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Barn Owl's music is almost tailor-made for sacred spaces. The local duo's most recent album, The Conjurer, unfolds with meditative pacing, each guitar chord purposeful as a mantra and played against skeletal percussion. The beautiful instrumental record is meant to…
by Jennifer Maerz
May 12, 2010
Tags: Night&Day, Highlights, Adam Wier, Daniel Higgs, Evan Caminiti, Jon Porras
Music,
Let's Get Killed
Animal Collective, Merriweather Post Pavilion Merriweather made it onto many favorite lists this year, and for good reason. It's a sonic fireworks show. Small explosions of electronic glee build into giant displays of happy handclaps, ecstatic voices, and upbeat instrumental…
by Jennifer Maerz
December 30, 2009
Tags: Let's Get Killed, Columns, Elliott Smith (Musician), Phoenix (Band), San Francisco, Tim Cohen
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Let's Get Killed
For this week's music section, SF Weekly scoured the local landscape, asking the people making, producing, DJing, and distributing music about the big ideas affecting the industry in the last decade. Among their answers, one important media development that didn't…
by Jennifer Maerz
December 23, 2009
Tags: Let's Get Killed, Columns, MTV Networks Company, YouTube LLC, Weezer, Nirvana (Band)
Music,
This month marks not only the close of the year, but also the end of a decade in which we saw the way we create, listen to, and consume music become faster and easier for artists and fans. But all…
by Jennifer Maerz
December 23, 2009
Tags: Music, Feature, Odessa Chen, Tim Westergren, Logan Kroeber, Claude VonStroke
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Let's Get Killed
The fifth annual SF MusicTech Summit was only on its second round of panels last week when cellist Zoe Keating aptly summed up a major goal for the event. She was a panelist in a discussion concerning the ways musicians…
by Jennifer Maerz
December 16, 2009
Tags: Let's Get Killed, Columns, Zoe Keating, Twitter Inc., MySpace Inc., Google Inc.
Music,
Let's Get Killed
For some folks, December is insufferable, a month packed with blinking, twinkling reminders of just how commercially focused, environmentally callous, and falsely cheerful this country can get. But I'll admit it — I love every last bit of Christmas crap.…
by Jennifer Maerz
December 9, 2009
Tags: Let's Get Killed, Columns, Jim Campilongo, Passion Pit, Bobby Black, Gillian Welch
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Let's Get Killed
Bay Area rappers spent 2009 responding to current events and social memes with memorable singles. Two prime examples: Mistah F.A.B.'s nod to trendy chatter, "Hit Me on Twitter," or Paris' late-November track, "Side Effect," which entered the health care debate…
by Jennifer Maerz
December 2, 2009
Tags: Let's Get Killed, Columns, Kev Choice, San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, Viveca Hawkins, Barack Obama, Neck of the Woods
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Let's Get Killed
New Year's Eve marks the close of more than a calendar decade — it's also the last night the lowbrow Folsom Street institution Annie's Social Club will be open. After four years of giving local bands, karaoke fans, and Britpop…
by Jennifer Maerz
November 25, 2009
Tags: Let's Get Killed, Columns, Annie Whiteside, San Francisco, Exene Cervenka, Dave Alvin
