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The fire — and BBQ — burning in Woods
06.08.10 - 10:50 pm | Kimberly Chun |
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MUSIC It can be tough to see the woods for the trees, to eyeball the big picture ideas amid the seductive specifics of a lush, ancient green aroma of a redwood forest after a rain, or the honeyed, sun-washed lethargy that comes with a warm summer day. But pin down one crucial branch of Brooklyn band Woods with an archetypal Barbara Walters query — "If Woods could be any tree, what tree would it be?" — and you just might get, "Omigod, I'm drawing a blank."Read more »

Infectious

Video Issue: What do viral videos say about us?
05.25.10 - 8:10 pm | Kimberly Chun |
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Lovely fade: Elisa Randazzo teams with local musicmakers for 'Bruises and Butterflies'

05.23.10 - 3:42 pm | Kimberly Chun |
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Love and loss and an unfaltering creative spirit appear to inform Elisa Randazzo’s new album, Bruises and Butterflies (Drag City). Her marriage to ex- Josh Schwartz, once of Beachwood Sparks and her partner in Fairechild, may be over, but Randazzo has found plenty of other talents to commune with. Read more »

What would Woods do?

05.23.10 - 11:50 am | Kimberly Chun |
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The slow sweep of summer break, sunlit days that yawn out into infinity, and the pock of a single snare -- those are some of the sleepy, sweet vibes coming off Woods’ At Echo Lake (Woodsist). Read more »

Pump you up!

Growing tries on new sounds and stumbles to the dance floor

04.27.10 - 6:34 pm | Kimberly Chun |
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Taking the Waters

SFIFF: Boozy fun with Wholphin
04.20.10 - 4:13 pm | Kimberly Chun |
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Ring ring

This year, the sound of the city in the summer includes Sleigh Bells

04.13.10 - 5:02 pm | Kimberly Chun |
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Cut to the core: the sweet and the Splinters

04.11.10 - 6:03 am | Kimberly Chun |
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Didja hear? There’s a mini-girl-band revolution going on. Embracing the rawest of rawk, the lowest of fi, the Splinters haven’t been lumped into the current wavelet of female-centric Bay Area ensembles ala Brilliant Colors and Grass Widow. And perhaps rightfully so. Gender aside, the bands are coming from way different places sonically. Read more »

Twin stars

Space and silence and uncanny intuition add up to the xx

04.06.10 - 6:06 pm | Kimberly Chun |
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MUSIC Can two voices get any closer — or be laid any more bare — than those of the xx's Romy Madley Croft and Oliver Sim? The band's spare, pared-down pop is so minimally cloaked, with either instrumentation or pretense, that you could swear the pair were scarily close-knit sibs: the Chang and Eng of U.K. rock — the doubled letters of the xx seem less like a set of female chromosomes than a symbolic representation of Croft and Sim's doubling.Read more »

Passing and tipping the hat at Mission Street Food

04.05.10 - 7:20 pm | Kimberly Chun |
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Oh yeah, I’d been around the block. I’ve crawled these mean food-strewn streets we call the Mission. I’d noshed my way between the tasty chicken tacos at El Toyanese truck and the delectable $1.25 carnitas numbers at the mobile Gallo Giro. I’d caught the creme brulee cart in action, caramelizing on the spot and passing out the freebies in Dolores Park. I’d partaken in the bacon dog as the vagabond seller scooted down the block, away from the ooshing bouncer at Bruno’s. Read more »