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Carl Newman is a happy man. Last month, his band the New Pornographers released its sixth album to almost universal praise. Brill Bruisers matches the band's muscular pop-rock with swirling synthesizers à la Electric Light Orchestra for a collection that…
by Ian S. Port
October 14, 2014
Tags: Music
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It's September, which means San Francisco summer is here, the local tourist population is rapidly declining, and it's time to get to some concerts. Possibly the best time: After slogging it out on the festival circuit all summer, and with…
by Ian S. Port
September 2, 2014
Tags: Music
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All Shook Down
From the latest SF Weekly: An interview with Will Butler of Arcade Fire: One of the more interesting things about Arcade Fire — maybe as interesting as its music — is the way the band challenges the scope of what…
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by Ian S. Port
July 30, 2014 @ 10:18 am
Tags: In Print, music, shoreline ampitheatre
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One of the more interesting things about Arcade Fire — maybe as interesting as its music — is the way the band challenges the scope of what so-called indie rock bands are supposed to be. It did this early on…
by Ian S. Port
July 29, 2014
Tags: Music, Shoreline Amphitheatre
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All Shook Down
It's July 25, 2014, the day that would have been Warren Hellman's 80th birthday. Sadly, the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass founder is now strumming at the big jam session in the sky. But today does bring the first hints of the…
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by Ian S. Port
July 25, 2014 @ 3:21 pm
Tags: Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, Warren Hellman, music festivals
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All Shook Down
So there is a fluttering ghost with an expression like a Mexican wrestling mask, and everything is pink or orange, and there's a cloud with kind of a face in it, and morphing demon-like running figures, and a perpetual (seeming)…
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by Ian S. Port
July 25, 2014 @ 11:14 am
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All Shook Down
It turns out old electronic junk can be pretty useful for making music. For one thing, you can program an array of floppy drives to play "Somebody That I Used to Know." And, as some Illinois hackers recently showed Wired,…
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by Ian S. Port
July 24, 2014 @ 11:30 am
Tags: Video
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Feature
Lars Ulrich is not a scary man. He is short, Danish, and gabby. He often wears gym shorts onstage. But at the Fillmore that night, Lars Ulrich wasn't the one making threats. He was just delivering them. "If you fuck…
by Ian S. Port
July 23, 2014
Tags: Feature, Featured Stories
Music,
All Shook Down
Everyone knows that _____ was the best year for pop music, when they were 16 (or 14 or 18) and when "______" was on the radio and MTV constantly. It's a scientifically proven fact. And now there's a website, where,…
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by Ian S. Port
July 22, 2014 @ 1:40 pm
Tags: 1997, sites to spend your afternoon on, The Nostalgia Machine
Music,
All Shook Down
Berkeley duo Street Eaters define themselves as a "truewave/punk" band. What "truewave" means, exactly, we can only infer -- but "Empty Rooms," for which bassist/guitarist John No and drummer Megan March just made their own video, is some seriously ear-exploding,…
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by Ian S. Port
July 22, 2014 @ 11:55 am
Tags: Street Eaters, Video
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This week, the Association of Alternative Newsmedia, the professional group representing papers like SF Weekly, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, LA Weekly, and Village Voice, announced the winners of its annual awards. Now these aren't the Pulitzers or anything, but…
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by Ian S. Port
July 15, 2014 @ 11:53 am
Tags: AAN, alt-weeklies
