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2008 Stories by Chris Parker

• Against Me!

  published February 28, 2008

  In the past dozen years, Against Me! singer Tom Gabel's gone from being an Americanized Billy Bragg strumming angrily against the man to a rock... More >>

• G. Love & Special Sauce

  published February 14, 2008

  G. Love's voice rides a rollercoaster of melodies — up, down, and around hairpin turns with a crafty grace that owes as much to old-school... More >>

• Marah

  published February 7, 2008

  Fans of this Philadelphia six-piece will undoubtedly hail Angels of Destruction! as its best album; it's certainly Marah's most accessible... More >>

• The Matches

  published February 7, 2008

  While this Oakland quartet owes a substantial debt to Cali peers Green Day and blink-182, they've always demonstrated promiscuous tastes. Their... More >>

• Proto-metal gods Blue Cheer are making a racket as if it were 1967 all over again

  published January 31, 2008

  Even as Haight was serving up a summer of love in 1967, something darker was brewing in the Bay. Not Altamont, which was still a couple of years... More >>

• Leon Russell

  published January 24, 2008

  Southern-fried piano swamp funk doesn't get better than Leon Russell. His greasy R&B cadges a hopping, Delta blues stomp, fueled by his gravelly... More >>

• Gallows

  published January 17, 2008

  Gallows wield their instruments with such malevolence that it wouldn't be surprising to discover they also use them to brain rodents in their... More >>