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Every day, on a little nook of Craigslist known as "Rants and Raves," the miscreants, closet racists, and pranksters of the Bay Area loose their offensive messages in...
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What is the shape and size of a human soul? Does it look like a chickpea? A gumdrop? A pet rock? And if you could somehow extract your soul from your body, what would be left?...
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Rock 'n' roll or linguistics? It's hard to say where Antony and the Johnsons' larger contribution lies. Mastermind Antony Hegarty's gift to music is his songbook, which is the...
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I miss Arnold Schwarzenegger right about now, and so does this movie. Instead, we have dour, scrawny Jim Caviezel, come down from the cross, as a spaceman who crashes in...
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Sung to the tune of "Jack and Diane": "A little ditty about Matt and Kim/Two American kids making music in Brooklyn/Matt plays keys, sings snotty and cute/Kim bashes out...
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In a recent Eagles of Death Metal promotional video, singer Jesse "The Devil" Hughes described the current state of his hometown: "Hollywood feels like this opening sequence...
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What's not to love about fluffy animal masks, excessively exposed flesh, and a band spawned from the ashes of an Elvis impersonation gone awry? Leave a little room in that...
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Artists' Television Access. Good Evening, Folks, We're the Pine Box Boys: Concert film by Dr. Astronaut Body. Fri., Jan. 23, 8 p.m. $6. Welcome to Yanayo: Documentary about...
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In the late '70s, Amebix was one of the first to meld together punk and metal, and has been cited as an influence by such acts as Sepultura and Neurosis. On No Sanctuary, The...
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Curumin's 2005 debut album, Achados e Perdidos, established the Brazilian multi-instrumentalist as a global alt.pop up-and-comer. He fused funk and soul influences into...
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Thunderheist MC Isis flips a middle finger to rap's misogynistic men spitting rhymes about fat asses by reclaiming their language. She'll tell the ladies to shake it —...
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A decade of singles, albums, and remixes from German duo Boozoo Bajou bears out an educated and passionate intake of dub, soul, hip-hop, downtempo, and various other forms of...
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Events thrown by local crews like [Kontrol] and Dirtybird have revived the techno scene in the Bay Area, and Fiction is putting down its footprint with "Below," a night...
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It's time to talk Paula Deen, y'all. Who better to focus on in these tough economic times than someone who has raised overindulgence to a sacrament? Just as when poor folks...