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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
The New Music Mogulsnew
Oakland's latest generation of movers and shakers wants to help create a cohesive hip-hop scene — and have a party in the process.
East Bay Express |
Ellen Cushing |
04-13-2012 |
Music
ChuCha Santamaria Fevernew
Intelligent dance music for the Caribbean diaspora.
East Bay Express |
Ellen Cushing |
03-04-2012 |
Reviews
Traveling Bands Do Not Crossnew
How music industry rules are blocking artists from playing in Oakland.
East Bay Express |
Ellen Cushing and Rachel Swan |
01-18-2012 |
Music
Tags: Live Music in Oakland
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
Zola Jesus Releases Conatusnew
If nothing else, Conatus is music to make out to: languid, moody, and slightly baroque; fraught with combustible, adolescent longing and full of driving builds and drum-machine heartbeats. So yes, suffice it to say that on her third full-length, Zola Jesus, née Nika Danilova, doesn't veer far from the dark, dramatic goth-pop template that's carried her thus far.
East Bay Express |
Ellen Cushing |
10-06-2011 |
Reviews
Smash Mouth and the Egg Challengenew
How did Smash Mouth frontman Steve Harwell get suckered into eating 24 eggs in one sitting? The Internet, of course.
East Bay Express |
Ellen Cushing |
10-05-2011 |
Music
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 Best Music of 2010 (Part II)new
From Arcade Fire to E-40 to The Walkmen, our critics recommend the best albums of the past year.
East Bay Express |
Ellen Cushing |
11-24-2010 |
Music
