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  After years of beating drum kits from coast to coast with her defunct band Sleater-Kinney and Quasi, Janet Weiss is heading to San Francisco on a U.S. tour with Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks. The band performs at The Fillmore on April 27th in support of Real Emotional Trash. Weiss, a former San Francisco resident who now lives in Portland, talked to SF Station during a tour stop in Boston.

The Last Count.  Our repository of album reviews in the recent past. Get your skillets out for albums by Bloc Party, 4hero, Vampire Weekend, Animal Collective, Justice, Panda Bear, Bright Eyes, Air, Ellen Allien, Do Say Make Think, The Dears, LCD Soundsystem, Mice Parade, Populous, Mercury Rev, The Mars Volta, Deerhoof, Fennesz, Modest Mouse,  Morrissey, Sixtoo, and many more.

The Vault  Beta began in 1999, and this is our repository of our best pieces over the years. Check out our musings on Besnard Lakes, Woven Hand, Alasdair Roberts, Scanner, Haley Bonar, Kieran McGee, George, Bill Ricchini, Fennesz, The Observatory, and ... more.

The Rearview Mirror  Broken Social Scene may have made it to the pages of Rolling Stone but they're down-to-earth sorts who're probably more comfortable sifting through used record shop bins than living it up in the Upper East Side. The Toronto alt-rock collective is as unwieldy as they come--ten members and nobody's irrevocably permanent. Our feature this month is a 2003 interview with the band, the year You Forgot It In People rocked the indie rock world.

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  Hot As Rice  Each month, we give you the lowdown on a clutch of new album releases. This month, records by Duffy, Throw Me The Statue, Tuung, Gnarls Barkley, Ruby Suns, Be Your Own Pet, Rogue Wave.

  The news, get hot What's the 411? What's been happening in the music scene lately? Have you heard about the news about Martin Scorsese's new movie and the latest Rolling Stones antics? And the passing of Danny Federici.