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The Amazements Marvel With Storytelling, a Skate Anthem, and Fearsome Songsnew

An Amazements song sounds like little else: they feel Shaggs-y in their odd, homegrown sense of rock, but they definitely aren't making music in a vacuum.

San Francisco Bay Guardian | Michael Harkin | 02-04-2009 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: indie rock, The Amazements

Scoping Out the Wild World of Blog Darlings Vivian Girlsnew

Since their self-titled debut sold out its original 500-copy run on Mauled by Tigers in just 10 days earlier this year -- it has since been reissued by In the Red -- the attention has snowballed around their rather meek undertaking to, as Kickball Katy said, "sound like the Wipers."

San Francisco Bay Guardian | Michael Harkin | 11-19-2008 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Vivian Girls

Somewhere Over the White Rainbownew

Adam Forkner's creativity is now almost entirely unfettered. Performing and recording as White Rainbow, the onetime Yume Bitsu member is flat-out improvised.

San Francisco Bay Guardian | Michael Harkin | 09-12-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Prism of Eternal Now, White Rainbow

Traditional Fools Surf the Rocky Seas of Garage Punknew

The band's infectious, scuzzy surf punk is the best accompaniment this century has to offer to the twist, the shimmy, and the ladling of tropical punch.

San Francisco Bay Guardian | Michael Harkin | 09-05-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Traditional Fools