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• Wayne Kramer: Mad for the Racket and Not Near Done

  by Denise Sullivan•October 1, 2008•Comments (0)

  If ever there was a band of rock ‘n’ roll contrarians, it was Kramer's MC5, a ramshackle musical outfit typical of young bands in the post-Beatles/Stones era but with a trajectory that imploded them rather than skyrocketed them to fame. Claiming the avant-garde's Sun Ra and rock ‘n’ roll's Chuck Berry as inspiration, they started playing covers, and evolved to include in their repertoire grinding originals steeped (read more)

• Urinals, Fucked Up, Oxford Collapse, Ida, and B.R.M.C.

  by C!-Team•September 10, 2008•Comments (0)

  We like to get up to loud, vigorous, ear-blowing punk rock... and come back down with hushed and mellow acoustic shows. Such is the life of a steady show-goer in San Francisco. (read more)

• The Shaky Hands

  by Angela Zimmerman•September 3, 2008•Comments (1)

  "tribalist sort of sound through their use of rackety hand percussion and loose melodies" (read more)

• Teddy Thompson

  by Steve Matteo•June 18, 2008•Comments (0)

  "Sweetened rockabilly and ballpark organ pop give the music a subtle grandeur" (read more)

• Your Handy Guide to the Month in Music

  by Mike Conklin•June 4, 2008•Comments (5)

  "... the leak was pre-meditated, a subtle way for the band to tell us, 'Look, here it is: You’ve got your favorite record of the summer, just in time for all your Memorial Day BBQs.'" (read more)

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