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• Phranc: The All-American Jewish Lesbian Folksinger

  by Denise Sullivan•August 27, 2008•Comments (0)

  From her time on the LA scene during the first wave of punk, and through a 25-year solo singer-songwriter career that's served as inspiration to a new generation of queercore and riot grrrl artists, Phranc is embedded in California's rich musical landscape. But it's off shore’s close proximity, whether while swimming, sailing, and especially surfing, where the self-proclaimed “basic average all-American (read more)

• Pitching Pop

  by Max Mobley•August 13, 2008•Comments (3)

  Corporate greed predates Ebenezer Scrooge, so ultimately that’s not why ROI pop is more prevalent and insipid than ever before. The real difference between a Montana and a Monkee is technology. (read more)

• The Heroine Sheiks Return: “We’re Going for the Jugular on Every Song”

  by Andrew Lau•July 16, 2008•Comments (0)

  Along with former Swans/Feotus guitarst Norman Westberg, Heroine Sheiks were originally made up of New York’s seediest looking musicians, and Selberg picked up where he left off by using unwanted songs from the Cows’ waning days for the Sheiks’ debut album, 2000’s Rape on the Installment Plan. Audiences looking for Cows Part Two were befuddled by the new group; the previous band’s power (read more)

• Cryptacize Go Digging for Treasure

  by j. poet•July 16, 2008•Comments (0)

  A cowbell, an Autoharp, and an electric guitar—it’s not the trio of instruments most people starting a rock band would put on their must-have list. But these are the elements that mark the music of the aptly named Oakland band Cryptacize, the trio of Michael Carreira, Chris Cohen, and Nedelle Torrisi. Cryptacize is making some of the most beautiful and mysterious music around. The band’s debut, Dig That Treasure, released in early 2008 on Asthmatic Kitty, is obviously pop (read more)

• Not Dead Yet: Why the Album Isn't Going Anywhere

  by Adam Bunch•May 21, 2008•Comments (8)

  By 2007, just four years after the very first iPods hit the shelves, single-song sales were already accounting for two-thirds of the music market. Individual tracks outsell albums online 19 to 1. And between 2000 and 2005, CD sales plummeted by 25 percent. Tower Records has crumbled. iTunes has exploded. (read more)

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