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2007 Stories by Dave Pehling

• Mark Lanegan Adds Grit and Gravitas to Soulsavers

  published November 28, 2007

  When the noirish atmospheres and narcotic beats of downtempo electronica first surfaced in the early 1990s, a broad audience embraced the hazy... More >>

• Ozzy Osbourne: Famous Batshit Dad/Rock Star Storms Oakland

  published November 14, 2007

  Hear This Columbus no-fi noise-rockers Psychedelic Horseshit stumble into town on the heels... More >>

• Legendary Oddballs Ween Paint the Town Brown

  published November 7, 2007

  A case could be made for San Francisco's American Music Club being a truly American counterpart to Britain's Joy Division. Although... More >>

• ZZ Top Returns for Your "Tush"

  published October 31, 2007

  As a visionary member of psychedelic garage-rockers 13th Floor Elevators, Texas punk pioneer Roky Erickson cemented his place in modern... More >>

• Blonde Redhead, Sunset Rubdown and More SF Show Previews

  published October 17, 2007

  Given their respective noise-rock and industrial pedigrees, guitarist Duane Denison (Jesus Lizard, Hank III, Tomahawk) and bassist/programmer... More >>

• Boris with Michio Kurihara

  published October 10, 2007

  One never knows what to expect next from prolific Japanese avant-sludgmeisters Boris. The trio's propensity to change up its sound becomes even... More >>

• Hear This

  published October 10, 2007

  A Boston-based gang of indie rockers reveling in '80s hair metal, Bang Camaro comes off like the infernal spawn of the Polyphonic Spree... More >>

• The Energys: hot-wired Japanese punk explodes in S.F.

  published September 26, 2007

  Morrissey has turned from a gangly egghead into a debonair crooner without losing his self-deprecating wit: At his birthday show in May,... More >>

• Contents Under Pressure

  published September 19, 2007

  From Arthur Lee to Daniel Johnston and Kurt Cobain, there's plenty of evidence that emotional instability and batshit craziness can contribute... More >>

• Electronic Evocations

  published September 19, 2007

  Though not as widely recognized as other New York City mavericks, electronic-rock pioneers the Silver Apples created an otherworldly and... More >>

• Reggae, raw funk, and Afro-Latin grooves are "Hella Tight"

  published September 5, 2007

  Underworld's last effort, the 2002 album A Hundred Days Off, showed the group sounding disjointed as it pinged aimlessly between... More >>

• Six-string giant Buddy Guy delivers sublime blues

  published September 5, 2007

  Though confined to a chair when performing onstage, guitar legend B.B. King manages to deliver stinging solos filled with his trademark... More >>

• Hear This

  published August 29, 2007

  It wasn't until Chromatics ringleader Adam Miller split with the band's other founding members that he began mastering a different form... More >>

• Instrumentally Challenged

  published August 22, 2007

  Over much of the last quarter-century, the Beastie Boys have pulled off enough stylistic reinvention to qualify for hip hop's David Bowie Lifetime... More >>

• Hear This

  published August 22, 2007

  Over the course of recording 30 albums, Daniel Johnston has been compared to Brian Wilson and has provided inspiration to artists like... More >>

• Bad Brains

  published July 25, 2007

  Of the many influential outfits reuniting for albums this year, D.C. reggae/hardcore act Bad Brains held only a shadow of a promise with its... More >>

• The Lovemakers

  published July 18, 2007

  Oakland's electro-pop purveyors the Lovemakers have never made any bones about their aim for global domination. So it's no huge shock to hear... More >>

• Original smooth crooner Johnny Mathis returns to the stage

  published July 18, 2007

  Some Queens of the Stone Age fans still rue the day that bassist Nick Oliveri got the heave-ho from the band back in 2004. But the punk quickly... More >>

• Damaged Circuits

  published June 6, 2007

  Josh Homme is the rare alt-rock musician equally capable of solid songwriting and crushing riff science. That's been the case for his involvement... More >>

• Unsane

  published May 30, 2007

  While most of its New York City noise-rock contemporaries have either smoothed out their abrasive edges or disintegrated altogether, corrosive... More >>

• Indie rock rules the roost: Modest Mouse and Meat Puppets

  published May 9, 2007

  A wealth of great talent has emerged from New Orleans over the years, but few artists from the last half century can match Allen Toussaint... More >>

• Don't Call It a Comeback

  published April 11, 2007

  Rock band reunion fever has recently mutated from an enjoyable pop-culture phenomenon into a nostalgic cash-cow humpfest. Between Coachella's... More >>

• Existential Samba

  published March 21, 2007

  Politically minded musicians often make public stands on specific issues, but rarely do they actually enter into the bureaucratic machinations of... More >>

• OOIOO

  published March 21, 2007

  Anyone familiar with Yoshimi P-we's schizophonic work in Japanese avant-rock pioneers UFO Or Die and Boredoms was probably surprised at the... More >>

• Fujiya & Miyagi

  published March 7, 2007

  Given the group's name and its obvious love for the minimalist funk of Future Days-era Can, it isn't farfetched to think Fujiya & Miyagi... More >>