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Band for a Day
Charlemagne Charmaine and Paul Korte are two of hundreds of musicians who practice at the West Oakland rehearsal space Oakland Music Complex. But if...
Minding the Frontier of New Music
In 1993, its inaugural year, San Francisco's Other Minds Festival managed to book some of the world's most influential contemporary composers. Now, with its...
Active Music Festival Keeps It Local
Over the past year, several new music festivals have come to the East Bay, including Oakland Music Festival and Burger Boogaloo, but few have...
1-2-3-4 Go! Records Plans Another Expansion
From the moment that 1-2-3-4 Go! Records moved into its current location at 420 40th Street two years ago, owner Steve Stevenson knew he...
The Bay Area’s Breakout Artists of 2013
A few years ago, the Bay Area was most notable for its garage-rock bands, with sites like Pitchfork painting the image of an insular...
A Comic, a Coffee Man, and His Opera
At first, the premise of Too Much Coffee Man Opera sounds typical of the art form: A narcissistic protagonist is caught in an unrequited...
Whitney Phaneuf’s Top Five Albums of 2013
Superchunk, I Hate Music
Nineties indie-rock bands shrugged off rock-star ideals in favor of touring the country in a beater van, but few have endured...
The Future of Feces
Jennifer spent the better part of 2009 in a hospital due to a stomach condition called gastroparesis. According to the Sacramento resident, that's where...
