Subject:

Greil Marcus

  • Blogs

    May 15, 2012

    After 25 Years, Mötley Crüe's Girls, Girls, Girls Still Hasn't Brought About the Apocalypse

    Today, the Antichrist heads up a company that charters private jets. The standard rental features a plush, zebra-striped interior. He also operates a chain of bar-and-grill restaurants that specialize in garish décor and $9.95 caprese salads. In the mid-1980s, it was impossible to escape the apoc ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 23, 2011

    Shooting the Debris

    Today, the Antichrist heads up a company that charters private jets. The standard rental features a plush, zebra-striped interior. He also operates a chain of bar-and-grill restaurants that specialize in garish décor and $9.95 caprese salads. In the mid-1980s, it was impossible to escape the apoc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 25, 2011

    Chasing Trains (and a Sense of Belonging) with Son House, Charlie Patton, and the Country Blues

    ​I've come to understand that if you geek out over particle acceleration or cryobiology or creating special powders from a pig's bladder for the purpose of re-growing fingertips, then you're spared from ridicule as your infatuation largely benefits the species. However, if your thing is War of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2011

    Dear Parents, Please Do Not Turn Your Children Into the Shaggs

    The Shaggs in 1968.​The opening torrent of notes in Ornette Coleman's "Kaleidoscope" reminds me of the ubiquitous television closet gag. You know, when some unsuspecting soul opens a closet door and is buried under an avalanche of junk (executed rather brilliantly in this episode of Elmo's World). ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 12, 2011

    Situationist Comedy

    The Shaggs in 1968.​The opening torrent of notes in Ornette Coleman's "Kaleidoscope" reminds me of the ubiquitous television closet gag. You know, when some unsuspecting soul opens a closet door and is buried under an avalanche of junk (executed rather brilliantly in this episode of Elmo's World). ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2011

    Gang of Four, Renewed with Fresh 'Content,' Plays the Fillmore Next Month

    Men or post-punks?​Gang of Four, the band of British chaps whose brittle, awkwardly funky post-punk inspired a legion of imitators in the early aughts, somehow still exists. Its seventh studio album -- the first in 16 years, under the meta-appropriate name Content, is due out Jan. 25. Fittingly, t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2010

    Thursday's Pick: Eilen Jewell at Hotel Utah

    ​Eilen Jewellwith Sallie Ford and the Sound OutsideHotel Utah9 p.m., $8-$10When Bob Dylan released his controversial 1970 album, Self Portrait, writer Greil Marcus griped that he'd "buy an album of Dylan breathing heavily ... but not an album of Dylan breathing softly." Americana fans may have bee ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 9, 2010

    Rock Jewell-ry

    ​Eilen Jewellwith Sallie Ford and the Sound OutsideHotel Utah9 p.m., $8-$10When Bob Dylan released his controversial 1970 album, Self Portrait, writer Greil Marcus griped that he'd "buy an album of Dylan breathing heavily ... but not an album of Dylan breathing softly." Americana fans may have bee ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 7, 2010

    Tales of the City

    ​Eilen Jewellwith Sallie Ford and the Sound OutsideHotel Utah9 p.m., $8-$10When Bob Dylan released his controversial 1970 album, Self Portrait, writer Greil Marcus griped that he'd "buy an album of Dylan breathing heavily ... but not an album of Dylan breathing softly." Americana fans may have bee ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 6, 2010

    Snapshots in Time

    ​Eilen Jewellwith Sallie Ford and the Sound OutsideHotel Utah9 p.m., $8-$10When Bob Dylan released his controversial 1970 album, Self Portrait, writer Greil Marcus griped that he'd "buy an album of Dylan breathing heavily ... but not an album of Dylan breathing softly." Americana fans may have bee ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2009

    What To Do? Monday's Pick: Believer Art Issue Launch Party

    ​Believer Art Issue Launch Party @ Electric Works Jeff Chang makes you cry; so does Greil Marcus. But in the new Believer Art Issue, plenty of the other contributors make you laugh and smirk and grin and have other reactions as well. Peter Blegvad as interviewed by Franklin Bruno had us fist-pump ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 25, 2009

    Now I'm A ...

    ​Believer Art Issue Launch Party @ Electric Works Jeff Chang makes you cry; so does Greil Marcus. But in the new Believer Art Issue, plenty of the other contributors make you laugh and smirk and grin and have other reactions as well. Peter Blegvad as interviewed by Franklin Bruno had us fist-pump ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2009

    Greil Marcus to Discuss 'American Music' This Week

    Local pop culture critic Greil Marcus hits the Contemporary Jewish Museum on Thursday at 7 p.m. to discuss the general idea of the identity of "American music." The author/columnist will be in conversation with Josh Kun, who co-curated the museum's current Jews on Vinyl , meaning you can check out s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 26, 2008

    Top Ten Americana Albums of 2008

    By Noah W. Bailey Picking the best folk and Americana records of the year isn't nearly as hard as discarding those great records that just didn't feel right stuck in the category. Releases by Calexico and DeVotchKa felt far too worldly to pigeonhole as folk or country, for instance, while Blitzen ... More >>

  • Music

    October 15, 2008

    Sly Stone is lured from hiding once again

    By Noah W. Bailey Picking the best folk and Americana records of the year isn't nearly as hard as discarding those great records that just didn't feel right stuck in the category. Releases by Calexico and DeVotchKa felt far too worldly to pigeonhole as folk or country, for instance, while Blitzen ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 6, 2007

    34th Telluride Film Festival Day Two: Greil Marcus and writing with one eye

    By Noah W. Bailey Picking the best folk and Americana records of the year isn't nearly as hard as discarding those great records that just didn't feel right stuck in the category. Releases by Calexico and DeVotchKa felt far too worldly to pigeonhole as folk or country, for instance, while Blitzen ... More >>

  • Culture

    August 15, 2007

    Q&A With Greil Marcus

    By Noah W. Bailey Picking the best folk and Americana records of the year isn't nearly as hard as discarding those great records that just didn't feel right stuck in the category. Releases by Calexico and DeVotchKa felt far too worldly to pigeonhole as folk or country, for instance, while Blitzen ... More >>

  • Culture

    July 18, 2007

    A Coherent Landscape

    S.F. writer Rebecca Solnit crosses boundaries to capture

  • Culture

    September 27, 2006

    The Shape of Things to Come: Prophecy and the American Voice

    Just as jumbled, challenging, and frustrating as Lipstick Traces -- and nearly as brilliant

  • Music

    January 4, 2006

    A Pack of Mutts

    Just as jumbled, challenging, and frustrating as Lipstick Traces -- and nearly as brilliant

  • Film

    December 7, 2005

    Repertory Film Listings

    Just as jumbled, challenging, and frustrating as Lipstick Traces -- and nearly as brilliant

  • Music

    June 1, 2005

    Protest Song

    What Are Words For?

  • Film

    May 4, 2005

    Reps Etc.

    What Are Words For?

  • Music

    March 2, 2005

    Noise Pop Tarts

    Joanna Newsom, Okay, Ted Leo (sort of), Comets on Fire, Still Flyin', Mates of State ... and the list goes on and on ...

  • News

    February 9, 2005

    Still They Ride

    A newly minted star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame offers an occasion to look back on the career of Journey. That's right, Journey.

  • Music

    August 11, 2004

    Electra-fied

    John Kerry's high school garage band tells all!

  • Film

    November 19, 2003

    Reps Etc.

    John Kerry's high school garage band tells all!

  • Music

    March 5, 2003

    The Sunshine and the Doubt

    The Aislers Set's first album in three years tells a tale of illness, heartache, and Mission belles

  • Music

    September 18, 2002

    Sleater-Kinney

    One Beat (Kill Rock Stars)

  • Music

    June 12, 2002

    And Justice for a Few

    Metallica gets intimate

  • News

    December 20, 2000

    Letters to the Editor

    Letters from December 20, 2000

  • Music

    November 29, 2000

    Outside the Game

    Greil Marcus struggles to link a president and a king

  • Music

    November 25, 1998

    Riff Raff

    Greil Marcus struggles to link a president and a king

  • Music

    November 4, 1998

    Forever Young

    Greil Marcus struggles to link a president and a king

  • Music

    October 21, 1998

    Into the Groovy

    Greil Marcus struggles to link a president and a king

  • Music

    April 1, 1998

    Riff Raff

    Greil Marcus struggles to link a president and a king

  • Music

    March 25, 1998

    Riff Raff

    Greil Marcus struggles to link a president and a king

  • Music

    February 11, 1998

    My Brilliant Career

    Greil Marcus struggles to link a president and a king

  • News

    October 1, 1997

    Letters

    Greil Marcus struggles to link a president and a king

  • Music

    May 14, 1997

    Riff Raff

    Greil Marcus struggles to link a president and a king

  • Music

    August 28, 1996

    Suspicious Minds

    Greil Marcus struggles to link a president and a king

  • Music

    August 21, 1996

    To: j-rotten@sexpistols.com

    An open letter

  • Music

    July 17, 1996

    Suspicious Minds

    An open letter

  • News

    July 10, 1996

    Letters

    An open letter

  • News

    May 15, 1996

    Bring in Da Noise

    Michael Goldberg's rock 'n' roll Web dream

  • Music

    March 20, 1996

    Love Sick

    Sleater-Kinney's Call the Doctor painfully dissects physical and emotional boundaries

  • News

    November 8, 1995

    The Professor of Punk

    From the book Lipstick Traces to his new The Dustbin of History, Eat Bay critic Greil Marcus has revealed the secret history of pop culture

  • Calendar

    October 25, 1995

    Night+Day

    From the book Lipstick Traces to his new The Dustbin of History, Eat Bay critic Greil Marcus has revealed the secret history of pop culture

  • Calendar

    August 9, 1995

    Night+Day

    From the book Lipstick Traces to his new The Dustbin of History, Eat Bay critic Greil Marcus has revealed the secret history of pop culture

  • Calendar

    August 2, 1995

    Night+Day

    From the book Lipstick Traces to his new The Dustbin of History, Eat Bay critic Greil Marcus has revealed the secret history of pop culture

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