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  • Blogs

    September 21, 2011

    After 13 Years, Berkeley Label Absolutely Kosher Will Stop Releasing New Records This Fall

    ​There is only Hard Times left for Absolutely Kosher. Battered by the economic collapse and by titanic shifts within the music industry, the 13-year-old independent Berkeley record label that released albums from artists such as the Mountain Goats, the Wrens, Xiu Xiu, and Pinback's Rob Crow ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 17, 2011

    Juke Hunt Finale: The Best Jukeboxes in San Francisco

    You saw it coming...​Over the past few months, we've found treasures and trash in San Francisco bars: Old school jukeboxes with surprisingly sincere music picks, and sad little boxes we  urge you to skip. It's all come to this: The juke hunt winners distilled into a single list, the best offe ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 3, 2011

    Saturday Night: Pinback Sorts Through the Chaos at Bottom of the Hill

    Beardo!: Pinback at Bottom of the Hill on Saturday night.​Pinback JP Incorporated January 1, 2011 @ Bottom of the HillBetter than: Not distracting one's self from a seething hangover. Sometimes it sounds like Pinback's Rob Crow and Armistead Burwell Smith IV are singing completely different songs ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 28, 2010

    Rejoice and Recoil: Three Mile Pilot Exists Again -- Stream Its New Album

    ​Good news for people who love bad mojo: San Diego indie-rock OGs Three Mile Pilot have returned from indefinite hiatus. You may know 3MP as the unassuming gloom-peddlers who released a few albums in the early 90s and then bifurcated following 1997's Another Desert, Another Sea. Pall Jenkins and T ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 10, 2010

    Local Label's Founder Launches Initiative: 'If You Love Music, You Buy Music'

    www.ibuymusic.net​Cory Brown founded Absolutely Kosher records in a San Francisco living room 12 years ago. Since then he's built the label up to national notoriety, releasing records from bands such as Xiu Xiu, Pinback, and 60 Watt Kid. But changes in the economics and technology of the music ind ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 6, 2010

    Pinback's Rob Crow Talks His Many Projects, Band Names He Wishes He'd Thought of

    Rob Crow and Zach Smith played Saturday at the Independent​Rob Crow and Zach Smith, the confirmed sci-fi geeks and indie-rock schizophrenics who mastermind Pinback, came to the Independent on Saturday night to present "The Rob and Zach Show," a pared-down version of their darkly enchanting pop rev ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2010

    Al Qaeda Performs Free Show at Murio's Tonight

    Chris StevensAl Queda​It a rare occasion that you get to see live music at Murio's--the best dive in the Haight. Tonight they're hosting four acts for free starting at 10 p.m. The lineup includes Al Qaeda, who Emily Savage profiled for us back in December (the skinny on these guys: "Repetitive, ha ... More >>

  • Music

    December 16, 2009

    Al Qaeda’s experimental noise attracts members of the Minutemen and Pinback

    Chris StevensAl Queda​It a rare occasion that you get to see live music at Murio's--the best dive in the Haight. Tonight they're hosting four acts for free starting at 10 p.m. The lineup includes Al Qaeda, who Emily Savage profiled for us back in December (the skinny on these guys: "Repetitive, ha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 17, 2008

    W, Dengue Fever, Ghostland Observatory and the Red Bull Soap Box Races: Your Weekend Hitlist

    Chris StevensAl Queda​It a rare occasion that you get to see live music at Murio's--the best dive in the Haight. Tonight they're hosting four acts for free starting at 10 p.m. The lineup includes Al Qaeda, who Emily Savage profiled for us back in December (the skinny on these guys: "Repetitive, ha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 23, 2008

    Album Review: Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow Stairs

    Chris StevensAl Queda​It a rare occasion that you get to see live music at Murio's--the best dive in the Haight. Tonight they're hosting four acts for free starting at 10 p.m. The lineup includes Al Qaeda, who Emily Savage profiled for us back in December (the skinny on these guys: "Repetitive, ha ... More >>

  • Music

    February 6, 2008

    Mexican six-string superheroes Rodrigo y Gabriela

    Chris StevensAl Queda​It a rare occasion that you get to see live music at Murio's--the best dive in the Haight. Tonight they're hosting four acts for free starting at 10 p.m. The lineup includes Al Qaeda, who Emily Savage profiled for us back in December (the skinny on these guys: "Repetitive, ha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 13, 2007

    Don't Let Your Gadget Relationships Go Stale

    Chris StevensAl Queda​It a rare occasion that you get to see live music at Murio's--the best dive in the Haight. Tonight they're hosting four acts for free starting at 10 p.m. The lineup includes Al Qaeda, who Emily Savage profiled for us back in December (the skinny on these guys: "Repetitive, ha ... More >>

  • Music

    October 11, 2006

    New Wave Thuggin'

    Kirby Dominant brings together niggaz and white girlz

  • Music

    April 19, 2006

    Made in the Shade

    The Jade Shader gives San Diego's washed-up scene its moment in the sun

  • Music

    February 22, 2006

    Transfer

    Faded Signal

  • Music

    February 8, 2006
  • Summer Guide

    June 29, 2005

    Hipster San Diego

    It's not all surf and silicone in America's Finest City

  • News

    March 30, 2005

    Marty Anderson is Okay

    A story about the music we make out of the things we carry

  • Music

    January 19, 2005

    Amber-jacked

    Wherein our clubs columnist smacks right into Murphy's Law of Romance

  • Music

    November 24, 2004

    Pinback

    Summer in Abaddon

  • Music

    August 25, 2004

    The Court & Spark

    Witch Season

  • Music

    December 17, 2003

    Hear This

    Its music is robotic and quirky, but Pinback plays it live, with no robots at all

  • Music

    December 27, 2000

    Hear This

    Pinback

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