Originally published at SFCritic and Thrillcall – Photos by Darryl Kirchner Last night’s sold out Die Antwoord show at the Regency Ballroom was bizarre and high energy. They are unique and right now are dangling on the precipice of being a 10’s flash in the pan joke or riding the wave of kitsch fame they have…
Next week Congress will vote on the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA). The bill will force websites large and small to stop advertising with or taking paid advertisements from sites that aggregate pirated content in addition to having a regulatory committee to seek out Internet piracy and remove violators from the web. I get it;…
Originally publiushed at TheSFCritic. If you aren’t familiar with Harlem, NY based Immortal Technique, it is likely because he has never signed to a major label and his following has been personally cultivated through independent album sales. Following Revolutionary Volumes 1 and 2 and the Third World, Tech released The Martyr for free online October…
Originally posted at SFCritc Reviewing the Handsome Furs, Suuns and Talkdemonic show at Slims I knew the outcome was a toss up. Montreal-based headliners Handsome Furs are comprised of an adorable, well-dressed young married couple, and the music I had heard prior to seeing them live walked the line between angsty hipster love riff…
Originally posted at SFCritic After the debauchery of D.C., I jumped on an Amtrak through the Chesapeake Bay of Maryland, the dense suburbia of Delaware and up through New Jersey (where my favorite Housewives live) into New York City. I met a good friend at Penn Station, where he took me back into the Subway…
Originally posted at The SFCritic A couple weeks before I left on my cross-country trip I gave a friend in Washington D.C. a call. Although he has been unreliable in the past, he was always a fun guy to hang out with in San Francisco and he had offered to show me around if I…
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