Arts, Entertainment, and Media

Shuck and Jive: Drakes Bay Oyster Company Forces a Redefinition of Environmentalism

Off the Farm: Globe-Hopping Street Artist Aryz Gifts the City With a Five-Story Canvas and a Few Small Ones

Bottle Rock: The Black Keys and Flaming Lips Can't Break Through Distractions at Napa Valley's New Fest, 5/10/13

The Black Keys, the Flaming Lips, Andrew Bird, Alabama Shakes, the Dirty Projectors, Vintage Trouble and more Friday, May 10, 2013 Bottle Rock Napa Valley Better than: Bob's Hot Rods cover band, Craig Chaquico, or other music you'd typically hear at a winery. Ostensibly the four-day event that too ... More >>

Paul Collins on 1970s San Francisco and the Redemption of 'Power-Pop'

Paul Collins founded the Nerves in 1975 with Jack Lee and Peter Case in San Francisco. The group struggled to gain momentum, but the track "Hangin' on the Telephone," from their sole 1976 EP, was propelled into fame by Blondie's faithful cover on the 1978 breakthrough LP Parallel Lines. Following th ... More >>

Yo La Tengo: Show Preview

Kanye West Thinks He's God -- Here Are Four Other Musicians Who They Are, Too

We all know that story about how mad people got when John Lennon said the Beatles were "more popular than Jesus." There was uproar! There were banners! There were protests! But these days, musicians have the audacity to compare themselves to actual Gods and no one bats an eyelid. Let's take a look a ... More >>

Poetic License

Street Waltzing

Mount Tam Jam Books Galactic, Cake, and Others to Benefit Marin State Parks

There hasn't been a rock concert on top of Mount Tamalpais in decades. But there will be this year, when the first-ever Mount Tam Jam brings Galactic, Cake, Taj Mahal, and others to play a benefit show for the Marin County peak on its very own slopes. The concert comes at at difficult time for the C ... More >>

Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Last Week in S.F. Music

The State of Snoop Dogg: An Awkward Gangstafari

Boobylicious: Five Insanely Breast-Centric Stage Outfits

Boobs. Everyone loves 'em -- even gay men. So can we really blame pop starlets for coming up with outfits that push the appearance of their breasticles to cartoonish levels? The answer is: Yes. Yes we can. Not only are there small children watching, but presenting breasts as cakes and/or flamethrowe ... More >>

One Last Lecture

Hips For A Week

Gender Roles: Local Theater Confronts the Lack of Women Behind the Scenes

Skatalites: Show Preview

The Odd Spectacle of Musicians Being in Other Musicians' Weddings

Everyone loves a good wedding -- the booze, the food, the outfits, the awkward drunk uncle dance. But truth is, nuptials are even more fascinating when famous musicians are involved. (What do their drunk uncles look like doing "The Birdie Song" dance?!) Here are five musicians and singers who have p ... More >>

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Traveling Exhibits: Will Anyone Find the New Design Museum?

Brian as "Brian"

Tropical Weather

Haute Links: When Blogs Become Ads

Lacuna Coil: Show Preview

Five Straight Rappers Who Support LGBT Rights

As we're sure you're aware, the U.S. Supreme Court is again hearing arguments today about what to do with the issue of same-sex marriage. If the inundation of red profile pics on Twitter and Facebook is any indication, the growing social tide is on the side of the gay folk. Yet another sign that the ... More >>

Clutch Singer Neil Fallon Remembers When Rock 'n' Roll Was Dangerous

While a host of hard-rock groups still try to emulate the monolithic sounds of Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, Maryland-based rock juggernaut Clutch stands as a rare band that captures the relentless swing and ferocious groove that elevated those two iconic acts to greatness. For more than 20 years, ... More >>

Live 105's BFD Lineup: Thirty Seconds to Mars, Passion Pit, Silversun Pickups, DJ Shadow, and More

Live 105 this morning released the lineup for its annual BFD spring mini-festival, which will head to Shoreline Amphitheatre for the 19th year on Sunday, May 19. Headlining the day are Thirty Seconds to Mars, Passion Pit, Silversun Pickups, and Jimmy Eat World. Other notable performers include DJ Sh ... More >>

Environmentalists Campaign Crissy Field, Yosemite to Ban Bottled-Water

Bottled-water might not be as sexy as, say, public nudity in San Francisco, which actually isn't sexy, but environmentalists have launched an equally passionate campaign to ban bottled-water across national parks. Their next stop: San Francisco, where city officials have been barred from bottled- ... More >>

Stiff Life

Dawn Richard Finds New Life Outside of Diddy's Pop Machine

Dawn Richard's Goldenheart album is the sound of freedom, of a singer-songwriter unfettered by the binds of the pop music machine. Released in January, Goldenheart quickly topped the iTunes R&B chart and opened up a wide new fan base for the New Orleans-born singer best known for being one-fifth of ... More >>

Greensky Bluegrass and Sam Bush Jam Out at the Fillmore, 3/15/13

Greensky Bluegrass with Sam Bush Friday, March 15, 2013 The Fillmore Better than: Knocking around a hacky sack in Golden Gate Park. Greensky Bluegrass is one of the nation's leading newgrass bands. What's that mean? Essentially, they bring world-class musicianship to old-school hippie-rock jams. T ... More >>

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SF Symphony Goes on Strike

If you had tickets to the local symphony tomorrow night, time to make other plans. Some 100 musicians of the Grammy-winning SF Symphony walked off the stage today (so to speak) to protest their prolonged and unsuccessful wage negotiations with symphony management. David Gaudry, the chair of the mu ... More >>

Childhood Hero

Antwon's Twisted Vision: Sex Rap, Punk Vibes, and Kid Rock

"Oz the Great and Powerful": The Trickster Learns Real Magic

Drink 2013: Nightlife Listings

A Bleacher Report Founder's Inane Apologia

Pro tip: Whenever someone is talking about "the haters," that person has almost certainly done something worth hating. The usage is also a hint that the utterer might be a trailer person. So when I saw the headline on Bryan Goldberg's piece, "How I respond to the haters," published (appropriately ... More >>

Intermission: Noise Pop Turns Down the Volume

Unpredictably Personal

Let's Take a Moment To Celebrate Oscar-Nominated Animated Short "Fresh Guacamole"

By now you've probably seen the brilliant, stop-motion short film "Fresh Guacamole" by director PES. It was up for an Academy Award last night in the best animated short film category, and though it didn't win, we still haven't gotten tired of watching everyday objects transformed into deceptively d ... More >>

Yo Gotti and French Montana Brag About Money and Bore Us to Tears

Remember when mainstream hip-hop had something to say? Back in the day, Public Enemy were an educational force to be reckoned with. NWA, who had their misogynistic moments, were in their own way teaching kids about life on the street. A few years later, all that angry stuff was replaced with laid-ba ... More >>

Kronos Quartet's David Harrington On Celebrating S.F. Composers at YBCA

For the last four decades, San Francisco's Kronos Quartet has been confounding the expectations of the classical music world by redefining the role of the traditional string quartet. Group leader/violinist David Harrington and his compadres -- John Sherba, violins; Hank Dutt, viola; and Jeffrey Zeig ... More >>

The Rights Stuff

Cam'ron: Show Preview

Green Day Needs to Stop Releasing So Many Things at the Same Time

Hold onto your skinny jeans, everybody, because Green Day has not one, but two movies showing at this year's SXSW film festival in Austin next month. One is titled Broadway Idiot (a documentary about Billie Joe Armstrong's work on the American Idiot musical) and the other is called ¡Cuatro! (a docu ... More >>

The 2013 Grammy Awards: Few Surprises Despite Lots of Fun.

The Grammy Awards are dull and insipid every year, but at least for the last two years the Recording Academy managed a few surprises: In 2011, Arcade Fire won Album of the Year, providing a climactic reality-check for thousands of indie partisans; in 2012, the awards attempted to both grapple with t ... More >>

Pallbearer on the Appeal of Doom Metal and Being Unafraid of Classic Rock

When Little Rock's Pallbearer released its debut full-length, Sorrow and Extinction, last February, the band had little idea how special this particular slab of doom metal would become. But listeners and critics showed the group otherwise: they latched onto the album, anchored by Brett Campbell's ex ... More >>

DJ Haylow on the Influence of J. Dilla and the Splintering of "Underground" Hip-Hop

For the past 15 years, Oakland's DJ Haylow has maintained a philosophy of "being a messenger to share music with others who love music." His involvement in ventures such as the groundbreaking Bay Area hip-hop TV show Distortion 2 Static and the Roy Ayers Project demonstrate his never-ending desire t ... More >>

"Movie 43": Dumb, Dumber, Dumbest

All That Jazz