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    This Column Is Brought to You by the Letter M, the Letter P, the Number 3, and the Concept "Death of the Artist"; On That Note ...
    By Mark Athitakis
    Published: July 26, 2000

    This Column Is Brought to You by the Letter M, the Letter P, the Number 3, and the Concept "Death of the Artist" It's been the better part of a month since John Vanderslice took on the somewhat...

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    Everything Quieter Than Everything Else; Studio Time
    By Mark Athitakis
    Published: July 19, 2000

    Everything Quieter Than Everything Else Like a lot of so-called "new music" records in the marketplace these days, the packaging of the Threnody Ensemble's first album, Timbre Hollow , is a...

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    A Punk's Progress; Critic's Corner
    By Mark Athitakis
    Published: July 12, 2000

    A Punk's Progress Pop music and God have never gotten along very well -- think of all the religious leaders who've pilloried Elvis, the Beatles, and Madonna over the years, not to mention all...

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    Goodbye to All That; Punk, Love, and Understanding; He Shall Be Released
    By Mark Athitakis
    Published: July 5, 2000

    Goodbye to All That Here's a challenge: Try to find a travel article on San Francisco that somehow avoids invoking the word "heaven" every third or fourth paragraph. As summer kicks in,...

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    Welcome to the Atrocity Exhibition; Musical Theater
    By Mark Athitakis
    Published: June 14, 2000

    Welcome to the Atrocity Exhibition Noe Venable talks like a rocker, sings like a jazz crooner, and tells stories like an old folkie -- which gets you into a hell of a mess trying to nail down...

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    Not That Tired Old Business About Dot-Coms and Culture Again; Gone
    By Mark Athitakis
    Published: June 7, 2000

    Not That Tired Old Business About Dot-Coms and Culture Again These days, you can feel the backlash against the backlash kicking in -- a sense that anybody who cares about San Francisco music is...

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    Flipper's a Cover Band Now, OK?
    By Mark Athitakis
    Published: May 31, 2000

    All reports to the contrary, the recent Dead Kennedys vs. Dead Kennedys lawsuit wasn't about royalties, or even preserving some amorphous concept of punk "integrity." Keeping in mind that the...

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    It's a Big World After All; When Your Band Breaks; Oops
    By Mark Athitakis
    Published: May 24, 2000

    It's a Big World After All The first annual San Francisco World Music Festival inspires a lot of questions. First on the list: Why? Traditionally, music festivals are attempts to create a local...

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    The Wedding Present; Bands Wanted(Talent Helpful, But Not Required); Oops
    By Mark Athitakis
    Published: May 17, 2000

    The Wedding Present Weddings are generally boring. Or, rather, they're boring to write about -- how the New York Times consistently stomachs scribbling about the pâté available at...

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    Free Lars Ulrich!; New Groove; Sound Off
    By Mark Athitakis
    Published: May 10, 2000

    Free Lars Ulrich! Metallica has done some exceedingly silly things in its time -- we're still trying to figure out that whole San Francisco Symphony thing the band perpetrated last year. In...

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    Deep Compilation
    By Mark Athitakis
    Published: May 3, 2000

    What trial-size shampoo bottles are to the weary business traveler, compilation albums are to the music fan -- efficient samplers, used on the fly and practically disposable. At least, that's how...

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    The Way You Wear Your Past
    By Mark Athitakis
    Published: April 26, 2000

    Sexy, sordid myths of starlets past have a habit of landing on bookstore shelves regularly, with the sort of resounding thud that only the detailed ransacking of history can provide. The last six...

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    Everything I Ever Needed to Know About the Music Business I Learned From Eddie Money, etc...
    By Mark Athitakis
    Published: April 19, 2000

    Everything I Ever Needed to Know About the Music Business I Learned From Eddie Money So the California Music Awards -- better known as the Bammies -- pretty much came and went without making...

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    Have you heard? The Bay Area music scene is dead. Somebody killed it.
    By Mark Athitakis
    Published: April 12, 2000

    The Music Scene's Dead? Again ? There's a rumor going around these days. Have you heard? The Bay Area music scene is dead. Somebody killed it. It's in a gutter somewhere -- 11th and Folsom,...

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    Uh, Actually, It's More Like an Art Collapse; Cartoons From Another Planet
    By Mark Athitakis
    Published: April 5, 2000

    Uh, Actually, It's More Like an Art Collapse Ah, spring in San Francisco, and our thoughts turn to all of those typical San Francisco-type things that come with the bluster of a new season:...

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    In the Ballpark
    By Mark Athitakis
    Published: March 29, 2000

    In the Ballpark Of all the pleasant surprises that attended Yo La Tengo's recent four-show stint at the Great American Music Hall, one of the most pleasant was seeing songstress Barbara...

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    The Land Deeds They Are A-Changin'
    By Mark Athitakis
    Published: March 22, 2000

    The Land Deeds They Are A-Changin' On March 27, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music will make a public announcement that will likely lay out its plans to purchase the spacious International...

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    Street Hassles
    By Mark Athitakis
    Published: March 15, 2000

    Street Hassles Most musicians -- or even music fans -- don't read the Wall Street Journal regularly, but perhaps they should. The March 2 edition of the paper featured a front-page story...

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    Mark Kozelek, Genghis Blues, Raisha Simmons lives
    By Mark Athitakis
    Published: March 8, 2000

    Back in Bleak Mark Kozelek's in a good mood these days -- surprising news for a fellow whose perkiest song is titled "Lord, Kill the Pain." Around this time last year, the Red House Painters...

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    Mark Eitzel at Hotel Utah, Clit Stop, Arhoolie Records' 40th Birthday
    By Mark Athitakis
    Published: March 1, 2000

    Hello, Pork Pie Hat You don't need a good excuse to go to the Hotel Utah; the Utah's old-timey saloon atmosphere has always been enough. Still, you'd be forgiven if you felt a bit more pressured...

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