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Released by Tomlab, 10/23/07
The first question that comes to mind when you open this CD is “Who the heck is David Shrigley?” The second is “How did he get so many famous friends?” Folks like Deerhoof, David Byrne, Franz Ferdinand, R. Stevie Moore, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone and dozens of other musicians and bands contribute music for the lyrics that Shrigley has written. More
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Released on Columbia Records, 10/30/07
Even at a glance, Bob Dylan will mean different things to different people. This seems to be the theme of the new Dylan film, I'm Not There. In the film, which was co-written and directed by Todd Haynes, six actors play different Dylan identities. Those actors include Richard Gere, Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Cate Blanchett, and others. More
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Released on Columbia/Red Ink Records, 10/16/07
It’s Not How Far You Fall, It’s The Way You Land is like a delicious, bottomless mudslide of the finest blend of elixirs that even the devout can’t renounce or get enough of. So wouldn’t that make British production rascals, Rich Machin and Ian Glover your relentless Soulsavers? More
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SF Station Blows It Up
Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals hit Oakland’s Paramount Theater to promote Lifeline their new album to a sold out crowd. As always, with amazing guitar riffs and a beautiful voice, Mr. Harper and the boys drove the crowd to get out of their seats and dance, dance, dance. More
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By the Beat of Their Strum
With a sparse arrangement of three stringed acoustic instruments, The Devil Makes Three channel bluegrass, folk and country styles of yesteryear with narratives about whiskey, heartache and bloodshed, among other topics. The trio, that formed in Santa Cruz in the early ’00s after childhood friends Pete Bernard (guitar, banjo, harmonica) and Cooper McBean (guitar, banjo, musical saw) linked with aspiring standup bassist Lucia Turnio, returns to San Francisco to celebrate the re-release of the self-titled debut that was originally released in 2002. More
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SF Station Blows It Up
The 3rd Annual Icer Air graced AT&T ballpark and brought the mayhem that is the Big Air Ski and Snowboard competition. With lots of things to watch like BMX, FMX, Skate and Vert races plus amazing ski and snowboard jumps as well as the Likes of TJ Schiller, Simon Dumont, Andreas Wiig and the winners Jon Olsson and Travis Rice this was hell of a day and the cherry on top was amazing performances from Talib Kweli, Mos Def and The Dirty Heads. More
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Folksy for the Folks -- at Great American Music Hall
Both Loudon Wainwright III and The Roches (the co-headliners) make the kind of music that will make your folks want to get out the folding lawn chairs, don straw hats and attend an expensive music festival. Or, put another way, if you are the folks, your kids would probably jam pens into their eardrums before they’d accompany you to this show without at least a wig and a pair of large sunglasses. Bottom line: Wainwright and The Roches represent foagie folk music at its finest. You either really do not want to miss this -- or you really do. More
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Released on Drag City, 11/20/07
For some reason I was reminded of the film The Dark Crystal the first time I listened to The Valerie Project. This is not your everyday soundtrack or folk album for that matter. There are 30 tracks, each consisting of a miniature song lasting between 40 seconds and 3 minutes. The music is dreamlike and ethereal. Each short vignette carries its own emotional chord and is tied to the next track by eerie strings of bells and an acid-folk-appropriate electric guitar rift. More
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Self-released, 10/5/07
If you take Brandon Flowers from The Killers, pump him full of horse tranquilizers, and add the instrumental sound of The Cure -- voila! You have Sunday Drivers. Well, maybe that’s a little too harsh. Endlessly compared to both The Killers and Interpol, Sunday Drivers are next in a line of New Wave bands that continue to flood the airwaves. More
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Released by Rhymesayers Entertainment, 10/09/07
There’s something about Mac Lethal that screams amateur (although the anticipation of this new album, 11:11, says otherwise), but there’s also something about him that begs you to stay and listen to the entire album. Not a fan of current rap music in general, I was sceptical about writing this review for fear of being biased. Even Mac Lethal says, "I’m a rapper but I don’t really like rap". More
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