AltWeeklies Wire
Class of 2007: San Fran's Up and Coming Bandsnew
The most talented unusual suspects the Bay Guardian suspects will bust out with great things this year and next. Includes The White Barons, The Dry Spells, J. Nash, The Passionistas, Carletta Sue Kay, Jimmy Roses, Kira Lynn Cain, King City and Ship.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Kimberly Chun |
08-29-2007 |
Music
Kaskade Still Commands Big Room Housenew
From the rich gospel singing of the first track, Axwell's "I Found You," and the piano arrangements of Joslyn's "Funk 2 Night," the affable producer delivers mainstream house at its most radio-friendly — and that's a good thing
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Peter Nicholson |
08-29-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Bring the Night, Kaskade
Sorcerer Shows His Magicnew
The 11 tracks feature fluorescent glimmers and surprising melodic nuances signal a major album-of-the-year contender at a time when such claims aren't just Baby New Year gibberish.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Johnny Ray Huston |
08-29-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: White Magic, Sorcerer
Liars Release Most Approachable Album Yetnew
Liars may be the group's first disc on which the disparate elements that have defined their sound are allowed to gel.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Sean Manning |
08-29-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Liars
Dead C Still Roars and Shrieksnew
The five-song disc's hourlong listen sounds like one colossal field recording, as if the band flipped on the studio mics and went to town without a thought of composition or substance in mind.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Chris Sabbath |
08-29-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Dead C, Future Artists
'Love is the Song We Sing': All San Fran Includednew
The four-disc box features just about every musician around for the Summer of Love, plus pieces by Rock Scully, Ben Fong-Torres, and others.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
J. H. Tomkins |
08-29-2007 |
Reviews
Oakland Art and Soul Festival is Labor Day Weekendnew
Three days with nearly 100 musical acts from all over the sonic spectrum, like Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Against Me, Lucinda Williams, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, the Zydeco Flames, Jeffrey Osborne, the Lovemakers, and Fillmore Slim.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Aaron Sankin |
08-29-2007 |
Music
The Chromatics: Between Post-Punk and Italo Disconew
Italians Do It Better, a Troubleman Unlimited subimprint, and lo-fi producer extraordinaire and Chromatics and Glass Candy keyboardist Johnny Jewel are responsible for exposing disco's newest incarnation.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Fred Miketa |
08-29-2007 |
Concerts
Tags: The Chromatics, concerts
The Death of San Francisco's Polk Streetnew
Gentrification is destroying the home of a vibrant, if marginalized, queer community.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Joseph Plaster |
08-29-2007 |
LGBT
Fall Movie Preview: Fresh Coppola and Eternal Winternew
Running down the top 10 new movies to hit screens this fall, from Across the Universe to Youth Without Youth.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Dennis Harvey |
08-22-2007 |
Movies
Anonymity Trouble: The Satisfactions of Wikiscannernew
Virgil Griffith has revealed something far more fundamental than the fact that acolytes of Pepsi and the CIA will stop at nothing to propagandize on behalf of their employers: he's undermined the myth of the anonymous blogger in the basement.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Annalee Newitz |
08-22-2007 |
Tech
Tao Lin Goes Down the Rabbit Holenew
Tao Lin takes language and makes it new again, and in doing so makes fiction that reads like poetry.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Marcelo Ballve |
08-22-2007 |
Fiction
'Freedom Next Time': Tracking Struggles for Justicenew
Agree with him or not, Pilger presents a view widely accepted in much of the world, one the American public ignores at its own peril.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Tom Gallagher |
08-22-2007 |
Nonfiction
APA Rejects Ban on Participating in Coercive Interrogationnew
While other leading medical associations have banned doctors and psychiatrists from participating in coercive prisoner interrogations at CIA-run sites, many American Psychological Association members argue that psychologists can help ensure subjects are treated in an ethical and humane manner.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Rachel Stern |
08-22-2007 |
Civil Liberties
The Poison in Your Sofanew
California's standard is poisoning the whole nation, one sofa at a time.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Mark Leno |
08-16-2007 |
Environment
Tags: environment
