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121. Let's Get Killed

     Oh Lord: Spiritualized's Severely Diminished Grandeur

     By Jennifer Maerz

     Published: November 14, 2007

     Outside of Christian rock and country singers, few modern musicians have invoked Jesus' name as often as Jason Pierce. Although you'd never peg the Brit as a holy man, his...

122. Hear This

     Ozzy Osbourne: Famous Batshit Dad/Rock Star Storms Oakland

     By Mike Munz, Jennifer Maerz and Dave Pehling

     Published: November 14, 2007

     Hear This Columbus no-fi noise-rockers Psychedelic Horseshit stumble into town on the heels of their debut full-length, Magic Flowers Droned, out on experimental stalwart...

123. Let's Get Killed

     Citay Houses Ezra Feinberg's Little Kingdom of Chamber Metal

     By Jennifer Maerz

     Published: November 7, 2007

     Ezra Feinberg of San Francisco's Citay (say it like, say, Steve Perry would sing the word "city" — cit-aay) makes music that's been appropriately tagged "chamber metal."...

124. Let's Get Killed

     Struck by Lightning, Man Becomes Obsessed with Song

     By Jennifer Maerz

     Published: October 31, 2007

     Oliver Sacks has some pretty incredible stories regarding music. And by incredible, I don't mean he hung out with the Rolling Stones or played tuba with Arcade Fire. The...

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     Let's Get Killed

     Oakland's Story Club hosts Budget Rock. Awesome ridiculous!

     By Jennifer Maerz

     Published: October 24, 2007

     There's so much to love in the perpetual teenage gusto of garage rock. Whether its purveyors are suited up in cheap costumes, tossing off pseudo-snottiness, or springing into...

126. Feature

     High on Fire, SMC Recordings, and John Vanderslice Make History Now

     By Jennifer Maerz

     Published: October 17, 2007

     Mainstream media outlets spent 2007 casting spotlights on the Bay Area's music scene. Unfortunately, the bulk of that press focused on Summer of Love nostalgia that barely...

127. Music

     Make Some Noise

     By Jennifer Maerz

     Published: October 17, 2007

     If you walked into the music editor's office at the SF Weekly, you'd think a No-Doz-popping teenager was in charge of the decor. Stacks of CDs covered in Post-Its threaten to...

128. Let's Get Killed

     Bang Camaro Makes You Pay for Karaoke Metal

     By Jennifer Maerz

     Published: October 17, 2007

     If, as a kid, you ever kinked your neck rockin' out to hair metal, recall for a moment that initial infatuation with unabashed testosterock. There you were, staring at your...

129. Let's Get Killed

     Jack Johnson's Label Hosts Rogue Wave's Moody New 'Asleep at Heaven's Gate'

     By Jennifer Maerz

     Published: October 3, 2007

     Being in your 30s is such a humbling age. You're no longer the post-backpacking-through-Costa-Rica kid stumbling into your first real job interview. You're not even the...

130. Hear This

     Finntroll; Download Festival; Bill Callahan; Black Crowes; the Go-Gos

     By Adam Bregman, Andy Beta, Toph One, Jennifer Maerz and Ben Westhoff

     Published: October 3, 2007

     In the forsaken hinterlands of Finland roams a band of evil trolls who sing in Swedish (one of the country's two national languages), and consume copious amounts of beer....

131. Let's Get Killed

     San Francisco Symphony’s Opening Gala Gives an Indie Critic the Night Off

     By Jennifer Maerz

     Published: September 26, 2007

     Most music snobs try really hard to convince themselves they're not music snobs. Or at least I do. I never wanted to be that killjoy who grunts in disgust when someone...

132. Let's Get Killed

     Rich Unterberger brings rare rock flicks to the Haight

     By Jennifer Maerz

     Published: September 19, 2007

     On a foggy Wednesday night last month, 60 rock fans crowded onto folding chairs, plastic blocks, and floor mats in the basement of the itty bitty Park Branch Library in the...

133. Hear This

     LCD Soundsystem: the planet's party-starting pro

     By Jennifer Maerz, Hannah Levin and Geoff Cannon

     Published: September 19, 2007

     When LCD Soundsystem takes the stage, the group projects frenetic energy, using rock-band instrumentation to jolt crowds into pogo-jumps. That's no easy feat for what's...

134. Feature

     Gimme Indie Rock!

     Local promoters take a big risk to give S.F. a music fest that will restore the city's cool cred

     By Jennifer Maerz

     Published: September 12, 2007

     Kevin Arnold and Jordan Kurland stroll into 500 Club, a Mission dive bar, on a recent August weekday. The pair lean against the counter, weighing their options. "I should order...

135. Let's Get Killed

     Jack Kerouac's writing still influential for rock icons 50 years after On the Road

     By Jennifer Maerz

     Published: August 29, 2007

     We're ears- and eyeballs-deep in Summer of Love 40th anniversaries in San Francisco, but September marks another local birthday of import, one that's also pretty pivotal in the...

136. Let's Get Killed

     The Return of Incredibly Strange Wrestling

     Flying tortillas and choking chickens: Incredibly Strange Wrestling is San Francisco's craziest punk cabaret

     By Jennifer Maerz

     Published: August 15, 2007

     "Even next week, you're still gonna be pulling out tortilla bits from everywhere," a middle-aged punker with a silver ponytail and a handful of beer-sogged corn tortillas was...

137. Let's Get Killed

     The Return of Arthur Magazine

     Arthur magazine: back from the ashes but still looking for a lifeline

     By Jennifer Maerz

     Published: August 8, 2007

     Arthur may have a low print run of 50,000, but its influence is unquantifiable. The lefty counterculture magazine has been ground zero for antiwar activists, psychedelic drug...

138. Music

     I Can Go for That

     The Web 2.0 generation recharges Hall & Oates' hits

     By Jennifer Maerz and Ben Westhoff

     Published: August 1, 2007

     In one of 1995's finest Internet-video vignettes, smooth-pop staples John Oates and Daryl Hall get into a shoving match, with Oates screaming, "No more songs about Sarah! Get...

139. Let's Get Killed

     Live review on Daft Punk/Rapture show

     Dancing robots take control from a gigantic laser pyramid

     By Jennifer Maerz

     Published: August 1, 2007

     Will robots ever lose their cool cred? Last Sunday's cover of the New York Times Magazine featured Domo, one of a new breed of computerized beings created to fill our...

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     Groupies

     The view from Jimmy Page's pants: groupies claim their 15 minutes

     By Jennifer Maerz

     Published: July 25, 2007

     What other business but rock 'n' roll would make the women who swap spit with the stars an industry unto itself? After Flavor Flav's Flavor of Love hook-up took off, Brett...