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Roger Guillemin & Le Corbeau: Father and Son May 25, 2012 The opening reception for this exhibition featuring artwork by Roger Guillemin and his son, Francois, who'll be showing work together for the first time. The exhibition features abstract prints by Guillemin and bronze sculpture by Le Corbeau. On view through June 16. 58 other things to do on Friday, May 25
 
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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
 
 
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