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OCT 12 - OCT 18
The turning of the seasons always brings the four elements into play; water, air, fire, and earth collide to make the world anew. This week San Francisco mirrors that shift, as wanderers come hitchhiking into town and dub warriors venture forth from the jungle bearing news of the change. A cool gust off the ocean says it's time to pull pumkpins from the earth, and midnight revelries see dancers breathing fire and practicing aerial antics. A paradigm lost is a paradise found, so enjoy the changes, and spread it.
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The all-new A6 > ever before.
With a class-redefining interior, powerful new engine choices and technological innovations like the new Multi Media Interface, the new A6 is fast becoming the luxury sedan of choice for discerning drivers. Visit your local Audi dealer to experience the greater beauty, power and technology of the new A6.
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MUSIC: Rock
Mark Lanegan Band
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| when: | Tue 10.12 (8pm) |
| where: | Great American Music Hall (859 O'Farrell St, 415.885.0750) |
| price: | $15 |
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| | Seattle grunge cred will get you nowhere in the music business these days; history remembers the movement as little more than Nirvana and Pearl Jam and various Chris Cornell projects. Witness the Screaming Trees, a band that never quite got the props they would have if they relocated to, say, El Cerrito. Thankfully, Trees frontman Mark Lanegan's solo career has transcended his roots, proving once and for all that good songwriting is bigger than media spin. His latest effort, the ironically-titled Bubblegum, is the record Johnny Cash would have made if he was born in the '60s and smoked ten packs of cigarettes a day. Easy-livin' music it ain't. (KD)
Note: Lanegan has also been a member of Queens of the Stone Age, whose former bassist Nick Oliveri performs a supporting set tonight, along with blistering post-hardcore quintet the Icarus Line.
  
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| | Best known as the lead singer, guitarist, and
songwriter of the Smashing Pumpkins (and last year's short-lived Zwan), Billy Corgan is one of the most respected names in alternative rock music. On the scale of rock stars turned poets, however, Billy Corgan's first book of poetry, Blinking with Fists, is more Jewel than Henry Rollins. But where Corgan's poetry succeeds is in his unabashed willingness to translate pop's passion and conflicted emotions to the printed word. Tonight, Corgan talks about a recent bout of artistic creativity which also yielded a solo album and forthcoming novel. (CW)
Note: This City Arts discussion is a benefit for the 826 Valencia Scholarship Program.
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| | While the Mush imprint has become synonymous with forward-thinking hip-hop, tonight's event showcases the label's dreamier pursuits. Mark Bianchi's Her Space Holiday combine ethereal strings and synth-scapes with indie rock vocals and bits of crispy ambient techno in a gently hewn pop experiment. Opener Octavius (aka William Marshall) is less subtle in his approach — the noisy beats, scratchy guitars, and howling vocals that make up the better part of his recent Audio Noir disc are more likely to draw comparisons to Suicide than My Bloody Valentine. Up-and-coming IDM enthusiast Daedelus flaunts his digiware; ex-Ninja Tune affiliate Neotropic rounds out the lineup. (KT)
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| | Buck 65 is undoubtedly underground hip-hop's ramblin' man. Currently with no fixed address, he carries a record crate bearing stickers from France, his native Canada, and the US. Buck's avant-folk rap is a constant reflection of his wandering experience; songs such as "Wicked and Weird" off his upcoming This Right Here is Buck 65 perfectly balance his lyrical cunning with his troubadour's sensibility. And it's not just Buck's songwriting that's a stylistic hybrid — his live show, an "ambidextrous" performance in which he rhymes and scratches simultaneously while reciting his lines à la Tom Waits, puts most bling-driven MCs to shame. (KT)
 Which album includes Buck 65's song "Pen Thief"? The fifth and sixth correct answers each win a pair of tickets to this show.
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COMEDY
Killing My Lobster Goes to the Polls
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| when: | Thur 10.14 - Sat 10.30 (various times) |
| where: | ODC Theater (3153 17th St, 415.863.9834) |
| price: | $17 |
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| | So a guy named Chad walks into a voting booth... Just kidding, folks. We all know that democracy is serious business. Fortunately, nobody told Killing My Lobster that, and their new comedy show,
Killing My Lobster Goes to the Polls skewers the political process like a finely roasted elephant-and-donkey kebab. The veteran standup and sketch crew tackles college activists, crosses the Oval Office, and even brings out the "national terror alert dancers" for a song and dance number with enough spin to get Mark Russell's bowtie rotating. (SK)
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DANCE
Cullberg Ballet
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| when: | Thur 10.14 - Sat 10.16 (8pm), Sun 10.17 (5pm) |
| where: | Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater (700 Howard St, 415.978.2787) |
| price: | $35-52 |
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Event Info | Cullberg Ballet |
| | Sweden's avant-garde Cullberg Ballet follows its splashy 2002 Bay Area debut with a mixed repertory program by former artistic director Mats Ek and current director Johan Inger. Ek, who worked with Ingmar Bergman as a theater producer before turning to choreography, mines the emotional complexity of relationships with a cerebral cool. His movement vocabulary conveys a wide range of emotion, from pathos to humor. Inger's desolate Out of Breath, created for the Nederlands Dans Theater (where he cut his choreographic teeth), throws up a literal barrier to communication with a crooked wall that dancers try to permeate. (CS)
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| | It's strange that Toronto's indie scene has only recently exploded, allowing the talents of Broken Social Scene, the Constantines, and the Dears to seep south of the Canadian border. In truth, things have been brewing there for ages. Do Make Say Think, for one, have been plying their version of post-rock since the late-'90s. Formed at the University of Toronto, the band recorded their earliest sprawling instrumentals at the school's campus radio studios. And while they've since stepped up the production efforts, the band's darkly orchestral compositions are still as delicate as they are pummeling. Openers Continental and the Drift offer their own guitar/drum/bass atmospherics. (KT)
What genre term would you invent to describe Do Make Say Think, instead of "post rock?" The two best answers each win a pair of tickets to this show.
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| | Tarnation is more than just an indie documentary — it's the dawning of a new technology in film. Created with Apple's iMovie at a cost of only $218.32, it's the first theatrical release of its kind. Jonathan Caouette's heartbreaking autobiographical story of growing up with an addled, mentally ill single mother evokes all of the same gripping honesty and emotion that any big-budget film can muster. Weaving together footage, diary entries, phone messages, and other artifacts from his past, Caouette reveals the highs and very dark lows of his life, often showing both mother and son in destructive, emotional disrepair. But along with his bleak, somber past, this first-time filmmaker also beautifully traces his path to wisdom and ultimately, happiness. (RJH)
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ART
Commission '04
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| when: | Fri 10.15 (7:30-11pm) |
| where: | San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery (401 Van Ness, 415.554.6080) |
| price: | $25 |
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SFAC Gallery |
| | The San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery celebrates another great year with its annual benefit party, an event that has come to represent some of the best in the Bay Area art market. And a market it is, as patrons have unique opportunities to purchase specially commissioned "box collections" from Janet Bishop and Charles Linder and bid via silent auction on works by JD Beltran, Laura Heyman, Kathryn Van Dyke, and Ulrike Palmbach, among others. There are also refreshments, a special atmospheric installation courtesy of Tony Tredway, and beats served up by local legendary skateboarder-cum-musician Tommy Guerrero. The always-intoxicating Beth Lisick will be both auctioneer and MC extraordinaire, and all proceeds go to supporting the gallery and its continued efforts to showcase local artists. (NN)
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| | The unexpected becomes the norm in the sonic landscapes constructed by Brooklyn band the Fiery Furnaces. Though this piquant duo only recently burst onto the scene, one might say that siblings Matthew and Eleanor Friedberger have been preparing for this gig their whole life. The two actually are brother and sister — it's no White Stripes PR stunt — from a family that truly plays together; ma and grandma are quite the musical virtuosos. It's this kind of background that fuels the pair's creative furnaces — the music is varied and unpredictable, providing auditory challenges while remaining eminently listenable. Overall, the Fiery Furnaces liberate the mind and get your ears all hot and bothered. (LE)
Note: The Rogers Sisters and Black Lipstick open tonight's show.
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FUNDRAISER
ASK: Art Stars Karaoke
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| when: | Sat 10.16 (8pm) |
| where: | New Langton Arts (1246 Folsom St, 415.626.5416) |
| price: | $5-10 sliding scale |
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| | If you thought the karaoke scene in Lost in Translation looked like fun, don't miss tonight's Art Stars Karaoke shebang at New Langton, SOMA's most unpredictable gallery space. Instead of singing along with a wizened, whiskey-hawking has-been, go head to head with the local art-scene's elite, including Tommy Becker, Alison Bing, Marc Horowitz, and Wattis' Matthew Higgs. Since it wouldn't be an art party without some kind of "live remixing," video artists are also on hand to capture your crooning countenance — and you can go home with a tape of the evidence when it's all over. Get those chops in shape, though: organizer and curator Marisa S. Olson is currently training for American Idol, and she may just put your serenading to shame. (PS)
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FUNDRAISER
Bitch magazine presents the Fake Party
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| when: | Sat 10.16 (9pm) |
| where: | The Mile High Club (3629 Martin Luther King Jr. Way, Oakland, 510.654.4549) |
| price: | $10-20 sliding scale |
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Bitch |
| | Since 1996, Bay Area-spawned Bitch magazine has brought its lively feminist response to pop culture to mailboxes and newsstands across the US. Tonight, the Bitch staff and local fans and supporters gather at the Mile High Club for an evening celebrating the Fall 2004 issue of the publication, dubbed "Fake." The issue features 96 pages of interviews, essays, and opinions, including a piece on Janeane Garofalo's Air America involvement, a discussion from Jennifer Abbott, co-director of award-winning documentary The Corporation, and a look at the marketing of ironic hipster-racism by Urban Outfitters and Abercrombie & Fitch. Entertainment includes transgendered power poppers Lipstick Conspiracy, revolutionary rockers the Cold War, and Lizzy and the Redbirds, a Mills College student trio performing '60s girl-group songs. (EC)
What is your biggest feminist pet-peeve and why? The two best responses in 70 words or less each win a one-year subscription to "Bitch."
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FILM
Midnight Mass presents Dead Alive (1992)
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| when: | Sat 10.16 (midnight) |
| where: | Landmark Bridge Theater (3010 Geary Blvd, 415.267.4893) |
| price: | $10 |
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| | Calling all zombies! Peaches Christ, the Bay Area's queen of horror camp, kicks off "Season of Horror," the autumn edition of Midnight Mass, with a special screening of Peter Jackson's Dead Alive, aka Braindead (1992) — a film that sees the New Zealander auteur (and future Lord of the Rings director) spin right round in a gore-splattered tempest of Sumatran rat-monkeys, lawnmowers, and '50s kitch gone horribly awry. Not even Frodo could get out of this mess. Tonight's showing is part of an opening night "death-tacular," so do a little Halloween R&D, break out your fake blood and detachable limbs, and join in the circus of the grotesque. (SK)
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| | The "emo" tag has definitely gotten a bit passé, and with the glut of derivative acts spawned since the genre's heyday, the sounds of many heart-on-sleeve rockers have evolved into grander orchestrations. Still, when the old style is done right, as with perfectionists Hot Water Music, even the most jaded indie fans can't resist its affecting impact. On The New What Next — HWM's third album for punk stalwart Epitaph — the Gainesville, Florida-based quartet employ a bit more restraint than on previous releases, but they still maintain their steadfast carpet-bombing aesthetic with aplomb. Up-and-comers Alexisonfire and Don't Look Down open. (KT)
After the band most commonly credited as having been the first emo act broke up, they reformed under what name? The first two correct answers each win a pair of tickets to this show.
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MUSIC: Dub
Dr. Israel's Brooklyn Jungle Soundsystem
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| when: | Sun 10.17 (9pm) |
| where: | Elbo Room (647 Valencia St, 415.552.7788) |
| price: | $7 |
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| | Veteran underground Brooklynite Dr. Israel brings his hard-edged dub to the Elbo Room for this special edition of DJ Sep's long-running weekly, Dub Mission. Alternately shifting between and melding punk, metal, and ragga jungle, Dr. Israel — a collaborator of fearsome dub
deconstructionists Bill Laswell and Jah Wobble — matches his aggressively political music with a high-energy stage show. Now with Lady K on vocals, tonight he performs tracks from his upcoming album, Occupied Territories. (CH&PS)
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MUSIC: Classical Indian
Amelia Cuni
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| when: | Mon 10.18 (7:30pm) |
| where: | Mills College Music Department Center for Contemporary Music (5000 MacArthur Blvd, Oakland, 510.430.2296) |
| price: |  FREE |
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Event Info | Amelia Cuni |
| | An Italian based in Berlin, Amelia Cuni is a student of India's classical Dhrupad vocal technique. She has studied with the music's foremost teachers and immersed herself in the culture surrounding it, but Cuni maintains a firm position outside the boundaries of so-called "world music," instead, she informs her practice with elements of minimalism, electronica, and contemporary classical composition. In 1999, she was artist-in-residence at Berlin's prestigious experimental art space Podewil; she has also worked with Paul Schütze, performed John Cage compositions, and commissioned work from Terry Riley, another musician who treads the line between Eastern and Western styles. (PS)
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| | Hershey, Pennsylvania natives the Ocean Blue rode the college radio airwaves in the late-'80s, buoyed by the success of their singles "Drifting, Falling" and "Between Something and Nothing." Despite releasing three excellent albums and an EP on Sire Records, however, the band found themselves in troubled waters by the mid-'90s, weighed down by the loss of their record deal and the departure of founding member Steve Lau. Longtime fans of the Ocean Blue's brand of clean, Smiths-inspired pop will therefore be happy to know this tour coincides with the release of Waterworks, a new six-song EP featuring the sparkling "Ticket to Wyoming." (JS)
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FESTIVAL
San Francisco Jazz Festival
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| when: | Thur 10.14-Sun 11.7 |
| where: | Various locations |
| price: | Various |
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| | Scattered throughout four weekends this fall, the 22nd annual San Francisco Jazz Festival bops off to a start Thursday night with a free outdoor concert in Union Square featuring the SF Jazz All-Star High School Ensemble. Also on tap are supernova Latin pianists, flamenco hip-hop punk from the Mediterranean, and new jazz sounds from places ranging from Scandinavia to Africa and the Far East. This year's festival stops at each of the city's jazz holy grounds, including Grace Cathedral and the Palace of Fine Arts, as well as nontraditional venues like the SFMOMA and a Bay Area yacht. Be there, be bop, and get square with one of the country's finest curated musical events. (SNS)
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| CD REVIEW: Cobra Killer, 76/77 |
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Monika
Released August 2004
$14.50 (Forced Exposure)
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Alec Empire's Digital Hardcore imprint released Cobra Killer's first record, and this may have been the seed of the Berlin-based duo's confrontational approach. Their third album bolsters '60s pop/rock structures with filthy keyboards, samples, and an exuberant live presence. (Check Monika Enterprise's live DVD compilation to see how live Cobra Killer can get.) But it's not all lo-fi screams and over-the-top electro posturing; their staying power stems from a high level of musicianship (both played in bands from age 12) and an ear for subversive pop hooks. In addition, collaborations with the likes of T.Raumschmiere on the growling opening track "Let's Have a Problem" and Thomas Fehlmann on the comparatively restrained "High Is the Pine" add some highbrow cred to an already excellent record. (CJN)
This review is courtesy of Earplug, a bimonthly music newsletter produced by Flavorpill Productions.
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| DISSEMINATE: Creative Commons |
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Pre-Internet, "public domain" sounded like a boring word for lawyers;
post-Napster, record company execs tried to make us think it was a dirty
word; now post-iPod and DM's Grey Album, it's seeming more like
an important and interesting word, especially if you're an artist.
Enter Creative Commons, an organization striving to find the balance
between militant copyright law enforcement and constructive, fair public
usage; they envision a new world in which "some rights reserved" is the
standard speak. A valuable resource in itself, their website points to
free and available content of all kinds, offers various licenses, and keeps
you current on artists' creative approaches to public domain. (JKG)
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| STREAMS: Percussion Lab |
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Combining the best of underground electronic and hip-hop beat mastery, Percussion Lab has been bumping since its 2002 inception. Its popularity as a two-hour radio show on New York indie station WVKR eventually led to 24/7 streamage from its own exclusive website; varied on-air selections include IDM, minimal, electronic, grime, and hip-hop, and exclusive live recordings and DJ sets from artists such as Miles Tilmann, Team Shadetek, and Deceptikon. The future looks equally bright, with upcoming features from Funkstörung, Secret Agent Gel, Machine Drum, and many others. (JPLS)
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