Email Author Mike Rowell

2004 Stories by Mike Rowell

• Weird Science

  published December 29, 2004

  Electronic music performances are often less than riveting affairs. As sounds skitter and bleep through the house speakers, a musician hunkers... More >>

• Various Artists

  published December 22, 2004

  Locally produced zine Bananafish has explored the underground's fringes since 1987, exposing a panoply of ultraobscure musicians and visual... More >>

• Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds

  published December 15, 2004

  Double albums are inherently problematic: Sheer bulk causes even the best of them to come across as uneven. At first listen, the 13th offering by... More >>

• Homestead & Wolfe

  published December 15, 2004

  Now here's an obscure one. South Bay folk-rock outfit Homestead & Wolfe took its name from the Cupertino intersection where lies the group's home... More >>

• Laibach

  published November 17, 2004

  Since emerging from Slovenia in 1980 as jackbooted industrialists trucking in crypto-fascist imagery, Laibach has consistently pushed people's... More >>

• Zolar X

  published September 29, 2004

  When Zolar X was on the '70s Los Angeles music scene, audiences weren't sure what to make of spacesuited guys with Spock-like helmet hair playing... More >>

• Hear This

  published September 15, 2004

  Championing old-school values like fast cars and loose girls, hard drinkin' and harder drugs, in-your-face violence and blues-punk chord... More >>

• Various Artists

  published August 18, 2004

  When searching for buried treasure, sometimes you really have to dig. Over the past five years, Oakland resident Mark Gergis -- a member of Mono... More >>

• Jolie Holland

  published May 12, 2004

  San Francisco singer/songwriter Jolie Holland's 2003 debut album, Catalpa, was a collection of hazy demos that nevertheless won the acclaim... More >>