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Let's Get Killed
By Jennifer Maerz
It's not exactly the same thing, being a crate-digger in this country as it is being one in Latin America. Here, record collectors fear the early birds at estate sales. In...
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Let's Get Killed
By Jennifer Maerz
Last week, "Weird Al" Yankovic released his zillionth parody, "Craigslist," mashing up a sleazy Doors shtick with geeky references to the site's Missed Connections ads. The...
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Let's Get Killed
By Jennifer Maerz
There are two types of trouble country singers tend to get into in song: either they lose their heart, or they lose their job. That's how 58-year-old Japanese singer and...
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Let's Get Killed
By Jennifer Maerz
"I don't think you can underestimate the influence Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters had on the antiestablishment, prank-driven, California punk and performance art scene in...
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Let's Get Killed
By Jennifer Maerz
There wasn't a couple getting hitched, but Animal Collective's show in Big Sur last week felt more like a hippie wedding than a concert. There was just something celebratory,...
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Let's Get Killed
By Jennifer Maerz
The livelihood of San Franciso's best-known all-ages venues is under
siege based on issues that have nothing to do with public safety, but
rather on archaic views of how a...
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Let's Get Killed
By Jennifer Maerz
When historians look back at the last 10 years of San Francisco
underground music, they'll likely note John Dwyer's sizeable impact on
the Bay Area. More than most modern punk...
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Let's Get Killed
By Jennifer Maerz
Washington politics, schmolitics. When this country votes incompetent presidents into office, Bay Area punk bands get sworn into leadership positions.
It's impossible to...
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Night&Day
By Jennifer Maerz
Think of this weekends Total Trash Fest as the kid sibling of Budget Rock, the Bay Areas longstanding, annual garage-punk marathon. This cluster of shows hosts many...
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Let's Get Killed
By Jennifer Maerz
People are seriously questioning whether record labels are necessary anymore. At a time when artists can market themselves directly to fans through the Internet, discussions...
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Let's Get Killed
By Jennifer Maerz
An old-school metal band's dramatic epic is about to hit movie theaters. This is a group that started in the early '80s and influenced rock legends like Slash, Lemmy from...
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Let's Get Killed
By Jennifer Maerz
Jamie Stewart is a morgue-serious songwriter. And yet it's impossible for me to take the Xiu Xiu frontman seriously. The ache in his indie rock takes introspective moping to...
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Let's Get Killed
By Jennifer Maerz
Politician greed. Wall Street greed. Insurance exec greed. The media offers daily reasons to rail against the corrupt systems forcing the struggling economic classes into ruin....
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Let's Get Killed
By Jennifer Maerz
Nodzzz' excellent self-titled 2008 debut is on the turntable, and the tunes by this basement pop trio are impatient. They expire at a minute and change. Blink to their beat,...
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Night&Day
By Jennifer Maerz
All that time spent in the Seattle punk scene greatly affected Jesse Lortz and Kimberly Morrison, otherwise known as the Dutchess and the Duke. Their voices betray the acoustic...
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Let's Get Killed
By Jennifer Maerz
Enough. After months of grim reports about how this country is sloping toward a massive economic apocalypse, it's time for a bit of good news. So here it is: One of the most...
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Music
By Jennifer Maerz
Every year, they descend on Austin like locusts with bedhead — the musicians, booking agents, writers, labels, dotcommers, and corporate sponsors looking for their Next...
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Let's Get Killed
By Jennifer Maerz
With its swank hotels and Hitchcock movie memories, Nob Hill ain't exactly a San Francisco den of rock 'n' roll. The giant vans lumbering over those scenic hills are loaded up...
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Let's Get Killed
By Jennifer Maerz
The long history of musician residencies reaches into nearly every genre. From jazz giants setting up shop for multiple nights with various players to showbiz legends hunkering...
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Let's Get Killed
By Jennifer Maerz
San Francisco's music scene carries with it a proud independent spirit. We run our bands, labels, and studios without much concern for mainstream acceptance. While this...
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