I think I swallowed some confetti. For the first night of the 20th annual Noise Pop festival, organizers had The Flaming Lips bring their entire…
It was the type of night where “blues” is spelled “blooze,” the pop is powered and the band asks for as much reverb as the…
This is my first attempt to post things from my brand new SMART PHONE, not to mention my first attempt to take pictures with it.…
You’re a music fan in the East Bay. All you need to know is who you can see play this weekend and where to see…
On this day in which we honor America’s greatest advocate for nonviolent protest—and in honor of the recent withdrawal of troops from Iraq—I present 14 Anti-War Songs for the 21st Century for your listening enjoyment/outrage.
Perhaps no band’s lyrics better lend themselves to pseudo-academic analysis than those of The Decemberists. The Annotated Decemberists is an attempt to puzzle through the Portland, Oregon,…
Putting words in the mouths of album-cover subjects. OK, I’m clearly going to be doing a lot of these. Here’s one for Rankstravaganza-featured folk-pop duo…
Hey, folks, I’m a webcomic artist now. Enjoy. Maybe I’ll do more of these.
The album is dead. Long live the album. Increasingly, my listening habits tend to revolve around individual tracks, so I tried to adjust my year-end…
I’ve only had a year and some change to really immerse myself in the Bay Area music scene, and I’m still feeling my way around…