AltWeeklies Wire
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
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
Home, Sweet Venuenew
Calvin Johnson and other troubadors rock, yes, a three-bedroom apartment in Oakland, Calif.
East Bay Express |
Rob Harvilla |
12-22-2005 |
Concerts
The Rise and Fall of an Indie-Punk Labelnew
Green Day funded much of the rise of Berkeley's Lookout Records, but the band will no longer keep the troubled firm afloat.
East Bay Express |
Rob Harvilla |
09-20-2005 |
Music
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
Wimpy White Guys With Guitarsnew
At a German restaurant in Alameda, Calif., acoustic artists like Bart Davenport attempt to make their music heard above the roar of the crowd.
East Bay Express |
Rob Harvilla |
03-14-2005 |
Music
