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Snap Sounds: The Bundles

02.19.10 - 1:30 pm | Kimberly Chun |
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THE BUNDLES

The Bundles

(K, March 9 release)

“Don’t forget about your friends!” pleads Kimya Dawson from the thick of her new down-low supergroup of anti-folk pals and other rough ‘n’ ready types.

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Approximately infinite, still

Yoko Ono peers through holes, reaches back to a plastic past

02.16.10 - 3:42 pm | Kimberly Chun |
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Snap Sounds: Scene of Action

02.15.10 - 1:48 pm | Kimberly Chun |
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SCENE OF ACTION

20 Minute Hourglass

(PopSmear)

San Francisco needs its own Stone Temple Pilots, no? One with a good dose of Killers sprightliness?

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Lip-smacking kalbi burrito action at John’s Snacks and Deli

02.15.10 - 1:04 pm | Kimberly Chun |
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You didn’t even know you needed a kimchi taco till you began to hear about those trucks down in LA, didja? Sure, Namu at the Ferry Building delivers the Korea-Mex goods on Thursdays, but what about every other day of the week? Read more »

Film Pick: "Terribly Happy"

02.12.10 - 2:55 pm | Kimberly Chun |
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The Coen Brothers' Blood Simple (1984) is the obvious corollary for this coolly humorous Danish import, though director/co-writer Henrik Ruben Genz's firmly dampened-down thriller of sorts is also touched by David Lynch's parochial surrealism and Aki Kaurismäki's backwater puckishness.

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Taken by the wind

STS9 mixes cheese with brain-tickling charm on its latest, while FM Belfast strikes a teen truant pose

02.12.10 - 12:20 pm | Kimberly Chun |
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Can you quit hating on the Taylor Swift haters for one sec (though, gee, wasn't her "Rhiannon" Grammies duet with Stevie Nicks a wonder of blonde ambition over one-note substance — wouldn't it have been better to see Rihanna take a confusing go instead)? Can you stop marveling over the fact that Frances Bean Cobain — lending vocals to the Amanda Palmer side project, Evelyn Evelyn, on a song titled "My Space" (why not "Smells like Teen Twitter") — looks more like Kelly Osbourne than a Kurtney? Read more »

Snap Sounds: Lord Newborn and the Magic Skulls

02.11.10 - 6:01 pm | Kimberly Chun |
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LORD NEWBORN AND THE MAGIC SKULLS

Lord Newborn and the Magic Skulls

(Ubiquity)

What sort of magical concoction do you get when you mix SF skater and musicmaker Tommy Guerrero with LA keyboard jock and Beastie Boys player Money Mark?

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Even Steven

Top-billed Buscemi scores in Saint John of Las Vegas
02.09.10 - 8:11 pm | Kimberly Chun |
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Burn notice

Scout Niblett torches the sky. Plus: Jaguar Love, Stuporbowl XLIV, Dave Rawlings Machine

02.03.10 - 10:26 am | Kimberly Chun |
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SONIC REDUCER Eat your veggies. Don't play in traffic. Follow your intuition, a.k.a. your muse. Judge a superstar by her voice not her frump factor. And watch for low-flying planets.Read more »

Slow burn: The Clientele lights 'Bonfires on the Hearth'

01.30.10 - 8:34 pm | Kimberly Chun |
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THE CLIENTELE
Bonfires on the Hearth
(Merge)

By Kimberly Chun

“Charmed, I’m sure,” you wanna mutter humbly as the guitar vamps enter sparkling and B-3 commences humming on “I Wonder Who We Are,” the opening track of the Clientele’s latest, Bonfires on the Hearth. Less purple-shaded and melancholy than 2003’s The Violet Hour (Merge), less hard-cornered and haunted than 2005’s Strange Geometry, and further embellished with sitar drone and autumnal brass, Bonfires shows the London band still tucked into its distinct universe, a nook of ‘60s-wracked pop that’s nostalgic but never truly derivative. It’s mood music that finds its strength in softness. Read more »