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

  "The Pomplamoose Revolution"

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2011 Stories by Ian S. Port

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  Metallica Turns 30 with Ozzy, Danzig, Rob Halford, and a Roomful of Fanatics

  published Dec 12, 2011

  Metallica (plus guests) Dec. 9 and 10, 2011 The Fillmore Better than: Turning 30 alone, we're assuming. The birthday party for the biggest metal band in the world came to its finale this weekend wi... More >>

• Music Links: Indie Songs About San Francisco, DJ Qbert at SFO, and More

  published Dec 09, 2011

  A fun list (with art!) of indie songs about San Francisco. [The Bold Italic] DJ Qbert performed at SFO's Terminal 2 -- and it was apparently awesome. [The Bay Citizen] Wow! Lose yourself in the mi... More >>

• Watch: Andre Nickatina Would Like You to Please 'Call the Dealer,' and Soon

  published Dec 09, 2011

  "I feel 2012," says Bay Area rapper Andre Nickatina, "will be a big dope year. Not necessarily for me, but for people doing and selling dope. This video is a dedication to that." Um, okay. Well, ma... More >>

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  Metallica Brings Out Lou Reed, Kid Rock, Mercyful Fate, and More as the 30th Anniversary Party Continues

  published Dec 08, 2011

  See more of our Metallica Week coverage: Author Brian Lew on the Early Days of Metallica and the Bay Area Thrash Metal Scene Six Signs of Metallica's Pervasive Influence on Pop Culture Metallica K... More >>

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  Author Brian Lew on the Early Days of Metallica and the Bay Area Thrash Metal Scene

  published Dec 07, 2011

  See more of our Metallica Week coverage: Metallica Brings Out Lou Reed, Kid Rock, Mercyful Fate, and More as the 30th Anniversary Party Continues Six Signs of Metallica's Pervasive Influence on Pop... More >>

• Go Out Drinking with SF's the Frail in the Intoxicated New Video for "Frenemies"

  published Dec 06, 2011

  Our fair city has something of a reputation for being filled with what we might charitably call lushes. (Others might call them "drunks." Or "regular people.") This David Dutton-directed clip for "Fr... More >>

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  Noise Pop Announces 2012 Lineup: Built to Spill, Die Antwoord, Surfer Blood, Archers of Loaf, Craig Finn, and More

  published Dec 06, 2011

  Next year is the 20th Anniversary of Noise Pop, San Francisco's premier club-based indie music festival, and today, we get our first peek at the lineup for 2012. Big names include Die Antwoord, Craig... More >>

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  Metallica Kicks off Its 30th Anniversary Week with Notable Guests, Rare Songs, and Lots of Talking

  published Dec 06, 2011

  See more of our Metallica Week coverage: Sad But True: How the Black Album Both Made and Ruined Metallica Can't Make It to Metallica's 30th Anniversary Concertsr Celebrate at These Shows Instead M... More >>

• Metallibash, For Whom the Bay Tolls: Show Preview

  published December 7, 2011

  Metallica turns 30 years old this week, and to celebrate, the local heavy metal juggernaut will be performing four intimate shows at the... More >>

• We're Celebrating Metallica's 30th Anniversary All This Week

  published Dec 05, 2011

  See also: We're Looking for a Few Metallica Superfans in the Bay Area -- Are You Oner Can't Make It to Metallica's 30th Anniversary Concertsr Celebrate at These Shows Instead All this week, we're ... More >>

• Seventeen Evergreen Tells the Story Behind That Dazzling Video for "Polarity Song"

  published Dec 05, 2011

  You've heard of yarn-bombing, yesr Well, in Seventeen Evergreen's video for the single "Polarity Song," an entire store full of people get yarn-bombed into one fantastical psychedelic universe. It's ... More >>

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  Live Review: Iggy and the Stooges Kindly Decimate the Warfield

  published Dec 05, 2011

  Iggy and the Stooges Le Butcherettes Sunday, Dec. 4, 2011 The Warfield Better than: Mickey Mouse in a bar brawl. For someone with such an intimidating background and such ample chest muscles, Iggy ... More >>

• Music Links: Drake and Weezy in the Bay, Loud Talkers at Concerts, and More

  published Dec 02, 2011

  So, Drake and Lil Wayne were in the Bay Area last weekend, shooting a video for "The Motto." [East Bay Express] A worthy screed about awful loud talkers during a Weakerthans show at the Independent.... More >>

• Funny Photo: The Best Two-Sentence Review of Metallica and Lou Reed's Lulu Ever

  published Dec 02, 2011

  Okay, so we don't think Metallica and Lou Reed's Lulu is as bad as many people do. But the San Rafael-recorded album has still inspired some fantastic shit-talking. The above review, which comes to u... More >>

• The Bay Brewed: A Beer Festival With Live Music From Weekend, Terry Malts, and More

  published Dec 02, 2011

  There are at least two problems with most beer festivals: You don't get enough beer for what you pay, and you usually have to listen to crappy music while you drink it. Thankfully, our friends over a... More >>

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  We're Looking for a Few Metallica Superfans in the Bay Area -- Are You Oner

  published Dec 02, 2011

  Does this ever happen to your In a casual conversation, you nonchalantly mention that, despite Napster, Lulu, and James Hetfield not having long hair anymore, you still like Metallica. Then the perso... More >>

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  Seth Bogart of Hunx and His Punx Is Going Solo with Hairdresser Blues

  published Dec 02, 2011

  Without a doubt, Hunx and His Punx's Seth Bogart is one of the most colorful characters in the Bay Area's underground rock scene. So we're excited to learn that next year, Bogart plans to release hi... More >>

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  Top 10 Morrissey Song Titles That Describe Your Anguish About His Canceled Show

  published Dec 01, 2011

  Heavy sigh: Tonight's Morrissey show has been canceled, due to an eye injury sustained by Morrissey's drummer, Matt Walker. For you fans, this is terrible -- especially since Morrissey also canceled ... More >>

• Tonight's Morrissey Show at the Fox Theater Has Been Canceled

  published Dec 01, 2011

  See also: Top 10 Morrissey Song Titles That Describe Your Anguish About His Canceled Show Update 2: Folks at Another Planet Entertainment, the show's promoter, say they're working quickly to get a ... More >>

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  Iggy Pop on Making Kill City, Life in '70s Los Angeles, and the Jim Jarmusch Stooges Doc

  published Dec 01, 2011

  Earlier this year, before Iggy Pop was aware that he'd broken his foot during a Stooges show in Romania, he had a delightful, cuss-filled conversation with us from his home in the Cayman Islands. Aft... More >>

• Watch the Dodos and Neko Case Soar Through 'Don't Try and Hide It' on Jimmy Fallon

  published Nov 30, 2011

  San Francisco's very own Dodos hit network TV on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon yesterday, bringing along occasional member Neko Case for a special version of "Don't Try and Hide It." Notable aspects i... More >>

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  Wine Clubs Are the Coffin Nails of Rock 'n' Roll

  published Nov 29, 2011

  Remember the good old days, when wine clubs were exclusively the pastime of pretentious assholes/your parentsr Those days are over: Rolling Stone magazine just announced its own scheme to sell bottl... More >>

• Is This the Coachella 2012 Lineupr

  published Nov 29, 2011

  Coachella 2012 is still more than four months away -- so naturally, it's time to start hyperventilating over rumored lineups for the first year the festival will stretch over two weekends. One "leake... More >>

• Oakland Rapper Kafani Says He Wasn't at Scene Where 1-Year-Old Boy Was Shot

  published Nov 29, 2011

  Awful news out of Oakland last night: Eight people, including a 1-year-old boy, were assailed with more than 50 bullets outside of a liquor store in a shooting nobody can quite explain yet. Initial r... More >>

• Get Intimate as Girls' Perform "Love Like A River" For an Empty Room

  published Nov 29, 2011

  Watch this: "Love, Like a River," the closing ballad off of Girls' latest album, Father, Son, Holy Ghost, played beautifully in a room with no audience. That's the whole idea behind the For No One se... More >>