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Can't Stop, Won't Stop Chippy Nonstopnew
How a young emcee turned incessant partying into a branding apparatus.
East Bay Express |
Ellen Cushing |
05-16-2012 |
Profiles & Interviews
Trails and Ways and the End of the Worldnew
The Oakland pop quartet is simultaneously temporal and forward-thinking.
East Bay Express |
Ellen Cushing |
11-28-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Girls Will Be Girlsnew
Oakland's Religious Girls make gorgeous, noise-y, experimental pop. Just don't compare them to Animal Collective.
East Bay Express |
Ellen Cushing |
10-20-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Forever Youngernew
Brontez Purnell grows up and rocks flawless.
East Bay Express |
Ellen Cushing |
09-08-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Becoming El Ellenew
Post Stanford degree, post-circus, post Lovemakers, Lisa Light finds herself, again.
East Bay Express |
Ellen Cushing |
08-22-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Lisa Light, The Lovemaker
Laid Bare with Bare Wiresnew
The Oakland-based garage rockers just want to drive around the country and play music. Hopefully, success won't stop them.
East Bay Express |
Ellen Cushing |
06-10-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
Bring the Noise Popnew
Almost Two Decades in, Noise Pop is as Big and as Broad as Ever.
East Bay Express |
Ellen Cushing |
02-16-2011 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Awkward Hit-Makers: Berkeley's The Cataracsnew
There's a studied, left-brained pragmatism to The Cataracs' approach: Perhaps because they don't have classical backgrounds or industry connections, they've spent years examining and analyzing what it takes to make a hit and applying this knowledge to every new track.
East Bay Express |
Ellen Cushing |
12-30-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
