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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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  R.I.P. The White Stripes, 1997-2011: An Appreciation

  published Feb 02, 2011

  More than just a band ended today, with the White Stripes' announcement that they are formally ceasing to record, perform, exist. (They hadn't done anything for a long while, anyway.) Easily the best ... More >>

• Nodzzz Signs to Woodsist, Drops Sweetly 'Amateurish' New Song

  published Feb 02, 2011

  We're not sure exactly what it says when your own publicist describes your music as "amateurish," but we're pretty sure it says something. Anyway, we'd call S.F. jangle-poppers Nodzzz charmingly ... More >>

• In Print: The Sweet Explorations of Tennis, and the Church Reinvents Its Past

  published Feb 02, 2011

  The Salty Tales of Tennis: Their saga is like some kind of 21st-century fairy tale, and Tennis' work ably carries on a sense of wonder. Cape Dory, their debut released in January, is summery, genial i... More >>

• New Das Racist Mixtape: 'Check Yo Ponytail' (And See Them at the Independent Tomorrow)

  published Feb 01, 2011

  So, newfangled New York three-piece rap outfit Das Racist is rhyming its way up the West Coast right now -- tonight, L.A., tomorrow, S.F., -- and on the way, between hitting a bunch of Taco Bells and ... More >>

• Get Your Leather and Chains Ready: It's Motorhead Week in S.F.

  published Feb 01, 2011

  Ladies, gentlemen, and heathens, it is Motorhead week here in San Francisco.It is Motorhead week because the trio itself (consisting, as it long has, of bassist/singer Lemmy Kilmister and a rotating s... More >>

• Ty Segall To Perform at Today's Save KUSF Rally, FreeFall Lives Again Online

  published Feb 01, 2011

  Well, the radio station at 90.3 FM is gone, and the website will only take 15 listeners, so anyone who wants to listen to their favorite KUSF show these days is pretty much screwed, rightrWrong -- sor... More >>

• Grab a Track From Pro Skater/SF Native Tommy Guerrero, Who Drops a New Album Today

  published Feb 01, 2011

  There's a big difference between Tommy Guerrero and most pro-skateboarders still making their go at a music career. Unlike fellow old-schooler Steve Caballero (who played in a deliciously snotty ... More >>

• Odd Future Is Finally Coming to S.F. -- And Soon

  published Jan 31, 2011

  Big news for you fans of the new, the prolific, and the emphatically profane.Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All (that's Odd Future for short), the 10-odd-member underage L.A. rap collective whose Quaa... More >>

• Social Distortion: Show Preview

  published February 2, 2011

  Granted, Hard Times and Nursery Rhymes might be an awful title for an album, Social Distortion may have grown decently up into... More >>

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  Free Energy and the Postelles Give Thursday a Friday-Night Party at the Indy

  published Jan 28, 2011

  Free EnergyThe PostellesJanuary 27, 2011@ The IndependentBetter than: Rock bands that try to entertain a room by pretending they don't have a room to entertain.The stage lights flashed on at the Poste... More >>

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  We're Throwing a Free Party with Richie Cunning, Blackbird Blackbird, and Lots of PBR

  published Jan 26, 2011

  And so the awesomeness scheduled for our All Shook Down Pop-Up Party on Feb. 4 increases:For the good of all, we will present S.F. rapper Richie Cunning (now opening on Hieroglyphics' current tour), e... More >>

• Disco Shawn is Dead -- Long Live Shawn Reynaldo

  published Jan 26, 2011

  Disco Shawn, that scion of the S.F. beat scene, founder of such popular local parties as Icee Hot and Tormenta Tropical, is dead.Dead. As in, R.I.P. Disco Shawn.No, no, not the dude himself. Shawn Rey... More >>

• In Print: Is Trackademicks' the Next King of Bay Area Hip Hopr

  published Jan 26, 2011

  Deerhoof's new album: Harpsichord. Congotronics. Flamenco guitar. Crunchy analog samples. Crushing metallic riffs. Whirling keyboard dashes. Stonesy swagger. Wispy vocal lines. Until now, those were ... More >>

• New S.F. Service Feeds You Indie Music One Spoonful at a Time

  published Jan 25, 2011

  So how do you stay up on new musicr Everyone has their own methods, some of which (listening to KUSF, R.I.P.) are more effective than others (trying to read Pitchfork reviews while hammered). Tod... More >>

• Where Should the New Efterklang Film Premierer Howabout Your Living Roomr

  published Jan 25, 2011

  Danish art-rockers Efterklang collaborated with French director Vincent Moon to make An Island, an experimental film about the band, and, well, an island. It's not your typical band documentary, so it... More >>

• Hear the New Hunx and His Punx Song, 'Lovers Lane' -- And What's With the Album Artr

  published Jan 25, 2011

  "What happened next no one would have ever known/ My boy was killed, and now he's gone." And so climaxes the glossy tragedy at the heart of "Lovers Lane," the latest single from Hunx and His Punx... More >>

• Thao and Mirah Announce Details of New Collaboration Album

  published Jan 25, 2011

  We told you back in July that Bay Area local Thao (of Get Down Stay Down fame) and Pacific Northwesterner Mirah (of general indie whimsy fame) are working on an album together after touring ... More >>

• Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax, Megadeth Announce Plans to Play Together. Once. In Indio.

  published Jan 25, 2011

  It's called the Big 4 Tour -- Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax, and Megadeth, together on one bill -- and finally, after seven shows in Europe, it's coming to the U.S. Only problem is the date and time... More >>

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  KUSF Shutdown: Cartoonist Keith Knight Weighs in on What We're Losing

  published Jan 25, 2011

  Outrage over the KUSF shutdown isn't limited to those living in the Bay Area. Yesterday, Los Angeles cartoonist Keith Knight -- former S.F. resident, author of the syndicated daily strip The Knight Li... More >>

• Watch Sic Alps Grainy, Disorienting New Video for 'Do You Want to Give $$r'

  published Jan 24, 2011

  Now here's a video that fits well with the accompanying song -- we can't get a clear grip on either. Sic Alps new album Napa Asylum (out tomorrow) is a bewildering, dirty, vaguely depressing slog... More >>

• Chaotic Consensus: Deerhoof vs. Evil sounds like sonic agreement, for once

  published January 26, 2011

  Harpsichord. Congotronics. Flamenco guitar. Crunchy analog samples. Crushing metallic riffs. Whirling keyboard dashes. Stonesy swagger. Wispy... More >>

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  Saturday Night: Old 97's Rile Up a Rowdy Fillmore Crowd

  published Jan 24, 2011

  Old 97's Langhorne SlimJanuary 22, 2011@ The FillmoreBetter than: Altamont.So maybe it wasn't exactly the 2011 equivalent of a frenzied pack of Hell's Angels playing whack-a-mole on a dreamy asse... More >>

• KUSF Shutdown: Watch a Video Doc About Wednesday's Meeting and Protest

  published Jan 21, 2011

  Those of us who couldn't be at Wednesday's meeting at USF about the shutdown of KUSF 90.3 FM might find this video doc interesting. At about 15 minutes, it's no brief affair, but it covers much of wha... More >>

• Coachella Runoff: Animal Collective Plays Great American Music Hall This April (Updated)

  published Jan 21, 2011

  All behold the glorious largesse of Fauxchella! When many among the massive onslaught of bands coming to the Golden State for that sweaty confab down south spread the love to we cold-weather-preferri... More >>

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  A Critic Whines About Pazz & Jop: Why Does Consensus Feel So Shittyr

  published Jan 21, 2011

  Let's get this over with as quickly as possible: The results of the Village Voice's annual Pazz & Jop Critics Poll were released this week, and, to no one's surprise, it turned out that Kanye West... More >>