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61. Let's Get Killed

    DJs dig into '90s nostalgia

    By Jennifer Maerz

    Published: September 24, 2008

    It was one of those balmy September weekends when San Franciscans can actually go sleeveless after 10 p.m. And yet in the line snaking outside Mission bar the Knockout for the...

62. Reviewed

    Davila 666

    Davila 666 (In the Red)

    By Jennifer Maerz

    Published: September 24, 2008

    Davila 666 is Puerto Rico's answer to the Black Lips and my answer to the question: When will a new band seriously brainwash me on its music? Since picking up Davila's debut...

63. Hear This

    Devendra's next act: Puss and Priest

    By Jennifer Maerz

    Published: September 24, 2008

    Living in Los Angeles has helped artsy-fartsy folkster Devendra Banhart befriend all sorts of famous collaborators. Actor Gael García Bernal guested on Banhart's last...

64. Night&Day

    Elder Flower

    By Jennifer Maerz

    Published: September 17, 2008

    For all the insanity of Augusten Burroughs’ parents, they produced a pair of excellent memoirists. Burroughs is the author of Running with Scissors, which wryly chronicled...

65. Let's Get Killed

    Talking Music series emphasizes the brains behind the songs

    By Jennifer Maerz

    Published: September 17, 2008

    The entertainment at live shows is usually formulated into the same split: 90 percent music, 10 percent banter. Generally, that's a fine balance. Hearing some conversationally...

66. Let's Get Killed

    New local music making the grade

    By Jennifer Maerz

    Published: September 10, 2008

    It's been a while since I've lived by the semester schedule, but looking at all the college kids hunting for places to live around town, I'd say it's back to school time in the...

67. Let's Get Killed

    Hair metal fantasies realized at Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy Camp

    By Jennifer Maerz

    Published: September 3, 2008

    It was barely 10 a.m., and '80s rock stud Kip Winger was winking at me for the second time as he played bass. He was making me blush profusely. I could barely look at Kip, or...

68. Let's Get Killed

    Mix-CD fans take their hobbies public in bars and galleries

    By Jennifer Maerz

    Published: August 27, 2008

    Despite all the peaking and plummeting of trends in recorded music, compact discs have to stick around for one main reason: mix CDs. Making compilations for friends, crushes,...

69. Hear This

    Discord Down Under

    By Jennifer Maerz

    Published: August 27, 2008

    Melbourne's the Drones are much more turbulent than their moniker suggests. The band steers clear of warmly humming songs, embarking instead on a noisy, energetic amalgam of...

70. Let's Get Killed

    Catch a ride on the ridiculous: Yacht Rock hits S.F.

    By Jennifer Maerz

    Published: August 20, 2008

    I can't scientifically prove it, but I swear the reason I hear so much Hall & Oates in neighborhood bars these days is Yacht Rock. The now cult-classic Web video series...

71. Let's Get Killed

    12 Galaxies set to close this month

    By Jennifer Maerz

    Published: August 13, 2008

    The Mission District will lose its biggest live music venue when 12 Galaxies shuts its doors at the end of this month. Although rumors have been floating around this summer...

72. Reviewed

    The Dutchess and the Duke

    She's the Dutchess, He's the Duke (Hardly Art)

    By Jennifer Maerz

    Published: August 13, 2008

    She and Him isn't the only country-folk duo out there pining for the simpler highs, lows, and harmonies of the olden days. Seattle's the Dutchess and the Duke pairs a young guy...

73. Let's Get Killed

    The Cataracs have the fans, lack the lyrics

    By Jennifer Maerz

    Published: August 6, 2008

    Last Wednesday evening might have looked like your typical foggy summer night outside, but inside the Rickshaw Stop things heated up into a muggy spring break atmosphere. Loud...

74. Hear This

    Air-Raising Rock

    By Jennifer Maerz

    Published: August 6, 2008

    Having judged the past three qualifying rounds of San Francisco's air guitar competitions, I have high hopes for our local contestants in this year's national battle. For one,...

75. Let's Get Killed

    Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Rhetoric

    By Jennifer Maerz

    Published: July 23, 2008

    Bob Dylan's "John Brown" is one of the most moving antiwar songs recorded. The track avoids sloganeering, resonating an anti–Vietnam War sentiment with a straightforward,...

76. Let's Get Killed

    Mission Creek Music & Arts Festival shrinks but may still deliver

    By Jennifer Maerz

    Published: July 16, 2008

    The arena-sized festival isn't the only music event feeling a crunch in these difficult economic times. San Francisco's Mission Creek Music & Arts Festival, the 12-year-old...

77. Hear This

    Jewish Mags and Marching Bands

    By Jennifer Maerz

    Published: July 16, 2008

    One of the lasting selling points of Oakland's nightlife scene remains the cool warehouse show. Ghost Town Gallery (2519 San Pablo at Grand) is one such remarkable...

78. Let's Get Killed

    King Khan and the Shrines gorge on psychedelic soul

    By Jennifer Maerz

    Published: July 9, 2008

    San Francisco has a mighty sweet tooth for vintage soul and R&B. The July calendar alone for the SF Soul Scene blog lists DJs serving up crate-scavenged classics on a weekly...

79. Let's Get Killed

    Soundwave's AudioBus series offers road trips with local composers

    By Jennifer Maerz

    Published: July 2, 2008

    When you live in a city as populous as San Francisco, obnoxious white noise is a given. The 5 a.m. recycling crew talking trash at top volume, the midday taxi horn blare, the...

80. Hear This

    Megafaun's Megaharmonies

    By Jennifer Maerz

    Published: July 2, 2008

    This Independence Day weekend, celebrate the (mostly) olden days of music with Megafaun. The rootsy trio from Durham, North Carolina, specializes in stringed and fingerpicked...