Sara Scribner
Sara Scribner has written about music for MOJO, Rolling Stone, GQ, LA Weekly, New Times LA, and the Los Angeles Times. Her work appears in Trouble Girls: The Rolling Stone Book of Women in Rock.
15 articles
List of articles in the library
Bloods & Crips: Speech As a Weapon: Crips and Bloods become rappers
Report and Interview by Sara Scribner, L.A. Weekly, 22 April 1993
TEN BLOODS pose near a cold 1962 Chevy Impala. The men and boys wear red bandannas, bandit-style, to conceal their faces. Women and their children ...
Babes In Toyland: Painkillers (Reprise)
Review by Sara Scribner, L.A. Weekly, 15 July 1993
HOLE'S COURTNEY Love, L7's Jennifer Finch and Babes in Toyland's Kat Bjelland joined onstage in the Frisco band Sugar Babylon in the mid '80s. But while ...
7 Year Bitch: A Vindication of the Rights of Bitches
Report and Interview by Sara Scribner, L.A. Weekly, 25 November 1993
7 Year Bitch know nice girls finish last ...
Live Review by Sara Scribner, L.A. Weekly, 13 January 1994
"UH, DO you like to rock?" Kurt Cobain asked the audience in a wimpy voice and slack-kneed stance. His chatty, I'm-one-of-you-guys, ongoing banter with the ...
Ben Harper: Crossroads at Sunset: Ben Harper speaks to strangers
Interview by Sara Scribner, L.A. Weekly, 24 February 1994
BEN HARPER stands beside a palm free on Pasadena Avenue in a navy thermal shirt, royal-blue Adidas and the green chinos he always wears. "I ...
Profile and Interview by Sara Scribner, L.A. Weekly, 9 June 1994
Ted Hawkins faces down the next hundred years ...
Dr. Dre, Eazy-E, Ice Cube, N.W.A: Eazy-E and Ruthless Records: The body rests as the battles begin
Report by Sara Scribner, L.A. Weekly, 20 April 1995
FRIDAY MORNING, April 7, friends, family and more than 2,000 fans filed through Los Angeles' First AME church for an open pre-service viewing of the ...
Luniz: Brothers With Potential
Profile and Interview by Sara Scribner, L.A. Weekly, 21 September 1995
The Luniz have realism and the radio ...
Call O' Da Wild, Cypress Hill: Cypress Hill, Call O' Da Wild: House of Blues, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Sara Scribner, L.A. Weekly, 4 January 1996
CYPRESS HILL, formerly masters at sculpting the dark depths with danky-ass beats and oldies loops, have become the kings of regurgitation. Listen to Temple of ...
JT the Bigga Figga: J.T. the Bigga Figga: 'Mo Critical
Profile and Interview by Sara Scribner, L.A. Weekly, 1 February 1996
J.T. puts Fillmore on the map ...
Dogstar: Quattro Formaggi (Zoo) *½
Review by Sara Scribner, Los Angeles Times, 22 August 1996
Derivative Grunge-Blues on Quattro Formaggi ...
The Cure: American Legion Hall, Hollywood
Live Review by Sara Scribner, Los Angeles Times, 30 October 1997
Cure's Dark Songs of Desire Still Resonate ...
Tori Amos: From the Choirgirl Hotel (Atlantic)
Review by Sara Scribner, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 1998
IS SHE A high-boil Kate Bush rip-off or a true renegade – a singer-pianist unafraid to cavort with fairies and howl with wolves? Sometimes Amos ...
Retrospective and Interview by Sara Scribner, L.A. Weekly, 25 March 1999
SOMETHING ABOUT Arthur Lee invites myth. Lee – the cantankerous, charismatic singer and guitarist of the groundbreaking yet largely forgotten band Love – inspires tales ...
Prince: I Am Something That You'll Never Comprehend: Remembering Prince
Book Review by Sara Scribner, Los Angeles Review of Books, 6 October 2017
Ben Greenman: Dig If You Will the Picture (Henry Holt and Co.). Alan Light: Let's Go Crazy (Atria) Mayte Garcia: The Most Beautiful: My Life ...
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