Homeless youths don’t get a lot of chances to build self-esteem and express themselves creatively, but hrough programs educational and artistic, p:ear helps about 350 young people each year free themselves from the often isolating and degrading metal/emotional state of homelessness—one of the first steps toward becoming a fully contributing member of the community. Local [...]

When Greg Oldson sings the words, “Pleasure is a pain in many ways,” on “The Prophet”—one of the more eerie songs from his most recent recording, Leaving Open Fields—it doesn’t rattle your bones because what he’s saying is news to you. It hits you because the way those words resonate in his cracked hickory voice [...]

A lot of musicians are in more than one band, but it’s not often that two bands share the exact same line up. Shortly after getting married at Voodoo Donuts in April 2005, Ilima Considine and Jake Rose began recording and performing both as Childhood Friends and Enchanted 4ST (changed from Enchanted Forest after a [...]

Those of you who missed M. Ward’s performance on the Late Show with David Letterman last Thursday night are in luck. Thank YouTube, here it is for your enjoyment. Ward is looking wonderfully spooky while he plays “Chinese Translation” with the help of those crazy kids in Norfolk & Western and our very own [...]

Rumors of The Storm Report’s death are highly exaggerated. So whoever is spreading the rumor that I’ve hung this gig up, needs to shut the fuck up RIGHT NOW. That said, I almost missed last night’s show. I was at Vendetta, a cool new club in NoPo, to commemorate the departure of two of my [...]

Me: Wait! Before you press play, think of the dumbest thing that has ever come to pass in the history of mankind.
You: “Paris Hilton?”
Me: No, dumber!
You: “George W’s ‘Mission Accomplished’ speech?”
Me: Even dumber than that!
You: “The movie Wild Things?”
Me: Okay, that was pretty fucking dumb. I guess you can press play now.
You: I don’t [...]

You know how everyone’s so motherfuckin’ sick of these motherfuckin’ snakes on motherfuckin’ planes? Well, I’ll tell you what I’ve been motherfuckin’ sick of for quite some time: Bad band names. As Local Cut’s calendar editor, I deal with a helluva lot of band names, and—let me tell you—the world is at no loss for [...]

If you’ve been following my local hip-hop coverage, you probably know by now that I’ve been excited lately by a rejuvinated Cool Nutz, both at his shows and on the material I’ve heard from his upcoming album, formerly known as Guerilla in the Trunk. Nutz is excited, too, which is why he’s renamed the project [...]

A few songs into last night’s set at the Towne Lounge, Neptune guitarist Mark William Pearson retired his home-made, metal guitar by roughly tossing it, strings-first against the corner of the stage. I was surprised how unconcerned he was with the well-being of the one of a kind instrument, which was built by his band [...]