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Music,
If you're a "little guy" in the music business today — an up-and-coming artist, say, or a seasoned virtuoso with a cult following, or a one-man record label with a trunk full of merch — your strategy for the future…
by Chris Dahlen
May 10, 2006
Tags: Music, Feature, Independent Online Distribution Alliance, Kevin Arnold, San Francisco, Adam Varga
News,
Sucka Free City
Editor's Note: On March 27 Chris Dahlen became pregnant. In this three-part series, we follow his story. Incidentally, Dahlen's story takes place within the "multiverse" Second Life, a massively multiplayer online game (MMOG) with more than 165,000 users. Second Life,…
by Chris Dahlen
April 26, 2006
Tags: Sucka Free City, Columns, Chris Dahlen, Second Life, Linden Research Inc., Star Trek
News,
Sucka Free City
Editor’s Note: On March 27 Chris Dahlen became pregnant. In this three-part series, we follow his story. Incidentally, Dahlen’s story takes place within the “multiverse” Second Life, a massively multiplayer online game (MMOG) with more than 165,000 users. Second Life,…
by Chris Dahlen
April 19, 2006
Tags: Sucka Free City, Columns, Second Life, Chris Dahlen, New Orleans, Linden Research Inc.
News,
Sucka Free City
Editor's Note: On March 27 Chris Dahlen became pregnant. In this three-part series, we follow his story. Incidentally, Dahlen's story takes place within the "multiverse" Second Life, a massively multiplayer online game (MMOG) with more than 165,000 users. Second Life,…
by Chris Dahlen
April 12, 2006
Tags: Sucka Free City, Columns, Chris Dahlen, Second Life, Linden Research Inc.
Music,
While driving through Iowa on their first national tour last February, Bay Area hip-hop experimenters Subtle hit a patch of ice in the middle of the night that threw their van off the road. Keyboardist Dax Pierson wound up in…
by Chris Dahlen
April 5, 2006
Tags: Music, Feature, Adam Drucker, Keyboardist Dax Pierson, Houston (Texas), Iowa
Music,
Reviewed
With a singer who yelped like a crazy shithouse rat and riffs that bounced like a skateboard on a trampoline, Mclusky spent nine years as an underheralded punk fixture in Britain (and a semicult favorite in the U.S.) before finally…
by Chris Dahlen
March 1, 2006
Tags: Reviewed, Review, United Kingdom, Bill Hicks
Music,
Reviewed
Traditionalist, experimentalist, American primitivist, and overall legend John Fahey influenced a wide swath of musicians, and not just acoustic guitarists. But here he's remembered by a rabble of Americana all-stars, and their contributions follow the usual disjointed pattern of a…
by Chris Dahlen
March 1, 2006
Tags: Reviewed, Review, John Fahey, Peter Case, Sufjan Stevens, Sunflower River
Music,
Reviewed
Drum's Not Dead tells a story about the two poles of creativity: Drum (the confidence to create) and Mt. Heart Attack (the self-doubt that plagues our work). The album pits muddy synths and Angus Andrews' vocals -- sometimes gruntlike and…
by Chris Dahlen
February 22, 2006
Tags: Reviewed, Review, Angus Andrews, The Shins
Music,
Reviewed
The smoggy synths and heavy beats that permeate the music of Anticon acts Subtle and Themselves can be traced to Jel, the DJ and sampler artist who has just released his second long-player. Soft Money boasts contributions from his labelmates…
by Chris Dahlen
February 1, 2006
Tags: Reviewed, Review, Kanye West
Music,
Hear This
Remember when we had that anthrax scare after 9/11, and the band Anthrax made the news because its members were weighing whether they should change their name, and everyone said, "Wow, Anthrax is still together?" Well, it's four years later,…
by Chris Dahlen and Rossiter Drake
January 18, 2006
Tags: Hear This, Preview, Willie Nelson, Fillmore, Anthrax (Musical Group), San Francisco
