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The Art of Screaming! DVD & CD

Kurt Cobain damaged something inside rock 'n' roll. His go-for-broke cathartic styling, which sacrificed health and safety, had a residual effect on hard rock....

924 Gilman St.: Let’s Talk About Tact and Timing … DVD

It's a funny thing to see the punk generation grow old. In America, raging against the machine must be done either ironically or moronically,...

From Trash to Treasure … and Back Again

There's an old African proverb: "If you can walk, you can dance. If you can talk, you can sing." This is as opposed to,...

The Sword Plunges Into Metal’s Dorky Past

I'm still wearing black. Nearly a month after the death of Gary Gygax, creator of the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, I still wear...

Punk Curmudgeons

Okay, so we could glue llama hair on the first thousand!" This is not the first thing you expect to hear upon entering a Haight...

Punk-Rock Parking Lot

I'd been warned to get to 924 Gilman Street early on Sunday, because the show would almost certainly sell out. "Pinhead Gunpowder, dude!" my...

Just Metal, No Hyphen

A recent study by this reporter has shown that eating spaghetti is made much more difficult while listening to heavy metal. The act of...

Going the Distance

Long-distance relationships are almost inevitably doomed. The loss of immediacy and being surrounded by other people at all times makes the notion of abstract...
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