Originally posted at The SFCritc Kentucky is the source of 96% of the world’s bourbon, the bougiest sport of all—thoroughbred horse racing (which I also heard referred to by an Indiana Hoosier as Medieval Nascar), and one of the coolest cities in the country: Louisville. Louisville has a thriving music scene, a notable absence of…
By Angela Bacca with Whitney Priebe Welcome to St. Louis, Missouri; the launching pad for the Lewis and Clark expedition which led to the “settling” the West (by throwing smallpox infested blankets at natives and then penning up the survivors on reservations), home of Rush Limbaugh and Tea Party Ground Zero, the true…
Originally posted at SFCritic After years of slinging drinks (and probably drinking more than I ‘slang’), then working in publishing and journalism (almost always about marijuana… I am the expert on getting drunk and high), I decided I could never work for anyone else, EVER AGAIN. I fell into some time and money (which are…
Published on 5.10.2011 by SFCritic On probably the only sober minute of a booze-soaked getaway to the North Coast I had the pleasure of overhearing a solo violinist’s rendition of Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes’s “Home” outside of a coffee shop on the edge of the Mendocino Headlands. A few hours later I had…
Immortal Technique at The New Parish, Oakland, April 3, 2011 In early January 2010, longtime Oakland jazz music scene establishment “Sweet Jimmy’s,” was reincarnated as The New Parish, and in the last year has not only solidified its place in the East Bay music scene but become a beacon in Bay Area nightlife, easily rivaling…
It took about three weeks for me to really like Radiohead’s most recent release, “King of Limbs.” At first listen, it is whiny, annoying and obscure—everything people who don’t like Radiohead don’t like about them. To those fan’s (like myself) who took some time learning to love Kid A and Amnesiac, King of Limbs was…
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