AltWeeklies Wire
Into the Mysticnew
Skaters make totally out there, vocal-dominated psychedelia, based on the open-ended drone heard in industrial music, minimalism, experimental electronics, folk, world music and free jazz.
SF Weekly |
Justin F. Farrar |
01-18-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: skaters
A&R Q&Anew
Forget the guys in Wolf Parade, here's an interview with their A&R guy, Stuart.
SF Weekly |
Garrett Kamps |
01-04-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Price Is Variablenew
In other businesses -- wine, for example -- price can skyrocket according to quality, scarcity, demand, and dozens of other factors, yet we expect all music to cost the same amount. Does that make sense? After all, not all music is created equal.
The Hanukkah Songsnew
When it comes to music, Jewish songwriters and performers have played no small part in fostering confusion over the question of whether Hanukkah is the Jewish Christmas.
The Waterboysnew
The four-piece crew's talent for crafting fiery bricolage has not gone unnoticed, and influential music blogs have gushed over the three songs on the group's self-titled EP.
SF Weekly |
Garrett Kamps |
12-14-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Cheers for Veirsnew
Songwriting cheerleader Laura Veirs distinguishes herself from the pack with her lyrics, all vivid imagery and the music of language tumbling together in stunning bits of poetry.
SF Weekly |
Michael Alan Goldberg |
11-23-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Don't Ask Why?new
Musician Yoni Wolf is moving in a new direction, replacing laptops and turntables with guitar-picking, piano chords, mournful lyrics, and big choruses. Is indie the new hip-hop?
SF Weekly |
David Downs |
11-08-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Middle-Aged Solo Artistsnew
Bob Mould and Paul Weller, two altrock legends at a crossroads in their careers, just made their most vital, satisfying solo albums in years.
From Here to Eternitynew
With younger audiences yearning for something that's not too arty, too wimpy, too loud or too soft, Built to Spill seems right on target.
SF Weekly |
Garrett Kamps |
07-12-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
SF Conservatory Preps Students for Quiet Marketplacenew
The arcane system of conservatory education floods the tight market with one fairly unemployable graduating class of single-minded violinists and bassoonists and flutists after the next, and audiences for classical music have been shrinking for years.
Marty Anderson Is Okaynew
The prolific young songwriter Marty Anderson has been so ill with Crohn's disease he feared he wouldn't live to see the release of his band's first two albums.
SF Weekly |
Garrett Kamps |
04-09-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
The River's Edgenew
While Okkervil River's Will Sheff ranks among modern music's most literary songwriters, he stops short of turning lyrics into inaccessible, unfeeling academic exercises.
SF Weekly |
Andrew Miller |
04-02-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
New York Cabaret Singer Finds Folky Companynew
For believers, Antony & the Johnsons are the latest bright spot on whatever this new movement is that has been dubbed "freak folk" or "people with cartoon voices playing chamber instruments," which includes Joanna Newsom and Devendra Banhart.
SF Weekly |
Katy St. Clair |
03-02-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Antony
A Friend Indeednew
A reviewer and his best-friend band, Luna, have reached the end of their relationship. The split is amicable. It makes sense. But it's sad.
SF Weekly |
Garrett Kamps |
02-11-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Luna, Rendezvous
Bohemian Rhapsodynew
Brightback Morning Light -- or Brightblack for short -- would probably be huge by now if it weren't a trio of big, lovable hippies.
SF Weekly |
Garrett Kamps |
01-19-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Ala.Cali.Tucky, Brightblack
