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In Print: Looking Back at the Year in Bay Area Music

From SF Weekly's latest print music section: ​ Looking Back on 2011: A lot happened in Bay Area music in 2011 -- and not all of it had to do with a female rapper from Oakland called Kreayshawn. Remember KUSF getting shut down? Or the battle to save the Eagle Tavern? And it wasn't all sad news ... More >>

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From SF Weekly's latest print music section: ​ Looking Back on 2011: A lot happened in Bay Area music in 2011 -- and not all of it had to do with a female rapper from Oakland called Kreayshawn. Remember KUSF getting shut down? Or the battle to save the Eagle Tavern? And it wasn't all sad news ... More >>

10 Bands You Should See at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, and More

From SF Weekly's latest print music section: ​ Your Guide to Hardly Strictly: For its 11th year, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass got even bigger, adding a full Friday lineup and pushing the usual pre-weekend festivities back to Thursday. That means you'll face an even more difficult time deciding wh ... More >>

Friday Night: Kid Koala, Amon Tobin, DJ Food, and the Ninja Tune Crew Take Over 1015 Folsom

Kid Koala in the audience: "I'm feeling quite silly tonight!"​ Kid Koala Amon Tobin October 29, 2010Ninja Tune XX Party@ 1015 Folsom (Definitely not) Better than: Ninjas with guitars Between Halloween on Sunday and the Giants nearly sweeping the World Series, San Francisco felt like the home of ... More >>

Matt Black, Founder of Indie Eletronica Label Ninja Tune, Compares Major Labels to Nazis

Ninja Tune founders Jonathan More and Matt Black​Nowadays, long-term success in the record business has become so elusive and so revered that when that rare piece of good news does arrive, you better celebrate the hell out of it. Ninja Tune gets this. The international electronica-leaning indie l ... More >>

Ninja Tune celebrates 20 years of influential electronica

Ninja Tune founders Jonathan More and Matt Black​Nowadays, long-term success in the record business has become so elusive and so revered that when that rare piece of good news does arrive, you better celebrate the hell out of it. Ninja Tune gets this. The international electronica-leaning indie l ... More >>

Ninja Tune's 20th Birthday, Stop Piracy for $1, and Bitches Brew Hits the Stage

​From SF Weekly's latest print music section:Eskmo, Amon Tobin, Kid Koala, and more at Ninja Tune's free 20th birthday party: "Ninja Tune's dreamy beats and sample-sewn collages skirt the edges of electronica, dance, dubstep, ambient, and experimental, but for years, the label has been stylistical ... More >>

Ninja Tune Announces Free 20th Anniversary Show with Amon Tobin, Kid Koala, Eskmo, and More

This is a picture of a ninja. The label is called Ninja Tune. That was all the connection we needed.​We don't really remember it all that well, but our twentieth birthday party probably involved a case of Tecate, a few Modest Mouse records, and our roommate's six-foot bong. Whatever the details, w ... More >>

Friday's Pick: Eskmo with Dr. Strangeloop, Shlohmo, Teebs and Timeboy at Milk

Eskmo​Eskmo, Dr. Strangeloop, Shlohmo, Teebs, and Timeboy @Milk 8 p.m., $10They say that good things come to those who wait, and that's certainly true of local beatmaker Eskmo. Brendan Angelides started recording as Eskmo more than a decade ago, but he's just now putting t ... More >>

Shlohmo gives S.F. a taste of L.A.’s abstract beat scene

Eskmo​Eskmo, Dr. Strangeloop, Shlohmo, Teebs, and Timeboy @Milk 8 p.m., $10They say that good things come to those who wait, and that's certainly true of local beatmaker Eskmo. Brendan Angelides started recording as Eskmo more than a decade ago, but he's just now putting t ... More >>

American Apparel Protest, Comedy Death Ray, John Vanderslice and the Really Really Free Market: Your Monday Morning Hangover

Saturday's much blogged-about American Apparel protest outside the storefront the chain plans to move into on Valencia Street had a sadly low turnout. Perhaps they were asking a bit much (10 a.m. on a Saturday morning?). Photographer Gretchen Robinette arrived at 10 on the dot and says that proteste ... More >>

Amon for All Seasons

Saturday's much blogged-about American Apparel protest outside the storefront the chain plans to move into on Valencia Street had a sadly low turnout. Perhaps they were asking a bit much (10 a.m. on a Saturday morning?). Photographer Gretchen Robinette arrived at 10 on the dot and says that proteste ... More >>

Treasure Island picks: in haiku form!

Saturday's much blogged-about American Apparel protest outside the storefront the chain plans to move into on Valencia Street had a sadly low turnout. Perhaps they were asking a bit much (10 a.m. on a Saturday morning?). Photographer Gretchen Robinette arrived at 10 on the dot and says that proteste ... More >>

Justice, Hot Chip, Spiritualized, Raconteurs at Treasure Island

Saturday's much blogged-about American Apparel protest outside the storefront the chain plans to move into on Valencia Street had a sadly low turnout. Perhaps they were asking a bit much (10 a.m. on a Saturday morning?). Photographer Gretchen Robinette arrived at 10 on the dot and says that proteste ... More >>

Mike Patton, Dan the Automator Set to Turn Hip-Hop on its Head (Again) Next Week at GAMH

Saturday's much blogged-about American Apparel protest outside the storefront the chain plans to move into on Valencia Street had a sadly low turnout. Perhaps they were asking a bit much (10 a.m. on a Saturday morning?). Photographer Gretchen Robinette arrived at 10 on the dot and says that proteste ... More >>

SF Weekly Best Albums of 2007 : John Graham Edition

Saturday's much blogged-about American Apparel protest outside the storefront the chain plans to move into on Valencia Street had a sadly low turnout. Perhaps they were asking a bit much (10 a.m. on a Saturday morning?). Photographer Gretchen Robinette arrived at 10 on the dot and says that proteste ... More >>

Scavenged Audio

Amon Tobin turns sound scraps into specialized beats

Slice 'n' Dice

Coldcut reexamines its roots

Videogames and Stevie Wonder compliments of Amon Tobin, RJD2, and "Wonder-Full 2"

Coldcut reexamines its roots

BeatBox

Nate Cavalieri goes "Under the Radar"; Brock Keeling makes the "Tubesteak Connection."

BeatBox

The DJ that dared to remix Elvis, the man behind the Lazy Dog, and the ninjas that make up Ninja Tune

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

The DJ that dared to remix Elvis, the man behind the Lazy Dog, and the ninjas that make up Ninja Tune

Hear This

Amon Tobin's gorgeous, genre-mashing electronica

A Matter of Degrees

Local label Six Degrees weathers the storm of success

Chicks on Speed

The Re-Releases of the Un-Releases (K)

House Of Tudor

Bebel Gilberto; Phantom Chords; Dadafest; Go-Nuts

New World Disorder

Tom Ze's restless experimentalism has earned him adoration from music's cognoscenti everywhere -- except in his native Brazil

The House of Tudor

Tom Ze's restless experimentalism has earned him adoration from music's cognoscenti everywhere -- except in his native Brazil