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2012 Stories by Ian S. Port

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  FEATURED STORY

  Live Review, 2/21/12: The Flaming Lips Explode The Soft Bulletin Into a Confetti Orgasm at Bimbo's

  published Feb 22, 2012

  ​ The Flaming Lips (performing The Soft Bulletin) Release the Sunbird Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2012 Bimbo's 365 Club / Noise Pop 20th Anniversary Opening Night Better than: Any other Flaming Lips show More >>

• SF Weekly's Noise Pop Issue: Here's a Guide to This Week's Cover

  published Feb 22, 2012

  ​ To illustrate this week's package of stories about the 20th Anniversary of Noise Pop, SF Weekly photographed some of the local artists headlining shows this year's festival. The music of Thao More >>

• Colleen Green's "Goldmine" Has a Cheap, Musty Charm

  published Feb 21, 2012

  ​ No, Colleen Green is not Oakland's* Best Coast. Well, maybe she is, kind of. "Goldmine," the lead single off today's Milo Goes to Compton, is two-and-a-half-minutes of rough-hewn bedroom guita More >>

• Watch: Pep Love Waves the Flag for the Culture in "Hip Hop, My Friend"

  published Feb 21, 2012

  ​ And today in Reminders of the Considerable Powers of the Hieroglyphics Crew, we bring you this video for "Hip-Hop, My Friend," from Oakland MC Pep Love. It's the first single off Rigmarole, hi More >>

• Train, Worst Band Ever to Come From San Francisco, To Play Small Venues Citywide

  published Feb 21, 2012

  ​ [Post updated Feb. 21 at 7 p.m.] Unless this is some kind of early and ill-timed April fool's joke on us, the week of April 10, 2012, will bring a bland and terrible horror to many hallowed lo More >>

• So The Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne Was at Zeitgeist Last Night

  published Feb 21, 2012

  ​ According to Wayne Coyne's hyperactive Twitter feed, The Flaming Lips rolled into San Francisco yesterday evening, just a day or so before their Noise Pop festival-opening performance of The S More >>

• The Noise Pop Festival's 20th Anniversary Year Is Go

  published Feb 21, 2012

  ​ Yep, it's here: Noise Pop, the little San Francisco indie music fest that turned into a big one, opens its 20th year with two shows tonight and continues all week in venues around town. We wil More >>

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  FEATURED STORY

  The Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne on Playing Noise Pop, Making The Soft Bulletin, and Feeling Free to Do Anything

  published Feb 21, 2012

  ​ As landmark albums go -- records that completely shifted the trajectory of a band's career -- The Soft Bulletin ranks among both the weirdest and the most rewarding. Which is why, to open the More >>

• Indie on Top: Noise Pop Celebrates 20 Years of Independent Music

  published February 22, 2012

  Photos by Amanda Lopez. Noise Pop has prevailed. This... More >>

• Alexander Spit's Mansions: Lose Yourself in 28 Tracks of Spooky Beats and Samples

  published Feb 15, 2012

  ​ Last fall, we told you about These Long Strange Nights, a then-new mixtape/album from S.F.-born, L.A.-based rapper-producer Alexander Spit. That was good stuff. But Spit came back yesterday w More >>

• Warren Hellman Tribute Concert Planned for Feb. 19 at Ocean Beach

  published Feb 14, 2012

  ​Some weeks ago, we told you about a concert planned to honor the memory of Hardly Strictly Bluegrass founder Warren Hellman, who passed away in December. The show will feature performances by E More >>

• AraabMuzik: Show Preview

  published February 15, 2012

  He got his start producing icily aggressive gangsta rap beats for Harlem's Dipset crew, but AraabMuzik — the stage moniker of... More >>

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  Adele's Grammy Performance: A Reminder of the Scary Power of an Honest, Gorgeous Song

  published Feb 13, 2012

  ​ Every once in a while, you come across a performance that reaches into your body, grabs your soul with two hands, and shakes you back into full awareness of the seriously insane power of music More >>

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  R.I.P. Whitney Houston, 1963-2012

  published Feb 11, 2012

  ​ Whitney Houston, the era-defining superstar who was the first woman to have an album debut at No. 1 on the Billboard charts, died Saturday afternoon, according to the AP. Houston was 48. Hous More >>

• Help S.F. Band Dominant Legs Recover Their Stolen Gear (and Lucky Giants Sweatshirt)

  published Feb 09, 2012

  ​ One of our favorite local guitar-pop bands, Dominant Legs, is on tour now with Eleanor Friedberger. Unfortunately, on Wednesday, while the band was in Portland, a large amount of musical inst More >>

• Reminder: Free Party Tonight With the Jealous Guys, DJ Dials, and Yr Skull

  published Feb 09, 2012

  ​ My, my, it's been a big week, what with M.I.A.'s middle finger, that new Jay-Z and Kanye video, the quickly sold-out Hot Snakes show, and what elser We forgot already. Point is, you should com More >>

• Madonna Is Playing the Bay Area This Fall

  published Feb 07, 2012

  ​ Fresh off her headline-generating performance with M.I.A. and a few other people at the Super Bowl this past weekend, Madonna announced a huge run of tour dates today, including a Bay Area sho More >>

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  Comparing M.I.A.'s Super Bowl Middle Finger to Music's Greatest Bird-Flippers

  published Feb 07, 2012

  Juvenile, numbskulled, pointless, banal, outrageous -- M.I.A. flipping the bird at this year's Super Bowl halftime show might have been all or none of those things, depending on whom you ask, but it w More >>

• Bare Wires: Show Preview

  published February 8, 2012

  As some of the leading misfits of the Oakland garage-pop scene, Bare Wires meld timeless hooks and a quasi-teenage sensibility with... More >>

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  We're Throwing a Free Party with the Jealous Guys, DJ Dials, and Yr Skull, This Week

  published Feb 06, 2012

  ​ Over here at All Shook Down, we like to throw a little party each year before the Noise Pop festival takes over San Francisco. So mark your calendar: On Thursday, we're inviting you all to the More >>

• Tonight: Psych-Soul Outfit Harry and the Hit Men Perform the 1967 Stax Revue Concert Live

  published Feb 03, 2012

  ​In 1967, iconic Memphis soul label Stax took some of its best artists -- Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Carla Thomas, Eddie Floyd, and more -- on a tour of Europe. The trip put a racially integrated More >>

• There Are Exactly Three Hunxes in Hunx's New "Always Forever" Video, and That Is Good

  published Feb 02, 2012

  ​ How many Hunxes would a good Hunx hump if a good Hunx could hump Hunxesr Eh, nevermind. Point is: The new video for "Always Forever," the first single off of Hunx's upcoming solo album, Hair More >>

• Roach Gigz's "Wasabi" Video: The Sake-Swilling, Broke-Ass Funnyman of S.F. Rap Has Arrived

  published Feb 01, 2012

  ​ After years of releasing mixtapes -- most of them excellent -- S.F. rapper Roach Gigz is finally putting out a for-real debut album this summer entitled Bugged Out. "Wasabi" is the first singl More >>

• Mike Patton and Secret Chiefs 3 Deliver a Rousing Take on Scott Walker's "Jacky"

  published Jan 31, 2012

  ​So here's a little energetic vibration to rev up your afternoon: Mike Patton, guesting with Secret Chiefs 3 -- the project of Trey Spruance, Patton's Mr. Bungle collaborator -- covering (the he More >>

• Get a Free Tour of the Fox Theater and Celebrate Its Third Anniversary This Friday

  published Jan 31, 2012

  ​ It's kind of a big week for Oakland's Fox Theater: Tonight, Wilco plays its last in a series of three Bay Area concerts -- which, if it's anything like Sunday's show at the Warfield, should be More >>