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Grandaddy, Just Like the Fambl…
It's like one of the spaceships on the cover of an old ELO record cra… more »
Broadband, Broadband Live at S…
This Broadband show was recorded live at Sin-e on 02/27/05. This record r… more »
Pearly Sweets, Pearly Sweets L…
This Pearly Sweets show was recorded live at The Metro on 02/24/05. This … more »
Locksley, Locksley Live at Sin…
This Locksley show was recorded live at Sin-e on 02/24/05. This record re… more »
Drawing a Blank, Drawing a Bla…
This Drawing a Blank show was recorded live at Double Door on 02/19/05. T… more »
Tunnel Motor, Tunnel Motor Liv…
This Tunnel Motor show was recorded live at Sin-e on 01/18/05. This recor… more »
The Black Heart Procession, Th…
This The Black Heart Processio show was recorded live at The Casbah on 08… more »
Grinderman, Grinderman 2…
With tasteful, often genteel, bands like Arcade Fire, Vampire Weekend and… more »
The Books, The Way Out…
Combining collaged musical abstraction with gentle songwriting and obtuse… more »
Icon: Green Day
Green Day couldn't get critically arrested or commercially noticed when t… more »
Green Day, Insomniac
Punks usually put out as much music as they can as quickly as possible. P… more »
Green Day, Nimrod
"Feel washed up and just go down the drain," sang Armstrong on … more »
Green Day, Warning
Dirnt famously called "Good Riddance" "the most punk thing… more »
Green Day, American Idiot…
The Bush years refocused Green Day's ambition and intensity as they l… more »
Green Day, Dookie
Released two months before Kurt Cobain's suicide, at the pinnacle of … more »
Green Day, 21st Century Breakd…
Following an opera with an opera? Even the Who didn't have cojones th… more »
Green Day, Kerplunk!
Kerplunk established Green Day as the premiere band on the Gilman Street … more »
Green Day, 1,039/Smoothed Out …
In 1990, the notion of punk rock taking over the mainstream seemed utterl… more »
Roky Erickson With Okkervil Ri…
Roky Erickson is a rare rock 'n' roll combination, both casualty … more »
Roky Erickson With Okkervil Ri…
Roky Erickson is a rare rock 'n' roll combination, both casualty … more »
Passion Pit, Manners
We need another band that mixes indie-rock and dance-pop about as much as… more »
Broken Bells, Broken Bells…
James Mercer and Danger Mouse come from different worlds. Mercer makes te… more »
Six Degrees of Give Up…
It used to be easier to pretend that an album was its own perfectly self-… more »
Comets On Fire, Blue Cathedral…
One of the members of this Santa Cruz psych-rock crew described the Comet… more »