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  • Blogs

    March 16, 2012

    SXSW: Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band Rock ACL Live

    By CRAIG HLAVATY Bruce Springsteen's Thursday started with a keynote speech in one of the big ballrooms at the Austin Convention Center, and ended with a mythic three-hour set at ACL Live across town, in front of a few thousand people cooing "Bruce!" The keynote and the show went hand in hand. If ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 2, 2011

    Boots Riley: Oakland General Strike Is "Like Us Flashing Our Guns"

    via EKA PhotographyBoots Riley at Occupy Oakland​ The Occupy movement doesn't have a leader, but Oakland activist-rapper Boots Riley is serving as one sort of de facto spokesman for his hometown's defiant occupation, lending the collective grievances a high-profile voice. Inspired by public g ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2011

    Tom Morello Is Playing Occupy SF This Afternoon and Great American Music Hall Tonight

    Tom Morello as the Nightwatchman​Apologies for the late notice, but those you political rock/Rage Against the Machine/protest-folk fans will appreciate knowing that Tom Morello will be performing twice in S.F. today. First up, Morello is playing Occupy SF at 4 p.m., according to several differ ... 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

    December 15, 2010

    Ten Albums We Dug That Didn't Get Their Due in 2010

    A proposition: Finding gems of underdogs far down in the CD pile is way more fun than picking the best of anything. Look around at most Top 10 Albums lists this year, and you'll likely be bored by the (admittedly warranted) sameness. Glaze over at our Top 10 soon (there will be some surprises!) but ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 11, 2010

    CD Review: Street Sweeper Social Club -- 'The Ghetto Blaster EP'

    ​Don't let the attention-grabbing choice of a first single mislead you: Though their cover of M.I.A.'s "Paper Planes" sounds pointless at all but the most eardrum-shattering volumes (and only slightly amusing at those), Tom Morello and Oakland rapper Boots Riley, as Street Sweeper Social Club ... More >>

  • Film

    August 4, 2010

    "The Other Guys": Will Ferrell and Adam McKay reteam

    ​Don't let the attention-grabbing choice of a first single mislead you: Though their cover of M.I.A.'s "Paper Planes" sounds pointless at all but the most eardrum-shattering volumes (and only slightly amusing at those), Tom Morello and Oakland rapper Boots Riley, as Street Sweeper Social Club ... More >>

  • News

    May 13, 2009

    Race to Fame

    W. Kamau Bell has built a career on examining the messy intersections of race and class in a supposedly postracial world.

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2009

    Grave Robbery in San Francisco: Protesters Evoke Oscar Grant's Bloody Corpse to Flog their Causes in Gaza, Greece, and God Knows What Else

    Two protesters, nine photographers. This is a problem. The Prison-Industrial Complex or the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy or whatever form The Man is assuming these days can rest easy in his bed. That's because the rabble-rousing radical left (aka white kids from the East Bay wearing hankies over their ... More >>

  • Music

    April 12, 2006

    Weapons of Mass Construction

    Oakland's Coup takes political rap to the next level

  • Year End

    December 15, 2004

    Americana Pie

    Grab a slice of 2004's best roots music while it's still hot.

  • News

    September 18, 2002

    The Sounds of Silence

    Why the Bay Area has stopped producing big-time rock bands

  • Music

    August 21, 2002

    Immigrant Songs

    The Skyflakes -- and the piNoisepop Festival -- put Filipino-American indie music on the map

  • Culture

    May 24, 2000

    Inside the Soap Box

    Michael Moore gets out of his La-Z-Boy to find The Awful Truth

  • News

    May 3, 2000

    Letters to the Editor

    Published May 3, 2000

  • Music

    April 12, 2000

    Lingua Franca

    Orixa's rock en español is a stew of global ideas. Just don't call it Latin music.

  • Music

    January 12, 2000

    Wu-Tang Forever?

    U-God comments on the state of the Wu nation after a tumultuous year for its members

  • News

    November 3, 1999

    The Golden Spike

    Actor and rock video director Spike Jonze's Being John Malkovich is an odd masterpiece. So why is Jonze scared of his own shadow?

  • Calendar

    October 14, 1998

    Night + Day

    Actor and rock video director Spike Jonze's Being John Malkovich is an odd masterpiece. So why is Jonze scared of his own shadow?

  • Music

    March 18, 1998

    Walk on the Mild Side

    One East Bay Christian rock purveyor's battle for integrity

  • Music

    March 26, 1997

    Recordings

    One East Bay Christian rock purveyor's battle for integrity

  • Music

    December 25, 1996

    Kiddie Primer

    One East Bay Christian rock purveyor's battle for integrity

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