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Making a Joyful Noise: The Happy Hollows @ The Knockout, San Francisco
Standing inside the Knockout in San Francisco’s Mission district late on a Wednesday night, August 27, 2008, I couldn’t help but feel a sense of déjà vu. I know I’ve been in some club
Read More »L.A.’s Best-Kept Secret: The Parson Red Heads @ Kimo’s, San Francisco
While a large chunk of San Francisco’s concert-going population was crowding Golden Gate Park for that big ol’ Outside Lands festival, Saturday night, August 23, 2008, at Kimo’s was a mutual reputation-building affair for
Read More »The Popdose Guide to Juliana Hatfield
Listening to rock radio in the early ’90s — particularly the college and ‘alternative’ varieties — was an experience like no other. The ratio of tolerable to intolerable music was so high that no
Read More »The Popdose Guide to Badfinger
Few bands in the history of rock n’ roll have been simultaneously as lucky and doomed as Badfinger. Lucky because they were not only one of the wildly eclectic assortment of artists the Beatles
Read More »The Popdose Guide to Ornette Coleman
I am not one to toss around the word “hero” lightly. It takes extraordinary courage to earn such a designation. I am also not one to write one of these artist overviews with too
Read More »Safe for Crackers: Harmolodic Edition
What were you doing in 1986? If you were a suburban kid with access to a radio or MTV, you were experiencing the dawn of rap as a commercial force to be reckoned with.
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