Email Author Sam Prestianni

2011 Stories by Sam Prestianni

• Victims Family: Show Preview

  published September 28, 2011

  More than 25 years after forming in Santa Rosa, moving to San Francisco, swapping out multiple drummers, breaking up, reuniting, vanishing, and... More >>

• Salem: Show Preview

  published March 30, 2011

  The so-called songs on Salem's debut album, King Night, are equal parts haunting (or grating) noise, fascinating (or aimless)... More >>

• Public Enemy: Show Preview

  published January 12, 2011

  As hip-hop old-schoolers well know, Public Enemy set the bar for conscious rap in the late '80s. Albums like It Takes a Nation of... More >>

• Comic Tragedy

  published January 12, 2011

  The story begins with a random unfortunate incident: A woman, startled by a scream from a well, goes to check it out and falls in. Then she is... More >>

• Radical Remembrance

  published January 5, 2011

  Mainstream celebrations of Martin Luther King Jr.'s life tend to gloss over his revolutionary spirit. Civil rights lore paints Malcolm X and the... More >>