Chelsea Sime

What? Rock critics and musicians alike -- Michael Stipe, Robert Smith, and Robert Pollard just to name a few -- have heralded Wire as founding…

Liz Phair has been performing the songs off Exile in Guyville since the album's release in '93, yet she expressed a bit of apprehension last…

As tiny mushroom clouds of smoke puffed skyward and hands thrustabove heads, celebration was in the air last night (Nov. 14) when EastBay hip-hop's prodigal…

It's not often that a band's first ever show is met with the screams of nearly 500 young, writhing bodies that already happen to know…

There are three albums necessary to any indie rock fan's arsenal: The Bends by Radiohead, Doolittle by the Pixies, and Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation. And…