Final Abyss: 13 Questions for Jeri Cain Rossi
[Your Funeral single 1982- “I Want To Be You/Final Abyss” Back to Front: Karen Sheridan, Cleo Tilde, Jeri Cain Rossi.] Despite my internet-creeping, post-punk Renaissance woman Jeri Cain Rossi kindly … Continue reading
Noisegasm: Lydia Lunch at the Verdi Club
Lydia Lunch is a force of nature. A tempest of sex, noise, booze, and wrath. Lucky for me, San Francisco was directly in the path of the storm called RetroVirus: … Continue reading
In the Mood For… Dia de los Muertos
Happy Day of the Dead, folks. Please respectful of this beautiful cultural and religious holiday and remember that it is NOT Halloween. Procession and Festival of Altars starts in the … Continue reading
Arts Bombast: Rene Ricard
Tonight (!) is the opening for Warholian art hero Rene Ricard’s “New Paintings and Not So New” at Highlight Gallery here in SF. I’m not sure why he has never … Continue reading
RAB Radio #20: Refusing to Be a Man
Every Saturday night, I DJ a radio show of all female-fronted punk, post-punk, no wave, garage rock… that kind of thing. In this installment of Ribbon Around a Bomb Radio, … Continue reading
Noisegasm: David Byrne + St. Vincent
I’ll admit: I wasn’t totally on board with this collaboration… until I was unexpectedly given 4th row center tickets to see the two at the Orpheum in SF last night. … Continue reading
Arts Bombast: 24th St. McDonald’s “Pop Up” Gallery
Confession: As a self-proclaimed “caffiend” who lives in a city with endless opportunities to drink DAMN FINE coffee (shout out to Coffee Bar on Bryant), sometimes, I decide to save … Continue reading
Arts Bombast: The Thing Quarterly
Subscribers of San Francisco’s “object-based publication” The Thing Quarterly receive a new issue of the “periodical” at their doorstep 4 times a year. The periodical, as it happens, is actually … Continue reading
Arts Bombast: Wayne White
Go ahead and EXALT, San Francisco: All weekend, Roxie Theater will be showing BEAUTY IS EMBARRASSING, a documentary about weirdo/artist Wayne White. I lovelovelove his repurposed thrift-store paintings, and even … Continue reading
San Francisco: Frightwig + VKTMS
Everything you need to know about everything is in this post. Who: You and me and everyone we know. What: Going to see legendary SF femme-punks Frightwig and VKTMS play … Continue reading
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