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Mariah Carey

  • Blogs

    December 24, 2012

    Happy Holidays! Here Are the Least Awful Christmas Songs of 2012!

    It's a well-known fact that the worst time of year for music is Christmas. Christmas songs, by and large, stink to high heaven. They reek of sleigh bells and Santa references and tree dressing and mistletoe. They are overly sentimental and frequently border on sickly. Occasionally, however, there co ... More >>

  • Music

    November 14, 2012

    Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Last Week in S.F. Music

    It's a well-known fact that the worst time of year for music is Christmas. Christmas songs, by and large, stink to high heaven. They reek of sleigh bells and Santa references and tree dressing and mistletoe. They are overly sentimental and frequently border on sickly. Occasionally, however, there co ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 9, 2012

    Mariah Carey's Obama Song Sounds More Like a Disaster Fundraiser

    If you were glued to the television on election night last Tuesday, then you probably saw that glorious moment when Barack Obama embraced victory for the second time, made his inspiring address, then got showered, alongside his family and colleagues, in a storm of red, white, and blue ticker-tape aw ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 7, 2012

    Cute Overload

    If you were glued to the television on election night last Tuesday, then you probably saw that glorious moment when Barack Obama embraced victory for the second time, made his inspiring address, then got showered, alongside his family and colleagues, in a storm of red, white, and blue ticker-tape aw ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 17, 2012

    Five Musical Couples That Should Collaborate

    Yesterday, we sighed and felt warm and fuzzy inside when angel-faced pixie Brit Ellie Goulding revealed that she'd love to make an album with her boyfriend, Skrillex, with whom she shares a hairstyle. Adorable! We'd like to take a moment to actively encourage both parties to make this happen, not on ... More >>

  • Music

    September 5, 2012

    Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Last Week in S.F. Music

    Yesterday, we sighed and felt warm and fuzzy inside when angel-faced pixie Brit Ellie Goulding revealed that she'd love to make an album with her boyfriend, Skrillex, with whom she shares a hairstyle. Adorable! We'd like to take a moment to actively encourage both parties to make this happen, not on ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 22, 2012

    America's Cup Is Here: The Top 7 Things Every San Franciscan Needs to Know About Yacht Rock

    Yacht Rock is a kind of smooth, soft rock made by men with pretty voices in the late '70s and early '80s. It's called "yacht rock" now (it wasn't then) because it's pretty much the ideal soundtrack for a crisp, smug, Topsider-wearing day on the water. Given that San Francisco is now in the throes o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 18, 2012

    Singers: Here's How to Advertise Your Celebrity Perfume

    These days, everybody and their back-up dancers has a fragrance out, as if the ability to sing also comes with innate perfumier abilities. For those of you considering a career in pop mega-stardom -- and, therefore, the fragrance business -- here are some tips on how to sell that all-but-inevitable ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 3, 2012

    Watch E-40 as Puppet Pimp in Funny or Die's "Bitches" Video

    Just a week after Bay Area emcee E-40 dropped three brand-new albums under the series name The Block Brochure, he now pops up as a pimping puppet named Vladimir Checkabitch in a Funny or Die video called "Bitches." The video depicts the "biggest rap group in the world," the Dummiez, a felted posse ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 24, 2012

    The Top Five Weirdest Playboy Appearances By Musicians

    ​After all those Twitter cries for help and suicide attempts last month, Sinead O'Connor has apparently found a new reason to stay alive: she wants to pose for Playboy before she dies."There's so much I [would have] liked to do when I was younger and I was too miserable and Irish," she told the U. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 14, 2012

    The Top 10 Worst Film Performances By Musicians

    By DAVE GIL DE RUBIO Rock star, singer-songwriter, producer, interior designer -- now we should add thespian to the many creative hats sported by Lenny Kravitz, who performs tonight (Feb. 14) at the Fox Theater in Oakland. In keeping with the family business -- his mom was the late Roxie Roker, a.k ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2011

    Holiday Cheesecakes, Zachary's New Vegan Pizza, & Quorn Goes Vegan!

    ​ • Hey kids, I've got a slight cold and when that happens, I cannot function, as all of my efforts must be spent screaming for more hot toddies, ringing bells for service (read: more screaming), and watching Downton Abbey. Let's just get this thing done so I can go back to crying to Mariah Care ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 12, 2011

    Bump & Grind: The Top Five Pregnant Performances

    ​What the hell is up with the tabloids and pregnancies? Usually when a lady celebrity has so much as a big lunch, or gets photographed from a bad angle, they announce that an offspring is probably imminent. And here's Beyonce Knowles, being totally upfront about her and Jay-Z's baby-to-be, rubbing ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2011

    How Your Favorite Musicians Will Die

    Monte "M-Dog" Talbert-- the "Teach Me How To Dougie" guy-- was recently gunned down in a drive-by in South Central L.A.. The "Teach Me How To Dougie" guy! Shot and killed! That's crazy. How many famous musicians have we lost to unusual deaths? A lot. Biggie and Tupac. John Lennon. Dimebag Darrell. A ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 2, 2011

    Gayngs at the Independent: Sexier (and Obviously Weirder) Than Your Prom

    Gayngs at the Independent​Gayngs White Hinterland June 1, 2011 @ The Independent Better than: Your actual prom, including the hotel room after-party Picture a prom night in the early 1990s, in a glittering hall with a live band that plays soulful, heart-thumping music, cajoling the entirety of t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 18, 2011

    Top Five Musicians We Didn't Need to See Naked (Slightly NSFW)

    When Demi Moore took her kit off for the cover of Vanity Fair in 1991, it caused a storm of controversy. A -- gasp! -- naked, pregnant woman, looking -- double gasp! -- sexy! People freaked out. It was kind of cool, but the problem was that it opened the floodgates. And now, more than a decade ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 10, 2011

    The Top 6 Most Irritating Uses of a Really High Note in a Song

    The moral of this list? Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should do it. Nobody likes a show-off, and nobody enjoys shattered glass and burst eardrums. Here, then, are some proponents of high notes who really should've kept their vocal cords in check.6. Muse, "Micro Cuts"    ... More >>

  • Music

    December 22, 2010

    Lonely holiday: Grillade finds soul in a Christmas song

    The moral of this list? Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should do it. Nobody likes a show-off, and nobody enjoys shattered glass and burst eardrums. Here, then, are some proponents of high notes who really should've kept their vocal cords in check.6. Muse, "Micro Cuts"    ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 14, 2010

    Friends of Friends Taps Shlohmo for a Healthy Dose of 'Pretty Boy Swag'

    ​L.A. label Friends of Friends has quietly been rising over the last couple of years as a notable player in the experimental electronic scene. Now, just in time for the holidays, it's dropped Pop Massacre, a new label comp featuring interpretations of wonderfully low- and middlebrow pop from a hi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2010

    When Your Facebook Stalker Won't Take 'No' For an Answer

    ​Dear Anna,

I, like many others in my generation, am a bit of a Facebook junkie. I love the quizzes, the event invites, even the Farmville updates (I know, weird right?), but there is one thing I hate: boys that think 
Facebook is some weird stalker version of OkCupid.

There is this gu ... More >>

  • Music

    September 1, 2010

    KMEL's Summer Jam breaks hot local artists

    ​Dear Anna,

I, like many others in my generation, am a bit of a Facebook junkie. I love the quizzes, the event invites, even the Farmville updates (I know, weird right?), but there is one thing I hate: boys that think 
Facebook is some weird stalker version of OkCupid.

There is this gu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 1, 2010

    In Print: Oneohtrix Point Never, Marlena Shaw, and KMEL's Summer Jam

    Oneohtrix Point Never​Behind the "abrasive, frightening introduction" to Oneohtrix Point Never's new album, Returnal, lies another bewildering set of tracks from a Brooklyn electronic artist whose style straddles the line between noise and pop. As Reyan Ali writes in our print edition this week, O ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2010

    Exclusive: Obama's Music Video Career Revealed

    By now you've probably heard about the latest, most improbable, and quite possibly most awesome rumor about Barack Obama's past thus far: that he made a cameo appearance in the 1993 music video for Tag Team's "Whoomp! There It Is." Gawker's Adrian Chen made an admirable attempt to separate fact from ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 17, 2010

    The Worst First Pitches of All Time

    Karen Peterson served as a schoolteacher in nearby Woodside for many a year. Her name did not become known nationally. Prior to Saturday's San Francisco Giants game, she threw what may be the worst ceremonial first pitch in the history of humanity. And now you know who she is. Welcome to the Interne ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 22, 2010

    Mariah Carey Sued in S.F. Court by Outraged Songwriters

    Okay, checking ... left, right ... both there. Lawsuit? Got that too. ​Chanteuse Mariah Carey has been named in a San Francisco lawsuit -- and not because of any ruptured eardrums caused by her dog whistle vocal range. Instead a pair of Oakland songwriters filed suit against Carey and a bevy of ot ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 7, 2010

    Stop What You're Doing and Watch: Mariah Carey Drunk

    Just what you wanted for your lunch break, right? To watch a video clip of Mariah Carey, drunk, slurring her acceptance speech for an award from the Palm Springs International Film Festival [via Idolator]. You're welcome.

  • Music

    December 30, 2009

    Listomania 2009: Unintentional Lyrical Hilarity

    Just what you wanted for your lunch break, right? To watch a video clip of Mariah Carey, drunk, slurring her acceptance speech for an award from the Palm Springs International Film Festival [via Idolator]. You're welcome.

  • Blogs

    December 24, 2009

    What To Do? Thursday's Pick: Home for the Holidays

    ​Home for the Holidays @ Castro Theater Illumination appears in the strangest places sometimes. We were watching the train wreck of our hometown television show Trauma a little bit ago, hating it, but wanting to see our house in the background. The writing, the characters, bleh. And then boom, be ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 16, 2009

    Not Just the Name of a Great Christmas Movie

    ​Home for the Holidays @ Castro Theater Illumination appears in the strangest places sometimes. We were watching the train wreck of our hometown television show Trauma a little bit ago, hating it, but wanting to see our house in the background. The writing, the characters, bleh. And then boom, be ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 5, 2009

    Track of the Day: Wallpaper. Gives Mariah Fool's Gold

    ​Local producer/remixer/dancefloor commander Wallpaper. posted a new upbeat number this week. Main man Eric Frederic mashed a little Mariah Carey ("Emotions") into Fools Gold's "Surprise Hotel." Frederic told Stereogum (which posted the track) that the song is part of a new  "SiSTRS From Diff ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 21, 2009

    High-Heeled Horrors

    ​Local producer/remixer/dancefloor commander Wallpaper. posted a new upbeat number this week. Main man Eric Frederic mashed a little Mariah Carey ("Emotions") into Fools Gold's "Surprise Hotel." Frederic told Stereogum (which posted the track) that the song is part of a new  "SiSTRS From Diff ... More >>

  • Music

    July 29, 2009

    Sonic Youth massages the past

    ​Local producer/remixer/dancefloor commander Wallpaper. posted a new upbeat number this week. Main man Eric Frederic mashed a little Mariah Carey ("Emotions") into Fools Gold's "Surprise Hotel." Frederic told Stereogum (which posted the track) that the song is part of a new  "SiSTRS From Diff ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2009

    Leah Tysse Makes Her Yoshi's Debut

    Leah Tysse If there's anything the blues genre needs, it's a fresh face. As you may or may not know, the genre has struggled in recent years, and though blues once dominated the Bay Area's nightlife scene, there are few dedicated local venues committed to preserving the root of R&B, jazz, and s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2009

    Chron Clueless About the Current State of Radio

    Radio GaGa? No, Lady Gaga Interesting article on Bay Area radio Music Directors in today's Chron. When I say interesting, it's because the information presented runs counter not only to what's currently happening with the commercial radio industry, but is written in such a way to suggest that writer ... More >>

  • Music

    November 21, 2007

    What the Christ Was That? Skeleton Key Makes a Junk-Rock Racket

    Radio GaGa? No, Lady Gaga Interesting article on Bay Area radio Music Directors in today's Chron. When I say interesting, it's because the information presented runs counter not only to what's currently happening with the commercial radio industry, but is written in such a way to suggest that writer ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 29, 2007

    Plead Not Guilty

    Radio GaGa? No, Lady Gaga Interesting article on Bay Area radio Music Directors in today's Chron. When I say interesting, it's because the information presented runs counter not only to what's currently happening with the commercial radio industry, but is written in such a way to suggest that writer ... More >>

  • Music

    November 23, 2005

    Department of What the Fuck?

    How Martha Stewart's three-CD (plus recipes!) Holiday Collection made a believer out of me

  • Calendar

    May 18, 2005

    This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

    How Martha Stewart's three-CD (plus recipes!) Holiday Collection made a believer out of me

  • Calendar

    December 22, 2004

    The Gospel Truth

    Exquisite noise at Slim's

  • Calendar

    November 17, 2004

    Cliché-Free Zone

    Don't expect to see bling at the S.F. Hip Hop DanceFest

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 19, 2004

    Best Underdog Drag Revue

    Hot Boxx Girls

  • Calendar

    March 10, 2004

    This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

    Hot Boxx Girls

  • Calendar

    February 4, 2004

    Musical Youth

    Sondheim for small fry

  • Film

    May 28, 2003

    Think Different

    Could it be that this year's crop of summer movies actually requires a brain cell or two?

  • Music

    August 14, 2002

    Hear This

    Nina Hagen is the original disco diva

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 23, 2001

    Best Place to Buy Embarrassing Albums

    The Jazz/Classical Counter at Amoeba Music

  • Music

    December 23, 1998

    Reviews

    The Jazz/Classical Counter at Amoeba Music

  • Music

    December 9, 1998

    Reviews

    The Jazz/Classical Counter at Amoeba Music

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    August 19, 1998

    Reviews

    The Jazz/Classical Counter at Amoeba Music

  • Music

    December 6, 1995

    Samples

    The Jazz/Classical Counter at Amoeba Music

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