Email Author Tamara Palmer

2005 Stories by Tamara Palmer

• Hear This

  published April 20, 2005

  Louisville, Ky., quartet VHS or Beta has undergone marked changes in its three years between album releases. Once thought of as an... More >>

• BeatBox

  published April 13, 2005

  Unfairly referred to as the Americanized version of the Chemical Brothers because of a sound that combines rock and electronica, the Crystal... More >>

• BeatBox

  published April 6, 2005

  Of all of hip hop's sonic tangents, from turntablism to crunk to Miami bass, beat-boxing is among the most endearing, if not exactly the most... More >>

• BeatBox

  published March 30, 2005

  April Fools' parties are apparently passé, so promoters Red Wine and Fabric8 (an online boutique) have come up with a clever twist on this... More >>

• Out Hud

  published March 30, 2005

  So many bland new-wave bands have emerged so far in the '00s that they're beginning to dry up the musical credibility of the original '80s... More >>

• BeatBox

  published March 23, 2005

  While much of the city stands idly by as trite mash-ups and Burning Manish trance exercise Israeli-like occupation of Bay Area dance floors, nifty... More >>

• Celebrate Good Times

  published March 16, 2005

  Goapele Mouhlabane, known simply as Goapele (pronounced kwa-pa-lay), is one of the Bay Area's most promising soul singers. With her mother... More >>

• Hear This

  published March 9, 2005

  Last winter, in a review of the Futureheads ' debut, Rolling Stone proclaimed that the British quartet had "reclaim[ed] pop punk."... More >>

• BeatBox

  published March 2, 2005

  This may come as a surprise to those of you who think that dance music begins and ends with the trance-y poo of Pauls Oakenfold and Van Dyke, but... More >>

• BeatBox

  published February 23, 2005

  Louie Vega 's body-movin' Afro-Latin house music, the beats he makes both on his own and with partner Kenny "Dope" Gonzalez as Masters at... More >>

• Hear This

  published February 23, 2005

  The Talking Heads in their heyday (from, say, "Psycho Killer" to "Once in a Lifetime") would have been exactly the sort of band to thrill the... More >>

• BeatBox

  published February 16, 2005

  When it comes to DJing, context is everything. And whether they're manning Stones Throw Records (one of the nation's most successful indie labels)... More >>

• BeatBox

  published February 9, 2005

  Hailing from a country of "undisclosed origin" and issuing scathing critiques of American international policy in the name of "foreign rap," the... More >>

• BeatBox

  published February 2, 2005

  In an attempt to bring a more diverse nightlife scene to the Castro than the one dominated by homogeneous house and shaved chests (and to not just... More >>

• BeatBox

  published January 19, 2005

  Alex Gimeno, also known as the fly lounge lizard Ursula 1000 , is a fixture in the New York nightlife scene, where he's the resident DJ for... More >>

• Resolutions of the Rich and Famous

  published January 19, 2005

  Often it seems that New Year's resolutions, made with lit cigarette in hand, are tossed into the trash the weekend after the big day. A shred of... More >>

• BeatBox

  published January 12, 2005

  We should consider ourselves lucky that two of the hardest-working men in Bay Area hip hop, DJ/producer Zeph and MC Azeem, also happen to be among... More >>

• BeatBox

  published January 5, 2005

  Lower Haight Street is making a go at trying to draw folks back to its nightlife scene after a year of violence and shootings sullied the... More >>

• Hear This

  published January 5, 2005

  If you thought sanitized, mall-friendly "screamo" was a phenomenon limited to Orange County, think again. Much to the delight of angsty altteens... More >>

• Fantasia

  published January 5, 2005

  Last spring, more than 65 million votes were cast in Fantasia Barrino's American Idol victory. For those living under a rock who don't know... More >>