Cocorosie Live Review at Regency Ballroom

TUESDAY Cocorosie Live Review at Regency Ballroom Written by Angela Bacca The CocoRosie show at the Regency Ballroom was opened by Cibelle, a native Brazilian who writes and performs her songs in French, English and Portuguese. Her performance relied entirely too heavily on sexy gimmicks—which would be fine if it didn’t remind me of the…

M.I.A. and Lynn Hirschberg’s “Agitprop Pop”

FRIDAY M.I.A. and Lynn Hirschberg’s “Agitprop Pop” By Angela Bacca Last week, the New York Times published a controversial piece by staff writer Lynn Hirschberg on M.I.A, which painted her as a wealthy disconnected and uninformed musician who uses the politics of her native Sri Lanka to further her image and sell records. Most notable was…

Eminem: Recovery

EMINEM: RECOVERY By Angela Bacca I have always liked Eminem’s brutal honesty and raw emotion. He has rapped about killing his mom and his girlfriend in graphic detail, and although mainstream pundits labeled him a violent misogynist, I have always seem it as purely crafted catharsis. They were raps of pure emotions, but I personally…

The Corporate Curse

Original Published by SFCritic on May 2010 I love MTV Jams. It’s the only channel on TV that plays music videos. Granted, most of the videos are Top 40 rappers surrounded by video hoes gyrating on cars with over-sized rims next to stacks of money. All 50 of their friends are in the video drinking…

Musicians Protest Arizona’s SB 1070

Originally Published by SFCritic Last month, the state of Arizona passed SB 1070, which gives police and other state authorities the jurisdiction to request proof of citizenship from anyone on the street. Internationally, musicians have been the loudest vocal opposition. While a similar law was passed federally in 1986, the new Arizona law is particularly…