Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Last Week in S.F. Music

Comments (0) By SF Weekly Staff Wednesday, Dec 26 2012

Sizzle

Ty Segall’s Slaughterhouse, one of the best local releases of the year.

The Residents box set costs $100,000

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• We've been rounding up the best local albums of the year in various genres. Our favorites were made by Ty Segall, Main Attrakionz, Chuck Prophet, E-40 and Too $hort, Two Gallants, Synthetic ID, The Coup, and many more. Check out the full lists online.

• Drone-metal band Sunn O))) brought its spooky sludge to Mezzanine, and created an overwhelming experience. Loosely improvising onstage, the trio created a sound that grew to monstrous proportions, massaging the skin and slowing the mind like a cannabinoid.

• Guess what we did on the Coachella cruise? Hung out with Pulp's Jarvis Cocker, went wine-tasting with LCD Soundsystem's James Murphy, and got our nails done by the woman who does them for Alexis Krauss of Sleigh Bells.

Fizzle

• The good part: S.F. art-music collective the Residents are releasing a box set of all their musical and visual releases that — get this — comes inside an actual refrigerator. The bad part: it costs $100,000, so we can't buy one.

• Local DJ ChaunceyCC has a wish for the non-end of the world: Stop it with the stupid subgenre names already. "Fidget Step? Slime Wave? Trap Trance? Pffft, get real," he told us in an interview.

• Venerable alt-music mag SPIN announced that it won't be publishing a print edition anymore, because its new owners want to concentrate their resources online. We'll miss you, SPIN! Especially the fat, gorgeous issues of late.