Subject: Brill Building

• Pipettes to Bring Infectious Pop and Hotness to Bimbo's

  October 19, 2007

• The Top 10 Reissues of 2008

  By Chris Gray It's time to rank the best of what went around and came around again. BILLY JOEL The Stranger (Columbia/Legacy) As punk and disco exploded, the Piano Man's deeply unhip 1978 breakthrough proved that top-shelf Broadway/Brill Building songwriting could still sell - and, occasionally, rock. "Scenes From an Italian Restaurant" and "Anthony's Song (Movin' Out)" remain priceless snapshots of Annie Hall-era NYC, the title track bares real teeth, and the Kenny Chesney fave "Only the Go

  December 27, 2008

• Sk8ter Boi

  Gus Van Sant returns to disaffected youth and shoestring budgets in Paranoid Park.

  March 12, 2008

• The Pipettes doll up pop in polka dots

  June 6, 2007

• Mary Weiss

  Dangerous Game (Norton Records)

  March 21, 2007

• Oh, Pioneers

  Behold - the forgotten history of the Beau Brummels, the true originators of the San Francisco sound of the '60s

  March 1, 2006

• Music Awards Nominees

  October 20, 2004

• Vienna Teng

  Warm Strangers

  April 7, 2004

• Through the Cracks

  There are some benefits of big-city gentrification. Jesse Malin's brilliant new record is one of them.

  August 27, 2003

• Pinup Energy

  Sweet and sexy, the New Pornographers make pop that sticks

  June 4, 2003

• Margo Guryan

  Take a Picture (Oglio)

  March 21, 2001

• Prophet Ear

  Ex-Green on Red mainstay Chuck Prophet continues his solo metamorphosis with The Hurting Business

  July 19, 2000

• Riff Raff

  May 12, 1999

• Selling His Soul

  The traveling salesman is the symbolic star of Vic Chesnutt's sixth and sexiest album

  December 9, 1998

• Baby, It's Him

  How can Burt Bacharach make a comeback when he never went away?

  December 24, 1997

• The Disney Perversion

  June 25, 1997

• Dunciad and Illeanad

  September 11, 1996

• Last Night: Trashcan Sinatras at Cafe du Nord

  Action Jackson​Trashcan Sinatras Thursday, July 30, 2009 Café Du Nord Better Than: Any other Scottish band on a wet weeknight in San Francisco The Trashcan Sinatras are one of pop's--and Scotland's--best-kept secrets. They've been around for two decades, winning fans via extensive college radio airplay in the States (the video for "Hayfever" even turned up for mockery on Beavis and Butt-head), but never quite reached the mainstream like their countrymen Teenage Fanclub or Travis. Singer F

  July 31, 2009