– The Paso Robles Art Association is exhibiting new art at the Odyssey World Café now through June 30. Janice Pluma, a well-known local artist, is exhibiting her stunning painting “Journey,” which was the art association’s Best in Show Winner for February-March 2022 exhibit Nature’s Pallet.
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Kiwi Jr.’s debut Football Money may have given the impression in places that it was a little fingers and thumbs, but it sounded no worse for it.
Indebted to the bookish nineties’ slacker rock of Pavement and Sebadoh – and by extension moving alongside Parquet Courts and latterly Rolling Blackouts, Coastal Fever – it steered through a territory which has become somewhat, if only by dint of numbers, under-represented in the last few years.
One of the reasons for the musical deforestation is that these sort of languorous nerd-outs are much harder to pull off successfully than it first sounds; in that and other ways Cooler Returns has more riding on it than the Canadian quartet’s self-released first shot.