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Wednesday, May 9,2012
Music

Griever are forever punk

Hardcore rockers have a taste for doom

By Jeff Terich

Alex Jacobelli, guitarist for local hardcore foursome Griever, sums up his band in one simple sentence: “I don’t think we’ll be anything other than a punk band.”

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Wednesday, March 14,2012
Music

Perfume Genius plays ‘a quiet loud’

Songwriter broaches taboo topics with a touch of optimism

By Jeff Terich

Hadreas sounds as inspirational as ever on the gentle opening track, “Normal Song,” as he croons, “No memory, no matter how sad / And no violence, no matter how bad / Can darken the heart, or tear it apart.”

Wednesday, February 8,2012
Music

For Los Campesinos!, honesty is key

British indie-rockers are particularly explicit on ‘Hello Sadness’

By Jeff Terich

There are plenty of detailed personal accounts of problematic relationships on Hello Sadness. There’s also a song about the agony and ecstasy of football (that is, soccer).

Wednesday, December 28,2011
Music

Not one, but five No. 1 albums of 2011

Our writers share their favorite releases of the year

By Seth Combs, Jeff Terich, Quan Vu, Sammi Skolmoski, Peter Holslin

We music writers at CityBeat have diverse, sometimes wildly divergent tastes. So, it’s hard for us to say what album deserves to be called the best in 2011.

Tuesday, November 1,2011
Music

Youth Lagoon comes out of hibernation

Boise songwriter grapples with malaise and isolation in his breakout debut

By Jeff Terich

For Powers, 2011 is a vastly different experience than 2010, which was spent, as the album title suggests, in a state of virtual hibernation.

Wednesday, July 20,2011
Music

None more black

Black-metal community bristles at Liturgy’s unique take on the genre

By Jeff Terich

Today, Sweden’s Watain maintain an old-school theatrical image of metal’s most evil tendencies (they even drench crowds in buckets of pigs’ blood), but American black-metal artists like Agalloch and Castevet have carved unique new niches.

Wednesday, June 22,2011
Music

Rules of engagement

tUnE-yArDs juxtaposes the playful with the confrontational

By Jeff Terich

To listen to the first two albums by tUnE-yArDs, an Oakland-based experimental indie-pop project, is to hear the work of essentially two different bands.

Wednesday, November 24,2004
Art & Culture

SOUND BITES

The Castanets' isolationist party jams

By Jeff Terich

The Castanets' isolationist party jams

Wednesday, June 23,2004
Music

ROCKIN' THE BLUES

Gasoline Please on bugging neighbors, timid punks and 80s hair bands

By Jeff Terich

Gasoline Please on bugging neighbors, timid punks and 80s hair bands

Wednesday, June 2,2004
News

THE GILDED HANDSHAKE

Rayleigh Scattering's adventures in local scenester-dom

By Jeff Terich

Rayleigh Scattering's adventures in local scenester-dom