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

  "The Pomplamoose Revolution"

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2012 Stories by Ian S. Port

• Oakland Garage-Pop Outfit Bare Wires Breaks Up After Disastrous SXSW, Tour Cancellation

  published Apr 10, 2012

  Bare Wires, the Oakland trio whose lean, gritty power-pop made it one of the best of a recent class of Bay Area garage bands, broke up recently after melting down onstage at South By Southwest and ca... More >>

• Coachella in Your Backyard: Nine Good Local Shows That Aren't Sold Out

  published April 11, 2012

  Who needs Coachella? If you live in the Bay Area, most of the best of this sprawling three-day music festival — which spans two... More >>

• Modeselektor: Show Preview

  published April 11, 2012

  Don't like the beat-based direction that Radiohead's music has been going in? You can direct at least part of your blame at... More >>

• The 8 Most Infuriating Quotes From the Worst Music Listicle of All Time

  published Apr 09, 2012

  The worst music listicle of all time was published Sunday, April 8, 2012, on the conservative website Breitbart.com and penned by one Ben Shaprio. Headlined "Top 10 Overrated Songs of All Time," the ... More >>

• Watch: Carson Daily Makes Late-Night TV Safe for S.F. Faves Thee Oh Sees

  published Apr 09, 2012

  While at South by Southwest, San Francisco garage-rock institution Thee Oh Sees did something a bit more unusual than playing a bunch of shows to sweaty adorers. One night on the back patio at Red 7,... More >>

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  20 Awesome Songs From 2012: A Spring/Break Playlist

  published Apr 06, 2012

  Well, well. It's spring, we're a third of the way through 2012, the schoolkids will be let out for a week of madness soon (if not already) and so: It's time to round up the musical fruits the year ha... More >>

• Switching It Up

  published March 21, 2012

  There are two kinds of music: classical, or "art music," and pop music. And they're fundamentally different and separate. Right? Wrong. For five... More >>

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  S.F. Techno Party Kontrol Will Bring the Beat to an End After 7 Years

  published Apr 05, 2012

  Some sad news for local dance fans this week: Kontrol, the monthly party that has held sway over the city's techno and minimal scene for seven years, will stop throwing regular events this June. Its ... More >>

• Om Records Celebrates New Lavish Habits Imprint Tonight with Maus Haus and Blackbird Blackbird

  published Apr 05, 2012

  Here's another indication of the rising interest in that oft-discussed nexus between "indie" and "dance": San Francisco dance music label Om Records has a brand-new imprint that will specialize in it.... More >>

• Is Neil Young Working on a High-Quality Digital Music Servicer

  published Apr 04, 2012

  Earlier this year, rock legend Neil Young made some waves in the tech world when he blasted the thin, tinny sound quality of MP3s, arguing that digital music distribution is "degrading music, not imp... More >>

• The Feelings Are True

  published March 21, 2012

  To many it would be unthinkable, if not impossible: In an age of informational ubiquity, when seemingly any fact in the world lies about three... More >>

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  I Love This City Festival: Tiesto, Duck Sauce, Steve Aoki, James Murphy, Holy Ghost! and More to Play Over Two Days in S.F.

  published Apr 03, 2012

  See also: * I Love This City Festival Moved to Shoreline From AT&T Park Parking Lot * I Love This City Festival Gets Even Bigger, Adds David Guetta, Datsik, Apparat, AraabMusik, and More to Lineup... More >>

• Seventeen Evergreen Has a New Album and Is Back to Making Trippy Videos, Thankfully

  published Apr 03, 2012

  Remember the last time San Francisco electro-rock duo Seventeen Evergreen released a piece of eye-candyr It was November, and the clip was a yarn-bombing odyssey of a music video for "Polarity Song,... More >>

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  The Heartless Bastards Do Not Mean to Antagonize You: Five Things to Know About This Vital Rock Band

  published Apr 03, 2012

  Founded in Ohio nearly a decade ago, Heartless Bastards are a bare-bones rock 'n roll band built around the powerful voice and songwriting skills of singer-guitarist Erika Wennerstrom. Though the lin... More >>

• Heartless Bastards: Show Preview

  published April 4, 2012

  Heartless Bastards couldn't have a more deceptive name: If there's anything this gritty Ohio rock outfit has in spades, it is heart.... More >>

• Neutral Milk Hotel's Jeff Mangum Adds S.F. Show, Goes on Sale Today

  published Apr 02, 2012

  For some of us, the name Neutral Milk Hotel carries a near-mythic heft, an exalted reputation earned in the wake of the 1998 indie-rock album In the Airplane Over the Sea and other records. And it's a... More >>

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  Jack White's Third Man Records Throws 1,000 Perfectly Decent Records Away Via Balloon

  published Apr 02, 2012

  In what was most assuredly not an April Fool's joke, stunt, or prank, the folks at Jack White's Third Man Records yesterday attached 1,000 records to 1,000 large blue helium balloons and sent them of... More >>

• Here Are the Hot Snakes Performing Live in San Francisco on Friday

  published Apr 02, 2012

  The reunion tour of beloved San Diego punk band Hot Snakes arrived at San Francisco's Bottom of the Hill on Friday, and if you were there, you were, well, lucky. Like a lot of local shows this time o... More >>

• Watch Nicki Bluhm and the Gramblers Play an Astoundingly Good Cover of Hall & Oates' "I Can't Go For That" -- In Their Van

  published Mar 30, 2012

  Yeah, we've seen recordings of bands performing in their tour vans before. And while they're generally quirky and funny, rarely are they as cute -- and downright good -- as the version of Hall and Oa... More >>

• Train Announces One-of-a-Kind Free Performance in S.F. This Weekend

  published Mar 30, 2012

  Wildly successful S.F. pop-rock band Train just announced* a very unusual addition to its upcoming week of intimate club shows here in the city. As a special promotion for its new album, California ... More >>

• The Associated Press Has Just Now Discovered the Popularity of Electronic Dance Music

  published Mar 29, 2012

  Have you heard of Skrillexr David Guettar Deadmau5r Did you know that they have, like lots of fansr Well, today, the Associated Press finally caught up with you. Its report about the popularity of d... More >>

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  Live Review, 3/28/12: Fun. Goes Beyond "We Are Young" at the Independent

  published Mar 29, 2012

  Fun. March 28, 2012 The Independent Better than: The last decade of would-be graduation songs. It could have been one of those shows in which a sold-out crowd merely waits to hear that one song -- ... More >>

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  R.I.P. Earl Scruggs, Banjo Legend and Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Regular

  published Mar 28, 2012

  Earl Scruggs, the North Carolina-born banjo legend who was a regular at San Francisco's Hardly Strictly Bluegrass music festival, died at a Nashville hospital this morning, according to news reports. ... More >>

• Penelope Houston's "On Market Street": A Song for S.F.'s "Invisible" Street People

  published Mar 28, 2012

  As its title suggests, Penelope Houston's seven-years-in-the-making new album, On Market Street, deals directly with social issues that confront San Franciscans every day. Given her job as a libraria... More >>

• LCD Soundsystem's Pat Mahoney and Nancy Whang to DJ at Public Works This Week

  published Mar 28, 2012

  Pat Mahoney and Nancy Whang -- two of the crucial members of LCD Soundsystem who aren't James Murphy -- are performing a rare joint DJ gig for this Friday's Face Party at Public Works. While likely ... More >>