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5 Songs of the Week: Eleanor Friedberger Copies Astutely, and David Lynch Is Still Perplexing

Welcome, time-crunched and over-stimulated music fan, to All Shook Down's High Five -- a place where Byard Duncan wades through the shit to find you the hits. Well, five of them, anyway. When celebrities and politicians orbit too far around their confessions, we consider it grating and uncouth. Som ... More >>

Noise Pop: Thao & the Get Down Stay Down Charm the Great American, 3/2/13

Thao & the Get Down Stay Down Sallie Ford & the Sound Outside Before the Brave Kacey Johansing March 2, 2013 Great American Music Hall // Noise Pop 2013 Better than: DJ sets. Noise Pop has been doing its homework. Saturday's show at the Great American Music Hall was a thoughtful billing, ... More >>

Live Review, 3/17/12: Yeah Yeah Yeahs, James Murphy, and Zola Jesus Dazzle at The Creators Project

By ELIZABETH PFEFFER Yeah Yeah Yeahs Squarepusher, James Murphy Pat Mahoney Nancy Whang DJ set, The Antlers, Zola Jesus, Shabazz Palaces, Teen Daze, HEALTH, New Pants Feng Mengbo's Bruce Lee VJ Project, The Hundred in the Hands March 17, 2012 Fort Mason Center Better than: Spending St. Patri ... More >>

Michael Gira on Performing Solo and the Time He Wanted to Murder Some Hipsters

Since reestablishing Swans in 2010 with the release of My Father Will Guide Me up a Rope to the Sky, Michael Gira has been exploring a stylistic middle ground between the sonic abrasiveness of early Swans recordings and his acoustic-based, crypto-folk collective, Angels of Light. There is a tendency ... More >>

Absolutely Kosher Founder Cory Brown Picks 10 Unsung Releases He (Especially) Loved

​[Editor's note: After hearing this week that Berkeley indie label Absolutely Kosher plans to stop releasing new music this fall, we talked to label founder and owner Cory Brown about what happened and wrote a too-long, very bummed-out piece about it. We also asked if Brown would be interested ... More >>

TV on the Radio Recasts Songs, Energizes Crowd at the Independent

Ian S. PortTV on the Radio at the Independent last night.​TV on the Radio IO ECHOTuesday, May 10, 2011@ The IndependentBetter than: Must See TV What's great about a TV on the Radio show? Well, there's the fact, for better and occasionally for worse (mostly when the sound personnel aren't up to th ... More >>

Rocked Them All

Q&A w/ The Dead Weather's Jack Lawrence

Timothy NorrisThe Dead Weather​Jack Lawrence is a hard working rock 'n' roller. He's so busy with his bands--The Dead Weather, The Raconteurs, and The Greenhornes--that he he hardly has the time to sleep. The Dead Weather, who are coming to town this week to play two shows at the Fillmore on ... More >>

Jonze's Wild Things more like Mild Things

Yeah Yeah Yeahs Tonight, Tomorrow at the Fox

O. & Co. : The Yeah Yeah Yeahs​ There's been some talk around town that Oakland's Fox Theater--which rolled out its snazzy, remodeled digs in February--was being underutilized, especially with promoters Another Planet Entertainment, involved in the massive Outside Lands festival and also book ... More >>