AltWeeklies Wire
The Backstage Passes and Musings of Dean & Brittanew
Indie-rock gossip hounds might be interested to know that Wareham and Phillips didn't become a couple immediately after they met -- and they kept it on the down low even after they hooked up. Wareham promises to tell all in his new memoir, Black Postcards, which will be published by Penguin in March.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Marcus Crowder |
02-13-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Dean & Britta
The Return of the Return of the DJnew
Ex-X-ecutioners form Ill Insanity and begin their crusade for the next DJ renaissance.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Billy Jam |
02-13-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Ill Insanity
Yeasayer Trots Along Unexpected Musical Pathsnew
The Brooklyn band has managed to engage even the most cynical of indie veterans with its escapist realm filled with an uncompromisingly authentic helping of psychedelic guitar noodling, hypnotic pop vocals, and worldly percussion that's as reminiscent of Carlos Santana as it is of Animal Collective or the Cure.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Fred Miketa |
01-23-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Yeasayer
Messy Marv at Largenew
After a year in jail for gun possession, the Bay Area rapper hits the ground running.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Garrett Caples |
01-16-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Messy Marv
Under Their Black Sunnew
X marks the spot in punk's Cali past and a fantasized future.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Kate Izquierdo |
12-19-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: X
Chris Watson Finds Music in the Belly of the Beastnew
The sounds one hears on Watson's solo releases are a far cry from the ubiquitous whale song CDs that clog new age bins.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Matt Sussman |
11-28-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Storm, Chris Watson
Do You Believe in White Magic?new
The witchy duo shine on with Dark Stars.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Max Goldberg |
11-21-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: White Magic, Dark Stars
Shady Nate Comes Out of the Shadowsnew
The number two rapper of West Oakland's Livewire crew emerges as a boss.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Garrett Caples |
11-21-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Shady Nate
Piers Faccini Gets to the Heart of the Matternew
After toiling on his music for many years, something clicked in about 2002, when Faccini found his voice, one that resonates from the nexus of his Italian, English, and Gypsy bloodlines and the music of the Mississippi Delta and the North African desert.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Mirissa Neff |
11-14-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Piers Faccini, Tearing Sky
Sail Away With Mist and Mastnew
Ex-Red Threader Jason Lakis voyages solo.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Theo Schell-Lambert |
11-14-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Mist and Mast
The Heavy Evangelism of Jesu's Justin Broadricknew
Jesu's second full-length is a bleakly epic knight's tale where melodies spiral upward into ominous gray clouds of static to create ingenious, thundering shoegaze.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Kate Izquierdo |
10-31-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
When Cartoon Metal Bands Go on Tournew
Dethklok, "the most brutal band in the world" and stars of Adult Swim's juggernaut of animated murder, Metalocalypse, are touring in support of their recently released Dethalbum, which is already the best-selling death metal album of all time.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Duncan Scott Davidson |
10-24-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Ike Dola is Ready to Break Out of the Farm Leaguesnew
The 23-year-old from East Oakland is widely considered the next local MC who will blow up around here.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Garrett Caples |
10-17-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Ike Dola
Another Dream Date with Damon and Naominew
Within These Walls is one of the coziest albums of the year, not just for its rainy-day production but also for the impression that the pair is totally comfortable in their bittersweet pop.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Max Goldberg |
10-10-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Somewhere Over the White Rainbownew
Adam Forkner's creativity is now almost entirely unfettered. Performing and recording as White Rainbow, the onetime Yume Bitsu member is flat-out improvised.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Michael Harkin |
09-12-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
