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Mike Relm’s Ghetto Blaster slams S.F.

Mike Relm
A god among VJs, Mike Relm returns to the Independent on Friday for a fierce mashup set the likes of which have earned Relm more than 13 million YouTube views and counting. Using two turntables, a MacBook, Serato Scratch and a sampling machine, Relm layers snippets of movies, television shows, music and video games into pounding, frenetic, pop culture bangers — and he does it all live. Read More

Christopher Willits’ positive electronic vibes flow

christopher willits
Producer Christopher Willits — who crafts positive, beautiful, relaxing electronic music — brings his one-man band of guitar, vocals and electronics to the Independent on Friday. The leading figure in San Francisco electronic music, opening for Tycho on Friday, will debut a new audio-video show featuring exotic, gorgeous vistas that he shot in HD and Super 8. He live-edits the video material while simultaneously layering guitar, vocals and effects. Read More

Korallreven is dreaming wide awake

Korallreven
For dream-pop duo Korallreven, place is just a state of mind. Though they are based in Stockholm, Marcus Joons and Daniel Tjäder’s electronic music isn’t anchored to a specific locale. Read More

Tea Partiers = MLK assassins?

In case you missed it, Friday’s Anderson Cooper 360 featured professional chef Anthony Bourdain comparing the Tea Party to supporters of George Wallace – the infamous 1968 presidential candidate – and those responsible for the Martin Luther King assassination. “You’re looking at, I think, basicall Read More

Examiner Editorial: Independents rally to the tea party’s ideals

Democratic activists and office-holders, and their liberal friends in the media, have told us for more than a year that the tea party movement is nothing more than a bunch of lily-white conservative Republicans, gun-toting far-right kooks, and unreconstructed Confederates who hate President Barack Obama because of the color of his skin. Read More
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