San Francisco Bay Guardian | Duncan Scott Davidson

Can't Skateboarders and BMX Bikers Just Get Along?new

Guess what: skateboarding isn't a crime anymore -- it's gone mainstream. And now some skaters, many of them kids who never had to live in the underground world that I did, are using their legitimacy to push out the new outlaws -- people who ride BMX bikes.

San Francisco Bay Guardian | Duncan Scott Davidson | 06-04-2008 | Sports

Tags: crime, skateboarding, sports & fitness, BMX

Les Savy Fav's Tim Harrington Defies the Predictablenew

Without taking away from the rest of the group, it's the cognitive dissonance Harrington creates with his stage presence and lyrics that make Les Savy Fav so powerful.

San Francisco Bay Guardian | Duncan Scott Davidson | 04-23-2008 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Les Savy Fav, Let's Stay Friends

Just Keep Walkennew

Multiple maniacs won't deter these metal vets.

San Francisco Bay Guardian | Duncan Scott Davidson | 04-02-2008 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Walken

When Cartoon Metal Bands Go on Tournew

Dethklok, "the most brutal band in the world" and stars of Adult Swim's juggernaut of animated murder, Metalocalypse, are touring in support of their recently released Dethalbum, which is already the best-selling death metal album of all time.

San Francisco Bay Guardian | Duncan Scott Davidson | 10-24-2007 | Profiles & Interviews

Tags: Dethalbum, Dethklok

Meat the Figurinesnew

When the Deer Wore Blue has an eerie yet upbeat, cinematic feel to it, and could serve as an alternate to Air's The Virgin Suicides soundtrack, if the movie had a different ending in which the sisters didn't kill themselves but instead moved to Denmark to shack up with an indie band -- and then killed themselves.

San Francisco Bay Guardian | Duncan Scott Davidson | 10-10-2007 | Reviews

Tags: Figurines, When the Deer Wore Blue