Live at the Pagoda Presents Muhsinah

January 26, 2012 - by Tomek Mackowiak

The 2012 Live at the Pagoda Winter Music Series begins Friday, with singer Muhsinah & DJ House Shoes. Read More

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Fresno, really? Fierce Creatures need to get their asses to the South Bay, where their gorgeous brand of indie dream-rock is currently all the rage thanks to bands like the Record Winter, Ugly Winner and Bell Thieves.

In just a year or so, soulsters Fitz & the Tantrums went from the living room to the main stage. The recipe for meteoric success? Six killer musicians, five dapper suits, irresistible songs, some serendipity and one vintage organ.

The Monophonics come into the soul revival sweepstakes with a gritty, heavy Blaxploitation-era sound punctuated by brass blasts, but the video for "Loose Nukes" shows how tuned in they are to current hip-hop style.

The Chicago rock band Wilco release their eighth studio album - The Whole Love - on September 27 through their newly launched dBpm Records. It follows the band's 2009 Grammy-nominated Wilco (The Album) and was recorded at the band's Chicago recording studio The Loft.

Down in Salinas, Hero Shot set out to play some loud, aggressive hardcore songs, only they didn't want it to be full of screaming like most hardcore bands. Instead they found a singer that could, well, sing.

The Blank Club will be hosting another Adult Dance Party with hosts Eric Belladonna and DJ Basura. With indie and electronic music, as well as remixes, this month's Adult Dance Party is sure to get the house movin'.

A lot of alt-folk outfits don't want to be pegged as too rootsy, perhaps for fear they'll slide ride off of the indie landscape. But San Francisco's Rin Tin Tiger mixes cerebral lyrics and gentle acoustic guitar with some gritty harmonica and a vocal delivery that's straight-up, unapologetic croon.

BLAM!!! is the sound of things to come. Blam!! is the soundtrack of the unknown, a call to arms on behalf of free thought, creativity and justice. Blam!!! is the abstrakt metabopilicious, also known as the elegant jazznoise (sound as feeling.) BLAM!!

Did you know that Tampa, Florida, is the death metal capital of the world? It's true! Every noteworthy death metal band either came from Tampa or nearby.

If Danzig wrote songs about wizards and magical dwarves instead of zombies and Satan, he might have been invited to join Frost Hammer.

Formed in 1999, Bleeding Through derives its sound from modern hardcore punk, symphonic black metal, and melodic death metal influences. The group has released seven full-length albums, appeared at Ozzfest, and has been hailed as an "artist to watch" by "Revolver" magazine.

an outside-the-box journey into sights and sounds from far and deep into the imagination, and a fascinating antidote to the often stultifying dearth of vision and ambition in so much rock music today."

ESG - (99 Records, Soul Jazz Records - NYC) full band, live, only West Coast date on their Final tour.

Johnny O is known as "The King of Freestyle" among underground circles, and has been performing and recording since 1988. His first and most successful album, entitled "Johnny O", included popular Latin underground songs such as "Fantasy Girl", "Highways of Love", and "Memories".

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Music & Clubs

Local look: Joe Q Citizen

Jan 27, 2012 by Tomek Mackowiak
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One of the most intense debates of the late 20th Century still rages on into this millennium. Most likely, neither side will concede and we will forever ponder the question, “Is Punk dead?” While there are convincing arguments on both sides, it is undeniable that there are shining examples that show, in… » Read More

Live at the Pagoda Presents Muhsinah

Jan 26, 2012 by Tomek Mackowiak
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The 2012 Live at the Pagoda Winter Music Series begins Friday, with singer Muhsinah and DJ House Shoes. The Pagoda lives a dual life. During the day and on most nights, the Pagoda is an upscale Chinese restaurant attached to the Fairmont Hotel. On certain evenings though, it is transformed into San… » Read More

Dan P and the Bricks rise from the ashes of third-wave ska greats

Jan 25, 2012 by Matt Crawford
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Third-wave ska legends Dan Potthast of MU330 and Slow Gherkin thought they had put skanking behind them years ago. But it all came back to them in 2009, when Potthast joined up with four ex-Gherkin members (A.J. Marquez, Matt Porter, Brendan Thompson and Phil Boutelle) and his fellow MU330 bandmate Matt Knobbe… » Read More

Movies

The Grey

Jan 26, 2012 - by Richard Von Busack

The inflationary quality of The Grey begins early, even before the finish, with a four-line bit of indomitable Irish doggerel. Liam Neeson plays Ottway, an Arctic legend busted down to wolf shooter on an Alaska oil-drilling rig. We can see how he feels about this job when he stops to pet the fur of his victim. » Read More

A Separation

Jan 25, 2012 - by Richard Von Busack

Another brilliant movie from the land of brilliant movies, Iran's A Separation unfolds in layers, with a secret revealed in the last 20 minutes. There isn't a lead actor per se; the cast is more of a circle than a hierarchy. But director Asghar Farhadi has cast his daughter, Sarina, in an auspicious debut. » Read More

Red Tails

Jan 23, 2012 - by Richard Von Busack

The heroism of the Tuskegee Airmen will never be forgotten. Red Tails, however-forget about it. Executive producer George Lucas once stitched in excerpts of World War II-era movie dogfights to let the studio know what he had in mind for the battle sequences in Star Wars. Red Tails seems to have rewoven all those snippets together. » Read More

The Arts

Aphrodisiac

Jan 25, 2012 - by Sean Conwell

Every few days, it seems, some "family values" politician is caught sleeping with an intern, soliciting sex in a restroom or asking his second wife for an open marriage. What boggles the mind, besides the hypocrisy involved, is how these men can engage in behavior that they know could destroy their careers. » Read More

Write Brain

Jan 3, 2012 - by Neal Soldofsky

Neuroscience has not been kind to the concept of free will. In recent years, the field has given us a picture of the conscious mind that isn't very flattering-it often looks to be quite an underachiever compared to the unconscious mind, and it's also disturbingly willing to take credit for work it didn't do. » Read More

Features & Columns

How to Fix the Economy

Jan 12, 2012 - by David Brin

Here's a vital issueE under discussion (at last) on both sides of the Atlantic. Governments, rich and poor, urgently need two things: a method to calm speculation in the financial markets and new ways to raise revenue. In late 2011, the European Commission proposed a tax or fee on financial transactions. This move appears to be part of the newly announced European Union plan, with Britain the sole dissenter. » Read More

Cannabis Goes to Court

Jan 26, 2012 - by Alyssa Kies

In 2006, Steve DeAngelo received a permit to open Harborside Health Center in Oakland. One of the first calls made by DeAngelo-whose signature hair braids make him look a little like a middle-aged, white version of Snoop Doog-was to friend Elan Hawtrey, a retail and sales expert. » Read More

Memory Bites

Jan 25, 2012 - by Gary Singh

THE anti-man-about-town resurfaced at HP Pavilion just last week to experience the Sharks taking on the Ottawa Senators. He had not been to a game in many years. The experience threw him into a space-time-shattering vortex where past, present and future expanded like a rubber band and then snapped back to reality. It brought back memories of when he first watched hockey as a kid, and, more recently, when he traveled to Ottawa a few times. » Read More

I Saw You

Jan 3, 2012 - by Anonymous

We can't tell if you are immature, obtuse, oblivious, clumsy, mean or just flat-out insensitive. Yes, you, we're talking to you, the people at workplaces everywhere who loudly plan and discuss their after-work activities without regard to the feelings of those not included in their little soirees. » Read More

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