AltWeeklies Wire
Budget Rock the Non-Votenew
Wash down election-day ipecac with some beer-drenched garage rock.
East Bay Express |
David Downs |
11-03-2006 |
Politics
Dashed Hoop Dreamsnew
Raw brains beat cocky experience in the NBA 2K7 match-up of Dan the Automator vs. Press Play.
East Bay Express |
David Downs |
10-26-2006 |
Music
Tags: Dan the Automator, NBA 2k6
Yo La Tengo's Mother Lodenew
The Hoboken trio's latest album showcases a record-store-sized record collection.
East Bay Express |
David Downs |
10-20-2006 |
Reviews
Sufjan, the Technicolor Dreamboatnew
Sufjan Stevens and the Pacific Mozart Ensemble at Zellerbach set a world record for earnestness.
East Bay Express |
David Downs |
10-20-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Smooth Criminal Fingersnew
Guitar tablature sites die copyright deaths as the intellectual-property battle rages in Washington.
East Bay Express |
David Downs |
10-17-2006 |
Music
Kool Keith Scam Exposednew
The country label CMH created OCD International to fabricate a record that could pass as the work of a famous American rapper, and hired a publicity firm to deceptively market it as such.
East Bay Express |
David Downs |
10-02-2006 |
Music
Taking 'Outsider' Outdoorsnew
A campfire focus group of Joe Sixpacks balks at DJ Shadow's latest release.
East Bay Express |
David Downs |
09-11-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: DJ Shadow, The Outsider
Del in a Funknew
The plucky and brilliant rapper fights studio fright and his ex-girlfriend on his way back to platinum.
East Bay Express |
David Downs |
08-07-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Inmates Are Captive Audience for Artnew
Things get pretty weird for young cutting-edge muralists when their audience, and their potential funding, are products of the juvenile justice system.
East Bay Express |
David Downs |
09-05-2005 |
Art
When Words Collidenew
With Believer Books, Dorna Khazeni enters the rarely profitable world of translation to bring France's literary bad boy Michel Houellebecq to America.
East Bay Express |
David Downs |
06-27-2005 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Dorna Khazeni
Internet Spawns Wave of Roboscalpingnew
While rubes are waiting in line for tickets to U2 and other hot concerts, scalpers' robots are buying up all the best seats from Ticketmaster online.
East Bay Express |
David Downs |
04-06-2005 |
Music
