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1. Let's Get Killed

   Von Iva hits the big time with Jim Carrey

   By Jennifer Maerz

   Published: December 3, 2008

   If you're Radiohead or Nine Inch Nails, you can throw a new record up on the Web without major label support and fans will come running (or, as it were, clicking). But for...

2. Let's Get Killed

   The Joy of Strokes

   By Jennifer Maerz

   Published: November 26, 2008

   The Strokes are officially on "hiatus" until early 2009, but really, does anyone care? They aren't the same hungry young Manhattanites who released Is This It in 2001. That...

3. Let's Get Killed

   Windsurf’s beach blanket disco

   By Jennifer Maerz

   Published: November 19, 2008

   We've had some things to celebrate of late: Barack Obama in the White House come January; a dose of summer heat hit in the middle of November. Literally and metaphorically,...

4. Let's Get Killed

   Mouthpiece for Minimal Electronic

   By Jennifer Maerz

   Published: November 5, 2008

   Dave Aju has always made strange sounds. Ever since he was a kid, growing up as the youngest of five music lovers in the South Bay, Aju has been mimicking instruments and other...

5. Hear This

   As the Dodo Flies

   By Jennifer Maerz

   Published: November 5, 2008

   It's been too long since a San Francisco band broke the indie music industry ceiling to garner national acclaim — but the Dodos are doing their best to poke holes...

6. Let's Get Killed

   Wayne Coyne loses the plot, keeps the magic for Christmas

   By Jennifer Maerz

   Published: October 29, 2008

   It's no secret that Wayne Coyne enjoys acting like an alien. The Flaming Lips frontman exists in a universe far, far away from the orbits traveled by conventional pop singers...

7. Let's Get Killed

   Budget Rock by the alphabet

   By Jennifer Maerz

   Published: October 22, 2008

   Once all the other music festivals have their way with the locals, Budget Rock (www.myspace.com/budgetrock) comes in at the end of October to sweep up the trash – trashy...

8. Hear This

   The Wildildlife

   By Jennifer Maerz

   Published: October 22, 2008

   Wildildlife's Six is one of the best records to come out last year. I love its textured mash of beastly howls, sci-fi swells, and ingenious experiments (like the creepy...

9. Music

   The Maverick MC, the Studio Mess, and the Sturdy Indie Label

   The 2008 local music landscape in three parts.

   By Jennifer Maerz

   Published: October 15, 2008

   Okay, we get it. The economy is in rapid decline. The major labels are in rapid decline. And, thanks to San Francisco's insane summer festival schedule, our hearing is in rapid...

10. Music

    Casting Votes: Music Awards 2008

    By Jennifer Maerz

    Published: October 15, 2008

    Every fall, SF Weekly tackles a new election season. While this November offers significant political issues for voters to decide upon, in October we host our own essential...

11. Let's Get Killed

    Frisco Freakout makes a California scene

    By Jennifer Maerz

    Published: October 8, 2008

    California's psych-rock acts are getting heads buzzed around the globe. The music roughs up '60s San Francisco/Dead influences in filters ranging from heavy metal to punk and...

12. Let's Get Killed

    Banned in the UK: The ghosts in Agent Ribbons' attic

    By Jennifer Maerz

    Published: October 1, 2008

    With its satin headbands, lacy-collared dresses, and affinity for bluesy ballads, Sacramento duo Agent Ribbons is a modern band yearning for an old-fashioned era....

13. Let's Get Killed

    DJs dig into '90s nostalgia

    By Jennifer Maerz

    Published: September 24, 2008

    It was one of those balmy September weekends when San Franciscans can actually go sleeveless after 10 p.m. And yet in the line snaking outside Mission bar the Knockout for the...

14. Reviewed

    Davila 666

    Davila 666 (In the Red)

    By Jennifer Maerz

    Published: September 24, 2008

    Davila 666 is Puerto Rico's answer to the Black Lips and my answer to the question: When will a new band seriously brainwash me on its music? Since picking up Davila's debut...

15. Hear This

    Devendra's next act: Puss and Priest

    By Jennifer Maerz

    Published: September 24, 2008

    Living in Los Angeles has helped artsy-fartsy folkster Devendra Banhart befriend all sorts of famous collaborators. Actor Gael García Bernal guested on Banhart's last...

16. Night&Day

    Elder Flower

    By Jennifer Maerz

    Published: September 17, 2008

    For all the insanity of Augusten Burroughs’ parents, they produced a pair of excellent memoirists. Burroughs is the author of Running with Scissors, which wryly chronicled...

17. Let's Get Killed

    Talking Music series emphasizes the brains behind the songs

    By Jennifer Maerz

    Published: September 17, 2008

    The entertainment at live shows is usually formulated into the same split: 90 percent music, 10 percent banter. Generally, that's a fine balance. Hearing some conversationally...

18. Let's Get Killed

    New local music making the grade

    By Jennifer Maerz

    Published: September 10, 2008

    It's been a while since I've lived by the semester schedule, but looking at all the college kids hunting for places to live around town, I'd say it's back to school time in the...

19. Let's Get Killed

    Hair metal fantasies realized at Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy Camp

    By Jennifer Maerz

    Published: September 3, 2008

    It was barely 10 a.m., and '80s rock stud Kip Winger was winking at me for the second time as he played bass. He was making me blush profusely. I could barely look at Kip, or...

20. Let's Get Killed

    Mix-CD fans take their hobbies public in bars and galleries

    By Jennifer Maerz

    Published: August 27, 2008

    Despite all the peaking and plummeting of trends in recorded music, compact discs have to stick around for one main reason: mix CDs. Making compilations for friends, crushes,...