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

The Top 5 Most Repulsive Moments in Lana Del Rey's Videos

As we all know, Lana Del Rey is a vastly annoying human. We've all got our own personal reasons to be irritated -- maybe it was SNL, maybe it was the dating Axl Rose thing, maybe it's her lack of true credibility or any discernible personality. For us though, it's the damn music videos. Nowhere else ... More >>

Nevermind Badu vs. Coyne: Here Are the Top Five Greatest Band Feuds

Uh-oh. Wayne Coyne from The Flaming Lips unleashed the wrath of Erykah Badu this week by releasing a video for their collaboration, "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face," without getting her approval first. Which was kind of important, since the video features crazy close-ups of all (and we do mean ... More >>

How to Deal With Airport Security When You're a Famous Musician

The problem with being famous and getting special treatment everywhere you go is that you sometimes forget that rules actually apply to you. Yes, music stars, we know you think you're more important than the rest of us plebeians, but make no mistake about it: In the eyes of airport security, you're ... More >>

Live Review 4/24/12: tUnE-yArDs and St. Vincent Explode Minds and Corneas at the Fox

St. Vincent tUnE-yArDs Tuesday, April 24, 2012 The Fox Theater, Oakland Better than: Tim Burton meets Bobby McFerrin meets Slash meets strobe-induced seizure. Whereas Monday night's live score by tUnE-yArDs at the Castro Theatre was somewhat restrained, front woman Merrill Garbus let loose for her ... More >>

Live Review 4/23/2012: tUnE-yArDs Gives New Life to Silent Buster Keaton Shorts at the Castro Theatre

tUnE-yArDs Monday, April 23, 2012 The Castro Theatre Better than: Silent films without a score (and tUnE-yArDs without a guitarist). "You get to look at our behinds," tUnE-yArDs frontwoman Merrill Garbus said as the five musicians onstage turned their backs on the audience to face the screen. Seco ... More >>

Axl Rose Is Batshit: His Top Five Craziest Moments

You may have noticed in the last couple of weeks that Axl Rose is running amok all over the press again (it's been a while, Axl, thanks for coming back to us). Not only have there been reports that -- try not to vomit on your keyboards -- he's dating Lana Del Rey (so, so wrong on so many levels we d ... More >>

Top 5 Reasons Lady Gaga Should Move to the Bay Area

Though she was born in New York City, recent news suggests Lady Gaga might be considering a move to the Bay Area. At the end of last month, Gaga was spotted hitting the rounds of fancy restaurants in Sonoma, and (those infallible) British tabloids now claim the 25-year-old pop star is thinking about ... More >>

Van Halen's A Different Kind of Truth: A First Listen

​Van Halen is about one thing: revenge. Eddie brought in Sammy to get rid of Dave, flirted with Dave again to get rid of Sammy, brought in Gary Cherone to clear out the building, trained his own son to replace his most loyal member, and brought Dave back in for now. Don't be surprised if he cans h ... More >>

Robyn Hitchcock Brings the Quietly Penetrating Eye Back to the City Where He Made It

Robyn Hitchcock at Slim's last night. ​ Robyn Hitchcock Dawn Mitschele Nov. 17, 2011 Slim's Better than: New Kids on the Block performing their No. 1 British album, Step By Step in its entirety. Robyn Hitchcock recorded Eye in San Francisco more than 20 years ago, and last night he returned ... More >>

How To Be in Your Boyfriend or Girlfriend's Music Video (Without Looking Like an Idiot)

JiveBritney Spears and boyfriend Jason Trawick in the new "Criminal" video​We've all been there. You're at home, doing the dishes or washing the dog, and in swans your famous partner and demands that you be in their latest music video. Nightmare, eh? We understand that this is a really common prob ... More >>

Jay-Z and Kanye West's Watch the Throne: A First Listen

​ Have we been waiting for this? Who knows -- even big fans of Jay-Z and Yeezy know they never shut up for too long. Big-budget collab albums we know aren't Jay-Z's strong suit (Unfinished Business? Collision Course?). And judging by the awful "H*A*M" (now a bonus cut) and the mesmerizing "Ot ... More >>

Jane's Addiction to Release New Album, World Covers Ears in Anticipation

There's a funny thing that happens to a lot of old rock stars. Maybe it's because they're surrounded by sycophants who never say no. Or because all that fan adoration goes to their heads. Or because too much critical acclaim can irreversibly inflate the ego. Whatever it is, quite frequently they jus ... More >>

The Black Eyed Peas' Super Bowl Halftime Show: Awful Awful or Just Regular Awful?

Well, it was terrible, of course; the question is really whether yesterday's Super Bowl Halftime show was inappropriately awful or expectedly so. To help you sort through it, we've divided up the goings-on based on whether they met or exceeded our minimal expectations for crumminess. Feel free to di ... More >>

SF Weekly Letters

What To Do? Pierced Arrows at Bottom of the Hill

​Pierced Arrows @ Bottom of the Hill "New kids on the block have taken my place/Walking on my grave," Fred Cole screeched in his last band with his wife, Toody, the mildly legendary garage-rockers Dead Moon. He has a right to those lyrics -- he turns 62 in August. In the Portland, Ore., native's ... More >>

Pierced Arrows

Video of the Day: Wake Up Axl Rose

Axl Rose Buddyhead Rapper from twiggysrabies on Vimeo.Too funny. Photos of Axl in all his braids, with a call for GnR's lost soul, whose "Paradise City [went] up your nose," to wake up. Via Buddyhead.

Patterson Hood's flannel anthems

Arthouse movie listings for May 6-12, 2009

Top 10 Albums That We Hope Will Actually Come Out in 2009 (But Probably Won't)

(Dr. Dre might need an intervention in order to release his long-awaited Detox album)With the music industry in a continued state of shambles, even the average consumer is starting to understand that it's a risky venture to release an album and that this holds true for newcomers as well as those who ... More >>

Eight Steps to a Better 2009

Top Ten Metal Albums of 2008

By Phil FreemanIn a year worthy of your rage, metal delivered in spades. What with the economy circling the drain and Sarah Palin coming down from the tundra and then refusing to go back, 2008's been the kind of year that really makes you want to smash your head into walls or punch random strangers ... More >>

Hitsville: The Year in Music, by the Numbers

By Randall Roberts You don't need a half-wit music critic to tell you it's been a remarkable year for America, one historians will be discussing and researching for centuries to come. War, financial collapse, politics, technology: All have been dinner-table topics for many Americans. Racial barrier ... More >>

Guns N' Roses' fine-print insanity

Sebastian Bach

Angel Down (MRV/EMI)

Sonic Boom burrows into the inner E.A.R.

Freaks, noiseniks, and beach bums

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Never Mind the Oxygen Tanks, Here's Guns N' Roses

Five excuses to see Axl Rose's new band

Headbanging for Jesus!

Infiltrator gets booked on a Christian talk show

Bullshitting the Lie Detector

Infiltrator cooks up a criminal past. A PAX TV show absolves him of it. Ain't it a great country?

Plushy

And now we present a boring interview with a big-time rock star: Scott Weiland of Velvet Revolver

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Guns N' Roses

Greatest Hits (Geffen)

Behind the Music Videos

There are some pretty cool videos out there, but you won't see them on MTV

Of Noise and Nuance

Glasgow's Mogwai delivers Happy Songs for Happy People and still manages to be the loudest band on Earth

Appetite for Resurrection

Aussie expat Brody Armstrong channels her miserable past into the glorious punk of the Distillers

House Of Tudor

Les Nubians, Andrea Parker, Stereo Total, House of Horror, and Cloyne Court Haunted Hotel

Boys Will Be Boys

Books

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