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Get to the show, weirdos
Marky Ramone and Andrew W.K.FALL ARTS There are so many things competing for your precious time: long lines for pricey gourmet coffee, civic responsibilities and volunteer work, actual work, glazed...
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The big Hardly Strictly roster reveal
Swedish folk duo First Aid Kit is one of the younger bands in the lineup.After weeks of teasers, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass released its full 2013 lineup this week, and it boasts some fresh young...
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Heads Up: 6 must-see concerts this week
The many sides of Julia Holter.PHOTO BY RICK BAHTO.Music can serve to fit your specific mood. If you can pinpoint an emotion you wish to heighten, you have the ability to explode the senses with a band...
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Girls like us
The Julie Ruin's Kathleen Hanna on finding strength through music The Julie Ruin is Kathleen Hanna's dream team.PHOTO BY SHERVIN LAINEZTOFU AND WHISKEY Before Le Tigre but after the demise of Bikini...
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Geeking out on Kathleen Hanna's the Julie Ruin at Slim's
I swear, the Julie Ruin is in this.PHOTO BY EMILY SAVAGE.After explaining that the next song would be about how there are thousands of feminists, all around the world, and driving home the obvious...
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San Francisco Homebrewers Guild Q&A: A mashing good time
Dulce de Leche Imperial Stout at the Cerveceria de MateVeza homebrewers gathering.PHOTO FROM SFHOMEBREWERSGUILD.COMFor this week’s cover story, I profiled one particular homebrewer -- my husband -- on...
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Q&A: Blouse on the Dream Syndicate, forest life, and going synth-less
Blouse sticks together.PHOTO BY ANNA IGNATENKOBlouse, may have ditched the synths and drum machines of its 2011 debut self-titled album with new Captured Tracks full-length, Imperium, but the sound...
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Seattle surf rock band La Luz in severe car accident
La Luz's van is totaled.Some terrible news about a band featured in this week’s issue: La Luz. The haunted surf rock quartet from Seattle was in an awful-sounding car accident last night.The ladies of...
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Vegan idol Isa Chandra Moskowitz brings ‘Isa Does It’ to SF, reveals...
The first thing you need to know about Isa Chandra Moskowitz is that she's a punky legend in the global vegan community. She started the DIY Post Punk Kitchen public access show in Brooklyn and...
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War of the roses
Rhys Chatham's piece for 100 guitars, Tricycle Records comp release, more Melt-BananaRhys Chatham directs 100 guitarists.PHOTO BY PAULA COURTemilysavage@sfbg.comTOFU AND WHISKEY Rock 'n' roll...
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Gray days
Kitten Grenadearts@sfbg.comTOFU AND WHISKEY New DIY record labels? Minimalist two-person ukulele bands? These are not the signs of fast-paced, modern, glossy hi-tech lifestyles. While San Francisco is...
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Meat is murder
Dreadnaught cover; Life StinksLIFE STINKS PHOTO BY MARK MURRMANNarts@sfbg.comTOFU AND WHISKEY Of course Morrissey would name his long-awaited memoir Autobiography (Putnam Adult, 464 pp., $30). The...
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On the veg
Isa Chandra Moskowitz is back with 'Isa Does It,' a vegan cookbook for working stiffsRecipes on offer in Moskowitz's book include a colorful beet saladarts@sfbg.comLIT The first thing you need to know...
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Riot acts
'The Punk Singer' chronicles Kathleen Hanna's remarkable life — and mysterious illnessDouble dare ya: Riot grrrl icon Kathleen HannaPHOTO COURTESY OF LEETA HARDINGarts@sfbg.comFILM It was strange when...
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Rattlin' bones and sugar plums
The Preservation Hall Jazz Band rolls into town. Plus: Happy Diving, the Weirdos, more musicPreservation Hall Jazz Bandarts@sfbg.comTOFU AND WHISKEY The tuba comes quickly, bubbling over excitedly at...
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Teen dream machine
THE YEAR IN MUSIC: Teen girls (and fierce young women) rocked the world in 2013Lorine Chiaarts@sfbg.comYEAR IN TOFU AND WHISKEY Call it the Rookie Magazine trickle-down effect: Teen girl rockers ruled...
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TOFU AND WHISKEY If you're like me, you'd much rather chug the Champagne of Beers straight from the can in flower-print stretch pants while loud music ricochets through your skull than hit a club club...
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Rockin' New Year's Eve
Let 2013 all hang out at these musical blastsProvocative cult fave El Elle joins classic local dirty dance producer Gold Chains at Night Light in OaklandPHOTO BY BROOK LANERelated: 2014 dreamsTOFU AND...
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Down at the Rickshaw
One of our favorite independent music venues celebrates 10 years of rockin' -- with a week of great showsYachtMIKAL CRONIN PHOTO BY DENEE PETRACEKarts@sfbg.comTOFU AND WHISKEY The Rickshaw Stop has a...
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Love rumbles
Who is Charlie Megira? A Berlin rebel with a Bay Area connectionThe old soul and younger heart of Charlie MegiraPHOTO BY ALEXANDER KRAVETSarts@sfbg.comMUSIC Like some bastard love child of Link Wray...
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