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Robert Arriaga

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    Music,

    Riff Raff

    Comeback of the Year We don't mean comeback in the "returning a career to its past glories" sense. After all, the person in question here is John Wesley Harding, the British expatriate folk singer (and now San Francisco resident) who…
    by Robert Arriaga, Mark Athitakis, Johnny DiPaola, Silke Tudor, and Heather Wisner December 30, 1998 Tags: , , , ,
    Music,

    Riff Raff

    Spin Off Over the past four weeks, former Jane's Addiction frontman Perry Farrell has spun a few sets at various underground warehouse parties here in the Bay Area under the moniker DJ Peretz (his real last name). It seems the…
    by Robert Arriaga, Mark Athitakis, Johnny DiPaola, Silke Tudor, and Heather Wisner December 23, 1998 Tags: , , , ,
    Music,

    Riff Raff

    Tommy, Can You MP3 Me? Now that it's been nearly two decades since the industry has introduced a new format for recorded music, it's obviously high time for the music companies to make sure you have a fresh need to…
    by Mark Athitakis, Craig Smith, Robert Arriaga, and Johnny DiPaola December 16, 1998 Tags: , , , ,
    Music,

    Riff Raff

    Bent, But Not Broken Beanbender's, the esteemed Berkeley jazz and experimental music space, has had something of an identity crisis in recent months. Changes in ownership and rising rents at the downtown Berkeley building it calls home have thrown its…
    by Robert Arriaga, Mark Athitakis, Johnny DiPaola, Silke Tudor, and Heather Wisner December 9, 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

    The Check -- and the Fragile Master Tape -- Is in the Mail On Nov. 9, the Kingsmen, authors of the mush-mouthed party classic "Louie, Louie," scored a victory for composers' rights. The U.S. Supreme Court upheld an earlier decision…
    by Robert Arriaga, Mark Athitakis, Johnny DiPaola, Silke Tudor, and Heather Wisner November 18, 1998 Tags: , , , ,
    Music,

    Hear This

    Bad Brains The only thing more amazing than Bad Brains' fusion of Jah-inspired dub and D.C. hardcore is the band's volatility, as disagreements over musical direction, drug problems, and failed mainstream success have led to a series of breakups worthy…
    by Robert Arriaga November 11, 1998 Tags: , , , ,
    Music,

    Riff Raff

    Hanson, Disco Drag, and Other Literary Endeavors True, the New Main Library isn't the hippest of places to go swimming in the pop music media pool, but Riff Raff found itself wading in the deep end of Bay Area radio…
    by Robert Arriaga, Mark Athitakis, Johnny DiPaola, Silke Tudor, and Heather Wisner November 11, 1998 Tags: , , , ,
    Music,

    Hear This

    Cypress Hill Cypress Hill are hip hop's Johnny Potseed, breaking out joints onstage and filling albums with ganja praises. The problem is that on their new release, IV, the danky smoke references are as stale as month-old bong water. The…
    by Robert Arriaga November 4, 1998 Tags: , , , ,
    Music,

    Riff Raff

    Suckers Normally we don't fall for cheap publicity stunts. But every once in a while some band -- well, it's usually the Gun & Doll Show -- manages to impress us with clever, if sometimes poorly executed, promotional gimmicks. (They…
    by Robert Arriaga, Johnny DiPaola, Jeff Stark, Silke Tudor, and Heather Wisner November 4, 1998 Tags: , , , ,
    Music,

    Riff Raff

    Scream III Just in time for the season of ghouls, Chris Cobb and fellow San Francisco Art Institute student Paul Quinones offer up "All the Screaming You Will Ever Need." Cobb, the 28-year-old interdisciplinary artist who brought us the subtly…
    by Robert Arriaga, Johnny DiPaola, Jeff Stark, Silke Tudor, and Heather Wisner October 28, 1998 Tags: , , , ,
    Music,

    Spooky Running Wild

    DJ Spooky chooses his words methodically, with the same kind of care he uses to pick samples for his deeply atmos-pheric hip-hop records. Posed with a question, the young man also known as Paul Miller leans back in an old…
    by Robert Arriaga October 28, 1998 Tags: , , , ,
    Music,

    Riff Raff

    The Many Faces of essence Dear Riff Raff Readers: We recently realized that, for the first time ever, we had been holding out on you, hoarding precious materials for ourselves like selfish teen-age girls and so much cheap makeup. Some…
    by Robert Arriaga, Johnny DiPaola, Jeff Stark, Silke Tudor, and Heather Wisner October 21, 1998 Tags: , , , ,
    Music,

    Hear This

    Ill Repute, Agent Orange, SNFU Eighties punk is not dead. Like random lineages through the Great Plague, a few bands survived through the dark early 1990s, maintaining a link to the famed hardcore heyday of 1983. Back then, bills featuring…
    by Robert Arriaga October 21, 1998 Tags: , , , ,
    Music,

    Hear This

    Jets to Brazil There's a big difference between selling out and growing up. Unfortunately for the pop-punk band Jawbreaker, fans didn't see it that way. Their final album, Dear You, shed the gravel-laden vocals and hard-edged power chords for richer…
    by Robert Arriaga October 14, 1998 Tags: , , , ,
    Music,

    Riff Raff

    A Jazzman's Life Bay Area composer and tenor saxophonist Glenn Spearman died of cancer in his home Thursday morning, Oct. 8. He was 51. A colossal improviser and kindhearted father figure to many in the local creative-music community, Spearman's loss…
    by Robert Arriaga, Johnny DiPaola, Jeff Stark, Silke Tudor, and Heather Wisner October 14, 1998 Tags: , , , ,
    Music,

    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: , , , ,
    Music,

    Riff Raff

    Give Me Royalties or Give Me Death Inc. Three of the four former members of the Dead Kennedys, the long-defunct San Francisco political punk band, announced last week that they intend to terminate their relationship with Alternative Tentacles Records (ATR).…
    by Robert Arriaga, Johnny DiPaola, Jeff Stark, Silke Tudor, and Heather Wisner October 7, 1998 Tags: , , , ,
    Music,

    Hear This

    The Dropkick Murphys For Boston street punks the Dropkick Murphys Irish pride is the only thing more important than a good, cold lager. Like their British oi forebears, the DMs believe that drinking with the boys, laboring on the docks,…
    by Robert Arriaga October 7, 1998 Tags: , , , ,
    Music,

    Riff Raff

    Confidential to the Lastnameless and Lowercased essence We're hurt. You know that Riff Raff cares about you and your ongoing romps through the strange confluence of music and fashion. We've reported almost every significant development of your blossoming career. We…
    by Robert Arriaga, Johnny DiPaola, Jeff Stark, Silke Tudor, and Heather Wisner September 30, 1998 Tags: , , , ,
    Music,

    Hear This

    Felix the Dog Felix the Dog is more of a storyteller than a typical DJ. At every party, at every club, he seeks a narrative from the crowd and crafts a soundtrack that matches its unique dance-floor cinema. Borrowing flutes…
    by Robert Arriaga September 30, 1998 Tags: , , , ,
    Music,

    Riff Raff

    Ethical Instigation Regular readers know that every once in a while, Riff Raff likes to lean back in our chairs and ponder ethical questions both big and small. One of our favorite publications to think about is the San Francisco…
    by Robert Arriaga, Johnny DiPaola, Jeff Stark, Silke Tudor, and Heather Wisner September 23, 1998 Tags: , , , ,
    Music,

    Hear This

    Peter & the Test Tube Babies Peter & the Test Tube Babies spent the last 20 years at the bottom. They've never sounded better. Starting in Brighton, England, the young oi band set out to play songs about daily life…
    by Robert Arriaga September 23, 1998 Tags: , , , ,
    Music,

    Live

    Tori Amos Oakland Arena Tuesday, Sept. 15 Tori Amos does sad better than most anyone. Survivor of religion, rape, marriage, and a recent miscarriage, the thirtysomething singer/pianist performs live with an intensity that amplifies her own inner heartbreak. But unlike…
    by Sam Prestianni, Dave Clifford, and Robert Arriaga September 23, 1998 Tags: , , , ,
    Music,

    Riff Raff

    Under and Over On April 11, Police and Fire Department officials raided and shut down San Francisco's most important underground music spot. In four years of operation, Starcleaners offered an extraordinary mix of punk and metal bands, performance art, a…
    by Robert Arriaga, Johnny DiPaola, Jeff Stark, Silke Tudor, and Heather Wisner September 16, 1998 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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