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MP3: Laibach – Leben Heisst Leben from Anthems
You might scratch your head if any band would record an album full of covers of national anthems. Volk is that album by Slovenian industrial band, Laibach, and that is what Laibach presented to their American fans at Independent in San Francisco on Thursday, September 25th.
Laibach, the Slovenian [...]

The final day of the festival was surprisingly nice. The rain from the first night, which carried slightly into the next morning had subsided and the sun occasionally reared out from behind the clouds to make for pretty enjoyable weather. This day for us was probably the most laid back, as we started out with [...]

PWRFL Power’s, Kazutaka Nomura, does not take the simple things in life for granted. His first solo album is littered with songs about birds, cats, chopsticks, keys, and tomatoes, items you may very well find in your own urban apartment, but he also is not afraid of making light of typical heavy hitter topics like [...]

As a feature on the site, I will be dredging my own personal archive of taped shows to showcase rare or otherwise unheard performances from artists I love.
What started as a typical mid-summer’s evening in San Francisco, warm weather quickly shut out by fast moving clouds and wind, I found myself and maybe 40 [...]

Portraits of My Brightest Diamond
My Brightest Diamond were one of the last acts to preform on the labor day weekend packed Bumbershoot festival in Seattle. After three amazing days of music, fatigue started to set in, ears growing numb and legs barely getting off the ground. BUT what can we say about Shana’s amazing [...]

We had met up with Seattle’s Tiny Vipers just as Jesy and Ben were unloading from their van in front of San Francisco’s Elbo Room. After some quick introductions, we were off with an objective in mind, but no real location to shoot at. We considered the idea of a funeral home as we passed [...]