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A Handy Guide to the Best and Worst Bands With "Black" in Their Name

Tonight, the Black Keys are playing the Oracle Arena in Oakland. Did you know they were that big now? We kind of thought they'd be a Fox Theater band forever. Especially since there are so many damn bands with "Black" in their names. Speaking of which, we want to honor Black Keys' arena-playing prow ... More >>

Top 10 San Francisco Museum Free Days

Bored, broke, and nothing to do? Think again. Most museums in San Francisco offer regular free days. (Some are free all the time.) Here's your official guide to the best and cheapest exhibitions coming up this month and next.

Live Review: They Might Be Giants Improve Flood By Playing It Backwards

Matt SmithThey Might Be Giants at the Fillmore​They Might Be GiantsJonathan CoultonNov. 13, 2011The Fillmore"We know you had your choice of ossified alternative rock bands, so thank you for flying with us!" hollered John Flansburgh, the gregarious, guitar-playing half of Brooklyn's They Might ... More >>

Pentagram's Bobby Liebling on His New Music, Living Sober, and Playing with Odd Future

Pentagram: the classic lineup.​ Inspired by iconic pioneers Black Sabbath, Blue Cheer, and the Stooges, as well as unsung hard-rock heroes like Sir Lord Baltimore, Dust, and Bang, Virginia-based band Pentagram forged a dark, foreboding sound in the early 1970s that should have made founding le ... More >>

Sushirrito and Tataki South Remake Japanese Cuisine for American Appetites

Pentagram: the classic lineup.​ Inspired by iconic pioneers Black Sabbath, Blue Cheer, and the Stooges, as well as unsung hard-rock heroes like Sir Lord Baltimore, Dust, and Bang, Virginia-based band Pentagram forged a dark, foreboding sound in the early 1970s that should have made founding le ... More >>

Soul-Funk Outfit The Budos Band Wants To Harsh Your Mellows, Hippies

Lotsa people, lotsa attitude.​You've got to love New Yorkers for their blatant honesty. Speaking to Jared Tankel, baritone saxophone player in 10-piece Staten Island global-funk group The Budos Band, he makes it clear to aspiring rappers that his instrumental band is not interested in collaboratin ... More >>

Om, Lichens, Barn Owl Share Trancey Stories in the Dark of the Independent

Om​ OmLichensBarn OwlDecember 16, 2010@ The IndependentBetter than: Any other situation involving lichens, barn owls, and sacred syllables.It was dark at the Independent last night. The performers sent forth their communal hypnoses in low light, the audience swayed along in relative blackness, and ... More >>

Saturday Night: The Flaming Lips Play Laser Tag at the Fox Theater

Christopher VictorioWayne Coyne, bubble boy. (Due an unfortunate mix-up, these pictures are from Friday's Flaming Lips show, not Saturday's.)​The Flaming Lips October 2, 2010@ The Fox Theater, Oakland Better than: Half a Dr. Atomix Bliss Bomb Depth-Charge Chocolate Brownie About the ... More >>

Harldly Strictly Bluegrass, AIDS Wolf, World Veg Fest, Castro Street Fair and More

Autumn De WildeJenny and Johnny are among 80 acts at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2010​Hardly Strictly is here! But before you blow your figurative load over the biggest free concert of the year, keep in mind that there are plenty of other fun and cheap events in the city this weekend. Here's our lis ... More >>

Sleep plays stoner metal for an angsty generation

Autumn De WildeJenny and Johnny are among 80 acts at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2010​Hardly Strictly is here! But before you blow your figurative load over the biggest free concert of the year, keep in mind that there are plenty of other fun and cheap events in the city this weekend. Here's our lis ... More >>

Scott “Wino” Weinrich rides metal’s sludgy resurgence

Autumn De WildeJenny and Johnny are among 80 acts at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2010​Hardly Strictly is here! But before you blow your figurative load over the biggest free concert of the year, keep in mind that there are plenty of other fun and cheap events in the city this weekend. Here's our lis ... More >>

10 Things to Do This Weekend For Under $10

André Koehne​This weekend marks the kickoff for the fall holidays--our favorite mad dash of too many parties and too much eating and all that dressing up and over-extending ourselves. For Halloween weekend there's no shortage of budget options to keep you busy. To wit: Muni Diaries Live @ Make-Ou ... More >>

Last Night: Weezer's 'Secret Show' at the Regency

Joseph Schell ​WeezerWednesday, Oct. 21, 2009The RegencyBetter than: Seeing an arena rock band in an arena.Just to be clear, there was a lot of screaming going on at the Regency last night for Weezer's free "secret" show. Fans screamed when the line they were standing in outside the venue--a line ... More >>

Kid Koala reimagines heavy rock with the Slew

Joseph Schell ​WeezerWednesday, Oct. 21, 2009The RegencyBetter than: Seeing an arena rock band in an arena.Just to be clear, there was a lot of screaming going on at the Regency last night for Weezer's free "secret" show. Fans screamed when the line they were standing in outside the venue--a line ... More >>

Will the Real Ronnie James Dio Please Stand Up and Shout?

Devilish: Heaven & Hell​With the possible exception of Judas Priest's Rob Halford, Ronnie James Dio is probably the greatest heavy metal singer of all time. Dio's a bit of an anomaly to metal's usual Satanic shtick--he's an Italian-American Roman Catholic--though that hasn't stopped him from r ... More >>

Sunn O))) slowly inverts expectations

Devilish: Heaven & Hell​With the possible exception of Judas Priest's Rob Halford, Ronnie James Dio is probably the greatest heavy metal singer of all time. Dio's a bit of an anomaly to metal's usual Satanic shtick--he's an Italian-American Roman Catholic--though that hasn't stopped him from r ... More >>

Last Night: Sleepy Sun at Great American Music Hall

Sleepy SunFriday, June 19, 2009Great American Music HallBetter than: Black Mountain Brightblack Morning Light Black SabbathThe members of Sleepy Sun had barely taken the stage last night, and the dudes behind me were already stoked. "Oh my God," one of them started repeating to his friend. "Oh m ... More >>

Mastodon exposes its inner prog

Sleepy SunFriday, June 19, 2009Great American Music HallBetter than: Black Mountain Brightblack Morning Light Black SabbathThe members of Sleepy Sun had barely taken the stage last night, and the dudes behind me were already stoked. "Oh my God," one of them started repeating to his friend. "Oh m ... More >>

Cypress Hill Announce 4:20 show on 4/20

EKAphotographyStoned Raider: B-Real It kind of says something about San Francisco's place in the pot-smoking pantheon of history that Stoner-hop icons Cypress Hill are playing not one but two shows on April 20th in San Francisco. Sure, B-Real, Sen Dog, and DJ Muggs could have probably been in Amste ... More >>

Judas Priest plods through history

EKAphotographyStoned Raider: B-Real It kind of says something about San Francisco's place in the pot-smoking pantheon of history that Stoner-hop icons Cypress Hill are playing not one but two shows on April 20th in San Francisco. Sure, B-Real, Sen Dog, and DJ Muggs could have probably been in Amste ... More >>

A heavy metal snob separates the shredders from the posers

EKAphotographyStoned Raider: B-Real It kind of says something about San Francisco's place in the pot-smoking pantheon of history that Stoner-hop icons Cypress Hill are playing not one but two shows on April 20th in San Francisco. Sure, B-Real, Sen Dog, and DJ Muggs could have probably been in Amste ... More >>

Hear This

Daniel Johnston brings DIY pop bliss to an imperfect world

Sixties Flashback

Sounds of the Summer of Love echo through today

Winning the Drone Wars

Boris rises above the din

Voyage to Infinity

Om channels the sounds of the universe

Indie Dim Sum

The Mission Creek Music & Arts Festival offers tasty treats from the underground

The Flaming Lips

At War With the Mystics

Altamont

The Monkee's Uncle

The Atomic Bitchwax

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Time for Sharing

Hardcore metal and the shows that make it great

Bang Thy Head Carefully

A survival guide for the summer's more vigorous music festivals

Dinosaur Jr.

Dinosaur Jr. |You're Living All Over Me |Bug

Song Sung Blue

Making music has allowed Randy Cordeiro to quit his job, travel the world, and buy a nice car. If only it were his music that Randy Cordeiro was making.

SF Weekly Music Awards 2003

Americana DJ/Selector/Turntablist Electronic/Electro Hard Rock/

Metal Hip Hop/Rap Jazz Latin/

International Lifestyle Music New Genre/Beyond Pop Punk Rock/Indie Rock Soul/Funk/ R&B

If music be the brandy of the damned, then we're drunk off our asses

Everybody Get Footloose

Dancers run amok in S.F.

Reps Etc.

Dancers run amok in S.F.

Hammer of the Gods

With a handful of artists, "classic rock" is not

a pejorative

House of Tudor

Auditory cataclysms, TV theme-song hell, and a Grimm opera

Toy Boy

Attaboy of the Yumfactory is one seriously off-center toy designer

House of Tudor

Saucy sexagenarians, kooky King Kong, global grooves, and apocryphal atheism

Punk in the Sun

A three-day festival showcases 25 years of punk rock

Hear This

Khan pits outsider electronica against trash 'n' roll

Listen to the Movie

Almost Famous rings in your ears -- and heart -- long after it's over

Night+Day

Almost Famous rings in your ears -- and heart -- long after it's over

Grope for Merit

How the Melvins have perverted the indie process with Honky

Quiet, Please -- We're Rocking

The American Analog Set, and how quiet may be the last place for rock to go

Hear This

The American Analog Set, and how quiet may be the last place for rock to go

Slap Shots

The American Analog Set, and how quiet may be the last place for rock to go

Freedom Rock

San Francisco's Mensclub leads the sexual devolution

Recordings

San Francisco's Mensclub leads the sexual devolution