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2000 Stories by Mike Rowell

• Straight Outta Eureka

  published December 13, 2000

  Ben Chasny is feeling a bit giddy these days. This past month, the 26-year-old musician's home-studio project, Six Organs of Admittance, went from... More >>

• Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

  published November 8, 2000

  The Sun City Girls perform at a record release party for the Live From the Afterworld compilation on Saturday, Nov. 11, at 10 p.m. at the... More >>

• Band in a Box

  published November 1, 2000

  Skotodesk will be on display Wednesday through Tuesday, Nov. 8-14, at Amoeba Records, 1855 Haight (at Stanyan), S.F. Call 831-1200 for more... More >>

• Looking for Laughs

  published September 13, 2000

  In an interview snippet at the beginning of the recent Drag City release Inside Neil Hamburger, a "leading critic" is quoted describing... More >>

• The Double U

  published August 23, 2000

  For seven years, the Double U has been fashioning a sort of anomalous alt-chamber rock that both pleases and puzzles. The band's third album is an... More >>

• Roof Access

  published May 24, 2000

  Updating Frankie and Annette beach blanket shindigs for the less naive youth of today, demented San Francisco party rockers the Roofies don't shy... More >>

• Various Artists

  published May 17, 2000

  The Bay Area has seen many fringe music venues come and go in the last decade, the Afterworld Lounge being one of several establishments that... More >>

• Electrotherapy

  published May 3, 2000

  Before "electronica" there was "electronic," and the Bay Area has been a hotbed of experimental electronic music for decades. There's arguably the... More >>

• Hear This

  published April 26, 2000

  WireSpawned in London's punk maelstrom in 1976 and first disbanded in 1980, Wire spit out three radically different albums, and for... More >>

• Three Day Stubble

  published February 23, 2000

  Three Day Stubble The Figshta Diaries! (Nerd Rock Music) Rubbing and wiggling into its third decade of existence,... More >>

• The Jesus Lizard

  published January 19, 2000

  The Jesus Lizard Bang (Touch and Go) It's a familiar story: Hard-working indie band gradually scrabbles its way... More >>