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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.
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.
Jim Henson's Lasting Music Legacynew
You can't talk Muppets music without discussing Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem band.
Small Outposts Rule Online MP3 Salesnew
No longer the domain of a handful of power-brokers, online digital retail's future is most clear in little shops -- here are a few of the best.
Forgiving the Past Through Elliott Smithnew
Smith's new posthumous disc, New Moon, doesn't just assemble stunning tracks from the prime years of the indie balladeer's solo career -- it assembles my memories from the prime years of a relationship that lasted more than a decade, with a boyfriend I was going to marry.
Mother Hips' Flaccid Nostalgianew
Dear Mother Hips: This letter serves to send word to the band and your multiple publicity-courtin' machines that I won't be covering the upcoming Mother Hips shows.
The Making of Malikanew
Less than two years after working as a Budweiser model at Oakland Raiders games, Malika Ubaka was hanging with Diddy on MTV.
The Snorification of Indie Rocknew
In place of gutsy songwriting is a benign Axis of (Evil) Indie Influences -- David Byrne, Gordon Gano, and, now more often, Bruce Springsteen -- fueling a disturbingly dull trend of uniform mid-tempo crapola.
Jumpin' Jack Flashnew
The digital shift in rock photography.
Riding the Fadernew
The cult of Chavez gets another round.
I Left My Heart Right Herenew
Shouting out the year's best Bay Area songs.
Talking With Ghostsnew
What does the ghost of INXS's Michael Hutchence think of his band's reunion?
Tags: INXS
The Godfathernew
James Brown is the godfather of many things, including, but not limited, to soul.
Tags: James Brown
