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"Marley": Spellbinding Tribute Exceeds Hero Worship

R.I.P. Etta James, Blues Queen with San Francisco Roots

By JESSICA HILO Etta James, the incomparable force behind such hits as "At Last" and "Tell Mama," winner of six Grammys and seventeen Blues Music Awards, died Friday morning in Riverside, Calif. after a lengthy battle with leukemia and dementia. She was 73. James was an integral member of a cult ... More >>

King Sunny Adé's legnthy reign

By JESSICA HILO Etta James, the incomparable force behind such hits as "At Last" and "Tell Mama," winner of six Grammys and seventeen Blues Music Awards, died Friday morning in Riverside, Calif. after a lengthy battle with leukemia and dementia. She was 73. James was an integral member of a cult ... More >>

Top Ten Dance Collections of 2008, Both Mixed and Unmixed

By Randall RobertsAny knucklehead with DSL and a laptop can now make an electronic track. With a half hour of clicking and fiddling, you can sample enough cheesy beats and mashups to clog arteries from here to Berlin. Simple dropdown mouse maneuvers can transform electro tracks into progressive hous ... More >>

Sonic Outlaws

By Randall RobertsAny knucklehead with DSL and a laptop can now make an electronic track. With a half hour of clicking and fiddling, you can sample enough cheesy beats and mashups to clog arteries from here to Berlin. Simple dropdown mouse maneuvers can transform electro tracks into progressive hous ... More >>

PJ HARVEY Draws with WHITE CHALK 9-25

By Randall RobertsAny knucklehead with DSL and a laptop can now make an electronic track. With a half hour of clicking and fiddling, you can sample enough cheesy beats and mashups to clog arteries from here to Berlin. Simple dropdown mouse maneuvers can transform electro tracks into progressive hous ... More >>

Accentuate the Negativ

Fathers hide your intellectual property: The Bay Area's original culture jammers are back

Method Rocking

Juliette Lewis and Minnie Driver have started bands. Come on, you know you're curious.

Sound Works?

Tony Espinoza poured his dot-com millions into the fanciest music studio in town. With balls like that, who needs street cred?

Don't Call It a Comeback

He's been here for years, but few expected singer/songwriter Mark Kozelek to deliver such a rousing new album

Roots Radical

Rocker-T wants to unite roots reggae's spirituality with dancehall's hedonistic swagger

Stir It Up

Thirty years ago Linton Kwesi Johnson helped start the dub poetry movement, which is still inspiring artists today

A Matter of Degrees

Local label Six Degrees weathers the storm of success

Dead Set on Deconstruction

On what may or may not be its farewell tour, Negativland makes the most of an age of uncertainty

Riff Raff

Mark Kozelek, Genghis Blues, Raisha Simmons lives

Freeks and Geeks

Thanks to their cool world-music electronica and some major help from the Internet, the Supreme Beings of Leisure may become the first rock stars born on the Web.

Thievery Corporation

The sample-minded artists of Detritus.net celebrate the fine art of cultural reappropriation

Old, Old, Old Ramon

Temporarily in Los Angeles working on a movie, Red House Painters' Mark Kozelek still doesn't know when his next record's coming out

Reviews

Temporarily in Los Angeles working on a movie, Red House Painters' Mark Kozelek still doesn't know when his next record's coming out

House of Tudor

Temporarily in Los Angeles working on a movie, Red House Painters' Mark Kozelek still doesn't know when his next record's coming out

Riff Raff

Temporarily in Los Angeles working on a movie, Red House Painters' Mark Kozelek still doesn't know when his next record's coming out

Night+Day

Temporarily in Los Angeles working on a movie, Red House Painters' Mark Kozelek still doesn't know when his next record's coming out

Recordings

Temporarily in Los Angeles working on a movie, Red House Painters' Mark Kozelek still doesn't know when his next record's coming out

Recordings

Temporarily in Los Angeles working on a movie, Red House Painters' Mark Kozelek still doesn't know when his next record's coming out