When you live in the Bay Area, you are solicited for advice on the regular from faraway friends and family ...

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Stelios Faitakis comes up with some pretty odd characters. A Japanese goth in kabuki-style make-up plays keyboard above a unruly ...

The primary raw material for Dungen’s music is time. By now, you’ve almost certainly heard about the shaggy Swede’s “retro” ...

Dynamic and dangerous, Colette Fu’s pop-up books are anything but child-like. These shifting, stretching collages mark her professional maturation from ...

“To this day, I frustrate the hell out of my bandmates, because I’m the only person who doesn’t know how ...

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These men are dinosaurs now. It’s hard to reconcile their continued existence with their legend, but they’re still around, refusing ...

For a musician and turntablist often hailed as a genre-bending, cutting-edge artist, RJD2 (neé Ramble John Krohn) has some distinctly ...

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Long a purveyor of genre splicing and cultural convergence, Trey Spruance of Secret Chiefs 3 has carved a niche in ...

Don’t ever try telling Dee Kesler that he is a perfectionist. Chances are either he’ll say it first or the ...

“Most of the shows we’ve played have been even better than I would’ve imagined,” says Justin Broadrick, speaking from Denver, ...

Honus Honus gave simple instructions: “I have a moustache. You’ll find me.” I walk into the venue and he’s right; I ...

After recording under the name Smog for nearly two decades, lo-fi singer/songwriter Bill Callahan surprised, if not shocked, fans by ...

In an age of iTunes, Sean McCabe considers album art a lost artistic medium. “It’s a craft that’s dying and not ...

It is early afternoon at the Flamingo Cantina in Austin, and already the temperature inside is reaching steambath proportions. On ...

Taking the best elements from rock, pop, electronica, and anything else you’ve ever heard with melody and a sense of ...

Pick up the phone. Dial (415) 364-1465. Wait for instructions. “Walk, bike, or take public transit to the northeast corner ...