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'Girls Rock!' Hits Nerves of the Teen Psyche Varietynew
By focusing on the raw sentiments ("spillage") of campers, Girls Rock! is an intelligent -- and, more importantly, entertaining -- look at how girls fight self-imposed stereotypes in very different ways than boys do.
Bay Area Picks for SXSWnew
South by Southwest is again upon us, which means the Bay Area's musicians, rappers, DJs, and experimentalists are filling up their gas tanks and heading south. Our loss is Austin's gain, though, as the Texas music marathon gets a peek at what makes the local scene here so robust.
Tags: concerts
Rick Rubin Digs Howlin Rain's Distorted View of the '70snew
Comets on Fire's Ethan Miller is in the (metaphorical) driver's seat as Howlin Rain's frontman.
SF Weekly |
Jennifer Maerz |
02-27-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Howlin Rain, Magnificent Fiend
Twelve Ways the Hives Could've Made a Better Record for Interscopenew
Beyond employing Timbaland or Pharrell Williams.
Tags: The Hives, Tyrannosaurus Hives
The Best CDs of 2007new
Here is a list of my most favorite discs coming with me into 2008.
Rademacher Alchemizes Arcade Fire and Modest Mouse for Pure Indie-Pop Goldnew
If you've yet to hear of Rademacher (or to pronounce the name: raw-duh-maw-cur), the group is doing its damnedest to change that -- in S.F., in Fresno, and in Los Angeles.
SF Weekly |
Jennifer Maerz |
11-29-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Rademacher
Spiritualized's Severely Diminished Grandeurnew
The problem is that without the usual instrumental bombast, the audience focuses on the lyrics -- and Pierce can be a very mediocre lyricist.
SF Weekly |
Jennifer Maerz |
11-15-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Spiritualized
Dr. Oliver Sacks on 'Music Brain'new
He studies the innate ties between music and the mind, and his findings underpin the ways people really could, say, be "born to rock" -- or, at the very least, that they could develop a psychological need to rock at some point in their lives.
SF Weekly |
Jennifer Maerz |
10-31-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Noise Pop Founders Gamble on New Indie Music Festivalnew
San Francisco lacks a large-capacity destination event for indie music and Kevin Arnold and Jordan Kurland hope to change that with Treasure Island Music Festival, a large two-day concert without a corporate sponsor.
Incredibly Strange Wrestling, Indeednew
Flying tortillas and choking chickens: Incredibly Strange Wrestling is San Francisco's craziest punk cabaret.
Arthur Magazine is Back from the Ashesnew
But, still far from a business success, it continues to look for a lifeline.
Tags: media
The View from Jimmy Page's Pantsnew
Groupies claim their 15 minutes.
Indie Rockers Take a Page from the Classic Rock Playbooknew
Album revivalists score with the indie geeks, as summer album-specific shows by Sonic Youth, the Melvins and Slint prove.
Willy Vlautin Attempts the Great Escapenew
The frontman for Richmond Fontaine has turned three years as a touring musician and 10 years working for a trucking company into a literary device with his debut novel.
SF Weekly |
Jennifer Maerz |
06-27-2007 |
Author Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Motel Life, Willy Vlautin
Jim Henson's Lasting Music Legacynew
You can't talk Muppets music without discussing Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem band.
