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Live Review, 9/21/12: Reptar Makes the Independent Bounce Like a House Party

By KATIE M. PALMER Reptar Young Digerati Icky Blossoms Friday, September 21, 2012 The Independent Better than: Getting your eyes gouged out by stage lights.   Reptar, if you hadn't already guessed, sort of has a thing for nostalgia. Opening the band's website, you'll find your browser screen tran ... More >>

Three Good Reasons to Get to Outside Lands Early This Weekend

Finally! It's here! Outside Lands! And if you don't already have a ticket, you can probably still find a good deal on one somewhere. For those of you lucky monkeys who are going, we'd like to help you to get the most of your weekend by encouraging you to wake up early and get your ass in front of a ... More >>

Live Review, 6/5/12: Sleep Forcefully Exhales at the Fox Theater

By ALEE KARIM Sleep Oxbow Kowloon Walled City June 5th, 2012 The Fox Theatre Better than: The rest. And rest. Thankfully. The San Jose-based metal band Sleep is part of a pre-Internet coterie of bands that gained an astonishing reputation in their absence. For every Soundgarden reuniting to cash ... More >>

SceneTap CEO Explains Why Facial Detection Technology in S.F. Bars Isn't That Creepy

For the most part, San Francisco is a warm and welcoming city -- there's not too many people or things we won't tolerate. Except of course, the feeling that big brother is watching us. Needless to say, San Franciscans were livid when they found out that the Texas-based SceneTap rolled out its cool n ... More >>

Concord, Calif., Named One of Country's 10 Best Music Scenes

The website Livability today compiled a list of the top 10 cities with the best music scenes that aren't New York, L.A., or Nashville. The results were in some ways predictable (Minneapolis, Athens, Ga., and Portland all made it), and in some ways spectacularly weird: Omitted from the list for no ap ... More >>

Get Lit(erary) with Tunabunny's Minima Moralia

​Listen to this while high: Tunabunny's Minima Moralia.​Behind the buzz: Behold the prose accompanying the second album from this Athens, Ga., riot squad: "On last year's debut album, Tunabunny was out to destroy rock music. With Minima Moralia, they intend to redeem it." Oh, as they say, ... More >>

Sugar&Gold Turns Temporary Orphanhood Into Dance Band Gold

There are like all these flies in here​At one point, self-styled bi-coastal dance-party duo Sugar&Gold lived and worked -- and dance, oh how they danced -- in San Francisco. Before that Philipp Alberto Minnig grew up in Germany and Nicolas Dobbratz in Washington D.C., and now they live in Lo ... More >>

Watch the New Endlessly Ironic Still Flyin' Video, 'Victory Walker'

​Yes, this new video from local freaks Still Flyin' is apparently the effusively ironic, tongue-in-cheek ode to "Smooth Criminal," Miami Vice, and the like that it seems. Lead weirdo Sean Rawls says it was filmed late one Sunday night in Athens, Georgia, where no booze is sold on Sundays, hence th ... More >>

Last Night in Photos: Deerhoof, the Donkeys, Southeast Engine at Bottom of the Hill

Gretchen RobinetteDeerhoof​DeerhoofThe DonkeysSoutheast EngineJuly 8, 2010Bottom of the HillLocal art-rock elders Deerhoof blitzed through a sold-out show at Bottom of the Hill last night with San Diego vintage rockers The Donkeys and Athens, Georgia's Southeast Engine. Photographer Gretchen ... More >>

Lost albums that should remain lost

Friday Night: Of Montreal at the Regency Center

Of MontrealThe Regency Center (1290 Sutter St.)November 21, 2008Review by Ashley HarrellPhotos by Rachel Hubbard Of Montreal front man Kevin Barnes and his band of psychedelic indie poppers, who seemingly support an eternal Halloween, overheated San Francisco's Regency Grand Ballroom Friday night ... More >>

Camper Van Beethoven at 25: from warm beer to funny ideas

Dark Meat's Lower Haight parade

The Weekend Hitlist: 4/18-4/20

The Lowbrow Art Sale: Glenn Barr, David Macdowell & Ojimbo

R.E.M.

Accelerate (Warner Brothers)

SXSW highlights: David Banner, Bon Iva, MGMT, Clockcleaner, and Dark Meat

R.E.M. and Modest Mouse Perform in Berkeley 5/31

Exclusive B-52's MP3 Free Download

Dead Meadow Announce Tour Dates and New Album

Juveniles, Drive-Bys, and Melting U.F.O.s

Antojitos Antics

Calvin Trillin and assorted other out-of-town tipsters inspire a round of tacos