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Living the Dream
Sexed-up and sassy, Amanda Blank doesn’t hold much back. The Philly-based rapper/vocalist started out on early collaborations with Spank Rock and Santogold, among others, before releasing her debut LP I Love You earlier this year. More
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A Marathon Man
His charming smile and good looks will you fool, Raphael Saadiq is 42 years old, and has been making music since the late 80s when he started with Tony! Toni! Toné! In Oakland. More
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Released on Young Turks
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars.
London’s the XX make dreamy indie pop that is perfect to chill out to. More
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Released by Trysquare, 10/13/09
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars.
As horses passing in the night, Xian Hawkins and Jenny Owen Youngs’ debut album for Bell Horses, This Loves Lasts Time, strings up eight songs with a variety of arrangements, mixing and matching sounds and samples so as not to collide. More
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Coming to America
It’s not cheap to fly, and it’s definitely not cheap to fly out a seven-piece band from New Zealand. That should say something about the promoter’s faith in Fat Freddy’s Drop, the Kiwi jazz, dub, reggae, and soul band that is touring the United States for the first time. More
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Shipping Up to Oakland
The Dropkick Murphys, the nation’s favorite Celtic-influenced punk rockers, are back on the road for their nearly annual late-fall tour. More
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Released on Kill Rock Stars, 10/13/09
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars.
Know Better Learn Faster makes it easy for listeners to step outside of themselves and treat this album as one that transcends the typical stigma of breakup albums. More
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Released on Matador, 10/6/09
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars.
The War on Drugs’ guitarist Kurt Vile’s latest offering is hard to classify, but easy to love. Childish Prodigy is immensely impressive and yet rough around the edges. It sounds like it was recorded in someone’s bedroom, but in a good way -- sparse, a bit echoey, deceptively simple. More
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The Audacity of Hype
Alternative Tentacles, the Bay Area record label that helped launch influential punk band the Dead Kennedys, celebrates its 30th anniversary starting November 5th with Incest-a-Thon, a three-night stand at the Great American Music Hall. The shows will feature label owner and former Dead Kennedys frontman Jello Biafra and the Guantanamo School of Medicine, along with several of the label’s acts from over the years. After primarily focusing on his spoken word career for many years, Biafra released The Audacity of Hype with his new band in October. He spoke with SF Station during a phone interview. More
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All Grown Up
Women in hip hop don’t have it easy, just ask anyone in the business. Keeping it real is difficult when most female rappers are anything but. Dolled up into sex objects, or shot up with testosterone, hip hop is seriously void of real females. Maybe this explains one of the reasons Kid Sister’s album has been so heavily anticipated. She’s not trying to impress anyone with something she’s not, rather she says things like “I’m gonna fart on Usher.” Not to mention, she has skills. The Chicago rapper has a style of her own, and as SF Station chatted with her, it became clear it’s more than just music. More
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