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41. Let's Get Killed

    Live Through This: The de Young's Warhol exhibit

    By Jennifer Maerz

    Published: February 18, 2009

    Music fans long ago lost patience with passively observing musicians. We want to download a song from one site, research band details from another, and get musicians' status...

42. Night&Day

    Not Jonathan Livingston

    By Jennifer Maerz

    Published: February 4, 2009

    Question: What’s more romantic than getting cozy on El Rio’s back patio as a buncha punk acts blast the foam off your Pabst? Answer: Everything. But really, on V-Day...

43. Let's Get Killed

    New doc reveals many of Scott Walker’s mysteries

    By Jennifer Maerz

    Published: January 21, 2009

    On paper, Scott Walker is the perfect cult icon. The singer and composer's recording career has all the requisite sharp pivots and dark shadows that make for excellent record...

44. Let's Get Killed

    The cultural cachet of kids: San Francisco needs a dedicated all-ages space

    By Jennifer Maerz

    Published: January 14, 2009

    Berkeley has 924 Gilman. Seattle has the Vera Project. Los Angeles has the Smell. Each of these dedicated all-ages spaces has provided more than just a place to see cool bands...

45. Let's Get Killed

    Animated punks: Jay Howell's new online variety show

    By Jennifer Maerz

    Published: January 7, 2009

    Public-access television has long been a way for offbeat music to reach the homes of appreciative weirdos around the country. I remember checking out Virgil Porter's Burn My...

46. Let's Get Killed

    Getting 'Touchy' in 2008

    By Jennifer Maerz

    Published: December 24, 2008

    Forget naughty and nice. The real lists to consider in December come from music fans. After sorting through hundreds (thousands? kabillions?) of CDs and MP3s, every media...

47. Let's Get Killed

    Tough economic times hit Yoshi's, VIPs, and your CD collection

    By Jennifer Maerz

    Published: December 10, 2008

    Last week, all the news about the economy was bad news. We've officially been in a recession since last December, and half a million people lost their jobs last month alone....

48. Hear This

    Franz Ferdinand Breaks the Silence

    By Jennifer Maerz

    Published: December 10, 2008

    Live 105's annual holiday bash, Not So Silent Night, is always crammed with radio staples, but this year it provides a real treat with one of 2009's biggest sneak peeks. Franz...

49. Let's Get Killed

    Von Iva hits the big time with Jim Carrey

    By Jennifer Maerz

    Published: December 3, 2008

    If you're Radiohead or Nine Inch Nails, you can throw a new record up on the Web without major label support and fans will come running (or, as it were, clicking). But for...

50. Let's Get Killed

    The Joy of Strokes

    By Jennifer Maerz

    Published: November 26, 2008

    The Strokes are officially on "hiatus" until early 2009, but really, does anyone care? They aren't the same hungry young Manhattanites who released Is This It in 2001. That...

51. Let's Get Killed

    Windsurf’s beach blanket disco

    By Jennifer Maerz

    Published: November 19, 2008

    We've had some things to celebrate of late: Barack Obama in the White House come January; a dose of summer heat hit in the middle of November. Literally and metaphorically,...

52. Let's Get Killed

    Mouthpiece for Minimal Electronic

    By Jennifer Maerz

    Published: November 5, 2008

    Dave Aju has always made strange sounds. Ever since he was a kid, growing up as the youngest of five music lovers in the South Bay, Aju has been mimicking instruments and other...

53. Hear This

    As the Dodo Flies

    By Jennifer Maerz

    Published: November 5, 2008

    It's been too long since a San Francisco band broke the indie music industry ceiling to garner national acclaim — but the Dodos are doing their best to poke holes...

54. Let's Get Killed

    Wayne Coyne loses the plot, keeps the magic for Christmas

    By Jennifer Maerz

    Published: October 29, 2008

    It's no secret that Wayne Coyne enjoys acting like an alien. The Flaming Lips frontman exists in a universe far, far away from the orbits traveled by conventional pop singers...

55. Let's Get Killed

    Budget Rock by the alphabet

    By Jennifer Maerz

    Published: October 22, 2008

    Once all the other music festivals have their way with the locals, Budget Rock (www.myspace.com/budgetrock) comes in at the end of October to sweep up the trash – trashy...

56. Hear This

    The Wildildlife

    By Jennifer Maerz

    Published: October 22, 2008

    Wildildlife's Six is one of the best records to come out last year. I love its textured mash of beastly howls, sci-fi swells, and ingenious experiments (like the creepy...

57. Music

    The Maverick MC, the Studio Mess, and the Sturdy Indie Label

    The 2008 local music landscape in three parts.

    By Jennifer Maerz

    Published: October 15, 2008

    Okay, we get it. The economy is in rapid decline. The major labels are in rapid decline. And, thanks to San Francisco's insane summer festival schedule, our hearing is in rapid...

58. Music

    Casting Votes: Music Awards 2008

    By Jennifer Maerz

    Published: October 15, 2008

    Every fall, SF Weekly tackles a new election season. While this November offers significant political issues for voters to decide upon, in October we host our own essential...

59. Let's Get Killed

    Frisco Freakout makes a California scene

    By Jennifer Maerz

    Published: October 8, 2008

    California's psych-rock acts are getting heads buzzed around the globe. The music roughs up '60s San Francisco/Dead influences in filters ranging from heavy metal to punk and...

60. Let's Get Killed

    Banned in the UK: The ghosts in Agent Ribbons' attic

    By Jennifer Maerz

    Published: October 1, 2008

    With its satin headbands, lacy-collared dresses, and affinity for bluesy ballads, Sacramento duo Agent Ribbons is a modern band yearning for an old-fashioned era....