Christopher VictorioStevie Wonder at Outside Lands.STEVIE WONDER @ OUTSIDE LANDS FESTIVAL | 8/12/12The following is a dispatch from Outside Lands Festival in San Francisco, from our sister paper, SF Weekly. Stevie Wonder, in theory, is an American artistic treasure. He’s more than our Beatles or Rolling Stones; he’s our Dickens…
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Christopher VictorioMetallica at San Francisco’s Outside Lands festival.METALLICA @ OUTSIDE LANDS FESTIVAL | 8/11/12 The following is a dispatch from Outside Lands Festival in San Francisco, from our sister paper, SF Weekly. Metallica, headlining Saturday night of the Outside Lands festival in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, proved just about…
Christopher VictorioNeil Young and Crazy Horse at the Outside Lands festival.NEIL YOUNG & CRAZY HORSE @ OUTSIDE LANDS FESTIVAL | 8/10/12 The following is a dispatch from Outside Lands Festival in San Francisco, from our sister paper, SF Weekly. While he’s putting everything into a solo, Neil Young’s face looks…
Ah, yes, the work week is coming to a close. Time to party and dance yourself silly — some of us here already have a head start. Don’t judge. We’re simply following the decree passed down by the all knowing metal god Ratt (Dance! Dance! Dance!). Anyhow, where were we?…
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If you’re a boxer or something,” says Strange Americans frontman Matt Hoffman, “you box because that’s what you do. You go in and you fight every day, and sometimes you get your butt kicked, and sometimes you win.” Being a musician is often like getting in the ring, except sometimes…
The Kappa Cell (due this Saturday, August 11, at the Lion’s Lair) is made up of Don White — a guy best known for his stints in experimental metal band New Ancient Astronauts, outsider progressive outfit Action Friend and mutant funk phenoms the Good Grime Sound System — and James…
Sonny Moore started out as lead vocalist in the California-based hardcore band From First to Last in 2004. But you probably know him better as Skrillex (a handle he adopted a few years back), the masses’ highest-profile ambassador of EDM and essentially the mainstream pioneer of American dubstep. Prior to…
A number of bands are returning to a Southern-rock sound these days, but much of the music they’re making is too derivative to be interesting. Alabama Shakes, fresh off a date warming up for Neil Young, bucks that trend. The group’s members, who met in high school and forged the…
For forty very odd years, Loudon Wainwright III’s lacerating wit, unflinching candor and impish glee have combined to skewer everything in sight, from the near and dear to the feared — which, as it now turns out, is the Grim Reaper. LW3’s favorite protagonist has always been himself, and he’s…
Andrew Bird was one of the earlier pioneers of modern chamber pop. Growing up in Chicago, Bird — a classical violinist in training at age four — worked with alterna-swing band Squirrel Nut Zippers before firmly establishing a name for himself as a songwriter far beyond the Windy City with…
This debut solo album from former Woodsman drummer Eston Lathrop reveals that Lathrop wasn’t just a talented, sensitive and tasteful percussionist in that band; he was also an active participant in creating the shimmering drones and melodies that made Woodsman so consistently fascinating. “Derail” has an otherworldly exhilaration and calm…
Patrick Dethlefs started penning tunes at the age of fifteen, and while the songwriting on his debut, 2010’s Stays the Same, showed a great deal of depth, his sophomore release, Fall & Rise, makes it even more apparent that he has talent beyond his years. Dethlefs has a warm delivery…
It’s not often that bass lines stand out as the featured instrumentation on an album, but here you’d swear the bass was recorded during a 9.0 earthquake in a concrete bunker with a shard of glass for a pick. Songs like “Kill the Blue Dogs” and “The Process of Ripping…
