Beck (Musician)

Treasure Island 2013 Lineup Announced: Animal Collective, Beck, Major Lazer, Atoms For Peace

Hey, it's now summer proper, so let's talk about the fall. Treasure Island Music Festival just announced its lineup for Oct. 19 and 20, 2013. Headliners for the boutique festival in the middle of the Bay include Beck, Animal Collective, Atoms for Peace, and Major Lazer. Check out the full lineup:

Os Mutantes: Show Preview

The Top Five Shows in San Francisco This Week

5. The Faint @ Regency Ballroom, Saturday, Nov. 17 The first time you heard The Faint's album Danse Macabre, you probably were struck by how distinctive it was. This album was dance music for people who only listened to indie music -- what a brilliant concept! Not to make you aging hipsters feel old ... More >>

Animal Collective's Centipede Hz: A First Listen

I'm not an Animal Collective fan. I like Strawberry Jam a lot, and I cherish a few individual songs elsewhere, particularly "Summertime Clothes" (not least because it sounds just like the theme from Snoopy Come Home, which I loved as a kid). But their rhythms are so clumpy, melodies so soupy, and "i ... More >>

Outside Lands 2012 Lineup: Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Stevie Wonder, Metallica, Skrillex, Jack White, Foo Fighters, and More

Outside Lands just released the lineup for 2012, its fifth year -- and it's a big one. Headliners include Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Stevie Wonder, Metallica, Skrillex, Jack White, Foo Fighters, Justice, Beck, Sigur Ros, and more. The festival takes place in Golden Gate Park Friday through Sunday, ... More >>

Sound and Vision: The year Outside Lands stumbled

Show Preview: Robyn

"October Country": Days of the living dead

Concert preview: Atoms for Peace

What To Do? Monday's Pick: MGMT

 MGMT @ the Fillmore MGMT's Ben Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden willed themselves to fame with "Time to Pretend," the biggest movie-trailer indie crossover hit since "Paper Planes." Now they want us to know that they can play with that popularity. The chewy new Congratulations isn't at all ... More >>

Concert preview: MGMT

Track of the Day: Broken Bells (Danger Mouse and James Mercer)

Mike MantinJames Mercer​What happens when you get a little Danger Mouse (Gnarls Barkley) in your James Mercer (The Shins)? Going by the sound of the first track to be released from this partnership, "The High Road," it sounds a little something like Beck, another indie/alt rock artist Danger Mouse ... More >>

Holiday in Cambodia

Track of the Day: Yo La Tengo

Steve Gullick​Yo La Tengo is one of those bands that fell into a deep slump for a number of years. After sparking the indie rock imagination early on, they released a number of predictable, zzzz-inducing records that made few waves and broke little new ground. I say all this as a set up to their n ... More >>

Délicieuse Dissard

"Cocaine" Dealer

Outside Lands, News & Booze, Rock Make Street Fest: Your Monday Morning Hangover

My Morning Jacket

Evil Urges (ATO)

Money With Price of Admission to Alameda County Fair

Forro in the Dark

Bonfires of Sao Joao (Nublu Records)

Don't Ask Why?

Yoni Wolf's Elephant Eyelash announces a new direction for the hip hop innovator

What's in store for indie rock and prime time in a post-O.C. universe

Worldly beats abound in S.F. this week: Halou, Gilles Peterson, One Block Radius, and the Cocteau Twins' Robin Guthrie

Hear This

Tom Russell pays homage to "real goddamn American character"; Dengue Fever takes you to Cambodia and back

Getting to Know Him

Indie rock's patron saint Gary Wilson emerges from the underground after a 25 year absence

Hear This

Haircuts, hipster cred, psychosis: Ima Robot's got more to offer than "Black Jettas."

Adam Green

Friends of Mine

Hear This

Smokey & Miho's delightful re-creation of Brazilian bossa nova pop

Boom Bip

Seed to Sum (Lex)

The Monster Mash-up

2 Many DJ's is never enough

Fog

Fog (Ninja Tune)

Yuka Honda

Memories Are My Only Witness (Tzadik)

Longitudes and latitudes

Asian directions in sound; heavenly lawlessness.

Notes From the Underground

The Cave-ins' indie rock debut sounds mighty familiar -- but in a good way

Mushroom

Foxy Music (InnerSPACE)

House Of Tudor

Damned; Money Mark Nishita; Cousteau; Nigel Peppercock

House Of Tudor

eX-Girl; Blues Fuse; Grrlyshow

House Of Tudor

Ledenhed, Big Lou's Polka Casserole, "Revealing Bodies," Wisecräcker,

House Of Tudor

"Man's Ruin Showcase," Beachwood Sparks, Vue, Cave Catt Sammy, Out of the Gate: Heyday Records Bay Area Sampler

The House of Tudor

Night + Day

Second Time Around

Night + Day

Year of the Elephant

Dead guys, psychedelic pop, and no sober opinions at South by Southwest 1998

'Sticks and Stones

Riff Raff

The House of Tudor

Samples

Smell the Magic

Taking a whiff of the Stinky Puffs

Recordings