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R.E.M.

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2012

    R.I.P. Adam Yauch, the Beastie Boys' Visual and Humanitarian Genius

    Adam Yauch, the musician and filmmaker best known as Beastie Boys member MCA, died today of the cancer he was diagnosed with in 2009. Yauch was 47.It's so easy to underrate the Beastie Boys, in part because nobody did what they did, and for so long. From fighting for their right to party to fighting ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 17, 2012

    The Top 20 Greatest San Francisco Musicians, #15-11

    See also: * The Top 20 Greatest San Francisco Musicians, Nos. 20 to 16 Here we are with the second installment of our list of the 20 greatest San Francisco musicians ever. (If you missed yesterday's first edition, check it out here.) Note that to qualify for this list, artists had to have a strong ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 13, 2011

    Girls' Father, Son, Holy Ghost -- A First Listen

    ​ I've been everywhere with the San Francisco band Girls: Love 'em, hate 'em, find them overhyped, find the detractors overly cynical. I think they like it that way. Girls' hugely-acclaimed 2009 Album blew me away for a week. Then I found myself having trouble rekindling that need to hear it a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 28, 2011

    The Band Perry and Ashton Shepherd: In Today's Country, Women Roar While the Menfolk Whimper

    The Band Perry, apparently on the set of the "Losing My Religion" video.​ You don't have to see the numbers to get that country radio skews female these days. The hatted hunks who a generation back might have had ramblin' fever now sing of sunny-forever fidelity that would be right at home o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 31, 2011

    Top 10 Awful Songs That Are Awesome for Karaoke

    Not sure if you've noticed yet, but this fair city of ours is awash with karaoke. All the way from the traditional joints in Japantown to the dive bars of the Mission (Sunday afternoons in The 500 Club are particularly noteworthy), people are volunteering to sing for their fellow patrons like nothi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 19, 2010

    Selling Albums for $1 Will Not Devalue the 'Art' of Music -- It Will Get More People Buying It

    ​Former Warner Music U.K. executive Rob Dickins set off a heated debate when he argued last week that digital albums should be sold very, very cheap. (Dickins suggested a price tag of about one British pound; let's just use $1 for simplicity.)His idea was simply that if you sell albums cheap enoug ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 24, 2010

    Eight Great Moments In Musical Punctuation History

    Courtesy nationalpunctuationday.com​September 24 is National Punctuation Day, at least according to a guy with a cape in Northern California. (He's still probably cooler than Lynne Truss.) Today is the day that we brittle purists may with impunity box the ears of apostrophe abusers, comma splicers ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 13, 2010

    An Intro to Elliott Smith: Why We're Not Comfortable with a Greatest Hits Collection

    Mmm... Garamond Pro.​ On Wednesday Kill Rock Stars and Domino announced the early November release of An Introduction to... Elliott Smith. It's been almost seven years since Smith stabbed himself in the chest, since which time his grave has hardly been quiet, what with a posthumous album, and a co ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 6, 2010

    Are the Grateful Dead Really the Great American Band?

    Jay BlakesbergThe essence of America?​What is the Great American Band?This was a question posed by esteemed rock writer Michael Azerrad over the past July 4th weekend. After due consideration of Fugazi, R.E.M., the Replacements (whom we're obviously fond of/indebted to), and others, Azerrad settle ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2010

    Local Band Q&A with Local Noiseniks CCR Headcleaner

    Alan Miknus​​It took some time to track down CCR Headcleaner. Messages were left, mailboxes were full, emails went unread. Finally, on a crisp San Francisco afternoon I got a hold of drummer Nick Givens, who blurted out "Every member of CCR Headcleaner is officially homeless! Can we meet at nine ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 19, 2009

    More Like Plus One Million

    Alan Miknus​​It took some time to track down CCR Headcleaner. Messages were left, mailboxes were full, emails went unread. Finally, on a crisp San Francisco afternoon I got a hold of drummer Nick Givens, who blurted out "Every member of CCR Headcleaner is officially homeless! Can we meet at nine ... More >>

  • Music

    September 24, 2008

    Legendary memories of Mission of Burma

    Alan Miknus​​It took some time to track down CCR Headcleaner. Messages were left, mailboxes were full, emails went unread. Finally, on a crisp San Francisco afternoon I got a hold of drummer Nick Givens, who blurted out "Every member of CCR Headcleaner is officially homeless! Can we meet at nine ... More >>

  • Music

    August 6, 2008

    The Baseball Project

    Volume 1: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails (Yep Roc)

  • Blogs

    April 23, 2008

    Album Review: Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow Stairs

    Volume 1: Frozen Ropes and Dying Quails (Yep Roc)

  • Music

    September 12, 2007

    The Donnas' Bitchin' Party

    SF's ladies lose the major label and regain the rock

  • Music

    June 27, 2007

    French electro-rock luminary Richard Pinhas graces the States

    SF's ladies lose the major label and regain the rock

  • Music

    May 9, 2007

    Six Degrees of Separation

    Lonely art-folkie P.G. Six makes new friends

  • Music

    March 21, 2007

    Modest Mouse

    We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank (Epic)

  • Music

    April 12, 2006

    The Flaming Lips

    At War With the Mystics

  • Film

    April 5, 2006

    Latino Heat

    Antonio Banderas pulses with passion in Take the Lead

  • Music

    February 22, 2006

    The Minus 5

    The Minus 5

  • Film

    November 2, 2005

    Pluck Off

    That's not the sky falling, just Disney's Chicken Little

  • Music

    November 2, 2005

    Don't Ask Why?

    Yoni Wolf's Elephant Eyelash announces a new direction for the hip hop innovator

  • Music

    August 3, 2005

    A Fanclub's Notes

    Once hyped as a supergroup, Teenage Fanclub may have to settle for midlevel stardom, and that may be just fine

  • Music

    January 5, 2005

    All Is Full of Luck

    On Anú, DJ Polywog, and finding new year luck where you least expect it

  • Music

    January 7, 2004

    Hear This

    Haircuts, hipster cred, psychosis: Ima Robot's got more to offer than "Black Jettas."

  • Music

    December 3, 2003

    The Musical is Political

    Forget policies and party affiliations, choose your next Mayor based on his top five favorite albums

  • Music

    October 22, 2003

    Prick

    Don't hate me because I'm corporate

  • Music

    June 4, 2003

    Uncle Tupelo

    No Depression/Still Feel Gone/March 16-20, 1992

  • Culture

    May 28, 2003

    Dem Blues

    The left, turning right, was plain wrong to attack pop culture

  • Music

    October 30, 2002

    Low

    Trust (Kranky)

  • Music

    September 4, 2002

    Wire

    Read & Burn 01 (Pinkflag)

  • Music

    March 20, 2002

    I went to the NARM Convention...

    ...and all I got was this stupid bear

  • Music

    March 6, 2002

    House Of Tudor

    Insomniac authors, poignant performance artists, and Viennese lounge lizards.

  • Music

    January 2, 2002

    Phil Tagliere

    Slow (Bong Load)

  • Music

    January 2, 2002

    Sound Advice

    Monstrous rock, sourdough shapeliness, post-apocalyptic calligraphy, and "soul travel"

  • Film

    August 16, 2000

    Trouble in Mind

    The Cell dives into the brain of a killer, but it's a shallow pool

  • Music

    March 1, 2000

    Riff Raff

    Mark Eitzel at Hotel Utah, Clit Stop, Arhoolie Records' 40th Birthday

  • Music

    August 11, 1999

    Reviews

    Mark Eitzel at Hotel Utah, Clit Stop, Arhoolie Records' 40th Birthday

  • Music

    May 12, 1999

    Hear This

    Mark Eitzel at Hotel Utah, Clit Stop, Arhoolie Records' 40th Birthday

  • Calendar

    March 3, 1999

    Night + Day

    Mark Eitzel at Hotel Utah, Clit Stop, Arhoolie Records' 40th Birthday

  • Music

    December 9, 1998

    Selling His Soul

    The traveling salesman is the symbolic star of Vic Chesnutt's sixth and sexiest album

  • Calendar

    August 5, 1998

    Night + Day

    The traveling salesman is the symbolic star of Vic Chesnutt's sixth and sexiest album

  • Calendar

    July 29, 1998

    Night + Day

    The traveling salesman is the symbolic star of Vic Chesnutt's sixth and sexiest album

  • Calendar

    July 1, 1998

    Night + Day

    The traveling salesman is the symbolic star of Vic Chesnutt's sixth and sexiest album

  • Music

    April 17, 1996

    Recordings

    The traveling salesman is the symbolic star of Vic Chesnutt's sixth and sexiest album

  • Music

    August 16, 1995

    Recordings

    The traveling salesman is the symbolic star of Vic Chesnutt's sixth and sexiest album

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