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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2011 Stories by Ian S. Port

• Check Out A Sample From the Latest Installment of Sonny Smith's 100 Records Project

  published Jan 20, 2011

  Last year, local songwriter/cool guy Sonny Smith started an art project you may have heard a thing or two about: He invented 100 fake bands, wrote 100 different singles from each one (with an A side a... More >>

• This New Beep Video Will Give You Nightmares About Going to the Doctor

  published Jan 20, 2011

  Maybe it's just us, but this trippy first video from jazzy San Francisco experimental outfit Beep looks very much like the nightmares we used to get as a kid after staring for too long at the posters ... More >>

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  Win Tickets to See Oakland Hip-Hop Duo Zion I at the New Parish This Friday

  published Jan 19, 2011

  Zion I, the lauded Oakland hip-hop duo, is playing its first show of 2011 at the New Parish in Oakland this Friday. We'd love to send you to experience some of the powerful music put out by MC Zumbi a... More >>

• In Print: Zoe Keating's Tech-Fueled Cello Explorations, the Beautifully Stoned Noise of Young Prisms, and More

  published Jan 19, 2011

  Zoe Keating: "The technology creates this little box that you're always pushing against the edges of," she says. "I find it really good to have these limitations of [recording] latency or RAM or ... More >>

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  R.I.P. KUSF 90.3 FM, 1977 - 2011

  published Jan 19, 2011

  At least two things are clear regarding the surprise sell-off and shutdown of KUSF yesterday by the University of San Francisco: First, university officials would apparently rather have $3.75 mil... More >>

• Tonight: Watch Il Gato Play a Free Show from the Comfort of Your Glowing Computer Screen

  published Jan 18, 2011

  We're really not sure why we don't hear more about the ornate folk-pop of San Francisco outfit Il Gato, but maybe, after tonight, we will: the band is playing a live show at Bamm.tv that you can strea... More >>

• What It's Really Like To Be in a Band, Starring Seattle's Moondoggies

  published Jan 18, 2011

  Headlining the Independent tonight is a Seattle folk-rock band by the name of Moondoggies. Maybe you have heard of this band, or its rich, rocking, Neil Young-indebted sophomore album Tidelands, which... More >>

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  University Pulls Plug on KUSF, Music Community Reacts with Horror

  published Jan 18, 2011

  In a surprise move, University of San Francisco officials today yanked KUSF, its nearly 34-year-old community radio station, off the air, kicking out DJs and staff during the middle of a morning show.... More >>

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  Announcing the All Shook Down Pop-Up Party, Featuring Blackbird Blackbird and Coming to Lower Haight Feb. 4

  published Jan 18, 2011

  Hey dear readers, friends, haters, and, uh, other people: We're throwing a party for you! (Yes, even you, Dude Who Posts Ungrammatical Rage Anonymously at the Bottom of our Stories.)All Shook Down is ... More >>

• Watch: The Limousines' Amazing (Unofficial) Video Gets Made as You Watch It

  published Jan 18, 2011

  So this is cool: The latest (unofficial) video from about the soon-to-blow-up Bay Area electo-pop duo the Limousines shows you how it was made while it plays. Or it gets made while you watch. Or ... More >>

• Young Prisms sound beautifully stoned

  published January 19, 2011

  Early on in Friends for Now, their debut album, S.F.'s Young Prisms deliver what is either a mission statement, a basic affirmation of... More >>

• Music Links: Lumerians' Trip, Artists to Watch, Trackademicks' Latest, and Jerry Garcia's Kitchen

  published Jan 14, 2011

  Hear "Atlanta Brook," a new track from stunning Oakland psych-rockers Lumerians. [The Bay Bridged]The Owl Mag's big bird, Jason Jurgens, on the local artists you should watch in 2011. [The OCMD]Pitchf... More >>

• Photos from Grammy Career Day at SFSU with John Vanderslice, Lia Rose, and Student Musicians

  published Jan 14, 2011

  The local chapter of the Recording Academy -- y'know the folks who give out Grammy awards -- did something pretty cool on Wednesday: They gathered a bunch of local artists and industry professionals a... More >>

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  Aerial Dancer Agent Red Says NYE Fall May Leave Her Unable to Perform Again

  published Jan 14, 2011

  After breaking both her arms and fracturing her skull in a fall at a New Year's Eve rave, professional aerialist Sarah Johnston, aka Agent Red, says she may never perform again.Johnston was just getti... More >>

• SF's Battlehooch Proves Surprisingly Adept at Performing Inside a Moving Vehicle

  published Jan 13, 2011

  It can't be that easy to play a song inside your van when your band has six people in it. Especially when there are even more people in the van during the performance. But thanks to some creativity fr... More >>

• Listen to a New A B & the Sea Song, 'Run, Run, Run' -- It'll Give You a Sunburn

  published Jan 13, 2011

  Just when you thought S.F. pop outfit A B & the Sea couldn't get more Beach Boys-y, couldn't sound more completely like the soundtrack to a season opposite the one we're in now (have you looked ou... More >>

• Do You Want a DJ in a Purple Dinosaur Outfit (aka Mochipet) to Cook You Dinnerr

  published Jan 13, 2011

  Bay Area electronic producer Mochipet has a challenge for you: The DJ in the Purple Dinosaur costume is putting out a single later this year on local label Daly City Records called "Whomp-A-Sauru... More >>

• The Supposed Horrors of Salem, Plus Recent Highs and Lows in S.F. Music

  published Jan 12, 2011

  The Supposed Horrors of Salem:  ... Yet there's something totally hatable about Salem, something that in recent months has caused music writers to dogpile on the band with an M.I.A's.-truffl... More >>

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  The Top 6 Reasons Why Huey Lewis and the News Aren't Playing S.F. on Their Current Tour

  published Jan 12, 2011

  Eighties pop-rock icon and Marin County pretty boy Huey Lewis and his longtime band the News recently recorded a new album of Stax covers called Soulsville. To support the new record, Huey and the New... More >>

• Hunx and His Punx Announce Debut Album 'Too Young To Be In Love'

  published Jan 11, 2011

  At long last: gay celebrity, salon owner, aspiring TV show host, and Twitter rockstar Seth Bogart, aka Hunx -- along with his band of punky femmes, affectionately known as His Punx -- today announced ... More >>

• Gang of Four, Renewed with Fresh 'Content,' Plays the Fillmore Next Month

  published Jan 11, 2011

  Gang of Four, the band of British chaps whose brittle, awkwardly funky post-punk inspired a legion of imitators in the early aughts, somehow still exists. Its seventh studio album -- the first in 16 y... More >>

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  Willie Nelson and Family Deliver Life Lessons in Song at the Fillmore

  published Jan 11, 2011

  Willie Nelson & FamilyJanuary 10, 2011@ The FillmoreBetter than: Less notorious ways of living.Welcome to life lessons with Willie Nelson and Family. Tonight's lecture will be divided into seven t... More >>

• Watch the Silly, Glammy New Video for Deerhoof's 'Super Duper Rescue Heads!'

  published Jan 11, 2011

  So Bay Area art-punk figureheads Deerhoof have a new record, Deerhoof Vs. Evil, dropping Jan. 25, and yesterday, they dropped a video for the standout track "Super Duper Rescue Heads!" Among other thi... More >>

• Watch a Video Tease for Green Day's Subtly Named New Live Album, 'Awesome As Fuck'

  published Jan 11, 2011

  Well, strike one up for subtlety. The Gilman street snots turned Broadway rocking arena kings known as Green Day have plans for new a live album titled -- yes, really -- Awesome As Fuck.As crude a mon... More >>

• The Supposed Horrors of Salem

  published January 12, 2011

  Between its association with a microgenre once controversially known as "rape-gaze," a debut EP entitled Yes I Smoke Crack, and one of... More >>