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Greg Beets
Greg Beets was born in Lubbock on the day Richard Nixon was elected president. He has covered music for the Chronicle since 1992, writing about everyone from Roky Erickson to Yanni. Beets has also written for Billboard,Uncut, Blurt, Elmore, and Pop Culture Press. Before his digestive tract cried uncle, he co-published Hey! Hey! Buffet!, an award-winning fanzine about all-you-can-eat buffets.
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Fountains of Wayne, and Ivy
Sky Full of Holes, All Hours
Music Review, Sep. 15, 2011
This Life Electric
No Black or White
Music Review, Jul. 21, 2011
Summer Reading
Rock & roll bookends
Music Feature, Jul. 14, 2011
Moonlight Towers
Day Is the New Night
Music Review, May. 12, 2011
Foot Patrol
Pussyfooting
Music Feature, Apr. 28, 2011
All Tiny Creatures
Harbors
Music Review, Mar. 16, 2011
J Mascis, Obits, and Dum Dum Girls
Several Shades of Why, Moody, Standard and Poor, He Gets Me High
Music Review, Mar. 16, 2011
The High Dials
Anthems for Doomed Youth
Music Review, Mar. 16, 2011
The Endtables
Endtables, The
Music Review, Mar. 16, 2011
We Were the States
Rasa
Music Review, Mar. 16, 2011
Ballroom Dancing
SXSW panels
Music Feature, Mar. 16, 2011
Dikes of Holland
Music Review, Mar. 16, 2011
Ballroom Dancing
SXSW panels
Music Feature, Mar. 16, 2011
The Strokes
Music Review, Mar. 16, 2011
Ballroom Dancing
SXSW panels
Music Feature, Mar. 16, 2011
Reading Rainbow
Music Review, Mar. 16, 2011
Wire
Red Barked Tree
Music Review, Mar. 10, 2011
... And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead
Tao of the Dead
Music Review, Feb. 3, 2011
Gang of Four
Content
Music Review, Jan. 27, 2011
Pop
Mind Matter, 12 Strings and Tambourines, Shine On
Music Review, Dec. 24, 2010
A Very Irregular Head: The Life of Syd Barrett
Floyd's atom heart mother, authorized and as in-depth as we're likely to get
Music Review, Dec. 10, 2010
Fab: An Intimate Life of Paul McCartney
'When I'm Sixty-Four' and beyond
Music Review, Dec. 10, 2010
Brian Wilson
Reimagines Gershwin
Music Review, Sep. 24, 2010
Monkeys Gone to Heaven
Meet the Pixies
Music Feature, Sep. 17, 2010
Household Names
Stories, No Names
Music Review, Aug. 13, 2010
Masonic
Live Like a Millionaire
Music Review, Aug. 13, 2010
Summertime Blues
Gonna raise a fuss, gonna raise a holler: rock & roll books
Music Feature, Jun. 11, 2010
Frank Sinatra
New York
Music Review, Dec. 11, 2009
The World in Six Songs: How the Musical Brain Created Human Nature
Quick, name the six song types!
Music Review, Dec. 4, 2009
The Fire Marshals of Bethlehem
The World From the Back Seat
Music Review, Nov. 20, 2009
Sweet
Action: The Sweet Anthology
Music Review, Apr. 24, 2009
Devo
Music Review, Mar. 27, 2009
Kid Congo Powers & the Pink Monkey Birds
Music Review, Mar. 27, 2009
Doug Sahm's 'Mendocino'
Music Review, Mar. 27, 2009
The Krayolas
Long Leaf Pine (No Smack Gum)
Music Review, Mar. 20, 2009
Riverboat Gamblers
Underneath the Owl
Music Review, Mar. 20, 2009
Ballroom Dancing
SXSW Panels
Music Feature, Mar. 20, 2009
Bogart & the Addictives
The Parish Downstairs
Music Review, Mar. 20, 2009
Spotlight: Foot Patrol
Fetish funk and rubber soles
Music Feature, Mar. 20, 2009
Spotlight: The Bar-Kays
Hot buttered soul that aims to please
