REVIEWS: 2008 DOWNLOAD FESTIVAL (PART 3) - [PHOTOS]

2008 Download Festival (Part 3) - [Photos] PHOTO
ARTIST: 2008 Download Festival (Part 3) - [Photos]
feat. The Jesus and Mary Chain, Gang of Four, Louis XIV, Blitzen Trapper
VENUE: Shoreline Amphitheatre Mountain View, CA
DATE: 07-23-08
REVIEW BY: Mark Ziemke
PHOTO: Muhammad Asranur

(This is Part 3 of 3 of our Download Festival coverage. You can view part 1 here and part 2 here.)

Resident photographer extraordinaire Muhammad Asranur made his way to the San Francisco edition of the Download [view more]

REVIEWS: 2008 DOWNLOAD FESTIVAL (PART 2) - [PHOTOS]

2008 Download Festival (Part 2) - [Photos] PHOTO
ARTIST: 2008 Download Festival (Part 2) - [Photos]
feat. Mates of State, Brand New, Mute Math, The Whigs and Yeasayer
VENUE: Shoreline Amphitheatre Mountain View, CA
DATE: 07-23-08
REVIEW BY: Mark Ziemke
PHOTO: Muhammud Asranur

(This is Part 2 of 3 of our Download Festival coverage. You can view part 1 here and part 3 here.)

Resident photographer extraordinaire Muhammad Asranur made his way to the San Francisco edition of the Download Festival, which [view more]

REVIEWS: 2008 DOWNLOAD FESTIVAL (PART 1) - [PHOTOS]

2008 Download Festival (Part 1) - [Photos] PHOTO
ARTIST: 2008 Download Festival (Part 1) - [Photos]
feat. Datarock, The Duke Spirit, Flosstradamus, M83, Tapes N Tapes
VENUE: Shoreline Amphitheatre Mountain View, CA
DATE: 07-23-08
REVIEW BY: Mark Ziemke
PHOTO: Muhammad Asranur
(This is Part 1 of 3 of our Download Festival coverage. You can view part 2 here and part 3 here.)

Resident photographer extraordinaire Muhammad Asranur made his way to the San Francisco edition of the Download [view more]

REVIEWS: 2008 ROCKSTAR MAYHEM FESTIVAL (PART 1) - [LIVE REVIEW]

2008 Rockstar Mayhem Festival (Part 1) - [Live Review] PHOTO
ARTIST: 2008 Rockstar Mayhem Festival (Part 1) - [Live Review]
feat. Mastodon, Black Tide, Airborne
VENUE: Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, CA
DATE: 07-23-08
REVIEW BY: Raymond Ahner
PHOTO: Raymond Ahner

I'm not quite ready to say that the Rockstar Mayhem Festival has taken the place of Ozzfest as the premier summer metal festival, but I will say that Sharon and Ozzy need to turn around and take a look at who is running full force behind them, because Rockstar is right on their asses, and seems ready to take over the pole position.
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REVIEWS: THE STILLS - [ALBUM]

The Stills - [Album] PHOTO
ARTIST: The Stills - [Album]
DATE: 07-20-08
REVIEW BY: Bill Adams
Audio
Sometimes a band that you thought you had pegged will turn around and surprise you by totally reinventing its sound between records (also known as when you weren’t looking) and so, when a new album eventually appears, you’re totally caught off-guard by what you hear. That moment of initial confusion—when that first song starts [view more]

REVIEWS: SCARLETT JOHANSSON - [ALBUM]

Scarlett Johansson - [Album] PHOTO
ARTIST: Scarlett Johansson - [Album]
DATE: 07-18-08
REVIEW BY: Bill Adams
Audio
Entertainers of every stripe and discipline are strange breeds of creature. For whatever reason, as soon as an individual gets into one quadrant or another of the arts and makes it in his or her profession, the grass begins to look greener on the other side of the septic tank; actors want to make music, musicians want to star in motion pictures, [view more]

REVIEWS: DENNIS WILSON - [ALBUM]

Dennis Wilson - [Album] PHOTO
ARTIST: Dennis Wilson - [Album]
DATE: 07-18-08
REVIEW BY: Bill Adams
Audio
The popular theory is that Brian Wilson was the creative drive behind The Beach Boys and it’s true; Brian is the face of the band and his story is the one that most people regard as the definitive one for the rise and fall of the band that popularized the surf pop sound. What most people don’t realize is that Brian wasn’t the [view more]

REVIEWS: BECK - [ALBUM]

Beck - [Album] PHOTO
ARTIST: Beck - [Album]
DATE: 07-16-08
REVIEW BY: Bill Adams
Audio

Sometimes when a producer begins to get legs under him and gets known as an “it” producer, anyone paying attention knows that the paths of the individual in question and a particular musician will cross. It’s a foregone conclusion; they’re destined to work together because they’re cut from the same musical cloth [view more]

REVIEWS: BOUND STEMS - [ALBUM]

Bound Stems - [Album] PHOTO
ARTIST: Bound Stems - [Album]
plus free mp3 for 'Happens to Us All Otherwise'
DATE: 07-16-08
REVIEW BY: Mark Ziemke
Audio
In 2006, Bound Stems proved to the world that they are more than capable of writing great songs, which they did quite well on their debut LP Appreciation Night. But the soon-to-be-released follow up, The Family Afloat, exists at a different level entirely. Their debut demonstrated how well they infused pop with complex rhythms [view more]

FEATURES: UN-BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE

Un-Broken Social Scene PHOTO
ARTIST: Un-Broken Social Scene
BSS's Brendan Canning Unifies The Fragmentation
DATE: 07-15-08
WRITER: Bill Adams
Audio
There are few things more logistically difficult to sort out than the way that Broken Social Scene works. There’s no reason for that really, other than the fact that there are so many songwriters in the band—so many heads—that it makes bands like The Mekons or Husker Du (which each had three songwriters that produced enough [view more]

REVIEWS: BUTTHOLE SURFERS - [DISCOGRAPHY REVIEW]

Butthole Surfers - [Discography Review] PHOTO
ARTIST: Butthole Surfers - [Discography Review]
An in-depth look into the complete catalog for the Butthole Surfers
DATE: 07-13-08
REVIEW BY: Bill Adams
Audio

The single most important construct to the fabric of humanity and the condition of it is the establishment of motivation. ‘Motive’ is the cornerstone for crime, punishment, change, virtue, vice and myriad other human endeavors but, most importantly, defining motives and qualifying motivation means articulating cause for the purpose [view more]

COLUMN: VERBALLY VIEWING VARIOUS VIDEOS (Q-V) - VOL. 5

Verbally Viewing Various Videos (Q-V) - Vol. 5 PHOTO
ARTIST: Verbally Viewing Various Videos (Q-V) - Vol. 5
'Jerk It' by Thunderheist
DATE: 07-13-08
WRITER: Kamron Ahmed

Oh shit! It’s a triple! Hey kids, Today’s viewing is for a little band called Thunderheist. The only reason you could say that this band is little is from them not being on Wikipedia or iTunes, yet their music and lyrical abilities put their stuff at the top of my list. How on earth I stumbled upon these people I dare not share. [view more]

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