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• Dimes: Making History You Can Dance To

  by j. poet•August 28, 2008•Comments (0)

  You’re already in a pleasant pop trance when you notice that they’re not painting joyful pictures of boy meets girl. No, the songs on The Silent Generation deal with murder, political riots, war, death, and people going insane before they jump into the sea in botched suicide attempts. The album has gotten raves for their ability to bring light into even the darkest scenarios and the band’s blend of acoustic and electric guitars to create a sound that manages to be soothing (read more)

• 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)

• Outside Lands and Rock Make Street Festival

  by C!-Team•August 27, 2008•Comments (0)

  The C!-team was suuuuuper busy this past weekend. San Francisco was the place to be, what with the inaugural year of the Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival and the Rock Make Street Fest, at which we spent a hot, blissful day. (read more)

• Ra Ra Riot

  by Angela Zimmerman•August 20, 2008•Comments (0)

  "crafts building, rousing melodies with some darker tones beneath their dramatic surface" (read more)

• A Grand Ol' Timeously With Baby Gramps

  by Denise Sullivan•August 13, 2008•Comments (5)

  Singer, songwriter, guitarist, and teller of tall tales, Gramps has spent a lifetime plundering the treasures of the old world, told and untold, ever since he was a young man—probably the youngest person on the planet to have ever gone by the sobriquet Gramps (that's where the Baby comes in). These days, as back then, he keeps alive early 20th century standards like "Teddy Bears' Picnic", "St. James Infirmary", and "Big Rock Candy Mountain" along with lesser-known (read more)

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