AltWeeklies Wire
The Best Music of 2010 (Part II)new
From Arcade Fire to E-40 to The Walkmen, our critics recommend the best albums of the past year.
East Bay Express |
Ellen Cushing |
11-24-2010 |
Music
The Best Music of 2010new
From Arcade Fire to E-40 to The Walkmen, our critics recommend the best albums of the past year.
East Bay Express |
Rachel Swan |
11-24-2010 |
Music
Big Boi Goes Solonew
OutKast emcee enhances larger-than-life persona, headlining the Regency Ballroom.
East Bay Express |
Rachel Swan |
09-29-2010 |
Music
Tags: Big Boi
New Karyn Paige Single Leakednew
Karyn Paige's 'Want To' is available for download.
East Bay Express |
Rachel Swan |
07-07-2010 |
Music
Tags: Karyn Paige, Want To
Oakland Okays the Sale of Henry J. Kaisernew
Plus Yoshi's SF finally makes money and a new studio aims to make the Bay Area a recording mecca again.
East Bay Express |
Kathleen Wentz |
06-30-2010 |
Music
Neurosis' Scott Kelly Taps East Bay Musicians to Helm His Internet Radio Stationnew
While Kelly's numbers are nowhere near sites like Pandora, he hopes one day for the site to become profitable. For now, the show is sponsored solely by donations and Kelly's pocket. But despite the fact that the station is "just noise," as Kelly describes it, it is gaining popularity -- in the true spirit of "good ol' fashion punk rock."
East Bay Express |
Paula Lehman |
08-19-2009 |
Music
The East Bay's Avant-Garde Music Scene Moves Above Groundnew
The purpose of two monthly concerts is to draw experimental, avant-garde, and improvisational music from the sidelines and into a safe, welcoming, fully permitted space.
East Bay Express |
Nate Seltenrich |
04-15-2009 |
Music
Viva la Vinyl: Local Bands and Labels Propel the Resurgence of an Old Formatnew
More than one hundred years after the invention of the gramophone, twenty years after major labels tried to kill records with compact discs, and ten years after Napster incited the age of digital music, vinyl is making a comeback.
East Bay Express |
Nate Seltenrich |
01-28-2009 |
Music
Tags: vinyl, media formats
A Soundtrack To Sweat Tonew
Most New Year's resolutions involve exercise, but what will you listen to?
East Bay Express |
Kathleen Richards |
01-15-2009 |
Music
How Al Lucchesi Built the Biggest Incubator in Bay Area Musicnew
Over the course of twenty-plus years, Lucchesi's Soundwave Studio and its predecessors have been home to virtually all of the East Bay's biggest names in music.
East Bay Express |
Rachel Swan |
01-07-2009 |
Music
Sarah Palin, in Songnew
The Sarah Palin songwriting competition that we launched four weeks ago drew in seventeen submissions, ranging from pop tune rewrites to fully choreographed videos.
East Bay Express |
Rachel Swan, Kathleen Richards and Nate Seltenrich |
10-29-2008 |
Music
Pandora Boxes for Its Life in Congressnew
How the internet radio king harnessed an army of fans to beat back the broadcast radio industry and stay alive.
East Bay Express |
David Downs |
10-08-2008 |
Music
Inaugural Outside Lands Festival Lives up to Its Potentialnew
For the most part, the first-ever Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival did live up to expectations; at times there were simply stunning moments and the venue itself was quite a scene to behold.
East Bay Express |
Nate Seltenrich, Rachel Swan and Kathleen Richards |
08-27-2008 |
Music
Gregg Perloff Is the New Bill Grahamnew
How his Another Planet Entertainment beat the competition to host the epic Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival.
East Bay Express |
David Downs |
08-14-2008 |
Music
The Immersion Composition Society Helps Musicians Overcome Creative Hurdlesnew
The society is a loosely affiliated international band of "lodges" with around three to twelve members each who share the common goal of boosting their productivity and unleashing their creativity as musicians. The two oldest and most established lodges, Origin and Wig, are still based in Oakland -- along with at least another three.
East Bay Express |
Nate Seltenrich |
08-07-2008 |
Music
