Email Author Sam Lefebvre

2013 Stories by Sam Lefebvre

• Legs Do Lowbrow Pop With an Art-School Style

  published June 12, 2013

  The cover of Legs' debut album, Pass the Ringo, is a photograph of food compost on a pristine plate with a solid blue background. The... More >>

• The Great Gatsby's Soundtrack Doesn't Fit Its Message

  published May 22, 2013

  Australian filmmaker Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of F. Scott Fitzergald's The Great Gatsby is surprisingly true to the original text. He... More >>

• Cocktails Mix up Catchy, Accessible 'Slop-Pop'

  published May 1, 2013

  Before a show at the Night Light in Oakland, Cocktails vocalist Patrick Clos is bobbing his head compulsively. Paisley shirt buttoned to the... More >>

• Exalted Through Degradation: Nick Cave Talks About Push the Sky Away

  published April 3, 2013

  Push the Sky Away is Nick Cave's 15th album with the Bad Seeds. But his post-millennial endeavors also include the novel The Death of... More >>

• Sparks: Show Preview

  published April 3, 2013

  Sparks began in early '70s Los Angeles, but found a more receptive audience for their early identity as an idiosyncratic and bombastic... More >>

• Brilliant Colors: Show Preview

  published March 13, 2013

  San Francisco trio Brilliant Colors cast their shimmering hooks in bedroom melancholy. But their taste in punk is impeccable — and... More >>

• Shannon & the Clams: Show Preview

  published February 20, 2013

  Amoeba Music, Bottom of the Hill, KUSF, KFJC, Rite Spot — Ursula Rodriguez's employment history is a laundry list of vital San Francisco... More >>

• The Mallard Prepares for Takeoff

  published January 30, 2013

  Inside the anonymous, gray exterior of an Oakland recording studio, frontwoman Greer McGettrick is fastidiously mixing the sophomore album by... More >>

• King Dude: Show Preview

  published January 9, 2013

  As proponents of Gothic folk, Los Angeles chanteuse Chelsea Wolfe and incongruously named Seattle balladeer King Dude explore esoteric... More >>