their love, and two new twang venues are in the latest Hicks with Sticks News.
KUSF SOLD LIKE A FULTON STREET TART
"For whom the bell tolls KUSF, if not for thee?"
The skull and crossed microphones are no more. The University of San Francisco sold its station, KUSF at 90.3 FM, in a $3.75 million secret deal to the University of Southern California which was nothing more than a front for the station’s transfer to giant Entercom Communications, owner of classical KDFC. (more…)
It appears that the Plain High Drifters are preparing for another run. They cover late ’60′s early ’70s country tunes and provide an outlet for Smelley Kelley to sing the songs that there just isn’t room for in his main band Red Meat. This will be the fourth incarnation of the PHDs who date back to the mid-’90s as the East Bay Drifters who, as they’ve evolved, tend to play for about three years then disappear for three years only to return again. Whatever else can be said about the band, they at least have a fine sense of symmetry.