AltWeeklies Wire
Hot, Sexy and Dead?new
Combing music's back catalogs for the next cult star with a distro called Runt.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Kimberly Chun |
06-27-2007 |
Music
Battles Brings the Hot Rocknew
The quartet blasts off with Mirrored.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Max Goldberg |
06-27-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: battles
The Fundamentals of Fucked Upnew
This pseudonym-only hardcore band subverts punk conventions.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Michael Harkin |
06-27-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Fucked Up
Finding Mariee Siouxnew
The singer-songwriter is genuinely surprised that adapting her poetry to music has resulted in a life as a touring musician.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Max Goldberg |
06-21-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Mariee Sioux
Replicator: Revenge of the Nerdsnew
The Oakland band makes "music for very pissed-off smart people."
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Duncan Scott Davidson |
06-21-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Replicator
The Gomorran Social Aid and Pleasure Club Preach the Gospelnew
They might be playing ragtime, but they're by no means a ragtime band -- they celebrate wild abandon with, well, wild abandon.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Todd Lavoie |
06-06-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Anat Cohen's Living in the Momentnew
The Israeli-born New Yorker, often found working in Latin bands, seems intent on leaving no jazz style unexplored.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Marcus Crowder |
06-06-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Anat Cohen
Nerves of Chromenew
Guitarist Helios Creed remembers the cyberpunk band that time forgot.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Chris Sabbath |
06-06-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Chrome
David Copperfuck is Fucking With Younew
The mere mention that their moniker snagged top billing in the Onion for an end-of-the-year poll titled "Worst Band Names of 2006" generates a round of laughter from the San Francisco punkers.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Chris Sabbath |
05-30-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: David Copperfuck
Mistah FAB: Holdin' the Weight of the Baynew
As Atlantic delays his major-label debut, Da Yellow Bus Rydah, Mistah FAB hits the underground running with Da Baydestrian.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Garrett Caples |
05-23-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Mistah FAB
Gimme My Princenew
Looking for a real rock star experience in a purple fog.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Chris Sabbath |
05-16-2007 |
Music
Tags: Prince
Rhymes With Worknew
Men are from Mars, Bjork's Volta is for Venus.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Johnny Ray Huston |
05-16-2007 |
Reviews
Fab Gadgetsnew
The Bay Area Beatdrop crew rides the techno comeback -- and the latest DJ craze ... WiiJing!
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Marke B. |
05-10-2007 |
Music
UK Pop Starlets Vie for America's Heart of Darknessnew
Call them the new British bitch pack: barefoot soul shouter Joss Stone and her ascendant sistren, skankin' Lily Allen and torchy Amy Winehouse (Corinne Bailey Rae's exempted due to being a queen of nice and hazy sentiment and, well, yes, color).
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Kandia Crazy Horse |
05-10-2007 |
Music
Soft Machinesnew
With amplified thumb piano and pots and pans in hand, Konono No. 1 prove that good things can happen in Kinshasa.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Kate Izquierdo |
04-25-2007 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Konono No. 1
