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    Noise Pop Preview: Quick Picks
    By Hannah Levin
    Published: February 20, 2008

    If it's the end of February, and the clubs are packed with indie darlings from here and abroad, that can only mean one thing: Noise Pop has once again taken over the town. San Francisco's...

  2. Music

    The Drive-By Truckers Develop Country-Rock on the Road
    By Hannah Levin
    Published: February 6, 2008

    The Drive-By Truckers have entered 2008 at the top of their creative game — but it wasn't an easy journey. The band lost the galvanizing force of co-songwriter Jason Isbell in 2007, and its...

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    The Turks embrace Amphetamine Reptile's abrasive edge
    By Hannah Levin
    Published: January 16, 2008

    One of the most eclectic guitarists to emerge in the last three decades, Bill Frisell has traversed a vast terrain of music during his remarkable career. From his early days as go-to session...

  4. Music

    Motorhead's Lemmy Kilmister tills rock's roots in the Head Cat
    By Hannah Levin
    Published: January 9, 2008

    Unlike his overexposed, reality-TV-damaged contemporary Ozzy Osbourne, Motörhead leader Lemmy Kilmister is riding into the twilight of his career with his old-school honor intact....

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    The Intelligence
    Deuteronomy (In the Red)
    By Hannah Levin
    Published: November 14, 2007

    From the first 7-inch released in 2000 to this most recent effort, the Intelligence has essentially operated as a rotating door for freakishly talented musicians drawn to Lars Finberg's jagged...

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    ZZ Top Returns for Your "Tush"
    By Hannah Levin
    Published: October 31, 2007

    As a visionary member of psychedelic garage-rockers 13th Floor Elevators, Texas punk pioneer Roky Erickson cemented his place in modern music history with the band's corrosive 1966 hit single...

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    LCD Soundsystem: the planet's party-starting pro
    By Hannah Levin
    Published: September 19, 2007

    When LCD Soundsystem takes the stage, the group projects frenetic energy, using rock-band instrumentation to jolt crowds into pogo-jumps. That's no easy feat for what's basically a one-man...

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    Six-string giant Buddy Guy delivers sublime blues
    Hannah Levin
    Published: September 5, 2007

    Though confined to a chair when performing onstage, guitar legend B.B. King manages to deliver stinging solos filled with his trademark vibrato that sound as vital today as when he first tracked...

  9. Music

    Mute Manson
    The Antichrist Superstar sticks around with little artistry to offer
    By Hannah Levin
    Published: August 22, 2007

    When Marilyn Manson announced plans for retirement from music in 2005, it seemed like a respectable move. Here was a cultural icon who had incited conservative ire and peddled subversive (if...

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    Daniel Johnston brings DIY pop bliss to an imperfect world
    By Hannah Levin
    Published: August 22, 2007

    Over the course of recording 30 albums, Daniel Johnston has been compared to Brian Wilson and has provided inspiration to artists like Kurt Cobain and Yo La Tengo. And yet his songwriting...

  11. Music

    Ryan Adams Tames His Reckless Side
    Return of the Mischievous Angel
    By Hannah Levin
    Published: July 18, 2007

    Imagine if Ryan Adams had left this mortal coil seven years ago, shortly after the release of his critically exalted solo debut, Heartbreaker . It's a safe bet he would now be canonized as a...

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    Radio Birdman: still tuned into the good shit
    By Hannah Levin
    Published: June 13, 2007

    "Keeping it real" is overrated — better to keep it really retarded. The cryptic quartet No Doctors infiltrated the Bay Area in 2004 after a four-year stint in the Chicago area (where they...

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    Two! Hyped! Bands! In! One! Week!
    By Hannah Levin
    Published: May 30, 2007

    Hold Steady frontman Craig Finn describes his band's brand of verbose, guitar-driven splendor as "classic rock with a small ‘c'." It's apt shorthand for the hedonistic-but-literate sprawl...

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    Spooner Oldham: hitchhiking Drive By Trickers country rock ride
    By Hannah Levin
    Published: May 2, 2007

    Cloud Cult 's sprawling new album, The Meaning of 8, is a joyous affair, marrying '90s indie rock guitar jangle with quirky Unicorns-style electro-pop. Frontman Craig Minowa's wavering voice is...

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    Metal boys and their Lesbian lovers
    By Hannah Levin
    Published: March 21, 2007

    Christened with a deliberately deceptive moniker, the hirsute lads in Seattle's Lesbian marry psychedelic metal with prog rock for stylistically succinct results. Like King Crimson ordered to...

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    Under Byen's Icelandic envy
    By Hannah Levin
    Published: March 14, 2007

    Thanks in part to the benevolent gaze of previous tourmates My Morning Jacket, Dr. Dog 's status as Philadelphia's lo-fi-loving motley crew has been rising steadily in recent years. Last month's...

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    Seattle art rock climax
    By Hannah Levin
    Published: February 14, 2007

    Two of the Bay Area's more notable experimental rock upstarts are celebrating new releases this Friday. KIT is a quartet that wields guitars and sing-song female vocals to create spastic pop...

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