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Dear Parents, Please Do Not Turn Your Children Into the Shaggs

The Shaggs in 1968.​The opening torrent of notes in Ornette Coleman's "Kaleidoscope" reminds me of the ubiquitous television closet gag. You know, when some unsuspecting soul opens a closet door and is buried under an avalanche of junk (executed rather brilliantly in this episode of Elmo's World). ... More >>

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The Shaggs in 1968.​The opening torrent of notes in Ornette Coleman's "Kaleidoscope" reminds me of the ubiquitous television closet gag. You know, when some unsuspecting soul opens a closet door and is buried under an avalanche of junk (executed rather brilliantly in this episode of Elmo's World). ... More >>

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The Shaggs in 1968.​The opening torrent of notes in Ornette Coleman's "Kaleidoscope" reminds me of the ubiquitous television closet gag. You know, when some unsuspecting soul opens a closet door and is buried under an avalanche of junk (executed rather brilliantly in this episode of Elmo's World). ... More >>

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The Shaggs in 1968.​The opening torrent of notes in Ornette Coleman's "Kaleidoscope" reminds me of the ubiquitous television closet gag. You know, when some unsuspecting soul opens a closet door and is buried under an avalanche of junk (executed rather brilliantly in this episode of Elmo's World). ... More >>

Rally to Restore Sanity/March To Keep Fear Alive In San Francisco

​The good people at Mission Local have found something for you to do on Oct. 30. Those too busy or broke to head to the nation's capital for the Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert Rally to Restore Sanity/March to Keep Fear Alive can head to a local version scheduled for Civic Center Plaza. And you can al ... More >>

The Sword: Show Preview

​The good people at Mission Local have found something for you to do on Oct. 30. Those too busy or broke to head to the nation's capital for the Jon Stewart/Stephen Colbert Rally to Restore Sanity/March to Keep Fear Alive can head to a local version scheduled for Civic Center Plaza. And you can al ... More >>

Woven Bones Discuss the Infection of Surf Rock and Their Awesome Band Name

​Countless rock bands on countless records over, like, six decades now have distilled seemingly every sound out of the same ol' guitar/bass/drums/vocals format. So it wouldn't be the hardest thing in the world to claim that rock is dead. But some bands, like Austin's Woven Bones, manage to arrange ... More >>

Behind the Beat with Relentless

Relentless​Relentless is a name I've seen around the local San Francisco electronic music scene for a long time, but I never took the time to get to know the duo's music or backstory. I've come to find out that the tale behind Ian Buzz's and Austin Heap's musical collaboration is as classic as the ... More >>

Free MP3: Woven Bones' Caffeinated Psych-Pop

Austin's Woven Bones​Among the small August shows we're most looking forward to is the August 18 Bottom of the Hill bill that will feature the Splinters, the Sandwitches, and Woven Bones, who, it was announced earlier this week, recently signed to the Hardly Art label. In celebration of Woven Bone ... More >>

What To Do? Thursday's Pick: The Sandwitches

​The Sandwitches @ Rickshaw Stop If the Replacements were ghoulish teenage girls raised on a strict diet of Chuck Berry outtakes, the Sandwitches would be their biggest fans. Moaning and howling out harmonized orders to go "Back to the Sea" or "Mary Me," lead vocalists and guitar players Heidi Al ... More >>

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​The Sandwitches @ Rickshaw Stop If the Replacements were ghoulish teenage girls raised on a strict diet of Chuck Berry outtakes, the Sandwitches would be their biggest fans. Moaning and howling out harmonized orders to go "Back to the Sea" or "Mary Me," lead vocalists and guitar players Heidi Al ... More >>

Video of the Day: Washed Out's Aerobic 'Glo'

Washed Out - Belong (Music Video) from Blake Salzman on Vimeo.Washed Out may be a bedroom producer, but there's nothing sleepy about his live show (especially if he has a full band backing him, as he did for the sauna he created in Austin). The dude otherwise known as Ernest Greene makes disco ... More >>

SXSW 2010 Videos: Surfer Blood, Sparks, & the Emergence of 'Crabcore'

More goodies from Austin's major music marathon. Above, Surfer Blood discusses A&R men who love Sparks and eavesdropping for Twitter fodder. And below, behold the emergence of "crabcore", the genre tag that has "nothing to do with the music." Attack Attack! explains...  Follow us @SFAl ... More >>

SXSWi Photo of the Day: Patrick's Makes Perfect

​ We keep trying to think of some creative reason this sign outside an Austin bar could be intentionally misspelled. In the meantime, we present it to you, because the Internet loves fail. Follow us on Twitter at @alexiat and @sfweekly.

White Denim

​ We keep trying to think of some creative reason this sign outside an Austin bar could be intentionally misspelled. In the meantime, we present it to you, because the Internet loves fail. Follow us on Twitter at @alexiat and @sfweekly.

Stream the New Spoon, Big Media's Favorite Indie Act

​Spoon fans, get ready to hear a lot more about Austin's big little indie band. The group is releasing its seventh album, Transference, next week, and the major news outlets are lining up to offer their support. NY Times ran a profile of the group in Sunday's paper, noting that Spoon started aroun ... More >>

Need to Accessorize Your Next Taco Crawl? Consider the Nacho Wallet

ModClothFill it with pork rinds and antacids.Behold the Nacho Wallet ($7.99), a zip clutch that's the spittin' image of a hard-shell taco stuffed with orange cheese and shredded iceberg. It's available online from vintage-inspired Web retailer ModCloth. Next time you hit the Mission for a comida cra ... More >>

Eating is the Ultimate Contact Sport: The Week in SFoodie

• Call it skittishness before the weekend's roiling Pride festivities, or some freaky premonition (the way your cockapoo gets all quivery pre-earthquake) that Farrah and MJ were about to step the hell off. Whatever the reasons, it was a bare-knuckles week in food, starting with a barrage of sucker ... More >>

New Live Music Club to Open in the Mission

While there still isn't a Mission replacement for local and touring acts on the scale of 12 Galaxies, the neighborhood is gearing up for the opening of a new live music venue this fall. On August 1, CODA Live  is slated to show the public what's become of the old Levende Lounge (1710 Mission St ... More >>

Big in Japan

While there still isn't a Mission replacement for local and touring acts on the scale of 12 Galaxies, the neighborhood is gearing up for the opening of a new live music venue this fall. On August 1, CODA Live  is slated to show the public what's become of the old Levende Lounge (1710 Mission St ... More >>

SXSW Reports From Ground Zero: Friday

Our intrepid reporters in Austin are losing sleep and hearing, but not the faith. Case in point: Lady Sovereign's still got it.Booze and Black Lips (and the mighty King Khan) get Austin tipsy.Indie kids revel in the Passion Pit.

Track of the Day: Black Joe Lewis

The new breed of fiery soul singers isn't exclusively female. For example, give a listen to Austin's Black Joe Lewis, a young man who takes his cues from James Brown and Lightnin' Hopkins to produce some raw, sweaty, rockin' soul music. He doesn't mind swearing up a storm in some organ-driven funk ( ... More >>

A San Franciscan’s guide to SXSW

The new breed of fiery soul singers isn't exclusively female. For example, give a listen to Austin's Black Joe Lewis, a young man who takes his cues from James Brown and Lightnin' Hopkins to produce some raw, sweaty, rockin' soul music. He doesn't mind swearing up a storm in some organ-driven funk ( ... More >>

Butthole Surfers Hit S.F. in Dec.

After the reunited '80s Butthole Surfers lineup (Gibby Haynes, Paul Leary, Jeff Pinkus, King Coffey and Teresa Taylor) played Austin back in September, the group is now targeting San Francisco for two nights of Texas-tweaked psychedelic punk. That same linup will ring out the end of 2008 with a two ... More >>

Riding for Keeps

After the reunited '80s Butthole Surfers lineup (Gibby Haynes, Paul Leary, Jeff Pinkus, King Coffey and Teresa Taylor) played Austin back in September, the group is now targeting San Francisco for two nights of Texas-tweaked psychedelic punk. That same linup will ring out the end of 2008 with a two ... More >>

The Heavenly States to open for Spoon at the Fillmore

After the reunited '80s Butthole Surfers lineup (Gibby Haynes, Paul Leary, Jeff Pinkus, King Coffey and Teresa Taylor) played Austin back in September, the group is now targeting San Francisco for two nights of Texas-tweaked psychedelic punk. That same linup will ring out the end of 2008 with a two ... More >>

The Sword

Gods of the Earth (Kemado)

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

Gods of the Earth (Kemado)

SXSW: The Big Finale

Gods of the Earth (Kemado)

Day 3: Dizzee, sick, and talking shit on Vampire Weekend

Gods of the Earth (Kemado)

Bon Iver, Yeasayer, Lou Reed no show: Day 1 at SXSW

Gods of the Earth (Kemado)

Austin City Limits

Man vs. nature deep in the heart of Texas in The Unforeseen.

San Francisco by SXSW kicks off next week

Man vs. nature deep in the heart of Texas in The Unforeseen.

Howlin’ Rain’s guitarist seriously injured

Man vs. nature deep in the heart of Texas in The Unforeseen.

Nursing the SXSW hangover

Man vs. nature deep in the heart of Texas in The Unforeseen.

...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead

So Divided (Interscope)

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Sixth in Sixes

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)

Weekly Obsessions

Things we were obsessing about on Jan. 19, 2005

Building a Better Battleship

Graham Reynolds scores films, conducts unconventional symphonies, and rewrites the rules of modern jazz

Spanks for the Memories

Graham Reynolds scores films, conducts unconventional symphonies, and rewrites the rules of modern jazz

Fingerpickin' Good

Bad Livers

It's Awful, Baby, Yeah!

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The House of Tudor

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Hear This

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Stage

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