Results for La Costa

  • The Heroine Sheiks Return: “We’re Going for the Jugular on Every Song”

    by Andrew LauJuly 16, 2008Comments (0)

    Along with former Swans/Feotus guitarst Norman Westberg, Heroine Sheiks were originally made up of New York’s seediest looking musicians, and Selberg picked up where he left off by using unwanted songs from the Cows’ waning days for the Sheiks’ debut album, 2000’s Rape on the Installment Plan. Audiences looking for Cows Part Two were befuddled by the new group; the previous band’s power (read more)

  • I Came as a Lab Rat

    by Ryan WasobaJuly 9, 2008Comments (0)

    I’m sitting in a sterile, fluorescent-lit room in Evansville, Indiana, with two women. One is slightly older than me, wearing scrubs and a nametag. (read more)

  • A Plea: Don't Forget the Locals

    by Angela ZimmermanFebruary 6, 2008Comments (2)

    In my town, and many others across the nation, on any given night there are dozens upon dozens of bands setting up and ascending stages, from the darkest corner of the diviest bar to the blinding lights of an arena gig. The venues are strewn all across the city, and a few are even legendary—grand, opulent (read more)

  • The Eagles

    by Steve MatteoOctober 31, 2007Comments (14)

    "this wistful picture of a vanishing world" (read more)

  • Every Pebble On the Road, It's By Chance We Met

    by Jocelyn HoppaMay 16, 2007Comments (19)

    A few weeks ago, I awoke to a sunny Friday morning in San Francisco. I dropped $2 on a Colombia brewed coffee, loaded into my dusty and dented purple Ford Escort, and headed out of the city for an hour drive to Sonoma to meet Paul Williams, the godfather of rock journalism. (read more)