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181. Hear This

     Laurie Anderson goes for the jugular

     By Mark Keresman, Jennifer Maerz and Dave Pehling

     Published: November 22, 2006

     Exploring lush drone rock that nods to Obscured by Clouds/Meddle-era Pink Floyd, U2 circa An Unforgettable Fire, and shoegazer favorites like Slowdive and Ride, local outfit ...

182. Let's Get Killed

     Bang your head on the Mall

     By Jennifer Maerz

     Published: November 15, 2006

     I recently spent a week in New York thinking I was not going to the music industry clusterfuck CMJ. I was visiting my sister, checking out the nightlife, and eating too much...

183. Hear This

     Ben Goldberg Group|Ukelele night|Peter Walker|Ladyhawk

     By Brock Keeling, Mark Keresman, Jennifer Maerz and Sam Prestianni

     Published: November 15, 2006

     Bloomington, Ind., label Jagjaguwar hosts an impressive roster of rootsy, Neil Young-indebted indie rock. Followers of the Black Mountain/Pink Mountaintops stronghold on...

184. BeatBox

     The King of Pop vs. The Price of Baby Mustaches

     Jonah Flicker, Jennifer Maerz and Tamara Palmer

     Published: November 15, 2006

     The '90s were some glorious years of heady, experimental beatmaking, with the likes of DJs Shadow, Krush, Cam, and the Russian-born Vadim ruling the scene. The latter's...

185. Music

     The Dramatists

     The Drones restlessly mine betrayal

     By Jennifer Maerz

     Published: November 8, 2006

     I'm gonna have to fall in love/ With a blind girl/ So that she will not see/ The shame that I know/ Oh new scar/ You have raised the bar. — "Jezebel" There are times when...

186. Let's Get Killed

     Requiem on Natoma

     By Jennifer Maerz

     Published: November 1, 2006

     In 2000, the Kronos Quartet and Clint Mansell created a soundtrack perfect for a movie about two steep descents into addiction. Requiem for a Dream was a CD as chilling as the...

187. Hear This

     Jazz legends Alice and Ravi Coltrane hit SF Jazz Fest

     By Jennifer Maerz, Dave Pehling and Tony Ware

     Published: November 1, 2006

     Some bands are good for a brief fling then forgotten; others you pathologically revisit because they've got their teeth buried in your buttons. Sweden's Love Is All is in the...

188. Let's Get Killed

     SF Weekly Music Awards: Winner's Circle

     By Jennifer Maerz

     Published: October 25, 2006

     I'm writing this the morning after last week's annual SF Weekly Music Awards — and because I avoided a certain "new alcohol" that even the bartender muttered "screamed...

189. Reviewed

     Danava

     Danava (Kemado)

     Jennifer Maerz

     Published: October 25, 2006

     While purists continue splitting hairs over "true" heavy-metal style, Danava combs the genre into a weave of fantastic art-rock wizardry that leaves the stick-straight by the...

190. Music

     Welcoming the local honor roll

     By Jennifer Maerz

     Published: October 18, 2006

     Let's not kid ourselves: Distilling a band's sound to an easily comprehensible genre can feel as arbitrary as assigning a kid to a high school clique. Just like there are jocks...

191. Let's Get Killed

     From symphonies to smoke machines: snapshots of three very different shows

     By Jennifer Maerz

     Published: October 11, 2006

     Snapshots of fandom from last week's shows: morning, noon, and night. If there's one thing the recent Download festival proved, it's that you can brand, cross-promote, and...

192. Hear This

     Confectionary Danish pop vs. making a Mark Bolan entrance

     By Jennifer Maerz, Frances Reade and Tony Ware

     Published: October 11, 2006

     I first heard Danish band Mew at the Spot Festival in Ã…rhus, Denmark, when it headlined over a sea of Scandinavian talent (including fellow countrymen the...

193. Music

     So Rich, So Pretty

     Mickey Avalon scores with hipsters, hustlers, and MySpace suits

     By Jennifer Maerz

     Published: October 4, 2006

     Mickey Avalon's performance earlier this year at a downtown San Francisco gallery was one for the Flickr account. Surrounded by chemically baked females who looked barely old...

194. Let's Get Killed

     Rogue Wave asks for a little help from its friends

     By Jennifer Maerz

     Published: September 27, 2006

     It's no secret that indie-level musicians trade career staples (steady paychecks, regular showers) for the far less cushy life of an artist (sporadic pay, showering at gas...

195. Let's Get Killed

     Pop operas

     By Jennifer Maerz

     Published: September 20, 2006

     In the five decades since Chuck Berry took a liking to that little thing we now call rock 'n' roll, the evolution of live performance has felt sorta slow. For every Flaming...

196. Hear This

     Native Monster madness

     By Justin F. Farrar, Jennifer Maerz and Dave Pehling

     Published: September 20, 2006

     There's no shortage of modern outfits delivering approximations of the sweat-drenched grooves perfected by the Meters and James Brown's ferocious backing group the JBs. What...

197. Let's Get Killed

     Killing your idols and your enemies

     By Jennifer Maerz

     Published: September 13, 2006

     At this point in the history of musical one-upmanship, it's no surprise that even respected artists can be catty motherfuckers when they feel someone's shaking their precious...

198. Reviewed

     The Nice Boys

     The Nice Boys

     By Jennifer Maerz

     Published: September 13, 2006

     The word "nice" is a milquetoast descriptor, conjuring images of scooting your way through life with a lot of pipsqueaked "Excuse me"s. Of course, there's the Guns N' Roses...

199. Let's Get Killed

     Opening your eyes and ears

     By Jennifer Maerz

     Published: September 6, 2006

     We've all hit shows at which ticketholders can't be bothered to listen to the music, instead catching up on boozy minutiae for everyone within earshot. It's one of the prices...

200. Reviewed

     The Long Winters

     Putting the Days to Bed

     By Jennifer Maerz

     Published: September 6, 2006

     The Long Winters have stayed in indie rock fan favor for so many years in part because of the dualities at the core of their music. Ringleader John Roderick's hefty, hearty...