Email Author Ian S. Port

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• 2012 - Best of the West/First Amendment Funding, Inc., published February 23, 2011

  "The Pomplamoose Revolution"

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2009 Stories by Ian S. Port

• Track of the Day: Sub Pop Gets Strange w/ AFCGT

  published Dec 22, 2009

  I like it when Sub Pop just gets totally fucking weird with its signings. Years back, the Seattle label balanced out all those nice indie pop acts with a couple black LPs of paranoid, post-punk and po... More >>

• Track of the Day: Broken Bells (Danger Mouse and James Mercer)

  published Dec 21, 2009

  What happens when you get a little Danger Mouse (Gnarls Barkley) in your James Mercer (The Shins)r Going by the sound of the first track to be released from this partnership, "The High Road," it sound... More >>

• Video of the Day: Das Racist Get Naked Under the Rainbow

  published Dec 21, 2009

  This is the sound of "panic attack rap," of "Internet thug rap," of Das Racist, the duo of mad geniuses behind "Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell."  This time the Brooklyn dudes are lost in spa... More >>

• Last Night: El Vez at the Independent

  published Dec 18, 2009

  El Vez, Los StraightjacketsThursday, Dec. 17, 2009The IndependentBetter than: Elvis impersonators who don't speak Spanish.El Vez is, in many ways, a role model for the importance of the live event in ... More >>

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  10 Things To Do This Weekend For Under $10

  published Dec 18, 2009

  The holidays make everyone broke. First there's all the money you spend on loved ones, and then there's all the money you spend drinking as you think about all the money you spent on loved ones. Lucki... More >>

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  Hey DJ! Friday Q&A: DJG of Surefire Sound, Deeper

  published Dec 18, 2009

  DJG is all about finding deep space in plenty of bass. The dubstep producer and DJ is part of the Surefire Sound crew, which is a launching a record label for which DJG  is performing A&R dut... More >>

• Video of the Day: Ononos Say 'Nonono'

  published Dec 17, 2009

  Seattle's synth punk trio Ononos play android games on "Nonono," a video that strobes in black and white to the beat of heavy breathing and video games. ... More >>

• House of Representatives Helps Small Indie Radio Stations

  published Dec 17, 2009

  Yesterday the Local Community Radio Act passed in the House of Representatives. Now it's up to the Senate to see if this bill, which will "will open the airwaves for hundreds of new non-commercial sta... More >>

• Track of the Day: Ohbijou Turns 'Last Christmas' Into Orchestral Pop

  published Dec 17, 2009

  Wham's classic holiday tune "Last Christmas" is one of my favorite songs of this season. In the hands of Canadian orchestral pop band Ohbijou, the song takes on a sweet, female-driven melancholy. ... More >>

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  Last Night: The Rural Alberta Advantage at Bottom of the Hill

  published Dec 17, 2009

  The Rural Alberta Advantage, The Shaky Hands, Sonny & The Sunsets Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2009 Bottom of the Hill Better than: living through a prairie winter without them. Ladies and gentlemen, ... More >>

• Lady Gaga (Parody) Poops Its Pants

  published Dec 16, 2009

  This week, the big news in SF was the glamtastic Lady Gaga show. But now that Gaga's gone, all that we're left with is a drag queen video parodying "Bad Romance" with "I Just Shit My Pants." A pretty... More >>

• Video of the Day: Count the SF Landmarks w/ Sugar & Gold

  published Dec 16, 2009

  Neighborhood from Sam Young on Vimeo.Local dance pop crew Sugar & Gold love their San Francisco neighborhoods--even if not every hood puts out.  "She might not give you head," frontman PAM si... More >>

• Video of the Day: Amp Live vs. the Robot vs. Trackademics

  published Dec 15, 2009

  There's so much going for this video clip--one of the singles off Amp Live's upcoming solo record. "Gary is a Robot" infects you like Swine Flu with that funky android club beat, the lip synching nur... More >>

• Celine Dion 2013 and Boyz IV Men: Band Names Aping the Real Thing

  published Dec 15, 2009

   It's pretty funny when you're going through the music listings and you run into local acts using names that sound just enough like big pop stars that it makes you do a double take. rFirst there ... More >>

• Video of the Day: Snoop Dogg's Fireside Reading of the Grinch

  published Dec 14, 2009

  Pretty much a classic in the making here. Snoop Dogg offered a holiday good night story on Friday's Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, when the rapper sat fireside and read the classic How the Grinch Stol... More >>

• Or, The Whale's New NSFW Video Follows the Naked SF Trend

  published Dec 14, 2009

  Rusty Gold from michael jeter on Vimeo. Wanna get your video noticedr Follow the current San Francisco trend and get some naked dudes in the mix. On the heels of local popsters Girls'  headline-g... More >>

• Friday Night: The Golden Girls Christmas Episodes

  published Dec 13, 2009

  The Golden Girls: The Christmas EpisodesFriday, Dec. 11, 2009Mama Calizo's Voice FactoryBetter than: Sitting around your kitchen table eating cheesecake with four old ladies.The holidays make lots of ... More >>

• Gossip Members Mobbed (Nicely) At Last Night's Slits Show

  published Dec 11, 2009

  SF Weekly's Hiya Swanhuyser hit last night's Slits show at Bottom of the Hill, only to inform us this morning that there was a celeb in the crowd. The groundbreaking female act from the early days of ... More >>

• 10 Things to Do This Weekend For Under $10

  published Dec 11, 2009

  Talking about how goddamn cold is in in San Francisco is free, but that got old on Tuesday. Now it's Friday and you need other ideas for how to entertain yourself and your buddies on the cheap. Here's... More >>

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  Hey DJ! Friday Q&A: DJ Oro11 (Tormenta Tropical)

  published Dec 11, 2009

  DJ Oro11 moved from the Bay down to Buenos Aires, and when he came back here, he had a hard time letting go of Argentina. So he hooked up with another local ex-pat he'd met down south, DJ Disco Shawn,... More >>

• Getting Your Crazy, Creepy Christmas Blog Fix

  published Dec 10, 2009

  This is the time of year where you either a) have far too much to do at work, and need to waste time looking at funny things on the Internet or b) have far too little to do at work and need to waste t... More >>

• Track of the Day: Mark Matos Sings About the Mission

  published Dec 10, 2009

  There's something very Pavement-y about this Mark Matos track, "High Priest of the Mission." Perhaps the resemblance resides in the vocals, which remind me a bit of Stephen Malkmus' solo stuff. But wi... More >>

• Early Noise Pop Acts Announced: Magnetic Fields, Wallpaper., Rogue Wave, More

  published Dec 09, 2009

  San Francisco's big, annual, club-based indie rock fest, Noise Pop, laid out its initial offerings for the 2010 lineup. Between February 23rd and March 1 of next year, the promoters will host shows by... More >>

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  Track of the Day: Julianna Barwick

  published Dec 09, 2009

  I played a little of Julianna Barwick's new record, Florine, for a friend recently and he said it sounded like being in church. There's definitely something holy in the harmonies she creates when loop... More >>

• What's Up With Adam Stephensr A New Solo Record (and Free Tix)

  published Dec 08, 2009

  Adam Stephens, the singing/guitar-playing half of Two Gallants, has been working on his solo debut recently. He's been recording down in Los Angeles with producer Joe Chiccarelli (My Morning Jacket, T... More >>