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Rachel Devitt

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    Music, Reviewed Alias & Ehren

    Alias & Ehren

    Lillian is like a halfway house for geeky high school band instruments. Beat-maker Alias (Brendon Whitney) and his brother, multi-instrumentalist Ehren, rehabilitate the wind section, remaking timbres that haven't had much pop-cultural cachet since the big-band era into hip, upstanding…
    by Rachel Devitt August 31, 2005 Tags: , , , ,
    Music, Reviewed Schoolyard Heroes

    Schoolyard Heroes

    Schoolyard Heroes aren't really a rock band -- they are Gothic operettists. Fantastic Wounds, the second album from this young Seattle band, indomitably scales monstrous, bloody themes, nicked out of pulp novels, sci-fi movies, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show,…
    by Rachel Devitt July 27, 2005 Tags: , , , , ,
    Music, Reviewed Last of the Blacksmiths

    Last of the Blacksmiths

    This self-titled debut album from San Francisco band Last of the Blacksmiths has all the makings of a serious altcountry-substance abuse problem. "Saloon Song" surges and subsides like a night at the local watering hole with your equally down-on-his-luck drinking…
    by Rachel Devitt July 20, 2005 Tags: , , , ,
    Music, Reviewed Kinski

    Kinski

    With unprecedented candor for a music critic, I'm going to admit that I don't know much about the kind of music Kinski plays. Those of you well versed in the language of space rock, post-rock, whatever, are undoubtedly already aware…
    by Rachel Devitt July 13, 2005 Tags: , , ,
    Music, Reviewed Missy Elliott

    Missy Elliott

    Up until 2003's lackluster This Is Not a Test, Missy Elliott was like the student body president of hip hop, getting her yearbook signed by everyone via cameos and showing up in the picture for each important moment in recent…
    by Rachel Devitt July 13, 2005 Tags: , , , ,
    Music, Reviewed Sarah Dougher

    Sarah Dougher

    Harper's Arrow, which was originally conceived as a rumination on Homer's Odyssey, is an exploration of complicated, multiple meanings as seen through the lens of a Homerian metaphor about the connotative overlap of a harp and a bow. If you…
    by Rachel Devitt June 22, 2005 Tags: , , ,
    Music, Reviewed Cloud Cult|Say Hi to Your Mom

    Cloud Cult|Say Hi to Your Mom

    If Dr. Phil made an album, it might sound something like Advice From the Happy Hippopotamus. Cloud Cult rocks like a motivational speaker on a self-help book tour: Songwriter/mastermind Craig Minowa bathes us in treacly words of encouragement on the…
    by Rachel Devitt June 15, 2005 Tags: , , ,
    Music, Reviewed Colleen

    Colleen

    I was getting ready to play the new Colleen album for my friend and blathering on about how delicate and breathtaking her first album, Everyone Alive Wants Answers, was. Then I put on The Golden Morning Breaks and he said,…
    by Rachel Devitt June 1, 2005 Tags: , ,
    Music, Reviewed Epoxies

    Epoxies

    The Epoxies sound like the high school band formed by a gaggle of rough-and-tumble misfits with hearts of gold in a John Hughes movie. Stop the Future, the Portland-based act's second album, is the stuff musical montages dream of: heart-pumping…
    by Rachel Devitt May 25, 2005 Tags: , , , ,
    Music, Reviewed Martha Wainwright

    Martha Wainwright

    I saw Martha Wainwright perform while she was singing backup for her brother Rufus. Working the stage like a wannabe starlet gunning for her first speaking part, Martha, infinitely more self-lionizing than even His Highness Rufus (monumentally big head and…
    by Rachel Devitt May 4, 2005 Tags: , , ,
    Music, Reviewed Regina Spektor

    Regina Spektor

    Regina Spektor is so precious I want to fucking bite her. This is not supposed to be the point. As part of the East Coast's anti-folk movement, Spektor is ostensibly avant-garde and profound, her cutesiness some kind of highbrow, underground…
    by Rachel Devitt April 13, 2005 Tags: , , ,
    Music, Reviewed Fannypack

    Fannypack

    Call off the truant officer, because the school of lo-fi sass is back in session. To kick things off, Brooklyn's Fannypack throws itself a raunchy little pep rally on "Keep It Up," with MCs Jessibel, Belinda, and Cat playing head…
    by Rachel Devitt March 30, 2005 Tags: , , , ,
    Music, Reviewed Jennifer Lopez

    Jennifer Lopez

    Jennifer Lopez has finally made an album that is as hot as she is. "Cherry Pie" is as lyrically inane as anything she's ever written ("Dear Ben," anyone?), but it's silly like a fox or, more accurately, like Janet Jackson,…
    by Rachel Devitt March 16, 2005 Tags: , , , ,
    Music, Reviewed Tori Amos

    Tori Amos

    Five steps toward becoming Tori Amos: Step 1: Be the kid of a preacher man and drop out of music school. Step 2: Release two elegantly, ridiculously intimate solo albums, and inspire millions of girls to don fairy wings and…
    by Rachel Devitt February 23, 2005 Tags: , , ,
    Music, Reviewed Kings of Leon

    Kings of Leon

    Kings of Leon are the sons of a Southern evangelist, and they play music coated in the dirt of a backwoods beer bash and descended from Creedence and Blind Lemon Jefferson. It's the sort of equation that cramps the feverish…
    by Rachel Devitt February 23, 2005 Tags: , , , ,
    Music, Reviewed The Chemical Brothers

    The Chemical Brothers

    Push the Button marks the return of the electronica eclecticism the Chemical Brothers infected the masses with back in the halcyon, glow-stick-lit days of the mid-'90s. The album is littered with such ephemera as kung-fu gongs, funk-bass thwacks, electro jew's-harp…
    by Rachel Devitt February 16, 2005 Tags: , , , , ,
    Music, Reviewed Stereo Total

    Stereo Total

    If Euro-chic is your thing, Do the Bambi is your record. "Babystritch," for example, is imbued with the chilled, cosmopolitan marble of a train station, its bits of frosty German speech coming at you like announcements over a staticky intercom,…
    by Rachel Devitt February 16, 2005 Tags: , , , ,
    Music, Reviewed Sage Francis

    Sage Francis

    Sage Francis walks that fine line between offensively earnest and incisively romantic. What should sound pretentious (the numbing soullessness of society) and/ or obscenely melodramatic (calling a failed relationship "slave labor") drips from Francis' tongue as if his spit were…
    by Rachel Devitt February 16, 2005 Tags: , , , ,
    Music, Reviewed Snitches Get Stitches

    Snitches Get Stitches

    Snitches Get Stitches are definitely rotten, blistering, hardcore punks, and they prove it with their schoolyard-bully name, the appropriately sinister title of their album, song titles like "Skullsplitter," and decibel-shattering tributes to "sexy sellouts" on thrashers like "Koala Stars." But…
    by Rachel Devitt February 9, 2005 Tags: , , , ,
    Music, Reviewed Ani DiFranco

    Ani DiFranco

    So I was having this inner ethical battle about whether I could review Knuckle Down objectively given my humiliating youthful adoration of, and subsequent distaste for, the Folk Singer when my friend said to me, “Maybe you don’t like her…
    by Rachel Devitt February 2, 2005 Tags: , ,
    Music, Reviewed Saint Etienne

    Saint Etienne

    Saint Etienne is a very pretty concept -- and 15 years of a pretty concept makes for a lovely best-of album. Travel Edition is a smorgasbord of the group's vintage-y, glistening vocals, dewy, muted synths, and vanilla dance beats, with…
    by Rachel Devitt December 29, 2004 Tags: , , , , ,
    Music, Reviewed Holly Golightly

    Holly Golightly

    I have to admit that I was less than enthusiastic about the prospect of sitting through a new Holly Golightly album, another Valium-drip-slow trip through retro land, complete with a pit stop at the Beer Soaked Roadside Juke Joint, in…
    by Rachel Devitt December 22, 2004 Tags: , , ,
    Music, Reviewed Gwen Stefani

    Gwen Stefani

    Your friends are totally going to make fun of Gwen Stefani's first-ever solo album. Granted, they have quite a bit of ammunition at their disposal. "Cool," a synthy pile of schlock about Stefani's overly coiffed marriage (to Bush's Gavin Rossdale),…
    by Rachel Devitt December 15, 2004 Tags: , , , , ,
    Music, Reviewed The Makers

    The Makers

    For years, the Makers have been doing what everyone else is doing now -- pilfering religiously from Iggy, Pete, and myriad garage rock bands. They're an arena band without the arena, all trashy panache and swaggering bravado but with none…
    by Rachel Devitt November 24, 2004 Tags: , , , , ,
    Music, Reviewed Rufus Wainwright

    Rufus Wainwright

    I was initially a little immune to the baroque fabulousness of Want One, the precursor to Want Two, Wainwright's fifth album -- that is, until One's gut-ripper "Go or Go Ahead" followed me around like a larger-than-life washed-up cinema star…
    by Rachel Devitt November 24, 2004 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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