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Moonalice News

  • Moonalice offers free admission to holders of Skull & Roses tickets!
  • Poster Artist Feature: Dennis Larkins Interview
  • Let's Rock The World One Tree At A Time!
  • Acoustic Guitar reviews Full Moonalice, Volume 2!!
  • Moonalice plays a set on Jam In The Van
  • Glide Magazine interviews Pete Sears!
  • Acoustic Guitar Magazine: Barry, Roger and T’s play Nick and Woo Woo
  • Commemorating the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival!!!
  • PopMatters: Bottlerock Napa review … featuring Moonalice
  • Moonalice Will Not Play Indoors Until Further Notice
Moonalice offers free admission to holders of Skull & Roses tickets!
Poster Artist Feature: Dennis Larkins Interview
Let's Rock The World One Tree At A Time!
Acoustic Guitar reviews Full Moonalice, Volume 2!!
Moonalice plays a set on Jam In The Van
Glide Magazine interviews Pete Sears!
Acoustic Guitar Magazine: Barry, Roger and T’s play Nick and Woo Woo
Commemorating the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival!!!
PopMatters: Bottlerock Napa review … featuring Moonalice
Moonalice Will Not Play Indoors Until Further Notice

What To Watch (Archive)

  • Sep 15, 2024 / Haight Ashbury Street Fair (San Francisco)
  • Sep 14, 2024 / Ain't Necessarily Dead Fest (Auburn)
  • Oct 19, 2024 / HopMonk Sebastopol Garden (Sebastopol)
  • Jun 14, 2024 / Sweetwater Music Hall (Mill Valley)
    According to Moonalice legend, the world appears to be suffering the effects of an Asshole Apocalypse. Ba...
  • Aug 12, 2024 / Jerry Garcia Tribute Night @ SF Giants - Dugout Set (San Francisco)
    Note that the dugout set is at the end of the video archive just around the 1 hour mark.
  • Jul 27, 2024 / Petaluma Music Festival - Electric Set (Festival Stage) (Petaluma)
  • Aug 12, 2024 / Jerry Garcia Tribute Night @ SF Giants - Triples Alley Set (San Francisco)
  • Jun 13, 2024 / Club Fox (Redwood City)
    According to Moonalice legend, Redwood City is the burrito capital of the San Francisco peninsula. There ...
  • Oct 5, 2024 / Hardly Strictly Bluegrass - Towers of Gold Stage (San Francisco)
  • Jul 27, 2024 / Petaluma Music Festival - Acoustic Set (Petaluma Stage) (Petaluma)
Sep 15, 2024 / Haight Ashbury Street Fair (San Francisco)
Sep 14, 2024 / Ain't Necessarily Dead Fest (Auburn)
Oct 19, 2024 / HopMonk Sebastopol Garden (Sebastopol)
Jun 14, 2024 / Sweetwater Music Hall (Mill Valley)
According to Moonalice legend, the world appears to be suffering the effects of an Asshole Apocalypse. Ba...
Aug 12, 2024 / Jerry Garcia Tribute Night @ SF Giants - Dugout Set (San Francisco)
Note that the dugout set is at the end of the video archive just around the 1 hour mark.
Jul 27, 2024 / Petaluma Music Festival - Electric Set (Festival Stage) (Petaluma)
Aug 12, 2024 / Jerry Garcia Tribute Night @ SF Giants - Triples Alley Set (San Francisco)
Jun 13, 2024 / Club Fox (Redwood City)
According to Moonalice legend, Redwood City is the burrito capital of the San Francisco peninsula. There ...
Oct 5, 2024 / Hardly Strictly Bluegrass - Towers of Gold Stage (San Francisco)
Jul 27, 2024 / Petaluma Music Festival - Acoustic Set (Petaluma Stage) (Petaluma)

Explanation of technology in the new Moonalice.com

We started this project 18 months ago with the goal of making all of our content available to fans. Pretty early in the project, we realized that the traditional design of websites - with separate pages for music, video, blog updates, etc. - was not going to work for us. We settled on the idea of a "control panel" model, where the fan would spend most of his or her time on one page and we would serve the content they desire. The traditional tools of web development made this possible on a PC or Mac, but not on smartphones, whose share of internet devices now exceeds PCs.

About a year ago, we realized that everything we were doing would be more useful if it worked really well on smartphones. That caused us to begin working with a new programming language called HTML 5 so that we could put our content on smartphones without requiring an app. About five months ago, we started broadcasting our concerts live via satellite, using both Flash and HTML 5. Fans loved it.

It turns out that while HTML 5 is going to be amazing, it is still very crude today. The language has huge holes in it - you cannot process financial transactions, for example - so we used HTML 4 and other mature tools to implement our HTML 5-model design. What you see today is the most primitive form this site will ever take. We plan to upgrade functionality continuously.

It has been straightforward to load posters, legends, and audio. Video, on the other hand, is a bear to load over the web. Our vendor re-negged on a commitment to upload the shows for us, so it will take us longer to upload older show videos than we would like. We don't think that's a big deal, as we play about 100 shows a year and are always getting better, both musically and video-wise.

We recommend that you save MoonaliceTV.com and the audio player on your iPhone, iPad or Android home screen. That way you are only one click away from our music!!!

Thank you for your support!

Moonalice

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