AltWeeklies Wire
Team Playasnew
An Oakland rap trio's debut album combines a solid sound with liquid marketing.
East Bay Express |
Eric K. Arnold |
05-15-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Team
Go Less Dumbnew
Does hyphy promote a "culture of death," or help combat it?
East Bay Express |
Eric K. Arnold |
05-01-2006 |
Music
The Life of Rileynew
With a brand-new album and a brand-new baby, the Coup's leader discourses on the dichotomy of bullets and love.
East Bay Express |
Eric K. Arnold |
05-01-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Coup
The Kids Aren't Alrightnew
Bear's Lair is the Bay Area's next great all-ages venue that won't be.
East Bay Express |
Rob Harvilla |
03-27-2006 |
Music
Pimp My Lifenew
Pittsburgh's the Jacka gives lessons in hustling and marketing.
East Bay Express |
Rachel Swan |
03-27-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Jacka
You Must Learn to Shaddapnew
KRS-One sullies his rep with a bizarre, violent outburst.
East Bay Express |
Eric K. Arnold |
03-27-2006 |
Music
All-Time QBnew
E-40 might finally get the national adoration he deserves with My Ghetto Report Card.
East Bay Express |
Eric K. Arnold |
03-20-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: E-40
The Small Expressionsnew
Swedish folk crooner Jose Gonzalez is an intimate, interpretive genius.
East Bay Express |
Rob Harvilla |
03-13-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Jose Gonzalez
Deliciously Nostalgicnew
Listening to The Unusual is like waking up before dawn, drinking a cold cup of coffee and skimming yesterday's paper -- you get the sense of being suspended in time.
East Bay Express |
Rachel Swan |
02-27-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: El Da Sensei, The Unusual
Kicker of Assesnew
The reinvigorated Robert Pollard offers up some more beery genius.
East Bay Express |
Rob Harvilla |
02-21-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Robert Pollard
Screaming Diplomatsnew
Omissa's violent mix of races, styles and emotions beguiles even as it confounds.
East Bay Express |
Rachel Swan |
02-13-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Omissa
A Drunken Android Eulogynew
Grandaddy's legacy will be as the band that playfully examined the way technology demystifies and destroys nature.
East Bay Express |
Rob Harvilla |
02-13-2006 |
Music
Tags: Grandaddy
Boom Bip Blissnew
KRS-One proves why he still Reigns Supreme Over Nearly Everyone.
East Bay Express |
Eric K. Arnold |
02-06-2006 |
Concerts
Tags: KRS-One
Tears of a Clownnew
Beholding the oddly giddy melancholy of Our Lady of the Highway.
East Bay Express |
Rob Harvilla |
02-06-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Our Lady of the Highway
Light Party Farenew
The group's final effort perfectly fits into the template laid out on four previous albums, erring on the side of old-school shtick.
East Bay Express |
Rachel Swan |
01-30-2006 |
Reviews
Tags: Firewater, Tha Alkaholiks
