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Too Macho For Its Own Good
I pretended I didn't, but as a young girl I did wish the ways of the world and children at play were different, and that I could be allowed - just once - to enter the clubhouse in our attic over which my older brother and his friends presided. Later, emboldened by a few more years and inches, I did sneak into the clubhouse... which, while in some ways thrilling, was, all in all, a disappointment. More
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You know Ben Kweller. He sings those quirky, plot-driven, charmingly angst-filled, Reality Bites soundtrack-worthy songs. Has a haircut like Beck's -- still don't know him? More
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For most bands, countless sweaty hours in a tiny practice space yield little in the way of rock stardom. But lady luck is beginning to smile down upon the San Francisco-based trio Antmanbee. These guys may have spent the last two and a half years playing furiously in a dingy and cramped basement -- but now they stand poised to bring the Bay Area music scene a fresh take on the guitar-driven, "big" rock sound. More
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A Salute to San Francisco's Live Music Venues
San Francisco is a city bursting with live music every night of the week. With so many shows and so little time one must ask, "What makes a good show great?" Invariably one will answer, "Why, the venue of course!" The right band at the right venue can turn a mediocre performance into the live set of a lifetime. When you live in a city where the music scene is so prolific you actually have to pick between bills, a venue preference can make or break your night. Here is an extremely subjective list of one music lover's venue favorites (and not-so-favorites). More
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A conversation with Jack Johnson
People who have met Johnson in the past must have noticed his humble manner and how it flows into his music. This is where he accomplishes a signature whisper of hope directed towards a great many people and also a select few. More
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Hip-hop revolutionaries
Listen: the world needs Public Enemy now more than ever. In their 18 years of existence, PE changed the way music affects society. Whether you listen to rap or not, they're one of the most influential -- and confrontational -- voices of our generation, spanning genre, race and class, bringing a forward-thinking aesthetic to both musical production and lyrical content. They may be legends of our time, but as performers, they damn sure still know how to bring the noise. More
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The Amazing Embarrasonic Pumps out a Steady Stream of Make-Believe Rock Stars
There are three drummers in this band. There are also three guitar players and three bass players. Which is funny, since there are only three guys in the band. And what exactly is/are The Amazing Embarrassonic? They are San Francisco's first interactive rock band. More
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Hybrid, opening for Moby at the Warfield on Monday night, gave a long set of progressive trance (i.e., high-bpm techno with distinctive and flowing melodic lines, but no traces of dub or house-style lyrics). The group is British, two men on the synthesizers, one on a percussion cage, and bears comparison to Underworld, Robert Miles, and Eat Static, though they were better than the last in concert and (thankfully) aren't as prone to syrupy melodies as Miles. More
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Talvin Singh brings his Asian-influenced breakbeats to the Bay
As history repeatedly suggests, music has never been one for monogamy (sonically speaking of course). Starting most notably with jazz, the elements of musicianship revealed a new sense of playfulness, a boundlessness that seemed to bring together even the most diverse and esoteric of sounds. More
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If you add up the obvious, San Francisco is no place for drum and bass. For starters, this is dance music in its most inaccessible form: grimy, overly masculine of late, and truly epileptic in nature, DnB simply doesn't cater to what is an admittedly uncoordinated city. Whereas trance and house virtually do the dancing for you, drum and bass seems damn near undanceable. More
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