AltWeeklies Wire
"The Titmaster Tommy Lee," "Race Against Rockism" and "Powerpop for Now People"new
AltWeeklies Award - Music Criticism
East Bay Express |
Rob Harvilla |
04-21-2008 |
Media
Tags: media
The Cannonball Diariesnew
Finally, underground goddess Kim Deal's story can be told, by a San Francisco theater troupe that's never met her.
East Bay Express |
Rob Harvilla |
04-10-2006 |
Theater
I Wrote a Book 'Bout Rock 'n' Rollnew
At long last, Dr. Frank steps onto the literary stage.
East Bay Express |
Rob Harvilla |
04-03-2006 |
Fiction
Tags: Frank Portman, King Dork
The Kids Aren't Alrightnew
Bear's Lair is the Bay Area's next great all-ages venue that won't be.
East Bay Express |
Rob Harvilla |
03-27-2006 |
Music
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
A Drunken Android Eulogynew
Grandaddy's legacy will be as the band that playfully examined the way technology demystifies and destroys nature.
East Bay Express |
Rob Harvilla |
02-13-2006 |
Music
Tags: Grandaddy
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
Rethinking Arena Rocknew
Basketball games need less Kanye, more Mark E. Smith, and no Gary Glitter whatsoever.
East Bay Express |
Rob Harvilla |
01-30-2006 |
Music
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
Eight-Bit Symphoniesnew
Musicians are finally discovering the best music of the 1980s -- Nintendo songs.
East Bay Express |
Rob Harvilla |
01-17-2006 |
Music
Emo Vampire Chateaunew
Elton John's Lestat is like watching Fabio do overwrought interpretive dances to Fiery Furnaces records.
East Bay Express |
Rob Harvilla |
01-17-2006 |
Theater
Tags: theater
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
The Aeroplane Flies Highnew
Kim Cooper has taken the first real crack at unraveling the mystique of In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, the most influential indie-rock record of the past decade, in a tome for Continuum Books' immensely popular 33 1/3 series.
East Bay Express |
Rob Harvilla |
12-22-2005 |
Nonfiction
