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Hear This
By Mark Keresman, Jennifer Maerz and Dave Pehling
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 ...
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Let's Get Killed
By Jennifer Maerz
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...
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Hear This
By Brock Keeling, Mark Keresman, Jennifer Maerz and Sam Prestianni
Bloomington, Ind., label Jagjaguwar hosts an impressive roster of rootsy, Neil Young-indebted indie rock. Followers of the Black Mountain/Pink Mountaintops stronghold on...
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BeatBox
Jonah Flicker, Jennifer Maerz and Tamara Palmer
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...
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Music
The Drones restlessly mine betrayal
By Jennifer Maerz
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...
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Let's Get Killed
By Jennifer Maerz
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...
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Hear This
By Jennifer Maerz, Dave Pehling and Tony Ware
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...
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Let's Get Killed
By Jennifer Maerz
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...
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Reviewed
Danava (Kemado)
Jennifer Maerz
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...
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Music
By Jennifer Maerz
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...
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Let's Get Killed
By Jennifer Maerz
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...
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Hear This
By Jennifer Maerz, Frances Reade and Tony Ware
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...
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Music
Mickey Avalon scores with hipsters, hustlers, and MySpace suits
By Jennifer Maerz
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...
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Let's Get Killed
By Jennifer Maerz
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...
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Let's Get Killed
By Jennifer Maerz
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...
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Hear This
By Justin F. Farrar, Jennifer Maerz and Dave Pehling
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...
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Let's Get Killed
By Jennifer Maerz
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...
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Reviewed
The Nice Boys
By Jennifer Maerz
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...
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Let's Get Killed
By Jennifer Maerz
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...
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Reviewed
Putting the Days to Bed
By Jennifer Maerz
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...
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