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Philip Dawdy

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    News, Feature

    Gonna Fly Now

    Gerald Rubin is an unpretentious man with an open face behind his glasses, a patch of gray in his brown beard. On occasion, a hint of Boston slides into his speech, betraying his eastern roots. A genetics professor at UC…
    by Philip Dawdy January 27, 1999 Tags: , , , ,
    Music,

    Reviews

    Nanci Griffith Other Voices, Too (A Trip Back to Bountiful) (Elektra) The story of American folk music is one of dissidents: Woody Guthrie's guitar was a machine that killed fascists; Pete Seeger wrote off an anti-union boss as a wife-beater;…
    by Mark Athitakis, Philip Dawdy, and Jill Stauffer July 29, 1998 Tags: , , , ,
    News,

    Pulling the Wings Off Flies

    Michael Dickinson doesn't make eye contact as he speaks. Standing before a 6-foot-high bank of electrical monitors, he gazes up at the fluorescent ceiling lights in his UC Berkeley laboratory. His hair is the color of wet sand and horn-rimmed…
    by Philip Dawdy June 17, 1998 Tags: , , , ,
    Music,

    Reviews

    Various Artists Lyricist Lounge (Rawkus) Hip hop is about battles. MCs slip rhymes around competitors like lyrical choke holds, while turntablists scratch and cut against each other like baggy-panted gladiators. And for what? Competition. Competition hones skills, strips away fat,…
    by Robert Arriaga, Philip Dawdy, Dave McCoy, and Michael Ullman June 3, 1998 Tags: , , , ,
    News,

    Dream Candidate

    Fifteen years after his term as governor ended, Jerry Brown still has star power. Everywhere Jerry Brown speaks, there is a full house and an excitement that isn't normally associated with an Oakland mayoral campaign. Whether Brown is making his…
    by Philip Dawdy April 29, 1998 Tags: , , , ,
    Music,

    Reviews

    Ali Crucial (Island Black Music) As the American art-soul movement continues to gain momentum with acts like the Fugees' Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu, the British R&B groups that used to make this genre worth listening to are still trying…
    by Martin Johnson, Dave Clifford, and Philip Dawdy April 22, 1998 Tags: , , , ,
    News,

    What's the Harman a Big Checchi Account?

    The rich are very different from you and me, and Jane Harman and Al Checchi are very rich: Depending on day-to-day vagaries of the stock market, Harman is worth an estimated $200 million, and Checchi has a fortune of more…
    by Philip Dawdy March 25, 1998 Tags: , , , ,
    Music,

    Reviews

    Reverend Horton Heat Space Heater (Interscope) What you need to know about Reverend Horton Heat is that in the early '90s he had enough indie cred to make loans to wannabe rockabillys. Now, he's the one who needs to borrow.…
    by Philip Dawdy, Sam Prestianni, and Martin Johnson March 18, 1998 Tags: , , , ,
    Music,

    Reviews

    John Lee Hooker The Complete '50s Chess Recordings (MCA/Chess) The blues is food for worms. Dead. Axe-murdered by Buddy Guy, Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and their ilk, who captured the form in the late '60s and sold the world…
    by Philip Dawdy, Robert Arriaga, and Martin Johnson March 4, 1998 Tags: , , , ,
    News,

    Dog Bites

    Ooooooh, Bill! Was that Bill Gates wandering the halls of Burlingame's Hyatt Regency during the GOP convention? Two delegates swore to Dog Bites they'd had eye contact with the nerdy Master of the Universe -- until a pair of teen-age…
    by Philip Dawdy, T. S., and Laurel Wellman February 25, 1998 Tags: , , , ,
    News,

    Young Urban Psychopaths

    Do men need yet another monthly magazine to help them renegotiate their contract with the zeitgeist? R.U. Sirius and Fred Dodsworth wager they do. So that's exactly what the Bay Area publishing veterans are delivering: a magazine -- Axcess, by…
    by Philip Dawdy January 28, 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.'"
    clipping at Brava Theater Sept. 11
    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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