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Drink: Beat Happening: A Guide to the S.F. Nightlife Renaissance

The Evolution of A-Trak: From Scratch Nerd To Dance Tastemaker In Five Steps

A-Trak is one of the world's most effective musical tastemakers. These days, the Montreal-born DJ and producer is part of the braintrust behind the Fool's Gold label, which has a proven record of picking up artists like Danny Brown, The Cool Kids, and Kid Sister long before larger labels show intere ... More >>

How the iPod Sucked All the Joy Out of Listening to Music for Me

​In case you missed it, Bjork just became the first artist ever to release an album as a series of apps. Depending on your perspective, you're either breathless with the futuristic, multi-media innovation of it all, or -- if you're like me -- it kind of makes you want to stick your head in a bucke ... More >>

Mungo's Hi-Fi on the Scottish Reggae Scene, Recording with Sugar Minott, and Playing Croatia

SpuddMungo's Hi-Fi​ Tartan and bagpipes. Celtic and Rangers. Reggae and dubstep? Yes, add another thing Scotland can claim for its own, thanks to Glasgow's Mungo's Hi-Fi crew, a three-man sound system and production team that's swiftly put its stamp on bass-driven music. Whether it's playing v ... More >>

Judge Halts Weird Online Movie Service Zediva

​In March, Zediva, a really weird online movie-rental service, told Wired that "it doesn't expect legal trouble over its service," which allows users to watch actual DVDs, played on actual DVD players, via the Internet. A couple of weeks later, the Motion Picture Association of America sued Zediv ... More >>

R.I.P. Microsoft Zune, Redheaded Stepchild of MP3 Players

Zune 2​Word out of the Seattle area is that Microsoft is finally killing its Zune lineup of MP3 players, opting to fold the media player technology into their Windows Phone 7 devices. While most people shrugged the Zune off as an unworthy MP3 player, the truth is it deserved better. None of the de ... More >>

How To Manage Your iPod Without Looking Like an Idiot or a Crazy Person

Note: Nelly Furtado not required to maintain respectability​iPod gigs don't grow on trees, as much as we've tried to plant lesser MP3 devices in the ground (in hopes of a bountiful Apple product harvest). And until somebody makes an infinite-RAM MP3 player, or we're capable of streaming music from ... More >>

Kid Koala Talks Losing Bets, Growing Up on Vinyl, and His Favorite Muppet

Kid Koala​There's not much more endearing than a DJ who loves music and muppets. Hailing from Montreal, Kid Koala is known for his whimsical personality and ability to take listeners on a journey with music fit for psychedelic hip hop dreams, sans the acid. Currently on the Ninja Tune label and pr ... More >>

Dueling Dubs

Kid Koala​There's not much more endearing than a DJ who loves music and muppets. Hailing from Montreal, Kid Koala is known for his whimsical personality and ability to take listeners on a journey with music fit for psychedelic hip hop dreams, sans the acid. Currently on the Ninja Tune label and pr ... More >>

Five Features That Would Make iPod iTunes Better For Music Fans

​Even if we don't know what will actually happen at Apple's big music announcement next week, we know what we want to happen. The iTunes/iPod combination has long been the standard apparatus for music fans, but as much as we love it, there are things we hate about it, too -- and things we wish it ... More >>

iHelp for Autism

For autistic children, the new iPad is an effective, portable device for teaching communication and social skills. It’s also way cool.

In Store w/ Recycled Records, Where Vinyl Killed the CD Star

​In Store spotlights San Francisco's quirkiest, most beloved, weirdest, and/or otherwise-most-interesting record stores. Our city's unmistakable friskiness and cultural capital emanate from those dusty, creaky, hard-to-find, money-losing, insanely huge, hilariously small, and often-crowded (at lea ... More >>

Kid Koala reimagines heavy rock with the Slew

​In Store spotlights San Francisco's quirkiest, most beloved, weirdest, and/or otherwise-most-interesting record stores. Our city's unmistakable friskiness and cultural capital emanate from those dusty, creaky, hard-to-find, money-losing, insanely huge, hilariously small, and often-crowded (at lea ... More >>

5 Products Probably Not Launching at the Apple Keynote Event

New iTablet?​Oh my goodness, oh my goodness! Less than a month until the (possible) Apple Keynote! What will we wear? Who will be speaking? Again, WHAT WILL WE WEAR?Engadget and Mashable reported rumors yesterday of an early September Apple keynote event, causing mass hysteria (sort of) in the tec ... More >>

Hey DJ! Friday Q&A: Nisus

​There are DJs who log a lotta miles, and then there's Nisus. While other vinyl slingers rack up passenger time on airlines, this guy has spent the summer getting between gigs in Germany, France, Spain, and Switzerland by bike. Overall he  traveled, (two wheel-style), across 1,300 miles, and ... More >>

Instead of Your Usual Torment

​There are DJs who log a lotta miles, and then there's Nisus. While other vinyl slingers rack up passenger time on airlines, this guy has spent the summer getting between gigs in Germany, France, Spain, and Switzerland by bike. Overall he  traveled, (two wheel-style), across 1,300 miles, and ... More >>

Cell phones: the future of music broadcasting

​There are DJs who log a lotta miles, and then there's Nisus. While other vinyl slingers rack up passenger time on airlines, this guy has spent the summer getting between gigs in Germany, France, Spain, and Switzerland by bike. Overall he  traveled, (two wheel-style), across 1,300 miles, and ... More >>

Two Gallants, Q-Bert and Laughing Squid's Unholiday Party: Your Monday Morning Hangover

Weekend recap by Janine KahnWe're shaking ourselves out of holiday lethargy here on All Shook Down, and we'll be alive-alert-awake-enthusiastic (OK, maybe "sober" is a more accurate term) through Wednesday afternoon. We've a lot planned for New Year's Eve, but before we get ahead of ourselves, here' ... More >>

Friday Night: DJ Q-Bert at the Independent

DJ Q-Bert The Independent December 26, 2008 Review and Photos by Eric K. Arnold Better than: Leftovers, sweaters from Grandma, reindeer roadkill 'Twas the night after Christmas, and all through the house, no one was unstirred, not even a mouse. The Independent's line up of Q-Bert, Mochipet, and J ... More >>

Turning the Tables

DJ Q-Bert The Independent December 26, 2008 Review and Photos by Eric K. Arnold Better than: Leftovers, sweaters from Grandma, reindeer roadkill 'Twas the night after Christmas, and all through the house, no one was unstirred, not even a mouse. The Independent's line up of Q-Bert, Mochipet, and J ... More >>

iPods Now More Explody

DJ Q-Bert The Independent December 26, 2008 Review and Photos by Eric K. Arnold Better than: Leftovers, sweaters from Grandma, reindeer roadkill 'Twas the night after Christmas, and all through the house, no one was unstirred, not even a mouse. The Independent's line up of Q-Bert, Mochipet, and J ... More >>

Freight and Salvage Begins Year-Long Multi-Million Upgrade

DJ Q-Bert The Independent December 26, 2008 Review and Photos by Eric K. Arnold Better than: Leftovers, sweaters from Grandma, reindeer roadkill 'Twas the night after Christmas, and all through the house, no one was unstirred, not even a mouse. The Independent's line up of Q-Bert, Mochipet, and J ... More >>

Don't Let Your Gadget Relationships Go Stale

DJ Q-Bert The Independent December 26, 2008 Review and Photos by Eric K. Arnold Better than: Leftovers, sweaters from Grandma, reindeer roadkill 'Twas the night after Christmas, and all through the house, no one was unstirred, not even a mouse. The Independent's line up of Q-Bert, Mochipet, and J ... More >>

Loud Car Stereos Unite and Annoy the Fuck Out of People

DJ Q-Bert The Independent December 26, 2008 Review and Photos by Eric K. Arnold Better than: Leftovers, sweaters from Grandma, reindeer roadkill 'Twas the night after Christmas, and all through the house, no one was unstirred, not even a mouse. The Independent's line up of Q-Bert, Mochipet, and J ... More >>

Bay Area's Apple #1 Among Nubile Sorority Girls, Slain Quarterbacks

DJ Q-Bert The Independent December 26, 2008 Review and Photos by Eric K. Arnold Better than: Leftovers, sweaters from Grandma, reindeer roadkill 'Twas the night after Christmas, and all through the house, no one was unstirred, not even a mouse. The Independent's line up of Q-Bert, Mochipet, and J ... More >>

Feist Back in San Francisco Early November: Indie-boner --- risING

DJ Q-Bert The Independent December 26, 2008 Review and Photos by Eric K. Arnold Better than: Leftovers, sweaters from Grandma, reindeer roadkill 'Twas the night after Christmas, and all through the house, no one was unstirred, not even a mouse. The Independent's line up of Q-Bert, Mochipet, and J ... More >>

Beat Down

This DJ simulator is nothing to rave about.

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, July 6, 2005

Rise of the Pod People

Podcasting: What it is, how to get it, and what it means for a radio dial near you

In the Year 2005

Like killer bees and cheap labor, this year's music and fashion trends are charging up from the South (by Southwest)

Revolutions

Once upon a time, DJ Qbert helped define and deify turntablism. That time is over. So what's next?

iSex

The Macworld Expo was less about gizmos and more about what every nerd really wants -- lots of sex.

Weekly Obsessions

Things we were obsessing about on Dec. 29, 2004

Tech Toy Box

Things we were obsessing about on Dec. 29, 2004

BeatBox

John Digweed and his prodigy spin through town; "Dub Mission" celebrates its eighth chilled out year

Hear This

A bite-sized installment of the large (and no doubt geek-laden) celebration of synth

Lounge Axe

Potrero Hill gives new meaning to the term "DJ battle"

Scratch Attack

How a white punk from Ireland helped jump-start the Bay Area hip hop and turntablist scenes

Ridin' the wheels of steel

Why don't you smile now; A Slim's chance.

Globs and Monsters

After 18 years, Crawling With Tarts is still throwing musical elements at the wall to see what sticks

Rapper's Delight

The history of hip hop, at Yerba Buena Center

The Royal Whee

Live house band Dubtribe Sound System gets older, wiser, and imperial

Skratching That Itch

Skratchcon 2000

Dig the New Breed

Live Human proves that turntablism can learn a thing or two from jazz -- or is it the other way around?

Break Science

What does DJ Marz do as a turntablist? Everything. All the time.

A Cut Above

It took a move from New York for Vinroc to become a world champion DJ

Death Ray From Outer Space

Satellite radio brings 100 stations and digital sound to San Francisco's car stereos. Can local broadcasting survive?

Dog Bites

Satellite radio brings 100 stations and digital sound to San Francisco's car stereos. Can local broadcasting survive?

Hear This

Satellite radio brings 100 stations and digital sound to San Francisco's car stereos. Can local broadcasting survive?

Hear This

Satellite radio brings 100 stations and digital sound to San Francisco's car stereos. Can local broadcasting survive?