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America's Got Talent

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2012

    Learn the J12, a New Bay Area Hip-Hop Dance Anyone Can Do

    J12, a 19-year-old DJ from Oakland, has started a viral video craze with a dance he invented and posted online earlier this year called, immodestly enough, the J12. Welded to the bassline of "Slow Down" by The Team (the Oakland trio of Clyde Carson, Kaz Kyzah, and Mayne Mannish), the dance mainly co ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 9, 2012

    ABC Announces New Singing Competition; World Sighs

    ​The last few weeks, we've been DVRing the shit out of the second season of The Voice to ensure we wouldn't miss a second. There is something thoroughly riveting about that show -- partly because of the concept (waiting to see if the judges will turn their chairs around for the contestants) is tot ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 8, 2012

    Gender, Bent

    ​The last few weeks, we've been DVRing the shit out of the second season of The Voice to ensure we wouldn't miss a second. There is something thoroughly riveting about that show -- partly because of the concept (waiting to see if the judges will turn their chairs around for the contestants) is tot ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 30, 2011

    Music Links: Is Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Getting Too Big?

    Is Hardly Strictly getting too big for its own good? [SF Gate] "Employees must carve 'Slayer' into forearms before returning to work." [Uptown Almanac]

  • Blogs

    September 23, 2011

    The X Factor Makes Its US Debut, Crazy People Get Humiliated

    ​So, this week The X Factor -- Simon Cowell's new reality show/ singing competition -- arrived on U.S. screens for the first time, and we've already had two nights of occasionally exciting, often harrowing, auditions. In case you missed it on Wednesday and last night, the operating principle is ex ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2011

    Music Links: Rock Make This Saturday, How to Think About Thievery Corporation, and More

    S.F. rapper DaVinci's Feast or Famine EP. Even Pitchfork likes it.​ Thievery Corporation refuses to be pigeonholed. Just call the duo's work baby-making music. [SF Gate] Everything you need to know about Saturday's free, all-ages Mission street music festival, Rock Make. [The Bay Bridged]

  • Blogs

    June 23, 2011

    Meet Gabriel Angelo, the 12-Year-Old Playing His Trumpet on S.F. Streets to Pay for Music Lessons

    ​It's not often that you hear the theme song of The Godfather while walking down Market Street on a sunny Wednesday afternoon. It's even less likely that you'll hear it played in pure, bright trumpet notes that resonate over the noise of the traffic. This music stopped me in my tracks, so I set ou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 11, 2011

    New Taste Marketplace Has Got Talent

    Jesse Friedman/newtastemarketPeter Gardner of Peter's Sausage.​May New Taste Marketplace Where: St. Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church, 500 De Haro (at Mariposa) When: Sat., May 14, noon-5 p.m. Cost: Bring cash for food, and to donate to the Food Pantry and St. Gregory's The rundown: Pop-u ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 13, 2010

    Top Six Most Inappropriate Uses of a Song on TV, Ever

    ​Having heard the news that Lou Reed reportedly refused to let Susan Boyle perform "Perfect Day" on America's Got Talent last week (resulting in her apparently fleeing the country in floods of tears; Reed says legal issues were to blame), we couldn't help but start thinking about the variety of so ... More >>

  • News

    April 8, 2009

    Bobby Badfingers' snappy jailhouse comeback

    ​Having heard the news that Lou Reed reportedly refused to let Susan Boyle perform "Perfect Day" on America's Got Talent last week (resulting in her apparently fleeing the country in floods of tears; Reed says legal issues were to blame), we couldn't help but start thinking about the variety of so ... More >>

  • Music

    August 29, 2007

    A vampire bartender sucks the life outta the Ambassador

    ​Having heard the news that Lou Reed reportedly refused to let Susan Boyle perform "Perfect Day" on America's Got Talent last week (resulting in her apparently fleeing the country in floods of tears; Reed says legal issues were to blame), we couldn't help but start thinking about the variety of so ... More >>

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