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Karyn Paige Trips the Light Fantasticnew
A refugee from corporate America makes her promising debut.
East Bay Express |
Rachel Swan |
09-15-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: Karyn Paige,
The Pack: Wolfpack Partynew
The Pack returns with its second album, a nineteen-track journey into the mind of a 21-year-old with a dissolute lifestyle.
East Bay Express |
Rachel Swan |
09-13-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: The Pack
Monterey Jazz Festival Staves Off Doomsayersnew
Despite vicissitudes in the jazz market, Monterey lives up to its original raison d'etre.
East Bay Express |
Rachel Swan |
09-13-2010 |
Concerts
Juan Calle and His Latin Lantzmennew
Many American Jews, particularly in New York City, caught mambo and cha-cha fever during the 1950's.
East Bay Express |
Lee Hildebrand |
09-01-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: Juan Calle
Slum Villagenew
Enthusiasm for Slum Village's latest album has been considerably dampened by revelations that it is likely its last album.
East Bay Express |
David MacFadden-Elliott |
08-31-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: Slum Village
Freddie Gibbsnew
Only Freddie Gibbs could rightfully boast about gracing magazine covers without a record label Or call himself "Gangsta Gibbs" with no sense of irony Or crib a beat from Masta Ace and one-up the original rap...
East Bay Express |
Rachel Swan |
08-27-2010 |
Reviews
Tags: Freddie Gibbs
Foreign Globester Is a Man in Motionnew
Most rappers take pleasure in cultivating their own personal mythology, and Paul Laster — better known by his stage name Motion Man — is no exception It begins with the etymology of "Motion Man," which, he says, derives from his break-dancing talent in high school...
East Bay Express |
Rachel Swan |
08-25-2010 |
Unclassified
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
The Awkward Hit-Makers: Berkeley's The Cataracsnew
There's a studied, left-brained pragmatism to The Cataracs' approach: Perhaps because they don't have classical backgrounds or industry connections, they've spent years examining and analyzing what it takes to make a hit and applying this knowledge to every new track.
East Bay Express |
Ellen Cushing |
12-30-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Dick Valentine of Electric Six Wants to Put the Fun Back in Rock 'n' Rollnew
As frontman and lyrical/musical force behind the deliciously over-the-top Electric Six, Valentine has been delighting those who get it, and confusing the hell out of everyone else.
East Bay Express |
Kirsty Evans |
11-04-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Kill, Electric Six
Pelican's Metamorphism is a Virtue of Modern Progressionnew
On the surface, the Chicago band appears to play instrumental rock, but even that's subverted by its utter progression and attention to dynamics. Think of it like heavy rock for outer space -- otherworldly headbanging music.
East Bay Express |
Nick Schwab |
10-21-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: What We All Come to Need, Pelican
Andrew Whiteman's Apostle of Hustle Cooks Up an Ornately Far-Out Experiencenew
As he lives in an overpopulated world conquered by an excess of information, Whiteman's artistic theft is his way of balancing the creative eco-system. "My music is made up of stolen things," he says.
East Bay Express |
Reyan Ali |
10-14-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Played Live, Bon Iver's Sparse Songs Breathe With a New Intensitynew
Often muted and spare on record, Bon Iver burns with an entirely different intensity live, a gathering storm of percussion and surging guitars all held together by Justin Vernon's singing, the high and often spooky howl that stamps his music with such a tremendous feeling of isolation.
East Bay Express |
Eric Swedlund |
09-23-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Death-Metal Pioneers Obituary are Content to Crush Eardrums at Medium Speednew
Brothers John and Donald Tardy (vocals and drums, respectively) formed the band under the name of Xecutioner in 1985 -- they weren't old enough to vote when they recorded their songs for the Raging Death compilation, released in 1987.
East Bay Express |
Jarret Keene |
09-09-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
