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The Great Gatsby's Soundtrack Doesn't Fit Its Message

Boobylicious: Five Insanely Breast-Centric Stage Outfits

Boobs. Everyone loves 'em -- even gay men. So can we really blame pop starlets for coming up with outfits that push the appearance of their breasticles to cartoonish levels? The answer is: Yes. Yes we can. Not only are there small children watching, but presenting breasts as cakes and/or flamethrowe ... More >>

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

Beyonce's "Bow Down": How Did She Go So Wrong?

You may have noticed, if you saw our Superbowl Halftime coverage, that we're quite enamored with Beyonce. We said things like: "If there is a more compelling pop performer than Beyonce on Earth right now, we have yet to find them," and: "Bey is living, kicking proof that wearing revealing, leathery ... More >>

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

Solange Kicks Off Her U.S. Tour at the Independent, 2/5/2013

SolangeKelelaTuesday, Feb. 4, 2013The IndependentBetter than: Sitting at home listening to early Janet Jackson records. All the cool kids came out of hiding last night to hear Solange play the hits off her new EP, Truth. The Independent's usual passive crowd was replaced with a bustling sold-ou ... More >>

Beyonce's Half-Time Show Was So Rad That the Power Went Out Afterward

How awesome was Beyonce's half time show at the 2013 Superbowl last night? So insanely awesome taht she caused a power outage in half the stadium immediately afterwards. Okay, okay, so we don't know if it was her fault, per se, but this thing was definitely explosive. When the lights went out in the ... More >>

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

Lance Armstrong Booted from Wax Museum Front Window

A rapid conversion from America's foremost cyclist to America's foremost drugged-up fraud hasn't yet lost Lance Armstrong his entire ball of wax. But wax Lance Armstrong is feeling the effects. The torso of the yellow jersey-clad Armstrong figure was spotted this week in the prone position at San Fr ... More >>

The Real Inauguration Musical Travesty Wasn't Beyonce's Lip-Syncing

Who watched the inauguration a few days ago? That shit was pretty awesome. (We especially liked the part where Obama casually dropped a Stonewall reference into his speech, like he wasn't doing something of enormous significance. Nice one, dude). Of course, most of the post-inauguration blog chatter ... More >>

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

2012 MTV Video Music Awards: The 10 Lost Categories

The MTV Video Music Awards is an annual occasion for thrill and intrigue. An arena for a slutty young Madonna to writhe around the ground in a wedding dress, or even for a slutty old Madonna to French kiss a couple of aging pop tartlets. A place for pyro and pasties and grand interruptions -- I'mma ... More >>

The Bob Marley Parasite and Other Weird Crap Named After Musicians

If you've walked along upper Haight recently, you'll have no doubt noticed the series of tributes to much loved musical heroes who are no longer with us, lovingly arranged around single trees. Amy Winehouse recently joined Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin on that run. But tributes to musicians -- both ... More >>

Five Awful Attempts at Making Music by Rich, Beautiful, Famous People

As we all know, it's easy to take pot-shots at stupid, beautiful people. Incredibly entertaining, yes, but easy nonetheless. Honestly, we would stop doing it altogether, if only these clueless floozies would stick to having ridiculous incompetence levels in only their general lives, rather than step ... More >>

Welcome Blue Ivy Carter! The Top Six Weird Baby Names We Love

This week, the world oohed and aahed as news of the birth of Beyonce and Jay-Z's baby girl emerged (we bet Ms. Knowles managed to look radiant even during that heinous labor process). Then stories started emerging that the couple were calling their new offspring Blue Ivy. Hmpf. Blue and Ivy on their ... More >>

The Top Five Pop Songs of 2011

2011 was the year Beyonce got knocked up, Lady Gaga arrived at the Grammys in an egg, and a soul singer from London took over the world. Tomorrow we'll be bitching about the worst pop moments of the year, but today, here are our favorite pop hits from 2011. 5. "Till The World Ends," Britney Spears ... More >>

Vegan Hanukkah, Year End Animal News, and Beyonce is Partially Vegan!?

​ • Beyonce is preggers and so she's eating a vegan diet. Or is it, a partially vegan diet? Which is what EVERYONE ON EARTH EATS. It's like, did you eat anything that wasn't a steak today? Unless it was an egg milkshake, you're partially vegan! Welcome to the club, asshole! • Need some last m ... More >>

Album of the Year: Handicapping the Race for the Best Record of 2011

It's almost November -- the month when music scribes pull their ears out of whatever Sonic Youth/Public Enemy/Kate Bush playlist they normally exist to and begin cramming for that all-important professional exercise: The annual Best Of list. Picking the 10 or so best new albums of the year and placi ... 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 >>

Bump & Grind: The Top Five Pregnant Performances

​What the hell is up with the tabloids and pregnancies? Usually when a lady celebrity has so much as a big lunch, or gets photographed from a bad angle, they announce that an offspring is probably imminent. And here's Beyonce Knowles, being totally upfront about her and Jay-Z's baby-to-be, rubbing ... 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 >>

A Father's Day Wishlist: Kiss Hilarity, Glen Hansard Busking, My Bloody Valentine Humming, and More

Cake Picture Gallery​ Lou Reed set the bar rather low with his idea of the perfect day: sips of sangria in the park, a trip to the zoo, a movie. "It Was a Good Day" also kept it simple, with Ice Cube's ideal 24 hours consisting of mom's home cooking, playing craps, and a Lakers victory. Nigeri ... More >>

Reba McEntire & Ronnie Dunn: Today's Country Is Yesterday's Coldplay

On occasion, All Shook Down gives a listen to the music that is to real America what brine is to a cucumber. This is one of those occasions. Reba McEntire, "If I Were a Boy" Since Americans only got around to segregating their mongrel pop music into discrete categories like "Race" and "H ... More >>

Thom Yorke Dancing to 'Single Ladies' -- Funniest (Radiohead) Video Ever

By now you've seen the clip for "Lotus Flower," off Radiohead's just-released King of Limbs. (A first take here.) And you've probably been unsettled by the apparent disparity between what a madly writhing Yorke seems to hear in his head -- when he dances through the entire video -- and what you hea ... More >>

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BART Hits Record Numbers, Thanks to Giants World Series Parade

Joe EskenaziPublic transit-riders, unite! ​As SF Weekly wrote during the throes of the World Series, Arlington, Texas, the home of the Rangers, is the largest city in America without public transportation. So if you ever wanted to find yet another contrast between the Bay Area and the Metroplex, h ... More >>

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Kanye West on Twitter: Top 8 Things We Want Kanye's Buying Advice On

Kanye and his crew looking ready to dispense some buying advice.​Dear Kanye,In the approximately thirty-four days, five hours and seventeen minutes since you joined Twitter, you have taught the world great deal -- about yourself, about life, and even sometimes about music. But the rarest wisdom ye ... More >>

We Chat with Actor Idris Elba of 'The Wire' and 'Takers', Who DJs at Vessel Tonight

Tamara PalmerIdris Elba at the Ritz-Carlton San Francisco.​It's not that Idris Elba doesn't appreciate the adulation of hardcore fans of Stringer Bell, the pivotal character he played on the HBO series The Wire. It's just that he's sick of still talking about it, six years after Bell's untime ... More >>

The Crazy Eight: 2009's Most Scandalous Moments in Celebrity Food Gossip

Andrew CrowleyBrit celeb chef Heston Blumenthal's restaurant allegedly poisoned 500 people in 2009.​Murders! Poisonings! Runaway grooms! The year in celebrity food gossip reads like a script for The Young and the Restless. Behold these crazy eight moments: 8. A household name in his native UK, che ... More >>

Last Night: Lady Gaga at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium

T. Palmer​Lady GagaBill Graham Civic AuditoriumDecember 13, 2009Better than: Flipping through an issue of Vogue."This is our first date, San Francisco," purred Lady Gaga, "and I feel like I can suck your dick and still feel like a lady."It actually wasn't the first date in town for the pop star, a ... More >>

What To Do? Wednesday's Pick:

​Madonna's Christmas Celebration @ Finn's Funhouse It wouldn't be Christmas 2009 in the deeply immoral Bay Area without some unholy drag spectacle rolling into town to satirize the Holy Trinity and the birth of Jesus et al. in a high flight of pop cultural and religious juxtapositions. The fourt ... More >>

Local Grammy Winners: Green Day, Metallica, More

​For those who follow the Grammys, we have a couple locals in the running. Nominations were announced today, and the following Bay Area acts are up for little gold statues:Green Day's "21 Guns" got a nod in two categories: "Best Rock Song" and "Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals," ... More >>

Sacrilegious Satire Comes to Town

Just a Few More Hours to Tell Us Why You Heart Tony

mangoandtabasco/FlickrThe man.​Hey, all you procrastinators: Midnight tonight is the deadline to enter SFoodie's No Reservations party contest. Tell us in 60 words or less why you heart Anthony Bourdain, and if you're sufficiently rabid or clever enough to be among the top five entries, you an ... More >>

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Last Night: Mirah at Bimbos 365

Liz HaleyMirahTuesday, April 7, 2009Bimbos 365Review By Melissa BaronBetter Than: I mean, what else could you possible have to do on a cold and drizzly Tuesday night?It's easy to forget that Bimbo's is such a classy venue. You walk through the doors and everything shines in gold and velvet. The bath ... More >>

Last Night: Antony and the Johnsons at Nob Hill Masonic Center

Gretchen RobinetteAntony and the JohnsonsTuesday, Feb. 24, 2009Nob Hill Masonic CenterBetter than: Old Nina Simone records.When it comes to Antony Hagerty live, nothing is as you'd expect it. For example, that such a powerfully feminine voice would flow out of such a large man's body. Or that a voic ... More >>

MP3 of the Day: Beyonce

Get ready to hear a lot more of "At Last" -- the song Etta James, among others, famously covered, and which Beyonce gave a spin more recently in her role as James in the film Cadillac Records.  Beyonce will deliver her version to the world live tomorrow, as she serenades First Couple Barack and ... More >>

History as predicted by Inauguration Day's #1 hits

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 >>

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I Am ... Sasha Fierce  (Columbia/Music World)

The Weekend Hitlist: 4/18-4/20

Renee Sebastian

Mrs. Sebastian (Self-released)

We Want Candy

Beyoncé and Ciara battle it out for your entertainment dollar

Dream Works

... But it's not perfect. Jennifer Hudson nails it as a well-worn tale struggles to transcend the Ray model.

Diva Dumbdown

Brandy, Brandy, Brandy, I Can Let You Go

Afrodisiac

Hear This

The bootylicious crowds alone should make the Ladies First Tour worth your while

Behind the Music Videos

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