Music Writing in “Riff”

Lately I’ve been doing some writing for a Bay Area music website. Here’s a roundup of some of the coverage.

San Francisco Public Press Rebranding Project

Last year I worked with the public-interest news startup the San Francisco Public Press to re-brand the project and create a new visual identity for the paper.

This is the first of a series of letters to famous and infamous people. I don’t have Nick Cave’s address, so I mailed it to him care of Mute Records.

Whatever city you live in, your experience depends entirely on the neighborhood.

Pigeons

The maligned urban vertebrate known for its smoke-gray feathers and runny white spoor. The habitue of telephone wires. The bird who no one loves enough to cage.

Sparrows in the pooled water by the storm wall. Graffiti on the storm wall, the long curved smooth concrete.

Who Killed Brian Marquez?

Walking down Mission Street in the Excelsior on my way home, I found a billboard carrying something other than the usual corporate brands and lifestyle messages. The youth and the youth as an infant. A reward offer splashed in red. The simple question couldn’t be more chilling – who killed Brian Marquez? I found other […]