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Robert Arriaga

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    Music,

    Riff Raff

    The Last Laugh Sonny Bono hustled pop both crap and sublime as a promo man in the early days of rock 'n' roll, and did essentially the same with wife Cher in the '60s. In the '70s he became the…
    by Robert Arriaga, Johnny DiPaola, Karl D. Esturbense, Jeff Stark, Silke Tudor, Heather Wisner, and Bill Wyman January 14, 1998 Tags: , , , ,
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    SF Weekly's Wammies '98

    Americana/Roots Wilson Gil& the Willful Sinners Wilson Gil brushes off old memories like any good yarn-spinning country singer. But the urban Gil finds his grit in the city he loves, not along a dusty trail. Ten years of highs and…
    by Robert Arriaga, Mark Athitakis, Paul Kimball, Melissa Piazza, Sam Prestianni, Jennie Rose, Jeff Stark, Silke Tudor, and Heather Wisner October 14, 1998 Tags: , , , ,
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    Words + Guitar (+ Beats + Skronk)

    Jeff Stark's Top 10 Records Released in 1997 1) (tie) Spiritualized, Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space The Perfect Prescription, Spacemen 3's finest record, actualized the peaks and comedowns of an LSD trip; in his spin-out band Spiritualized,…
    by Jeff Stark, Silke Tudor, Dave Clifford, Robert Arriaga, Heather Wisner, Paul Kimball, Martin Johnson, Sam Prestianni, Jill Stauffer, and Andi Zeisler December 31, 1997 Tags: , , , ,
    Music,

    Riff Raff

    Things We Did on Grass Now we know why Chet Helms and company waited until October to throw a 30-year anniversary celebration of the Summer of Love: harvest. There was so much weed at the Sunday shindig in Golden Gate…
    by Robert Arriaga, Johnny DiPaola, Karl D. Esturbense, Jeff Stark, Silke Tudor, Heather Wisner, and Bill Wyman October 15, 1997 Tags: , , , ,
    Music,

    Riff Raff

    No, Mike, It's an All-Day Sucker What happens when several hundred gallons of liquor collide head on with a multitude of walking egos? The newly named California Music Awards, of course. (The awards are still called Bammies.) Last Saturday, all…
    by Robert Arriaga, Johnny DiPaola, Karl D. Esturbense, Jeff Stark, Silke Tudor, Heather Wisner, and Bill Wyman March 11, 1998 Tags: , , , ,
    Music,

    Hear This

    The Sisters of Mercy Reunion tours continue to appear like coked-up groundhogs. Most of these devolutions into the grim realities of time and greed are depressing at best. The return of the Sisters of Mercy, once the vision kings of…
    by Robert Arriaga February 4, 1998 Tags: , , , ,
    Music,

    Riff Raff

    Yeah, Well We're Tired of Hearing About Bar Closings Too The doors at the Chameleon have been shut on and off for several months now. Recently owner Karen Carney assured Riff Raff that the narrow Valencia Street beer bar and…
    by Robert Arriaga, Johnny DiPaola, Karl D. Esturbense, Jeff Stark, Silke Tudor, Heather Wisner, and Bill Wyman April 29, 1998 Tags: , , , ,
    Music,

    Riff Raff

    Downsized On Wednesday morning, July 15, Annie O'Toole, longtime talent buyer at the Great American Music Hall, was informed by the five partners behind the venue that she would no longer be needed. "I was totally floored," says O'Toole. "I…
    by Robert Arriaga, Johnny DiPaola, Karl D. Esturbense, Jeff Stark, Silke Tudor, Heather Wisner, and Bill Wyman July 22, 1998 Tags: , , , ,
    Music,

    Riff Raff

    Lost at Sea Early Saturday morning, Feb. 15, DJ party promoters Nomad Interactive hosted "Splish," a Valentine's Day cruise held aboard the vessel Jack London Commodore. At 2 a.m., not even an hour into the cruise, 20-year-old Tavaris Willis, a…
    by Robert Arriaga, Silke Tudor, Bill Wyman, and Johnny DiPaola February 26, 1997 Tags: , , , ,
    Music,

    Riff Raff

    Things That Should Not Be Last Nov. 1 at the Great American Music Hall, local math-rock trio A Minor Forest played what turned out to be its final concert. Drummer Andee Connors closed out the band's six-year career of making…
    by Robert Arriaga, Mark Athitakis, Johnny DiPaola, Silke Tudor, and Heather Wisner January 13, 1999 Tags: , , , ,
    Music,

    Riff Raff

    Black Comedy To outsiders, goths might seem like angst-ridden drama queens parading around in vampire pajamas. Well, they are. But goths share a dark, festering secret beneath the cloud of doom that surrounds them: They're funny. Take a look at…
    by Robert Arriaga, Johnny DiPaola, Karl D. Esturbense, Jeff Stark, Silke Tudor, Heather Wisner, and Bill Wyman March 4, 1998 Tags: , , , ,
    Music,

    Riff Raff

    Lawyer Rock Colossal Pictures -- the San Francisco multimedia company that brought you MTV's Liquid Television, among other things -- has filed suit in U.S. Bankruptcy Court against the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In legalese, the allegations made…
    by Robert Arriaga, Michael Batty, Johnny DiPaola, Karl D. Esturbense, Jeff Stark, Silke Tudor, and Bill Wyman July 9, 1997 Tags: , , , ,
    Music,

    Riff Raff

    "In-A-Gadda-Da-Oswald" is the title of the gloriously tacky Photoshop manipulation seen below, which has bum-rushed every soft corner of e-space since illustrator George E. Mahlberg put it out on the Usenet a week and a half ago. "There was just…
    by Robert Arriaga, Michael Batty, Johnny DiPaola, Jeff Stark, Silke Tudor, and Bill Wyman March 26, 1997 Tags: , , , ,
    Music,

    Riff Raff

    Finally, Some Good News We may be hazy and hooch-soaked, but Riff Raff seems to recall a time when punks and lovers of down-and-dirty hard rock turned to North Beach, not SOMA, for boisterous merriment. Spaces like the Mabuhay Gardens,…
    by Robert Arriaga, Johnny DiPaola, Karl D. Esturbense, Jeff Stark, Silke Tudor, Heather Wisner, and Bill Wyman May 13, 1998 Tags: , , , ,
    Music,

    Ending Up on Top

    Blocking the entrance to the Endup, a medium-sized, black-clad security guard laughs at my inquiry about a cover charge. "Admissions are on the house," he says, parting the entryway's thick black curtain. The room inside reveals a scene worthy of…
    by Robert Arriaga November 25, 1998 Tags: , , , ,
    Music,

    Riff Raff

    Saturday Afternoon in the Park Static Faction drummer J. Shagawat says she's frustrated in the same way other rock musicians in San Francisco are: She's offended by crass commercialism and irritated by a shortage of viable venues. But while others…
    by Robert Arriaga, Johnny DiPaola, Karl D. Esturbense, Jeff Stark, Silke Tudor, Heather Wisner, and Bill Wyman October 1, 1997 Tags: , , , ,
    Music,

    Last Dance

    It's a rain-soaked line outside Club Deco on March 9, as a large and formidable security guard at the door casts a quick glance toward the end of the Tenderloin block. He smiles. "Damn, the line's around the corner,"…
    by Robert Arriaga March 31, 1999 Tags: , , , ,
    Music,

    Riff Raff

    Death of a Disco Punk Dance Club The Trocadero is in trouble. On Feb. 16 the SOMA nightspot and concert venue will forfeit two after-hours permits and close for a police-mandated 90-day suspension. It probably won't open again. When the…
    by Robert Arriaga, Johnny DiPaola, Karl D. Esturbense, Jeff Stark, Silke Tudor, Heather Wisner, and Bill Wyman February 11, 1998 Tags: , , , ,
    Music,

    Riff Raff

    Swing Low After years of toil and custom tailoring, the New Morty Show are on the brink of breaking into the big league -- the band's first major-label release, Mortified, is due out on Atlantic in March. (A swingin' version…
    by Robert Arriaga, Johnny DiPaola, Karl D. Esturbense, Jeff Stark, Silke Tudor, Heather Wisner, and Bill Wyman February 18, 1998 Tags: , , , ,
    Music,

    Hear This

    Old Grandad With groups like Whitesnake struggling to land gigs at places like Uncle Fucker's Chuckle Hut, you might actually believe all the crap about metal being dead. Truth told, metal didn't die -- it just cleaned house. Gone are…
    by Robert Arriaga November 19, 1997 Tags: , , , ,
    Music,

    Riff Raff

    Back to Mono! A couple of weeks ago in Los Angeles, San Francisco Neil Diamond cover group Super Diamond played their third sold-out House of Blues show this year. Reason for frontman Randy Cordeiro's tight black satin pants to fill…
    by Robert Arriaga, Johnny DiPaola, Karl D. Esturbense, Jeff Stark, Silke Tudor, Heather Wisner, and Bill Wyman December 3, 1997 Tags: , , , ,
    Music,

    Riff Raff

    The Sultan of Rap Sometimes you're just laying down some soulful grooves at your favorite local club and a prince walks in, or very nearly. Last winter, Manifest Yesterday -- the funky groove collective that last week released a self-titled…
    by Robert Arriaga, Johnny DiPaola, Karl D. Esturbense, Jeff Stark, Silke Tudor, Heather Wisner, and Bill Wyman April 1, 1998 Tags: , , , ,
    Music,

    Riff Raff

    Strange Developments Nobody was more excited than Miami's DJ Infamous when the winners of the International Turntablists Federation were announced late last Sunday night. Infamous had absolutely stunned the crowd with his scratching, cutting, and beat juggling in his several…
    by Robert Arriaga, Johnny DiPaola, Karl D. Esturbense, Jeff Stark, Silke Tudor, Heather Wisner, and Bill Wyman August 12, 1998 Tags: , , , ,
    Music,

    Hear This

    Citizen Fish Citizen Fish are not a teen-age ska-punk band made up of glitzy hipsters; nor are they so removed from the music's roots that they think the Skatalites enabled better television reception. Instead, they're an English quartet who helped…
    by Robert Arriaga June 17, 1998 Tags: , , , ,
    Music,

    Riff Raff

    Must Be One of Those Nine-Digit Jobbies "From the first explosive I-got-you-in-my-sights delivery of charismatic frontman Stephan Jenkins, to the rolling rhythm section of bassist Arion Salazar and drummer Brad Hargreaves, to the signature guitar work of Kevin Cadogan, you…
    by Robert Arriaga, Michael Batty, Johnny DiPaola, Jeff Stark, Silke Tudor, and Bill Wyman April 16, 1997 Tags: , , , ,
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  • Sub Pop recording artists 'clipping.' brought their brand of noise-driven experimental hip hop to the closing night of 2016's San Francisco Electronic Music Fest this past Sunday. The packed Brava Theater hosted an initially seated crowd that ended the night jumping and dancing against the front of the stage. The trio performed a set focused on their recently released Sci-Fi Horror concept album, 'Splendor & Misery', then delved into their dancier and more aggressive back catalogue, and recent single 'Wriggle'. Opening performances included local experimental electronic duo 'Tujurikkuja' and computer music artist 'Madalyn Merkey.'"
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    Sub Pop recording artists 'clipping.' brought their brand of noise-driven experimental hip hop to the closing night of 2016's San Francisco Electronic Music Fest this past Sunday. The packed Brava Theater hosted an initially seated crowd that ended the night jumping and dancing against the front of the stage. The trio performed a set focused on their recently released Sci-Fi Horror concept album, 'Splendor & Misery', then delved into their dancier and more aggressive back catalogue, and recent single 'Wriggle'. Opening performances included local experimental electronic duo 'Tujurikkuja' and computer music artist 'Madalyn Merkey.'"
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