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The Small Expressionsnew
Swedish folk crooner Jose Gonzalez is an intimate, interpretive genius.
East Bay Express |
Rob Harvilla |
03-13-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Jose Gonzalez
Kicker of Assesnew
The reinvigorated Robert Pollard offers up some more beery genius.
East Bay Express |
Rob Harvilla |
02-21-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Robert Pollard
Tears of a Clownnew
Beholding the oddly giddy melancholy of Our Lady of the Highway.
East Bay Express |
Rob Harvilla |
02-06-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Our Lady of the Highway
Soul Survivorsnew
The Gossip's fireball dance-punk reaches out and blows up.
East Bay Express |
Rob Harvilla |
01-30-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Gossip
Singin' Like Thievesnew
It's not easy to steal the spotlight from late INXS frontman Michael Hutchence.
East Bay Express |
Rob Harvilla |
01-23-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Sugar in the Rawnew
This Oakland blues diva specializes in bawdy, bombastic and ebullient showmanship.
East Bay Express |
Rob Harvilla |
01-09-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Sugar Pie DeSanto
Cheersnew
Manchester trio Doves set out to prove they don't deserve the über-moper tag well-meaning fans and critics have pasted on them.
East Bay Express |
Rob Harvilla |
06-13-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Pride and Pretensionnew
Rock critics overuse the word "pretentious" with the same over-enthusiasm NorCal teens have for "hella." Even so, from the name on down, Austin's ... And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead freely makes itself a ridiculously easy target.
East Bay Express |
Rob Harvilla |
06-02-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Oakland Band Unveils Offbeat, Devastating Antiwar Crynew
In an increasingly overpoliticized musical environment, it's hard to take a stand without sounding like a piggybacking doofus, but the States pass that litmus test via force of will and effort of innovation.
East Bay Express |
Rob Harvilla |
09-27-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Heavenly States
