Clips!

This week in the Guardian,

Techno and Dubstep DJs match wits at Surefire v. Kontrol for Saturday, 10/13 at Temple nightclub.

Commentary: I have to say, I'm glad I experimented with this blurb. The idea of different styles collaborating while clashing made the whole family metaphor easy to chew, a little harder to digest. I think I made it work though.

Religion writer Don Lattin for Tuesday, 10/16, at the Booksmith.


Last week...

I had my first set of news blurbs in San Francisco Downtown Magazine.

I previewed the lyrical bout between B-Legit and Planet Asia at Fat City.

Unfortunately, my preview for Ulrich Schnauss did not make print because the show at Cafe du Nord was already sold out. No point in printing a pick if people cannot buy tickets to the event, but I was still slightly annoyed that I put in some thought and effort into a 100-word blurb only for it to go to waste.

Here's what it might have looked like:

Wednesday October 3
Ulrich Schnauss

Forays into ambient electronic music are difficult. Stray too much towards spacy, roaming melodies and soft percussion and the end result becomes more yoga mixtape than listening experience (no offense to my yoga-ficionados). German producer Ulrich Schnauss has leaned towards that direction on previous releases, but latest album Goodbye (Domino) suggests a departure. Schnauss weaves his signature atmospheric sound with rock riffs and guest vocals, including the melancholic tones of collaborator Judith Beck. On highlight cut "Stars," Schnauss relies on Beck's ambiguous intonations to power the track rather than a typical, elongated buildup. (Kevin Lee)

With the Fleeting Joys and Manual

9:30 p.m.
Café du Nord
2174 Market
(415) 861-5016
http://www.cafedunord.com
$12 advance tickets, $15 at the door

Ah, the lost blurb.


Two weeks before...

Love was in the air, and I took a glimpse at perhaps the largest electronic music event in San Francisco.

Eclectic and irreverent hip-hop duo Dead Prez sauntered into the Bay Area, hoping to move heads and hearts with their contentious and provocative rhymes.