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— April 22, 1970 — involved 20 million people across the United States. There were events in hundreds of cities and thousands of high school and college campuses. It brought together old-school, sometime stodgy conservation groups with radical young environmentalists, the United Auto Workers with people concerned about pollution from car exhaust. It was, by any reasonable account, the birth of the modern American environmental movement. The other great thing about Earth Day — and the reason it makes a great model for the Occupy movement — is that it was largely a grassroots event. Although there was a national office, most of the work was done spontaneously, in local communities, with no top-down direction. And everyone — from Washington D.C. to the state capitols and city halls — paid attention. Mass marches and mobilizations helped end the Vietnam War, spark the Civil Rights

Twenty years ago, if you mapped income distribution in San Francisco on a standard graph, you’d see what the economist call a bell curve: At one end were a small number of very poor families, at the other a small number of very rich, and in between the bulk of the city was somewhere roughly close to what you could call middle class. Take the 2012 census data and make that graph today and you get the opposite — it’s becoming a U-shape, with more people in poverty and more gross wealth and not as much in the center. You could see that on stark display at City Hall Dec 12. At 10 a.m., the City Operations and Neighborhood Services Committee heard several hours of testimony on the alarming rise in the number of homeless families. In the end, the Mayor’s Office agreed to find $3 million to help out. At 1 p.m., the Land Use and Economic Development Committee heard testimony on a plan to build more housing — on the waterfront, for the top one quarter of the top one percent of the richest people in America, people who will need more than $3 million just for the downpayment on their new digs. The plan calls for 145 of what Port of San Francisco officials call “high end” or “luxury” condominiums, along with 400 underground parking spaces. “It’s going to be tight on three levels,” a Port official testified. “Most of it will be valet parking.” The developer wants to raise the height limit along the waterfront for the first time in half a century. The Port, which controls some of the land, will get a cut of all the condo sales, maybe as much as $500,000 a year; that money will go to rebuild old piers and fund a long list of Port projects — including the America’s Cup. (Ted Gullicksen of the San Francisco Tenants Union was sitting next to me at the hearing, and he shook his head at that bit of news. “Condos for rich people to pay for boats for rich people,” he said.) A long list of people, including former City Planning Director Alan Jacobs and former City

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Occupy’s next steps EDITORIAL In less than three months, the Occupy movement has changed the national political debate — and possibly the course of U.S. history. A small group of protesters, derided in the mainstream media, grew to a massive outpouring of anger at economic inequality — and it’s no coincidence that politicians at all levels have begun to respond. At least five different measures aimed at raising taxes on the rich are in the works in California. In Kansas Dec. 6, President Obama made one of the most progressive speeches of his career, talking directly about the need for economic justice. While even some supposed allies say the encampments weren’t effective, the truth is that the out-front, in-your-face tactic of holding nonstop protests in the financial heart of places like Manhattan and San Francisco got attention. The visibility of the Occupy camps forced everyone to pay attention. The U.S. economy is in a crisis; less disruptive tactics wouldn’t have worked. picks

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But now most of the encampments are gone, broken up by police forces and scattered from the central areas of major cities. It’s crucial that this growing and powerful national movement not fall apart after the almost inevitable crackdown on one style of protest. Occupy needs to look forward and plan its next steps. Some of that is already happening, with Occupy activists targeting home foreclosures and marching on West Coast ports. But it’s worth considering another tactic, too: Occupy ought to begin planning now for a massive spring mobilization in Washington and a series of nationwide actions that could bring millions more people into the movement. Part of the strategy of the Occupy camps was to maintain a presence, day after day — and that made perfect sense when the movement was starting. But single-day events, if organized on a massive scale as part of a larger campaign, can have a profound and lasting impact. The original Earth Day

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Movement and fight the antilabor politics of the Reagan Administration. None of those events took place in isolation, any more than a national Occupy Day would take place in isolation. The nation’s ready for major economic change — and organizing a national event alone could help make stronger connections among the broad constituency that is the 99 percent. 2

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— sort of — at 8 Washington. The cheapest condos would require an income of $469,000, a downpayment of $625,000, and another $493,000 of liquid reserves. Monthly payment: $13,699. The higher-end units would require an annual income of $1.029 million and a downpayment of $6.5 million. “That’s not the one percent,” he said. “It’s the top one quarter of the top one percent.” And, Allardyce explained, most of the people who buy that level of property are so rich that they don’t actually live there. It’s a second or third or fourth home, a place to stay a few weeks out of the year. And since the project involves chopping up a tennis and swim club used by some 2,000 people (who are nowhere near

every study we’ve seen shows that we’ve vastly over built housing for the wealthy — ted gullicksen, san francisco tenants union

that rich), “you’re eliminating the use of that land by the general public” in favor of a tiny elite. The developer says that the city will get money to build 29 below-market-rate units. That’s nice; by that standard, 80 percent of the new housing goes to the richest people in the world, and 20 percent for everyone else. That percentage ought to be reversed — and until it is (or at least, until we have a plan to build enough affordable housing for the people who really need a place to live in San Francisco) I can’t imagine why we’d want to be doing favors to feed the greed of developers. What we’re doing in this city is making life harder for lowincome people who are increasingly living on the streets and doing big favors for the spectacularly wealthy. There’s no sanity in our housing policy — except to turn San Francisco even more into a city of the rich. 2

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When significant events related to the Occupy movement occur in the pre-dawn hours, it usually means a protest encampment has been raided. But on Dec. 12, Occupy protesters were the ones carrying out a strategic plan before sun up. Activists organized by OccupyOakland effectively blocked cargo shipments from moving through several Port of Oakland terminals that day, as part of a coordinated West Coast Port Blockade that featured similar actions in other cities including San Diego, Portland, Seattle, and Longview, Washington. About 150 longshore workers were sent home from their morning shifts at Oakland shipping terminals because protesters were marching in circular picket lines outside the gates. The day began when more than 1,000 protesters met up at the West Oakland BART station at 5:30 a.m., sleepily raising signs and banners in the chilly morning air as they proceeded down 7th Street toward the port. Once they reached the sprawling shipping hub, they formed picket lines outside terminal entrances. Police were on the scene and clad in riot gear, but no clashes with protesters occurred. Around 7 a.m., when the morning shift would have typically started, two International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU) dockworkers — who editorials

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declined to give their names — stood near the Hanjin Shipping gate at berths 55 and 56. Past the gate, a cargo vessel which had likely come from Japan was berthed and waiting to unload. The men calmly surveyed the roughly 200 chanting Occupy activists as they marched around and around in a circular picket. “Ain’t nobody going to cross it,” one offered. The other gestured toward the protesters. “These are Americans wanting American jobs,” he said. Around 10 a.m. outside the same terminal, protest organizer and Oakland hip-hop artist Boots Riley declared the first part of the port shutdown to be a victory. “Longshoremen are going home now,” he said. “Effectively, the Port of Oakland is shut down.” Later in the afternoon, protesters returned to prevent the start of an evening shift. Until recently, the nationwide Occupy movement manifested as tent cities springing up everywhere in rebellion against the lopsided economic conditions. After a series of police raids cleared the tents away, however, organizers in the Bay Area and beyond took a different tack with the port blockade. Working in tandem with allies from labor, occupiers from San Diego all the way up to Anchorage directed their gaze at international shipping hubs, critical infrastructure for multinational businesses importing and exporting goods between Asia and North America. Cargo terminals make for

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heavyweight targets, as five of the nation’s 10 largest ports are located along the West Coast. The value of annually traded goods flowing in and out of Oakland alone is $34 billion, and authorities there estimate some $8 million could be lost if business were to be halted for a full day.

Making history OccupyOakland unanimously approved the call for a coordinated West Coast port blockade at a Nov. 18 General Assembly. “The ports play a pivotal role in the flow and growth of capital for the 1 percent in this country and internationally,” occupiers explained on a website announcing the port shutdown. “For that reason alone it is the ideal place to disrupt their profit machine.” The ports weren’t selected as a target for that reason alone, but rather as an affront to specific corporations whose labor practices have sparked the ire of port workers. Export Grain Terminal (EGT) and its parent company, Bunge, Ltd., came into Occupy’s crosshairs because of their ongoing dispute with ILWU Local 21 in Longview, Wash., stemming from what longshoremen characterize as unionbusting practices. Port terminal operator Stevedoring Services of America (SSA Marine) and its parent company’s primary shareholder, Goldman Sachs, were also singled out in support of low-wage port truckers whose employment classification as independent contractors bars them music listings

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from unionizing. The third objective of the blockade, according to organizers, was to strike back against a series of police raids that dismantled Occupy encampments nationwide. It wasn’t the first time cargo ships traversing the Pacific would be stalled by a politically motivated coast-wide port blockade. In 2008, ILWU members coordinated a West Coast port shutdown in dissent of the Iraq War. In 1984, longshoremen and anti-apartheid activists blocked South African cargo to boycott the apartheid regime, noted ILWU member Stan Woods. Similar shutdowns, carried out in response to politically explosive issues going back to 1934, have been led by community activists forming picket lines at port entrances to prevent dockworkers from beginning their shifts. Occupy’s call for a coordinated blockade brought an unprecedented twist to this historic trend, representing the first time a group unaffiliated with dockworkers had called for a shutdown spanning the entire West Coast. It left some seasoned organizers wondering anxiously how things would unfold, while others saw it as a gust of wind in the sails of the labor movement. “One of the good things about the Occupy movement is that it’s challenging leaders of progressive institutions,” Woods said. “The old way ... isn’t working. There’s been a one-sided class war, and there has to be a two-sided class war.” Organizer Barucha Peller noted that the Occupy movement could be galvanizing for non-unionized workers, too. “Our movement is giving a framework for the 89 percent of workers who are not in unions,” she said. For occupiers up and down the West Coast, the port shutdown also seemed to present a kind of test as to whether their young movement could successfully “exert its collective muscle,” as an OccupyOakland press statement put it, and effectuate a mass mobilization even after police raids flattened their encampments.

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ILWU, publicly criticized the blockade plan, saying organizers had failed to reach out to union officials before unanimously approving the call to action. “Any decisions made by groups outside of the union’s democratic process do not hold water, regardless of the intent,” McEllrath wrote. He seemed troubled that Occupy had attached itself to a union struggle without adequate communication, but an official endorsement of a third-party blockade by the ILWU would have landed the union in legal trouble. “Whenever a group of people decide to march into a workplace in an effort to shut it without respecting the democratic decision-making process, it’s not an ideal situation,” ILWU spokesperson Craig Merrilees told the Guardian. Some rank-and-file ILWU members saw things differently. “The rank-and-file do support the principles of the community, and Occupy,” said Anthony Lavierge, an ILWU steward. “Longshoremen had a good response to [the Nov. 2 port blockade]. It was empowering to a lot of people that so many came out.” Another rank-and-file union member said, “the majority of ILWU workers are supportive of what’s going on, definitely.” One rank-and-file ILWU member and self-described anarchist published a critique online raising concerns that OccupyOakland had failed to bring local union officials on board before approving the call to action. In response, OccupyOakland organizer Mike King said, “We never brought it to them, because it’s not something they could endorse.” Yet he added that they had sought to reach out to the rank-and-file from the start. “We have done far more outreach for Dec. 12,” than in the days prior to the Nov. 2 port shutdown, which brought tens of thousands of activists to the street, King said. “Leading up to Nov. 2, we never expected half that many people would show up.” Occupiers in San Diego, Los Angeles, Portland, Vancouver, Anchorage, and other cities all signed up to participate, and the idea drew support from activist groups as far away as Japan who vowed to perform solidarity actions in their own communities. Nevertheless, the international union president’s statement 10 SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN

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Wednesday, Dec. 14 Is Global Revolution Possible? The Arab Spring and Occupy movements were catalysts to a worldwide introspection and discontent toward countries’ economic and political systems. Change is necessary in order to place human interest over economic gain. The big questions are on the table with Shimaa Helmy, revolutionary activist in Cairo, Egypt, and Sid Patel, OccupySFer and contributor to SocialistWorker.org. 7p.m., free Redstone Building, 3rd Floor Conference Room 2940 16th Street, S.F. www.norcalsocialism.org iso@norcalsocialism.org

Thursday, Dec. 15 About 1,000 occupy protesters began marching to the Port of Oakland at 5:30 a.m., Dec. 12. photo by luke thomas/fogcityjournal.com

prompted a flurry of mainstream news articles — along with some downright derisive columns — casting occupiers as out of sync with the very workers they claimed to stand with. In Oakland, authorities of the targeted facility posed another obstacle. The Port of Oakland took out full-page ads in local daily newspapers and the New York Times urging the community to “Keep the Port Open.” The ads borrowed the language of the movement by proclaiming that the port “employs the 99 percent.” Port spokesperson Robert Bernardo emphasized this message in an interview with the Guardian. “When you shut down a port, you lose jobs,” he said. “Local jobs.” Sue Piper, special assistant to Oakland Mayor Jean Quan, noted prior to Dec. 12 that the mayor was working with police and port officials to ensure that the port remained open for business. On the morning of the port blockade, however, police stood down and did not prevent protesters from circling up in front of terminal entrances.

Big fish to fry Lost in much of the mainstream coverage of the port blockade were Occupy Oakland’s three main objectives. The protesters aimed to demonstrate solidarity with lowincome port truckers laboring in service of the powerful SSA Marine; stand with ILWU Local 21 members in their face-off against EGT; and deliver a show of resistance against coordinated police raids of Occupy encampments nationwide. In October, 26 Los Angeles truckers working for a port comeditorials

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pany called Toll Group were fired after wearing Teamsters truckers’ union jerseys to their shifts to demonstrate their wish to unionize. Because they’re classified as independent contractors instead of employees, it’s illegal for the truckers to join unions. They’re paid per shipment rather than per hour, which translates to hours of unpaid labor spent in the queue, and must cover their own job-related costs. Occupy Los Angeles caught wind of the incident and began to talk about doing an action in solidarity with the truckers. “The date of Dec. 12 was originally suggested by people in Los Angeles,” explained Dave Welsh, a delegate of the San Francisco Labor Council and secretary of the Committee to Defend the ILWU. “It’s also Our Lady of Guadalupe feast day, a Mexican holiday. Since many truckers of the Port of LA are Mexican, they picked that date. One focus [of the blockade] is support for truckers and their demand for better wages, working conditions, etc.” On the day of the blockade, an open letter from port truckers was published on the website of the Coalition for Clean and Safe Ports, an advocacy group. “We are inspired that a non-violent democratic movement that insists on basic economic fairness is capturing the hearts and minds of so many working people,” the message read. “Thank you ‘99 Percenters’ for hearing our call for justice. We are humbled and overwhelmed by recent attention. Normally we are invisible.” The second major target of the blockade was EGT, which construct-

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ed a new grain terminal on Port of Longview property at the edge of the Columbia River in southern Washington, about an hour’s drive from Portland, Ore. EGT’s parent company is Bunge, Ltd., a major agribusiness firm that has come under fire for everything from tax evasion, to rampant clearing of Amazon rainforest lands for soybean cultivation, to the use of slave labor in Brazil. Although the terminal construction first brought hope to a small community inflicted with 15 percent unemployment , ILWU Local 21 President Dan Coffman says things soured when EGT brought in out-of-state laborers to build the facility, then refused to hire members of his union. Coffman contends that EGT’s lease with the port means the company is required to hire Local 21 workers, but EGT disputes this, and has been locked in a federal court battle with the port. The dispute has prompted union members to stage protests of their own, resulting in some arrests. Peller, the Occupy Oakland organizer, announced on a megaphone Dec. 12 that occupiers in southern Washington had shut down the Port of Longview, according to a text message from ILWU Local 21. Union members wanted to thank the movement for the show of support, she added. “They thought they could just run over a small local,” Coffman told the Guardian, referencing EGT. “Well, David met Goliath. We’re going to fight them till the bitter end.” 2 music listings

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Occupy Chevron The multi-billion-dollar oil corporation Chevron is appealing its property tax assessment for its Richmond refinery and other Contra Costa County facilities, trying to get $150 million back from revenues going to the cash-strapped county and its school district. So the Richmond Progressive Alliance and other groups are organizing a protest outside the hearing of the Contra Costa County Assessment Appeals Board in Martinez. Stop Chevron’s slick lawyers from bullying the community and taking more away from the 99 percent. 11:30 a.m. gathering, rally at noon, free 651 Pine, Martinez Contact: Eduardo Martinez 510-412-2260 info@richmondprogressivealliance.net www.richmondprogressivealliance.net Rally Against Budget Cuts The state deadline for mid-year budget cuts approaches and Gov. Jerry Brown’s $2.5 billion additional take backs from public education and other social services launches another stint of heavy austerity measures. Why steal from the poor and the state when you can take taxes from the rich? Sisters United Front for Survival and CalWORKS invite all to congregate and try to save what is left of California services. 5 p.m., free. California State Building 455 Golden Gate, SF baradicalwomen@earthlink.net 415-864-1278

SUnday, Dec. 18 Resist ICE raid Over 200 workers at the Pacific Steel Castings foundry in Berkeley were fired as a result of a “silent raid’ by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement branch. ICE claims the employees had no legal immigrant status, but this massive firing is damaging the East Bay economy and job market since many of these steel workers had been employees for decades. A community coalition stands in solidarity for those displaced and out of work. 2-4p.m., free but suggested donations like food, toys, clothing to help families St Cornelius Church Hall 225 28th Street, Richmond Contact: 510-233-5215 For more info call Rev. Debbie Lee at 510-9037106 ext. 319 Or Francisco Herrera at 510-903-7106 ext. 302 Mail items for Alerts to the Guardian Building, 135 Mississippi St., SF, CA 94107; fax to (415) 437-3658; or e‑mail alert@sfbg.com. Please include a contact telephone number. Items must be received at least one week prior to the publication date. 2

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facilities), and Chinese Hospital, as well as noting how the city-run General Hospital provides by far the most charity care in town. The report finds CPMC is only spending about 1 percent of its revenues on charity care while the city sets a minimum standard of 3 percent. Even before that project, CPMC/Sutter is the dominant health provider in town, and by far the most profitable. Between 20062010, the report says the company made $743.9 million in profits from its San Francisco operations, compared to St. Mary’s $22.6 million in profits and the $14.8 million loss by St. Francis. “Our analysis shows that CPMC has the financial capacity to provide more of a share of services for uninsured and underinsured San Franciscans than it presently does, and that it is crucial for CPMC to do so in order to meet the city’s health care needs,” said Jeff Ugai, a Hastings student who worked on the study. In 2010 CPMC’s three oldest campuses — Pacific, Davies, and California — provided charity care at a patients per bed rate less than half that of St. Francis, even though CPMC is triple St. Francis’s size and has much greater financial stability. “St. Francis meets a huge amount of charity care patients. CPMC clearly can and should meet healthcare needs,” said Emily Lee, a member of the Chinese Progressive Association, who spoke at a press conference announcing the report. “From the position of the coalitions, we want to see a project, and we want to see a good project.” But CPMC, which has been resisting calls by Mayor Ed Lee and other city officials to commit to more charity care as a condition for its project, isn’t even accepting the music listings

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report’s damning conclusions that it is extracting huge profits from San Francisco and giving little back. “It depends on how you calculate it,” said CPMC spokesperson Kevin McCormack. “As a dollar amount, we give more in charity care than any other hospital except for General Hospital.” That’s not surprising given that CPMC makes more money in San Francisco than any other hospital, enough that it has become a cash cow for the entire chain. “CPMC-St. Luke’s is not only the most profitable hospital in San Francisco, but it is also the most profitable hospital in the Sutter Health statewide network. Out of twenty-one hospital groups within the Sutter Health network, CPMC/ St.Luke’s brought in nearly one quarter of Sutter Health’s average net income over the last five years,” the report reads. But McCormack says Sutter reinvests its profits back into the system. “It goes back into the system itself,” he said. “It goes back into the hospital, into salaries, building new facilities, repairing old ones.” Yet the activists are unconvinced. Even before this report on charity care, they were critical of a CPMC project that includes housing on Van Ness with low rates of affordability, and which they say doesn’t rebuild St. Luke’s large enough to meet the community’s needs. It is also agreeing to operate St. Luke’s for only 20 years. “I like to call it a stay of execution,” said Jane Sandoval, who’s been a nurse at St. Luke’s for 26 years. “When CPMC took over with their master plan, it was an enigma to me how they concluded what the community needed. I know what the community needs, and I wonder who they asked.” 2

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A vIolent oCt. 25 PolICe rAId on oCCuPyoAklAnd PromPted Berkeley to SuSPend Some of ItS mutuAl AId AgreementS. | GUArdIAN PhOTO by rEbECCA bOwE

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It’s not terribly controversial when it applies to firefighting — but some people in San Francisco and Berkeley weren’t happy to see their officers joining the Oakland cops in the crackdown in peaceful protesters. Berkeley officials also want to limit the ability of local cops to work with the FBI and federal immigration agents. The effort began quietly last summer with behind-the-scene organizing spearheaded by the Washington D.C.-based Bill of Rights Defense Committee, which reached out to a wide variety of groups, include the NAACP, the ACLU, Asian Law Caucus, National Lawyers Guild, the Coalition for a Safe Berkeley, and the city’s Peace and Justice Commission. “It was a series of one-on-one conversations with the leaders of these groups and then getting them into a room together,� said Bill of Rights Defense Committee Executive Director Shahid Buttar. That effort got a major push forward last month when Councilmembers Jesse Arreguin and

Kriss Worthington led an effort to suspend mutual aid agreements the Berkeley Police Department has with the University of California police and two other police agencies — as well as two city policy documents — over concerns about the use of force against peaceful protesters and domestic surveillance activities. The council approved the proposal unanimously. Ironically, on the day after the vote, the university launched a violent and controversial crackdown on the OccupyCal encampment — without the help of Berkeley Police. “It sends the message that we’re not going to try to suppress people’s rights to demonstrate and express themselves,� Arreguin told the Guardian. The timing of the violent police raid on OccupyOakland — which made international headlines — helped elevate the issue. “What happened in Oakland made people very concerned,� Arreguin said. Peace and Justice Commission member George Lippman agreed: “People were so shocked by what happened in Oakland that they didn’t resist. ...To me, it comes down to what are our values.� Arreguin used public records laws to obtain the mutual aid agreements between the various cities and then, with help from activists,

identified provisions that conflict with Berkeley laws and values. Worthington said that work was crucial to winning over other members of the council: “If it was a generic objection to the whole thing, we would not have won the vote.� The agreements that the council suspended were with the UC police, the Northern California Regional Intelligence Center (an arm of the Joint Terrorism Task Force, a domestic surveillance pact that has ramped up activities since 9/11), the Urban Area Security Initiative (a creation of the Department of Homeland Security), the city’s Criminal Intelligence Policy, and its Jail Policy (which directs local officers to honor federal immigration holds). “There is a real potential for problems when we give police the blank check to respond to mutual aid agreements,� he said. “We’re trying to ensure they respect this community’s values.�

“We don’t do ICe’S JoB.� Arreguin and other members of his coalition have been working on modifying provisions of these documents, and they are expected to return to the council for a vote next month. But that’s just the first step in Berkeley’s efforts to create comprehensive peace and justice policies, covering civil liberties, crowd control policies, use of force, and cooperation with other policing agencies. “The ordinance we’re discussing would cover a lot of these areas,� Arreguin said. “What we’re trying to achieve here is more accountability.� For example, the police are the ones who decide what is an “emergency situation� that would trigger a mutual aid response. But should a peaceful protest that blocks traffic or goes on an unpermitted march be considered an emergency? “It may not be appropriate for us to respond to every request, particularly when it comes to political activities,� Arreguin said. “Just because people

for more news content visit sfbg.com/politics are breaking laws, that shouldn’t be a pretext to respond to mutual aid.� In a similar vein, the coalition is developing policies to support Berkeley’s status as a sanctuary city for immigrants of all kinds and looking for ways to resist the federal Secure Communities program, a national database of fingerprints and arrest information that allows Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to place detention holds on those suspected of being undocumented immigrants. The boards of supervisors in San Francisco, Santa Clara, and other jurisdictions have tried unsuccessfully to opt out of the program, something that requires state approval. But the activists say Santa Clara has become a model by following up with an ordinance that says the county won’t honor the federal requests until they have a signed written agreement to cover all the county’s costs associated with honoring the holds. “We don’t do ICE’s job,� Sup. George Shirakawa told supporters after the Oct. 17 vote, according to published reports. Arreguin called the effort “a smart approach and we want to see if we can do it in Berkeley.� Other Bay Area cities have also begun to examine issues related to a police state that has expanded since the 9/11 attacks, including Richmond and Piedmont. In San Francisco, the latest process of challenging the role of local police officers in domestic surveillance — issues the city has periodically wrestled with for decades — began earlier this year (“Spies in blue,� April 26). It led to an ordinance that would limit that activity, which activists say Sup. Jane Kim will introduce next month. “If our local police are going to work with the FBI at all, they have to observe our local laws,� says John CONTINUES ON PAGE 14 >>

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Crew, the police practices expert with the ACLU-Northern California who has been helping develop San Francisco’s ordinance. “Far to often, the FBI has shown interest in protest activities that have nothing to do with illegal activities.� For example, documents unearthed by a lawsuit filed by the ACLU and the Bay Guardian and through other avenues show FBI coordination with local police agencies related to the Occupy protests, those aimed at BART, and in the aftermath of the trail of Johannes Merserle, the former BART officer who shot Oscar Grant. The UC Board of Regents also canceled a meeting last month where a large protest was organized, citing unspecified intelligence about threats to public safety. Crew noted that a right to privacy is written into California’s constitution, yet San Francisco has two experienced police inspectors assigned full-time to work with FBI and its Joint Terrorism Task Force. “They aren’t focused on laws being broken, but on collecting massive amounts of information,� Crew said.

SURVEILLANCE IN THE SPOTLIGHT Veena Dubal of the Asian Law Caucus, which has also been involved with Berkeley coalition, is happy to finally be connecting various issues related to an overreaching police state. “What’s really exciting about the ordinance is it’s pushing back on all these very problematic federal polices that have really gone after communities of color,� she said. “The people being spied on in Berkeley are not the people who live in the hills, it’s the students and people of color.� She said the Occupy movement, its broad appeal to the 99 percent, and police overreaction to peaceful protests have helped to highlight some of these longstanding policing issues and caused more people to feel affected by this struggle. “The Occupy movement certainly brings these issues to an audience that wasn’t concerned about it before. Surveillance and police brutality, all the sudden that’s in the spotlight.� she said, noting that people have begun to question their willingness to give police more power after 9/11. “More and more people are understanding that the powers the government took aren’t just being directed at terrorists, but members of their families.� Willie Phillips of Berkeley’s NAACP chapter, a lifelong Berkeley resident who has experienced dis14 SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN

crimination and racial profiling by police his whole life, said it’s good to finally build a coalition that broadens support for addressing policing issues. “It gets people discussing issues that overlap and creating that kind of dialogue is important,� he told us. “Separation only creates a division in addressing the issue that we’re facing.....We have to start looking at our commonalities and our hopes, instead of fear, because fear is what divides us.� Phillips said the Occupy movement, with its engaged young people who have stood strong against aggressive police tactics, has helped place the spotlight back on policing issues after progress on combating racial profiling in the ‘90s was derailed by 9/11. “It’s shows that everyone can be marginalized,� Phillips said of the Occupy movement. “Ninety-nine percent of people have been marginalized and that context helps us understand each other.� Arreguin hopes that Berkeley’s work in this realm sparks discussion with other Bay Area jurisdictions. “We want to work on a regional level to deal with these issues,� he said, later adding, “I’ve been alarmed as the police state has developed over the years.� Asked whether he’s gotten any pushback from police to his efforts, Arreguin said Police Chief Michael Meehan and his department have been very cooperative and that “our police are just waiting for a dialogue about what kind of changes we want to see.� A Berkeley Police spokesperson says the department won’t comment on political matters. Berkeley Police Association President Tim Kaplan said mutual aid agreements are important to public safety, but that “we do feel like we’re part of the Berkeley community and we want to work with the city and its citizens....We’re going to do what the law says.� And the coalition is intent on writing some of the country’s most progressive laws for policing the police. “The victory we had on mutual aid agreements is very exciting and we have an opportunity to make some real changes,� Arreguin said. Buttar said his organization has helped to facilitate similar coalitions in about 30 cities, from Los Angeles to Hartford, Conn. But he said Berkeley’s is the biggest and has the most ambitious agenda. “I tend to think that just getting the coalition together is a win,� Buttar said. “So, to that extent, Berkeley is already a model.� 2 EDITORIALS

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methadone clinic across the street from his school. “We have to deal with people passed out on the property, people smoking — those are more the issues than people buying medical marijuana.� The principal says he patrols Marshall’s immediate neighborhood three to four times a day, dealing with drug addicts, people with mental problems, and the Mission’s homeless population. He called the dispensary “discreet� and never saw any cannabis usage by dispensary patients. Indeed: “They looked pretty much like the people who were coming out of the Walgreens [down the street].� In the past, Medithrive has offered to sponsor health education at Marshall. Regardless, the dispensary’s Mission Streets doors are shuttered now. On many days, a staff member stands outside, handing out flyers announcing the delivery service to customers unaware that walk-up sales have ceased. “We’re actually not in such a unique position,� said Medithrive community outreach liaison Hunter Holliman. The Tenderloin’s Divinity Tree and the Mission’s Mr. Nice Guy dispensaries also closed their doors this autumn in light of similar school zone notifications sent to their landlords. The landlord of Marin County marijuana activist Lynnette Shaw, founder of Marin Alliance for Medical Marijuana, was also hit. Shaw intends to fight to stay open. picks

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Holliman says the shift to delivery services has been unexpectedly popular with Medithrive’s customers and allows the dispensary to service patients unable to physically access the storefront location — but it’s not without its challenges. Operations have been transient since the co-op is unable to even stage deliveries from the space on Mission Street. The day that the Guardian called, a voicemail informed patients that due to high call volume they’d have to leave a message so that dispensary staff could call them back. Once contacted by a helpful “budtender,� it took a little over an hour for the order to arrive. Although Medithrive let go of many employees in its initial closure, it’s hired nearly all back in the transition to the laborintensive delivery services. The dispensary is still hoping to secure another brick and mortar location, but permitting for new dispensaries has stalled at the city level. Even if the dispensary’s been booted from its space, at least Medithrive patients still have access to medical cannabis — for now. Holliman is convinced that Bay Area dispensaries haven’t seen the end of legal challenges. “I’m sure there’s more to come,� he said grimly. “The feds are really serious about this.� 2 Medithrive’s delivery-only menu is available at www.medithrive.com

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aPPeTiTe On a recent misty morning in Point Reyes, and then during a Petaluma afternoon inland, I visited two of our most beloved creameries. The damp earth of a dairy farm in dark, early hours is oddly intoxicating, while sampling fresh cheese in various stages of ripening is sheer pleasure. These dairies make me proud of the familial, forwardthinking, humane food practices that have been going strong in the Bay Area for decades.

STrauS FaMily CreaMery One look in the eyes of cows at Straus Family Creamery (www. strausfamilycreamery.com) and you’re changed. If you did not care where your milk came from, you do now. Petting baby cows, tagged with names such as Wilma or Eve, you become attached, even protective, of these peaceable animals. Organic before it became a “trend,” Bill Straus began farming this coastal Point Reyes land in 1941 with 23 cows (there are now over 300 milk cows). His wife Ellen read Rachel Carson’s game-changing Silent Spring in the 1960s, mobilizing them both toward a lifelong commitment to environmental sustainability. Theirs were the first certified organic dairy farm west of the Mississippi in 1994, leading in sustainable farming practices. Early on a soft, gray weekday, I trekked up to the farm, right on Tomales Bay, via scenic winding roads. The air smells funky with cows, yes, but also bracingly of earth, water, grass. Bill and Ellen’s son Albert Straus now runs the farm. Majoring

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in dairy science, he launched the famed ice cream line (he’s a real aficionado), continuing to grow Straus Creamery in sustainable practices like composting solids and waste to fertilize their land (or that of nearby biodynamic wineries). Straus keeps a “closed herd” so no infection or disease gets transported to the cows. While he works with 300 milking cows, he’s simultaneously raising 250 young cows who begin milking after two years. As prices of basics like grain and production have gone up at least 25 percent in the last couple of years, there’s not a lot of profit to made allowing the natural process vs. increasing milk flow by injecting cows with hormones. It is heartening to see those like Straus, who care more about the quality and health of the product for consumers, along with the animals and their land, than the bottom line. Still, Straus presses on, under standards for organic farm certification that are stricter than for any food product. “Most farmers are pretty risk averse, but I seem to continue to go the other way, “Albert told me with a laugh. He’s pleased to note that around 50 percent of Marin and Sonoma farms are now organic. (Learn more about the organization formed in part by Albert and Sue Conley of Cowgirl Creamery, Marin Organic, www.marinorganic.org, now celebrating 10 years and responsible for promoting much of the region and industry’s growth).

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in the country, is a delight. There are close ties to the Straus family: Conley and Smith not only source milk from Straus, but Sue was in part inspired to launch Cowgirl by the Strauses. Both from rich culinary backgrounds, Peg and Sue created highly-lauded cheeses like that triplecream dream, Mt. Tam, and earthy, unique Red Hawk. Their shop in the Ferry Building is a cheese destination. The Cowgirls produce 10 different cheeses, seven in Petaluma (a town boasting other major creameries like Clover Stornetta and Three Twins), and three in their original, smaller Point Reyes facility. Peg notes that in Europe keeping cheeses regionally uniform — like Camembert in Camembert, France, for example — means strict style regulations. “We are lucky to have such great variety of cheeses here,” she told me, celebrating the freedom of experimentation led to some of the most popular Cowgirl cheeses. Besides an idyllic lunch at Sue’s house, the day’s high point came in sampling Mt. Tam in numerous states of age, from an hours’ old, just-brined specimen that tasted salty-sour-tart to a meaty, acidic example at seven days, and finishing with a creamy, nutty 32-day chunk. (Mt. Tam is usually sold in the mid 20-30 day range.) Schedule a tour of Cowgirl (tours resume in the Spring) or the Straus farm (group tours only), and you may come away as I did, with an increased appreciation for cheese, cows, our diverse region, and the artisans who strive to create the best... and change the world while they’re at it. 2 Subscribe to Virgina’s twice-monthly newsletter, The Perfect Spot, www. theperfectspotsf.com

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Yip Deceiver Think of Yip Deceiver as Of Montreal’s wicked cousin. Of Montreal multi-instrumentalist Davey Pierce has borrowed the band’s poppiest elements and let them run wild on his electronic side project. Lots of synthesizers and infectious hooks inform the retro dance blow-out that is Yip Deceiver. It’s like an Of Montreal that’s been fed party drugs and handed a glowstick. A naughtier, sweatier Of Montreal. “Dance like you’ve got no soul,” Pierce commands on Yip Deceiver’s “Sadie Hawkins Day.” (Capell) With Shock, Loose Shus, and Tres Lingerie 8 p.m., $6 Milk Bar 1840 Haight, SF (415) 387-6455

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Thursday 12/15 Dinosaur Jr. Of all the pioneering alternative rock groups dragging out their old albums in their entirety, Dinosaur Jr. could easily have kept the past quarantined away. In the sevenodd years since J. Mascis and Lou Barlow put aside a long standing grudge, the band has been operating at peak form, releasing acclaimed albums including 2007’s Beyond and 2009’s Farm. The current tour, however, finds Dino looking back and performing 1988’s Bug, an album remembered for shredded guitars (“Freak Scene”) and destroyed vocal cords (“Don’t”) as much as a tour that resulted in the band’s unceremonious break-up. Former SST labelmate, Henry Rollins, will be on hand for a Q&A looking back on the era, and perhaps lay some issues to rest (Ryan Prendiville) With Pierced Arrows 8 p.m., $32.50 Fillmore 1850 Geary, SF (415) 346-6000 www.thefillmore.com

Wednesday 12/14 Not everyone is nutty enough to celebrate the nuclear family during the holidays. But that’s no reason not to go out and party. Smuin Ballet is a good place to start. The core of the late Michael Smuin’s The Christmas Ballet stays pretty much the same — classical music and (more or less) classical dancing in the first half, and a marvelous-fun, stylistically allover the place second half. Some ingredients have become classics: Santa Baby, Surfer, and Drummer Boy, among others. Every year, however, there are premieres. This December they are by Amy Seiwert and Robert Sund. (Rita Felciano)

the kind of improvisatory magic only a live setting, and pulsing psychic conversation with the dancers, can provide. (Marke B.)

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Friday 12/16 Slow Hands Slow food, slow cooking, slow money, slow living ... why not a slow house movement? Well, at least “slow” in the non-metaphoric sense: NYC DJ Slow Hands was at the vanguard of a dance music moment that a couple of years ago began to slow house music tempos down to a sultry 100 beats per minute from the

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the true spirit of Christmas. This screening also features retro holiday cartoons and trailers, plus a toy drive hosted by the San Francisco Firefighter’s Toy Program. Hooray for Santy Claus! (Cheryl Eddy)

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1:30 p.m., $7.50–$10 ($5 admission for children who contribute a new, unwrapped toy) Castro Theatre 429 Castro, SF (415) 621-6120 www.castrotheatre.com

Mile Pilot went on hiatus, the San Diego band released its self-titled debut in 1999. In 2007, the band released Autumn of the Seraphs — an instant classic Pinback album that’s spearheaded by Smith and Crow’s complementary vocals and rhythmic guitar work. Since then, the band has been relatively quiet on the recording end, but it hasn’t yet renounced the tour bus. (Miller) standard 120bpm. Sometimes he’d play slower tunes from outside the usual dance realm, sometimes he’d actually just slow down the records themselves. (The Moombahton genre followed the second method soon afterwards, slowing Dutch Euro-techno down to reggaeton speed.) But Slow Hands slow never equals boring. His mixes move with the hypnotic complexity of a dream machine, full of dubby effects, chugging momentum, and entrancing riffs. He may not even play slow at all, blasting off into wondrously ecstatic underground pop if the room feels it. Read my interview with him at www.sfbg.com/slowhands (Marke B.) 9 p.m., $15 before midnight, $20 after Beat Box 314 11th St., SF. www.ayli-sf.com

Saturday 12/17 A Child’s Christmas in Wales Dylan Thomas’s prose poem A Child’s Christmas in Wales should stand alongside Dickens’ A Christmas Carol as one of the seasonal classics. It tells the story of a Welsh boy’s Christmas with witty anecdotes and rich language, reviving an earlier time “before the motor car” when everything — even the snow which “came shawling out of the ground and swam and drifted out of the arms and hands and bodies of the trees” — was unspoiled and dreamlike. Originally written for a BBC radio broadcast, the poem became a chileditorials

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dren’s book after Thomas’s death in 1953. This short film adaptation from 1963 was produced by Marvin Lightner and uses the bold and theatrical original recording by Thomas. (James H. Miller) 2 p.m., $15 Exploratorium 3601 Lyon, SF (415) 561-0360 www.exploratorium.edu

Saturday 12/17 “One-Minute Play Festival” One of the shortest plays on record is Samuel Beckett’s Breath — it runs somewhere between 20 and 30 seconds and, from beginning to end, consists purely of sounds of a child crying, followed by heavy breathing, light changes, and a stage cluttered with trash. Not even Beckett attempted to put actors in the terse script. But at the One-Minute Play Festival, they do use actors. With more than 80 one-minute plays written specifically for the occasion, over 30 actors and five directors, the two-day festival provides quite the jarring experience. In 60 seconds, you can probably do little more than read this short article and blow your nose. But by that time at the festival, you would have already seen a contemporary drama. (Miller) 8 p.m.; Dec. 18, 2 and 7 p.m., $20 Thick House 1695 18th St., SF (415) 626-2176 www.playwrightsfoundation.org

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Growing up, skate-punk trailblazer Lagwagon was a pretty big deal for me. In the band’s heyday, Lagwagon’s frontman Joey Cape was the poster boy for teenage fuck-ups everywhere. The band may have been made up of a bunch of slackers, but its music became the definitive sound of Fat Wreck Chords and inspired countless skate-punk bands to follow in its footsteps. I’d kind of forgotten about Lagwagon until I found out it was rereleasing five of its albums from the ‘90s this year. For those of us who downloaded all its music on Napster and spent our allowance money on 40s, it’s payback time. (Frances Capell)

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Saturday 12/17 Pinback Pinback tends not to burst into moments of wild intensity, but it doesn’t dwell on the lower end of things either. It finds, rather, a comfortable space between the two, much like the Sea and Cake, with whom it shares a similar texture and mood. Formed in the late 1990s as a side project by Zach Smith and Rob Crow after Smith’s band Three

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Tuesday 12/20 Zach Rogue As an atheist gentile, I don’t know much about Judaism. But I do know that by the midpoint of December the bombardment of everything X-mas has me eyeing all the non-Christian events possible. Luckily, the Idelsohn Society has set up the Tikva Records popup shop, a non-red and white, non-ringing of the bells oasis. For the beginning of “the Festival of Lights” (Thanks Wikipedia!), local singing songwriter Zach Rogue, of indie-rock outfit Rogue Wave and recent project Release the Sunbird, will inaugurate the festivities with a performance and candle lighting. Candle lighting? I’ve got to see this. (Prendiville) 7 p.m., donation suggested (RSVP online) Tikva Records 3191 Mission, SF (415) 713-0649 www.tikvarecords.eventbrite.com 2 The Guardian listings deadline is two weeks prior to our Wednesday publication date. To submit an item for consideration, please include the title of the event, a brief description of the event, date and time, venue name, street address (listing cross streets only isn’t sufficient), city, telephone number readers can call for more information, telephone number for media, and admission costs. Send information to Listings, the Guardian Building, 135 Mississippi St., SF, CA 94107; fax to (415) 487-2506; or e‑mail (paste press release into e‑mail body — no text attachments, please) to listings@sfbg.com. Digital photos may be submitted in jpeg format; the image must be at least 240 dpi and four inches by six inches in size. We regret we cannot accept listings over the phone.

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By Emily Savage emilysavage@sfbg.com Year in Music “Out of all the records I’ve recorded, that was the worst experience,” says prolific Dinosaur Jr. bassist and Sebadoh guitarist Lou Barlow. He’s speaking of Bug, the classic, feedback opening alternative rock album Dinosaur Jr. released on SST in 1988. Why then, did the band tour the East Coast during the spring of 2011, playing the album start to finish, and why does it continue to play it now — appearing at the Fillmore this week? “All the negative associations I had with it are gone. What I hear now is a really great batch of songs that J [Mascis] wrote.” He goes on to describe the early days of Dinosaur Jr., “when we formed it was my first textured, creatively ambitious band — and that was at the age of 17 — so it’s a real part of my DNA now. Musically, it’s a very familiar spot to be at.” There, in a history-rich bed with a familiar texture, is the spot where aging rock fans crave to be. According to Simon Reynold’s exhaustive and polarizing 2011 tome Retromania, it’s also the space in which we all now inhabit, new listeners and old. His introductory words are harsh, if provoking. “The 2000s [was] the decade of rampant recycling: bygone genres revived and renovated, vintage sonic material, reprocessed and recombined. Too often with new young bands, beneath their taut skin and rosy cheeks, you could detect the sagging grey flesh of old ideas.” Brutal. In some sections, Reynolds is dead on, and his methodology applies equally to the year in rock that was 2011 (though the book was written in the summer of 2010). We couldn’t possibly look back at these twelve months without including the grander trail of rock’n’roll, and how it was again repackaged throughout the year. Given the retro-crazed times we live in, to judge the year, we must also fall deeper 22 SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN

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There were also the bands that just felt retro, or at least, stood with one foot in rock’s not-so-distant past. But the good ones were more reverent than carbon vintage copy, acts like Dum Dum Girls and Cults, played on romantic ideals of ‘60s garage and slipped in some doo-wop and girl group-esque vocals, but neither directly mimics a particular era. In its debut followup, Only In Dreams (Sub Pop), Dum Dum Girls also referenced a distinct ‘90s Mazzy Star vibe. Meanwhile, Canadian chanteuse Austra looped back to the ‘80s with prominent synth and operatic love songs, and the Beets happily alluded to its own ‘60s garage-meets-Ramones influences on fourth album Let The Poison Out (Hardly Art), like something out of a Nuggets boxset; a modern, bilingual Seeds. Locally, longtime Ty Segall band member Mikal Cronin finally made the move to San Francisco in 2011. Raised on surf and garage rock down south, he brought with him a distinctive nostalgic sound; his solo self-titled record — released this year on Trouble in Mind — was one of the most intriguing of the year. Like many now living and playing in SF, he’s drawn to vintage rock’n’roll and garage, but his style stands out above the pack. This year he released a multifarious record of crusted garage-punk and swirling psych-pop, glamorized with the hazy, sand-swept beach days pictured in vintage Polaroids. Opening track “Is It Alright” could be plucked from a psychedelic Beach Boys LP, laid thicker with grime. And Cronin, when pressed, reveals a long history of influences — along with current bands such as Thee Oh Sees and Strange Boys — mentioning longtime favorites

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“Emitt Rhodes, Del Shannon, the Beatles, the Beach Boys,” adding “I’ve been trying to relisten to the classics” And yes, the remaining Beach Boys were said to be planning yet another reunion for next year, a thrill for likely a few young fans (though the same can not be said for Brian Wilson’s 2011 Disney covers album). Here’s another spot where Reynolds and I tend to split: I’m an unabashed rearview mirror fan. And while I agree that the “re-s” in our sonic world are sometimes overwhelmingly dull, the opportunity to see live bands that broke up before I was cognizant has just too strong a pull on my psyche. Even Reynolds seems to consent to that last bit, stating in Retromania, “The exceptions to my ‘no reunions’ policy are a few bands that I loved as a youth but never managed to see live.” So wouldn’t that be the case for someone in every audience? The giant pink headphones-wearing toddler I saw at the Iggy Pop show undoubtedly missed the punk singer’s first 40 odd years of shows. Now, will somebody please reunite Operation Ivy, Minor Threat, and Neutral Milk Hotel for complete album tours, or is that too sacrilegious for your precious memories? It’d just be for my own comfort, obviously. 2

Emily Savage’s Top 10 shows of 2011 1. Feb. 26: No Age, Grass Widow, and Rank/Xerox at Rickshaw Stop 2. April 27: Steve Ignorant plays Crass songs at Slim’s 3. June 1: Gayngs at Independent 4. July 13: King Khan & Gris-Gris, Shannon & the Clams, King Lollipop/1-2-3-4 Go! Records Showcase at Oakland Metro Opera House 5. Sept. 22: Hightower, Black Cobra, and Walken at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts 6. Oct. 6: CSS at Fillmore 7. Oct. 13: Gardens & Villa at Bottom of the Hill 8. Nov. 5: Wild Flag at Great American Music Hall 9. Dec. 4: Iggy Pop at Warfield 10. Dec. 10: Tycho at Independent on the cheap

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was on the move. Tellingly, Holy Ghost!, on Murphy’s DFA imprint, cast its eyes back longingly to the chilly dreamtime of the Ministry’s “I Wanted to Tell Her,” lodging it in a busy thicket of bumping, rumbling bass and keys. Don’t fear the ‘80s: Yesteryear synth populists the Cars released its first LP with Ric Ocasek since its ‘88 split, and the year closed with Gary Numan getting the avant seal of approval as an honored guest at the recent Battles-curated ATP show. Adding fuel to the firing pistons, locally, was a look back at the real Bay underground article: this year’s comp BART: Bay Area Retrograde (Dark Entries) wiped the “Clean Me” messages written in dust from tracks like Voice Farm’s “Voyager.” The latter almost seemed to lend its synth tone directly to the sinewy, eerily sensual “Nightcall” by Kavinsky and Lovefoxxx off the Drive soundtrack (Lakeshore). Much like that violently dreamy film’s Danish-American hybrid, “Nightcall” and College’s “A Real Hero” teetered between the almost OTT strain of romanticism and superchilled detachment embodied by the best of synthpop— the simple hooks and breathy, girlish vocals perfectly complementing the propulsive, forward-thrust mechanism of the tracks. You can’t drive those music listings

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songs from your head. In one of the strongest contenders for (double) album of the year, M83’s Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming (Mute), synthpop was only one component of the deep, ambitious, magnificent sprawl, a recording much like French transplant Anthony Gonzalez’s adopted L.A. home. Its breakout single, “Midnight City,” tapped both the brooding nihilism of Grand Theft Auto and the noirish retro-epics of Michael Mann in collaboration with Giorgio Moroder, as leader Anthony Gonzalez emotes wistfully, “Waiting in a car /Waiting for a ride in the dark / Drinking in the lounge / Following the neon signs / Waiting for a roar / Looking at the mutating skyline / The city is my church / It wraps me in the sparking twilight.” Cue the orchestral, rollercoaster synths, faux bird calls, and reclaimed-from-the-cheesebin skywalking sax. It may say as little as Numan’s “Cars”—making it the perfect tabula-rasa fodder for both Victoria’s Secret commercials and capitalismhappy How to Make It in America —but like a European native finding inspiration in the simultaneously alienating and freeing highways of El-Lay or J.G. Ballard, both songs prove that you needn’t rely on language to move a listener. 2

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walked briskly into Rasputin Music, found a set, and grabbed it off the shelf. There were no new tracks to discover, nothing that I hadn’t heard before — but the sense of excitement and joy from racing down to the record store was a welcome feeling, transporting me back to junior high, when Nirvana was exploding, and I was first exposed to a new world of music that would forever changed my life. It was with these same highlycharged emotions (albeit months earlier) that I made the pilgrimage to Seattle in September to visit a new exhibit celebrating Nirvana’s legacy and impact on popular culture at the Experience Music Project museum. “Nirvana: Taking Punk To The Masses,” opened in April and features a treasure trove of artifacts and interactive installations telling the story behind Nirvana — how it became one of the most influential and beloved rock bands of the last quarter century. Seeing the instruments that were used to create the music that has had such a profound effect on my life was awe-inspiring; as was gazing at hand-written lyric sheets, original demo tapes, artwork, family photos, stage props, and more. Oral histories from band members Krist Novoselic and Chad Channing, along with others who had worked alongside them including producers Jack Endino and Butch Vig, and guitar picks

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LISTS YEAR IN MUSIC Local musicians, writers, DJs, and promoters sound off on the year’s best songs, album releases, shows, and club drugs.

CHERYL EDDY, GUARDIAN

TOP 10 METAL SHOWS OF 2011 (CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER)

1. Feb. 2: Motörhead, Clutch, and Valient Thorr at Warfield 2. March 11: Weedeater, Zoroaster, Kvelertak, and Begotten at Thee Parkside 3. March 12: Slough Feg, Christian Mistress, and Witch Mountain at Hemlock 4. April 3: Saint Vitus, Red Fang, and Howl at Mezzanine 5. June 7: Orange Goblin and Gates of Slumber at Bottom of the Hill 6. Aug. 12: Eyehategod, Impaled, Laudanum, and Brainoil at Oakland Metro 7. Aug. 16: Pentagram at Mezzanine 8. Oct. 13: Enslaved at Slim’s 9. Nov. 3: Mastodon and Red Fang at Warfield 10. Nov. 19: Kyuss Lives! and Black Cobra at Regency Ballroom

JOSH CHEON, DARK ENTRIES RECORDS

TOP 10 NEW RELEASES OF 2011

1. Container, S/T LP (Spectrum Spools) 2. Staccato du Mal, Sin Destino (Weird Records) 3. Bronze, Copper (RVNG Intl.) 4. Grouper, Dream Loss/Alien Observer (Yellow Electric) 5. White Fence, Is Growing Faith (Woodist) 6. Belong, Common Era (Kranky) 28 SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN

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7. Widowspeak, S/T LP (Captured Tracks) 8. Total Control, Henge Beat (Iron Lung) 9. Iceage, New Brigade (What’s Your Rupture?) 10. Brotman & Short, Heights (Cold Dick)

GEORGE CHEN, MUSICIAN AND WRITER

2011: MAN, MOST OF IT WAS SHITTY. BUT HERE WERE THE GOOD THINGS

1. Helm. Luke Younger from Birds of Delay, Halloween weekend in London. Best noise set I’ve seen in a while, it helped that there was a fan blowing his bangs out of his hoodie. He has an album called Cryptography out on Kye. 2. White Lung. Youngins from Vancouver B.C. playing sick, straight forward punk. Saw them in a bowling alley. 3. Village of Spaces’ Alchemy and Trust album. It took a village to put this out, or at least four labels working in conjunction. Dan Beckman’s (Uke of Spaces Corners) quiet folk masterpiece. 4. Divorce. A band from Glasgow that exists in kind of a cultural vacuum there, a bit like the early ‘00s trapped in amber, but then cracked open and given adrenal supplements. They are coming to America in July 2012. 5. Trash Kit put out an album in 2010, but I only got to see them once in 2011. Sadly, they have broken up. Finger-picky jaunty punk with weird rhythms. 6. Andrew W.K. This was not particularly “good”, but distinct encapsulation of the zeitgeist. My band played a show with him at Dem Passwords. He didn’t actually watch us or anything, he showed up right before going on with an entourage. Fans started force-feeding him bananas, Redbull, and whiskey and it turned into a EDITORIALS

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freakish spectacle. I took a nap during his set, came back in, and he was still going for like two and a half hours, driving his fans away. Respect, the modern Andy Kaufman. 7. This Invitation. Chen Santa Maria went on a California tour with Warren in April and it was sparsely attended, but perhaps we’re to blame for that. It’s nice to see one of your oldest friends get some recognition for their work, which Aquarius did by giving their stamp of approval to his three (!) double CDs. 8. Cacaw from Chicago, a few ex-Coughs peeps project. They are now broken up, but this summer they came through and it was a monstrous sludge engine. Dark and fierce. 9. Anika. Technically a 2010 release, but she played at the Independent in October. The lady herself has a passive stage presence, but the music of the whole group (members of Portishead and Beak>) is best described as “Nico fronting PiL” (someone at the LA Times can claim that one). 10. SF Comedy. I still feel like an outsider at all this, but holy shit, there’s good stuff going on right now. Perhaps it is a national, even international renaissance in comedy, but the energy and talent going on here feels as exciting to me as the music scene used to feel. I actually don’t want to name names although the free show at the Rite Spot is a good place to start. I also noticed that none of the music I put on this list has anything to do with the Bay Area. Sorry, music. I just listen to podcasts now.

JHAMEEL, MUSICIAN

TOP 10 SONGS FOR 2011

4. “Bam Bam” by King Charles 5. “King of Diamonds” by Motopony 6. “Don’t Move” by Phantogram 7. “5 O’Clock” by T-Pain 8. “White Lie” by Jhameel 9. “Love U More” by Sunday Girl (RAC Mix) 10. “Imprint” by Amtrac

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TOP 10 RECORDS I AM DIGGING DURING THANKSGIVING WEEK

1. The Fall, Wonderful and Frightening World of the Fall (particularly the tape that includes singles) 2. The Spits, Kill the Cool (demos and rarities, LP on In the Red) 3. Reigning Sound, Time Bomb High School and Too Much Guitar (LPs on In The Red) 4. The Ronettes, Presenting the Fabulous Ronettes featuring Veronica, and Phil Spector’s A Christmas Gift for You. 5. Devo, Workforce to the World (early live bootleg) 6. The Marvelettes, Greatest Hits (LP on TAMLA) 7. Coachwhips, Bangers Versus Fuckers (LP on Narnack) 8. South Bay Surfers, Battle of the Bands (LP on Norton) 9. Tav Falco and the Unaproachable Panther Burns, Panther Phobia (In the Red Records) 10. Jonathan Richman, Rockin’ and Romance (LP on Twin/Tone)

FRANCES CAPELL, GUARDIAN 1. “Cruel” by St. Vincent 2. “Don’t Fuck with my Money” by Penguin Prison 3. “Holocene” by Bon Iver

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full-length debut from British heavy pop quartet WU LYF was funded by membership fees for the band’s deviant fan club, the Lucifer Youth Foundation. 2. Death Grips, Ex Military The sinister debut mixtape from Sacramento’s Death Grips is an explosion of dark, twisted shout-rap and noisy, industrial beats. 3. Nick Diamonds, I Am An Attic Former Unicorn and current member of Islands and Mister Heavenly, Nick Diamonds (a.k.a. Nick Thorburn) released his understated, haunting solo album via Bandcamp. 4. Clams Casino, Instrumental Mixtape Clams Casino’s collection of swirling, synth-laden instrumentals crafted for the likes of Lil B and Soulja Boy reveals the genius of this visionary New Jersey producer. 5. Big K.R.I.T, Return of 4Eva Of all the exciting rap mixtapes released in 2011, Southern heavy-hitter Big K.R.I.T.’s Return of 4Eva is my favorite. 6. Frank Ocean, nostalgia, Ultra. This R&B pop gem presents Frank Ocean as, perhaps, the only member of the OFWGKTA family who proved worthy of the hype in 2011. 7. Fort Lean, Fort Lean (EP) Though it’s only 12 minutes long, Fort Lean’s infectious, summery debut EP is a promising glimpse of things to come for this indie five-piece from Brooklyn, NY. 8. Friendzone, Kuchibiru Network II I chose East Bay duo Friendzone’s Kuchibiru Network 2 over Main Attrakionz’s 808’s & Dark Grapes II, as it showcases Main Attrakionz at its best along with tasty selections from Oakland’s Shady Blaze and Finally

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Boys, Japanese producer Uyama Hiroto, and more. 9. Small Black, Moon Killer In addition to some of Small Black’s catchiest electronic pop songs to date (like the Nicki Minaj-sampling “Love’s Not Enough”), this mixtape features two appearances by Das Racist’s Himanshu Suri, and some inspired remixes from Star Slinger and Phone Tag. 10. The Weeknd, House of Balloons This is a no brainer. CanadianEthiopian R&B prodigy the Weeknd’s debut mixtape House of Balloons is the best album of the year, period. (Frances Capell)

LAURA GRAVANDER, DIRTY CUPCAKES

TOTALLY NEPOTISTIC LIST OF THE TOP TEN LIVE BANDS OF 2011 1. ELECTRO: This is the band of 8-yearold girls I mentored this summer as a volunteer at Bay Area Girls Rock Camp. After learning two chords from scratch, they wrote a droney, unintentionally avant-garde five-minute anti-bullying opus with a rap breakdown that blew my mind at their July showcase at the Oakland Metro. This is the future. 2. Uzi Rash: Swamp reptile Max Nordile and his band of trashy weirdos play music that is both grating and catchy, and deceptively complex. See them live and they will freak you out, and possibly hit you in the eye socket with an empty 40 oz. (it happened to me). 3. Shannon and the Clams: Seeing the Clams live feels like being magically reunited with your childhood dog — happy and nostalgic, a little bit sad. This metaphor is especially apt if you and your childhood dog loved to DANCE! 4. Younger Lovers: Killer guitar parts, dance-crazy beats, and singer-drummer-songwriter Brontez’s onstage bitching makes Younger Lovers’ shows 30 SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN

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unpredictable and exciting. Plus, their guitarist is super-cute! 5. King Lollipop: Elfin hillbilly plays bubblegum rockabilly (or something like that!) backed by six drummers who sound like a marching band meets drum circle, minus the lame. 6. Human Waste: Freaky spacesuited dystopian moog-punk from the Moon. Rumored to consist of members of Uzi Rash, Shannon and the Clams, and Dirty Cupcakes. More space waste to come in 2012. 7. Glitter Wizard: Intricate, impressive glam rock. And once, mid-song, I saw frontman Wendy Stonehenge light his hand on fire! 8. PIGS: This three-piece plays metal for people who love metal. Ripping it up soon in a scummy warehouse near you. 9. Knifey Spoony: Oakland punk rockers with impressive live show and unexpectedly melodic hooks. Singer-guitarist Steve Oriolo studied music in college but uses his powers for good (rock), not evil (anything that doesn’t rock). 10. Sweet Nothing: I’m a sucker for twopiece bands and girl drummers, and Ian and Melissa always rock my face off.

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MARCO DE LA VEGA (@S4NTA_MU3RTE), 120 MINUTES

TOP 10 SUBSTANCES THAT HAVE INFLUENCED MUSIC IN 2011

1. Adderall: Not just because Bay-local comeup, Kreayshawn, spits bout slangin’ em (“gnarly, radical, on the block I’m magical... see me at your college campus baggie full of Adderalls”) or even because of Kendrick Lamar’s thoughtfully spaced out track “A.D.H.D.” but mostly because of its association with hyperactive, creative, and willfully scattered children. Odd Future blew up, Tyler the Creator dropped Goblin, A$AP Rocky put out one of the strongest releases of the year with LIVELOVEA$AP. All kinds of kids were spittin’ up mixtapes right outta high school and then signing multimillion dollar contracts. 2. DMT: Dimethyltryptamine is some fucked up shit, and I mean that in the most complementary way possible. A small glimpse behind the fabric of reality. There were a few releases this year that resemble and reflect this completely alien and confusing greater truth. Oneohtrix Point Never’s Replica, James Ferraro’s Far Side Virtual, and Laurel Halo’s flawless EP, Hour Logic (Hippos In Tanks). 3. Nitrous Oxide: whippets are back

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and that shit makes everything sound like you’re living in a vacuum cleaner. As much as I despise the hyperwobbly, fist pumpin’ sounds of brosteppers like Rusko, and (cringe) Skrillex, I can’t deny that that shit is selling cars; dubstep car commercials. Also, to be fair, real dubstep and what is often called post-dubstep is some amazing music and some of its less commercially viable/more critically acclaimed artists have put out some beautiful work. Zomby dropped Dedication this year on 4AD and that shit is sick. James Blake’s debut album is also impossibly good. 4. Pills: maybe it’s just the kids I roll with, but I assume that most sensitive, well thought, independent rock is made by people on pills (think old Brian Jonestown Massacre or Jesus and Mary Chain). The second I heard that track “Vomit” off of friends and local heroes Girls new album Father, Son, Holy Ghost, I had to raid my own medicine cabinet, take a couple Vicodin, and listen to a stack of records including that, Tamaryn, King Dude, Chelsea Wolfe, and Zola Jesus.’Bout as close to heaven as a guy like me can get. 5. Coke: coke always has and always will rule the dancefloor. It goes further than that though; coke rap is alive and well. Trap rap (rap about drug dealing) in general is continuing to run shit. And when you got Lex Luger droppin’ some of the illest beats around for songs that are 90 percent chorus, how can you go wrong? This is a very serious statement — the Ferrari Boyz (Gucci Mane and Waka Flocka Flame) mixtape that came out about a week before that overhyped, tired, abomination that is Watch the Throne, has some of the best tracks this year. 6. K: club drugs in general are back, and nothing says party like as strong debilitating dissociative. I mentioned this album earlier when I was talking about DMT, but it’s good and weird enough that it needs to be mentioned twice. James Ferraro’s Far Side Virtual. 7. Acid: my favorite substance. LSD is an extended barrage of overwhelming sensory input, particularly sight and MUSIC LISTINGS

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sound, and should therefor be discussed in those terms. Sight: this year has been all about projections, lasers, and smoke — there are a lot of amazing producers playing live right now, and a dude with a laptop ain’t a show, so it’s important to add some flare. Sound: from mixtapes like White Ring’s tranced out Chaind and Nike7up’s crazy melted-pop gem 33:33 to Araabmuzik’s breathtakingly unfuckwithable album Electronic Dream, this has been the strongest showing dosed out music has had since the mid ‘90s. 8. MDMA: like I was saying earlier, club drugs are huge right now. Best part about the ecstasy thing though is that we’re not talking pressies here, just pure crystalized love. You can hear it in the work of groups like Sleep 8 Over and (of course) Pure X. But I think it’s most evidenced by song’s like The Weeknd’s “High for This” and on Pictureplane’s brilliantly positive album Thee Physical (Lovepump United). 9. Weed: not that weed ever goes away, but it’s had a really strong year. Seems like everybody’s smoking blunts and flipping pounds these days. Wiz Khalifa, A$AP, Lil B, Lil Wayne, Miley fucking Cyrus. and of course Zip and a Double Cup himself, Juicy J., which brings us to our big winner... 10. Promethazine: Lean, purple drank, double cup, sizzurp — codeine cough syrup has a lot of names, and it’s been an important factor in rap, particularly Southern rap, for a very long time. But that influence is spreading. Bands like Salem have created whole new subgenres of music built off applying the late great DJ Screw’s production sensibilities as liberally as possible. New York Rappers like A$AP Rocky are singing the praises of Screw and Pimp C while repping Harlem and putting New York back on the map. I think 2012 is gonna be all about double cup dinner parties and art walks. Do yourself a favor, call your doctor and fake a cough, pop in Clams Casino’s Instrumental mixtape and/or LIVELOVEA$AP and chill for a bit. 2

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marke@sfbg.com SUPER EGO Is it really such a bad thing that mainstream pop is riding the underground’s ass so hard, assimilating alternative nightlife trends almost before they cycle off our freakish dance floors? I’d almost grown addicted to apoplectic pearlclutching. Britney made a dubstep song! Kanye’s using 808s! The BlackEyed Peas are referencing JJ Fad! Skrillex in general! Beep me when Moodymann reedits Sugarland? Now it’s so easy to niche myself out of the pop world — dissolving into Soundcloud, consulting my Resident Advisor, Junoing my Beatport, popping my Little White Earbuds, and simply refusing to shop at Costco or workout at Gold’s — that it’s possible to screw all that noise. When I did encounter radio hits, I loved the blowout sugar rush, even if I found myself getting slightly itchy that the one alternaqueer club in Barcelona pumps Rihanna nonironically. Oh, well. It could have been David Guetta. (It really could have been: I have no idea what she sings.) Also making it easy: this year I got to chase my nightlife passion around the world. I whirled in my seat at a moonlit Sufi music festival in Fez, rocked to live revolutionary hip-hop in Tunis (despite a government curfew that shut down the city at 9 p.m.), laughed at the drunken hazing of graduates at one of the oldest universities in the world in Padua, discovered true underground flamenco in Seville, and danced for about 36 hours straight in Berlin. In recent months Hunky Beau and I have encountered Tuareg rock bands in Ourzazate, line-dancing gay vaqueros in 32 SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN

Mexico City, and 6 a.m. beerhalls in Brussels. Have you seen the drag queens in Zihuatanejo? We have seen them and lived. Nightlife is a universal language: it will survive LMFAO. This nightlife year-in-review isn’t my annual list of my favorite parties and promoters in the Bay — that comes out in January, so all you queens who just want to see your name in print will have to hold your cluck-clucks. I will say that a lot of my petty gripes remain the same: there’s not enough bass in most of the clubs (embarrassing for those with nights dedicated to bass music), some ladies need to stop clawing me in the back as they push their way through the dance floor, tech dudes should aim higher than Web 1.0 Banana Republic for their club looks, secondhand Russian models do not cut in front of me for the bathroom, and please Facebook invites die already. Also, promoters: if you’re going to charge $15-plus to get into a party, then at least do something with the lights beyond “set to default.” And throw a little fabric up or something! It’s not like you even have to design a flyer anymore. Give your event some ambiance. But my love for the Bay Area club scene only grows with each place I visit and party I attend. We really do have a special freakish light that shines in the global night, an attention to quality and organic scene cultivation that could rightly be called artisanal. Not that it can’t be just plain bonkers, which it very much should be. I’m worried that club music is getting too mannered and club concepts too timid, too polite lately. If any scene can combine wisdom with absurdity, pop-ready energy with radical individuality, it’s ours. Hey you, throw a party! 2 editorials

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The SF-via-Detroit Dirty Bird label head has developed such a delicious, instantly recognizable signature sound — booty bass meets tech-house somewhere in the Betty Boop-cartoon space jungle, timpani rolls and all — that it’s come to represent the Bay on a global scale. Almost every track in this genius mix is a recent winner, from Throwing Snow’s “Shadower” and Makossa Megablast’s “Soy Como Soy” to the infamous Thomos edit of Armando’s “Don’t Take It.” And when VonStroke drops that EPMD Easter egg toward the middle, I totally lose it. Plus, just as a control freak wink, the whole shebang is perfectly timed to end exactly at the 60-minute mark. This mix is a masterclass for DJs on how to gradually open up the bass on a system, but it’s also a much needed injection of ass-pumping humor into a somewhat poker-faced dance scene. Omar S., “Here’s Your Trance Now Dance” (FXHE) Detroit techno came back in a big way: witness packed appearances here by classic innovators like Virgo Four, Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson, MK, and Claude Young — and catch Juan Atkins this Sat/17 at Public Works. Even though more recent Motown musicmaker Omar S.’s gig here in October was a disaster of tech issues and flared tempers, his latest album It Can Be Done, But Only I Can Do It shone with old-school Detroit grit and mysticism. Especially this cut, which lifts me by my curlies into a blissfully mechanized futureworld. Todd Terje, “Snooze 4 Love” (Running Back) One of those joyful, deceptively simplesounding ditties that makes me so happy I want to die. ISAM Live, Amon Tobin Who needs music at all, really, when you have a freaking realtime three dimensional polygonal projection happening in your face? The Brazilian trip-master took a gamble on a huge concept, of which his familiar, intriguing

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dubsteppy-to-ambient electronica tunes were only a part, creating a live spectacle that combined state-of-the-art animation with some good ol’ fashioned stagecraft — and kept the ILM employees around me at this year’s Warfield show shouting, “What?!?” Returning on New Year’s Eve for the Sea of Dreams party at the SF Concourse: don’t miss it. Four Tet, “Pyramid”(Text Records) One of the highlights of the jazzy broken beats eclectophile’s Fabric Live mix from September, this gorgeous track took the budding two-step UK garage vocal snippet revival a step further into melodic ecstasy with typical intelligence. Other post-dubstep garage snippet faves: “Another Girl” by Jacques Green, Blawan’s “Gettin Me Down,” Lando Kal’s “Further,” and “Fleur” by Sepalcure. Tinariwen, Tassili (ANTI-) At a time of spectacular upheaval in North Africa, its most famous musical export scaled back the multiple electricguitar polyphony and went more quiet and acoustic for this understated yet still complex masterpiece album. You’ll be swaying and clapping along in no time as the Tuareg bands elaborates its entrancing epics. Also check out Tinariwen’s spunky cover of Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan’s “Mustt Mustt” with IndianCanadian vocalist Kiran Ahluwalia. Project Tempo, “Get Up and Clap Your Hands” (Project Tempo) Disco edits, re-edits, and general rejiggers kept flowing forth this year from laptops everywhere — great for rediscovering many “forgotten” artists, but kind of a poop-slush pile in the end. One would think most listeners’ sensibilities have extended to being able to countenance the full-on originals of most tracks by now. (DJ Bus Station John’s parties keep demonstrating this.) Still, many re-edits have a power all their own, as Tiger and Woods’ lovely, loopy album of chopped-to-bits examples, “Into the Green,” showed. This extended rework of Gwen Mcrae’s “Funky Sensation” by Project Tempo stuck in my ears all year, as did the Psychemagik rework of Paula Cole’s “Feelin’ Love” and the insane, ADD woofer-wobbling minimalism of Late Nite Tuff Guy’s “One Nite in a Disco.” music listings

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Andy Stott, Passed Me By (Modern Love) Six killer tracks of sludgy techno that out-menaced most witch house, outbassed most dubstep, and buried a bit of Burial. The boomin’ system from Hades, this, in an exceptionally nice year for deep roots techno from the likes of Kassem Mosse, Marcos Cabral, Levon Vincent, Planetary Assault Systems, Peter van Hoesen, and more. The Weeknd, House of Balloons and Thursday Torontan Abel Tesfaye’s immaculately produced, excellently sexy R&B Web releases of melancholy longing and Dionysian emptiness will make a great chillout soundtrack for the morning after the world — and caused me to dig out my old R. Kelly wet panties. See also: James Blake, James Blake. The Globe, “Adventure Party” (International Feel) Dance maximalism may have moved on to the pop charts from underground floors, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t quality big tunes being released. This retrodisco-acid hurricane, cheekily pressed at only 120 copies, takes off from maximalist classics like Adamski’s “NRG” and Hardfloor’s “Acperience1” with a bit of breathless Chic-ing over the top. All that’s missing is the exuberant saxophone (find that on M83’s awesome “Midnight City”). Other top tunes to the max: French Touch revamp “Aurora” by Fred Falke, “We Bros” by canny Manchester baggy outfit WU LYF, and, in an over-thetop conceptual-cinematic way, “Replica” by Ohneotrix Point Never. Nicolas Jaar, “Space is Only Noise If You Can See (Dave Aju Remix)” (Circus Company) If Rod Serling sang you a lullaby in the Night Gallery, this is what it would sound like. The young Chilean, here remixed by the veteran San Franciscan, proved that in an era of too many DJs singing, with results ranging from pretty brilliant (James Blake, Matthew Dear) to OK (Trentmoeller, Maceo Plex) to just atrocious (Art Department), ratcheting things up into spooky Trip-Hop Land makes you critic-proof. Other lovely uncanny audio valleys I fell into: Dapayk and Padberg Feating Caro, “Island (Nôze Swimming Circles Remix)”; Alessio Mereu Featuring Roberta Prestigiacomo, “Magic Key”; Agaric, “Who Made Up the Rules (Josh Wink Remix).”

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jazz/new music

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Savanna Jazz Vocal Band 4BWBOOB +B[[ .JTTJPO 4' XXX TBWBOOBKB[[ DPN QN Tri-Cornered Tent Show, Libertas Musicians 6OJPO -PDBM /JOUI 4U 4' XXX BGN PSH QN GSFF

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dance clubs

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jazz/new Music

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jazz/new Music

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EDINBURGH CASTLE PUB 950 Geary (415) 885-4074 ELBO ROOM 647 Valencia (415) 552-7788. ELEMENT LOUNGE 1028 Geary (415) 571-1362 ENDUP 401 Sixth St (415) 357-0827 FILLMORE 1805 Geary (415) 346-6000 540 CLUB 540 Clement (415) 752-7276 FLUID ULTRA LOUNGE 662 Mission (415) 615-6888 GLAS KAT 520 Fourth St (415) 495-6626 GRANT AND GREEN 1371 Grant (415) 693-9565 GREAT AMERICAN MUSIC HALL 859 O’Farrell (415) 885-0750 HEMLOCK TAVERN 1131 Polk (415) 923-0923 HIFI 2125 Lombard (415) 345-TONE HOTEL UTAH SALOON 500 Fourth St (415) 546-6300 ICON ULTRA LOUNGE 1192 Folsom (415) 626-4800 INDEPENDENT 628 Divisadero (415) 771-1421 INFUSION LOUNGE 124 Ellis (415) 421-8700 IRELAND’S 32 3920 Geary (415) 386-6173 JOHNNY FOLEY’S 243 O’Farrell (415) 954-0777 KIMO’S 1351 Polk (415) 885-4535 KNOCKOUT 3223 Mission (415) 550-6994 LASZLO 2526 Mission (415) 401-0810 LEXINGTON CLUB 3464 19th St (415) 863-2052 MADRONE ART BAR 500 Divisadero (415) 241-0202 MAKE-OUT ROOM 3225 22nd St (415) 647-2888 MEZZANINE 444 Jessie (415) 625-8880 MIGHTY 119 Utah (415) 626-7001 MILK 1840 Haight (415) 387-6455 MISSION ROCK CAFé 817 Terry Francois (415) 626-5355 MOJITO 1337 Grant (415) 398-1120 NICKIE’S 466 Haight (415) 255-0300

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