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Plugging into the sleazy punk pipeline
By Jennifer Maerz
Published: April 24, 2002
Some people think sleazy punks dress in snakeskin, throw around wads of cash, and get laid by slutty groupies. True punk sleaze demands 3 a.m. prowls through dirty city...
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Detroit's Soledad Brothers set off badass blues explosions
By Jennifer Maerz
Published: April 10, 2002
Hoping to follow the White Stripes' path from Midwestern house parties to MTV2, the Soledad Brothers hearken back to the roots of rock, setting off blues explosions ecstatic...
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I Get Wet (Island)
Jennifer Maerz
Published: March 6, 2002
These are tough times. Our economy is in the toilet, we're at war with a mercurial enemy, and Limp Bizkit can't find a replacement guitarist. With these weighty issues hanging...
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Fantasy Land
Blectum From Blechdom's fractured electronic universe comes back together -- with a little help from the Olsen twins
By Jennifer Maerz
Published: February 20, 2002
While Kristin Erickson and Bevin Kelley may live in Oakland, the pair's musical personas exist far from the reaches of the BART tracks. For the past four years, Erickson (Kevin...
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The debauched Sleazefest West festival brings punk and pasties together
By Jennifer Maerz
Published: February 13, 2002
For fans of wild rock 'n' roll you can watch in a G-string, an event like Sleazefest is heaven. Founded in 1993 by Rick Miller, the kitsch-loving frontman for North Carolina's...
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The Week's Can't-Miss Performance
The Detroit Cobras squeeze new life into rock oldies.
By Jennifer Maerz
Published: January 30, 2002
The Detroit Cobras may play other people's music, but the band isn't just reheating musical leftovers. Like the Dirtbombs, the Motor City quintet ingests soul, rockabilly,...
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Princess Superstar rules the hip hop world with satiric rhymes and cartoonish sensuality
By Jennifer Maerz
Published: January 16, 2002
Princess Superstar is the queen bee of hip hop comedy, a rhyme-wielding satirist with a cartoonishly inflated ego and libido. While Superstar -- nee Concetta Kirshner -- may...
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The Silent Type
Mark Lanegan's downbeat folk-rock speaks volumes -- without resorting to a whole lot of noise
By Jennifer Maerz
Published: December 19, 2001
Mark Lanegan is a man of few words. On the phone recently from a tour stop in Copenhagen, the singer/ songwriter issued brief, polite responses, doing nothing to dismantle his...
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A Slavish Devotion
With Captured! By Robots, Jay Vance survives a hostile robot takeover and lives to sing about it
By Jennifer Maerz
Published: November 28, 2001
For the past six years, San Francisco's Jay Vance has been living a life that movie directors, science-fiction authors, and paranoid kids have feared for decades: Vance is the...
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The Hives spread the Swedish, ABBA-spurning garage rock gospel
By Jennifer Maerz
Published: November 28, 2001
The Hives' speedy, three-chord garage rock explodes with the intensity of a heart attack. The Swedish five-piece races through songs as if pursued, sped onward by a drummer who...
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Spiritualized
Let It Come Down (Spaceman/Arista)
By Jennifer Maerz
Published: November 7, 2001
The difference between your average ode to amore and a Spiritualized love song is the distinction between a quietly affectionate couple and a couple that's always getting it on...
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Appetite for Resurrection
Aussie expat Brody Armstrong channels her miserable past into the glorious punk of the Distillers
By Jennifer Maerz
Published: October 31, 2001
Over the years, certain singers have unleashed screams that could scrape the filth off city sidewalks. In the recent past, Nirvana's Kurt Cobain, Gits frontwoman Mia Zapata,...
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SF Music Awards 2001
An exotic adventure into the mysterious world of sound!
By Chris Baty, Thomas Connors, David Cook, Andrea Renee Goode, Chelsea Kalberloh, Lawrence Kay, Jennifer Maerz, Silas Paine, Sam Prestianni, Mike Rowell, Dan Strachota and Andrew Strickman
Published: October 17, 2001
It was a strange experience putting this show together in the midst of so much turmoil. The timing was all wrong. I found myself sending out congratulations to nominated...
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Miranda July
By Jennifer Maerz
Published: September 26, 2001
Miranda July's genre-spanning productions burrow deep inside secrets of self-image and sexuality, confronting difficult issues with a calculated mix of honesty and...
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The Gospel According to Marcus
Zen Guerrilla's Marcus Durant wants to save your soul -- for rock 'n' roll
By Jennifer Maerz
Published: September 5, 2001
For those who think rock 'n' roll is heaven, Marcus Durant is a musical high priest, spreading the Zen Guerrilla gospel from his San Francisco church. During live shows, the...
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They're No Angels
The women of HellFire Choir storm the hard rock boys' club
By Jennifer Maerz
Published: August 29, 2001
When L7 took the stage at 1994's Lollapalooza festival, the all-girl group injected new meaning into the phrase "female power." Suddenly, the sweaty alternateens in the pit...
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Rebel Yell
For over 20 years Detroit icon Mick Collins has been rebelling against everything -- including rebellion
By Jennifer Maerz
Published: August 15, 2001
"I'm a freak," admits Mick Collins, with the deep laugh that punctuates all his sentences. "I've always had a really bad streak, where if everybody in the crowd's doing it, I'm...
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The Strokes
Is This It (RCA)
By Jennifer Maerz
Published: August 1, 2001
Over the past year, the Strokes have fueled both a flaming grease-fire of hype and a wet-blanket backlash -- without even a proper full-length. After the band released its...
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Sympathetic Sounds of Detroit (Sympathy for the Record Industry)
By Jennifer Maerz
Published: July 25, 2001
A recent Entertainment Weekly article on Detroit's garage rock revival hinted that the Motor City might be the ever elusive "next Seattle." If it does get slobbered on by the...
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Fireballs of Freedom
Pink & Brown reconfigures rock with colorful costumes, propulsive punk tunes, and a few broken bones
By Jennifer Maerz
Published: July 18, 2001
Over the decades, there's been a virtual carnival of punks happy to give staid rock 'n' roll a swift, steel-toed kick in the side. The more methodical rock becomes, the more...
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