AltWeeklies Wire
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
Can a Jazz Revival Bloom in San Francisco?new
The city's world-renowned jazz club heritage has always been a part of its matchless cultural identity. But there hasn't been a jazz club regularly booking national and international touring musicians into the city for more than 20 years. That all changes this month with the opening of Yoshi's San Francisco.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Marcus Crowder |
11-14-2007 |
Music
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
Meat the Figurinesnew
When the Deer Wore Blue has an eerie yet upbeat, cinematic feel to it, and could serve as an alternate to Air's The Virgin Suicides soundtrack, if the movie had a different ending in which the sisters didn't kill themselves but instead moved to Denmark to shack up with an indie band -- and then killed themselves.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Duncan Scott Davidson |
10-10-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Figurines, When the Deer Wore Blue
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
Hyphy's Pan-Latin Rosternew
Only a year old, Thizz Latin is the brainchild of Julio "Gold Toes" Sanchez, a Chicano MC and hip-hop impresario hell-bent on highlighting the diversity of the hyphy movement.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Amanda Maria Morrison |
09-12-2007 |
Music
Franz Ferdinand Hearts the Fire Enginesnew
Together for a brief 18 months, the Fire Engines released a handful of EPs, many on Bob Last's fantastic Fast Product–Pop Aural imprint. Hungry Beat collects these long-out-of-print EPs.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Alexis Georgopoulos |
09-12-2007 |
Reviews
Tags: Hungry Beat, The Fire Engines
Traditional Fools Surf the Rocky Seas of Garage Punknew
The band's infectious, scuzzy surf punk is the best accompaniment this century has to offer to the twist, the shimmy, and the ladling of tropical punch.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Michael Harkin |
09-05-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Traditional Fools
