AltWeeklies Wire
Hooked on Noise Candynew
Oakland's 21 Grand hosts avant-garde Scanner Darkly soundtracker Graham Reynolds, along with Bay Area weirdness.
East Bay Express |
David Downs |
11-09-2006 |
Concerts
Tags: Graham Reynolds
Dashed Hoop Dreamsnew
Raw brains beat cocky experience in the NBA 2K7 match-up of Dan the Automator vs. Press Play.
East Bay Express |
David Downs |
10-26-2006 |
Music
Tags: Dan the Automator, NBA 2k6
Yo La Tengo's Mother Lodenew
The Hoboken trio's latest album showcases a record-store-sized record collection.
East Bay Express |
David Downs |
10-20-2006 |
Reviews
Sufjan, the Technicolor Dreamboatnew
Sufjan Stevens and the Pacific Mozart Ensemble at Zellerbach set a world record for earnestness.
East Bay Express |
David Downs |
10-20-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Smooth Criminal Fingersnew
Guitar tablature sites die copyright deaths as the intellectual-property battle rages in Washington.
East Bay Express |
David Downs |
10-17-2006 |
Music
Compression as Expressionnew
Montreal's Kid Koala cuts, pastes, and layers three hundred bits of vinyl into two songs on his latest album.
East Bay Express |
Rachel Swan |
10-02-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Kool Keith Scam Exposednew
The country label CMH created OCD International to fabricate a record that could pass as the work of a famous American rapper, and hired a publicity firm to deceptively market it as such.
East Bay Express |
David Downs |
10-02-2006 |
Music
Got Flow? No Dough? Dirt-Hustle!new
The Living Legends and other Bay Area indie rappers dirt-hustle their way to Broke-Ass Summer Jam #10.
East Bay Express |
Eric K. Arnold |
09-25-2006 |
Concerts
'Vans' Bans and MTVnew
The Man stomps the tongue of the hot Berkeley rap act the Pack.
East Bay Express |
Eric K. Arnold |
09-11-2006 |
Music
Taking 'Outsider' Outdoorsnew
A campfire focus group of Joe Sixpacks balks at DJ Shadow's latest release.
East Bay Express |
David Downs |
09-11-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: DJ Shadow, The Outsider
Murderous Flownew
In a world of Vitamin-Water-ed-down gangsta rappers with suburb-dwelling fan bases, C-Bo is a tall can of Steel Reserve -- far worse for your health, but more potent and intoxicating.
East Bay Express |
Eric K. Arnold |
08-21-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: C-Bo, Money to Burn
Del in a Funknew
The plucky and brilliant rapper fights studio fright and his ex-girlfriend on his way back to platinum.
East Bay Express |
David Downs |
08-07-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Hip-Hop Monologuesnew
Oakland rapper Azeem recycles his pointed lyrics for his new play Rude Boy.
East Bay Express |
Eric K. Arnold |
07-17-2006 |
Music
Multiculti Hip-Hop Insurgencynew
Nicaraguan, Puerto Rican, and Filipino hip-hop all thrive in the East Bay.
East Bay Express |
Eric K. Arnold |
06-26-2006 |
Music
Ten Years in the Peace Parknew
Ten years in and ten times bigger, Berkeley's Hip-Hop in the Park keeps on keepin' on.
East Bay Express |
Eric K. Arnold |
05-26-2006 |
Music
