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Youth Lagoon: Show Preview

Live Review, 2/23/12: Built to Spill at the Fillmore: Beloved, Virtuosic, and Shy

Christopher VictorioBuilt to Spill at the Fillmore last night​ Built to Spill Sister Crayon Feb. 23, 2012 The Fillmore Better than: Headbanging and singing along with the guitar solos on Perfect From Now On by yourself in a car with shitty speakers. At the intersection of "excruciatingly s ... More >>

Bouncer Steps into the Twilight Zone at the Saloon

Christopher VictorioBuilt to Spill at the Fillmore last night​ Built to Spill Sister Crayon Feb. 23, 2012 The Fillmore Better than: Headbanging and singing along with the guitar solos on Perfect From Now On by yourself in a car with shitty speakers. At the intersection of "excruciatingly s ... More >>

Local Rock-Jazz-Rapper Forrest Day on His Crazy Sound, Passing Out During a Show, and Landing a Record Deal

Forrest Day, with the band's frontman and namesake at far left.​ It was easily one of the most memorable moments of our very first All Shook Down festival last year: Forrest Day, the physically imposing, fast-rapping frontman of his own uncategorizable band, was exhausted and leading an enthus ... More >>

Dear Dr. Dre, Please Stop Trying to Sell Us Things Other Than Detox

Coming soon to your dad's new car.​Is it greed? Does he need the money? Or does Dr. Dre really not know that the world would much rather receive Detox -- the album he's been promising us since 2004 -- than his endorsement of the speakers in luxurious new Chrysler sedans?For those of you new to Dre ... More >>

Andrew Goldfarb, the Slow Poisoner, Discusses Arsenic, Laundromats, and Keeping S.F. Weird

Andrew Goldfarb, aka the Slow Poisoner.​The Slow Poisoner is the one-man band of Andrew Goldfarb, a talented San Franciscan of considerable eccentricity. Describing his music as a "hoe-down on Mars," or a combination of Johnny Cash and David Bowie, Goldfarb has plied his tunes across the country f ... More >>

Bouncer Finds Solace in the Sameness of the Cheesecake Factory

Andrew Goldfarb, aka the Slow Poisoner.​The Slow Poisoner is the one-man band of Andrew Goldfarb, a talented San Franciscan of considerable eccentricity. Describing his music as a "hoe-down on Mars," or a combination of Johnny Cash and David Bowie, Goldfarb has plied his tunes across the country f ... More >>

Bouncer Finds Solace in the Sameness at the Cheesecake Factory

​Our Cheesecake Factory is on Geary, atop the Macy's building. You might never have even noticed it; I hadn't until I saw it behind a rabbi on TV who was lighting a gargantuan menorah in Union Square to counteract the giant Christmas tree. It was almost as if the Cheesecake Factory was sponsoring ... More >>

No Age Talks All Ages Venues, Substitute Teaching, and How To Be a Vegan on Tour

No Age is guitarist Randy Randall (left) and drummer Dean Allen Spunt​One pleasure of interviewing touring bands over the phone is getting to talk to them from random places. When we spoke to No Age's Randy Randall, he was standing outside a Flying J truck stop somewhere between Boise and Salt Lak ... More >>

Nemeth: Show Preview

No Age is guitarist Randy Randall (left) and drummer Dean Allen Spunt​One pleasure of interviewing touring bands over the phone is getting to talk to them from random places. When we spoke to No Age's Randy Randall, he was standing outside a Flying J truck stop somewhere between Boise and Salt Lak ... More >>

All Shook Down fest wowed thousands at North Beach venues

No Age is guitarist Randy Randall (left) and drummer Dean Allen Spunt​One pleasure of interviewing touring bands over the phone is getting to talk to them from random places. When we spoke to No Age's Randy Randall, he was standing outside a Flying J truck stop somewhere between Boise and Salt Lak ... More >>

Built to Spill and Fauxbois at Slim's

Joseph Schell​Built to SpillSlim'sJuly 15, 2010Better than: if Paul McCartney went indie (yup. I went there)When Doug Martsch sings, it's unclear whether he wants to woo the mic or eat the mic. Either way is fine with his fans -- as long as he's singing, and as long as the band keeps playing. At l ... More >>

Built to Spill’s struggles to capture its signature sound

Joseph Schell​Built to SpillSlim'sJuly 15, 2010Better than: if Paul McCartney went indie (yup. I went there)When Doug Martsch sings, it's unclear whether he wants to woo the mic or eat the mic. Either way is fine with his fans -- as long as he's singing, and as long as the band keeps playing. At l ... More >>

Moves to Melt You

Joseph Schell​Built to SpillSlim'sJuly 15, 2010Better than: if Paul McCartney went indie (yup. I went there)When Doug Martsch sings, it's unclear whether he wants to woo the mic or eat the mic. Either way is fine with his fans -- as long as he's singing, and as long as the band keeps playing. At l ... More >>

Hey DJ! Friday Q&A: Kool Karlo & Haightin' Clayton

 ​As you'll learn from today's DJ Q&A, Kool Karlo & Haightin' Clayton are quite fond of skate mags, plastic watering cans, and making Tuesdays into the new Fridays. (But they can also keep Fridays as the new Fridays, if you check Clayton out tonight.)The pair pull San Franciscans out ... More >>

Spying the generation gaffes at MoMo's

 ​As you'll learn from today's DJ Q&A, Kool Karlo & Haightin' Clayton are quite fond of skate mags, plastic watering cans, and making Tuesdays into the new Fridays. (But they can also keep Fridays as the new Fridays, if you check Clayton out tonight.)The pair pull San Franciscans out ... More >>

San Francisco Only Somewhat Vulnerable to Bioterrorism

 ​As you'll learn from today's DJ Q&A, Kool Karlo & Haightin' Clayton are quite fond of skate mags, plastic watering cans, and making Tuesdays into the new Fridays. (But they can also keep Fridays as the new Fridays, if you check Clayton out tonight.)The pair pull San Franciscans out ... More >>

LastNight: Meat Puppets and Built to Spill at the Fillmore

 ​As you'll learn from today's DJ Q&A, Kool Karlo & Haightin' Clayton are quite fond of skate mags, plastic watering cans, and making Tuesdays into the new Fridays. (But they can also keep Fridays as the new Fridays, if you check Clayton out tonight.)The pair pull San Franciscans out ... More >>

Brother Ali's 'Truth Is Here' Tour Reaches SF in March

 ​As you'll learn from today's DJ Q&A, Kool Karlo & Haightin' Clayton are quite fond of skate mags, plastic watering cans, and making Tuesdays into the new Fridays. (But they can also keep Fridays as the new Fridays, if you check Clayton out tonight.)The pair pull San Franciscans out ... More >>

Two Gallants Announce Summer Tour, New Album Release Date

 ​As you'll learn from today's DJ Q&A, Kool Karlo & Haightin' Clayton are quite fond of skate mags, plastic watering cans, and making Tuesdays into the new Fridays. (But they can also keep Fridays as the new Fridays, if you check Clayton out tonight.)The pair pull San Franciscans out ... More >>

On the Rebound

Built to Spill survives some transitional time out

Out With the Old, In With the Older

Update your home environment with new vintage stuff for a cool new year

Making the Rent

A study says San Francisco is the most expensive city in the United States for apartment dwellers. Are you paying too much for that one-bedroom?

From Here to Eternity

Figuring out Built to Spill's place in the world, and maybe mine, too

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, June 29, 2005

Smart Cookie

Heather Gold clearly likes the people who come to see her bake, and they respond in kind

Reps Etc.

Heather Gold clearly likes the people who come to see her bake, and they respond in kind

Reps Etc.

Heather Gold clearly likes the people who come to see her bake, and they respond in kind

A Long, Strange Trip

Matthew Barney's Cremaster cycle concludes with three hours of outrageousness and unfamiliarity

The Old Old Thing

Two new collections from Berkeleyites Malvina Reynolds and Harry Smith argue for folk's historical authenticity. Whatever that is.

Make Room for Dot-Coms

Forget about live-work lofts. The newest fight for San Francisco's soul is over multimedia office space.

Dog Bites

Legoland Solves All Your Problems

The One ... the Only ... Circus Redickuless

Chicken John takes chaos, dysfunction, and the Stupidest Show on Earth from San Francisco to Boise

Samples

Chicken John takes chaos, dysfunction, and the Stupidest Show on Earth from San Francisco to Boise

Night+Day

Chicken John takes chaos, dysfunction, and the Stupidest Show on Earth from San Francisco to Boise

Whirly Birds

The wind-power entrepreneurs at Kenetech have spent millionsin vain tosolve this avian mystery: Why have hundredsof raptors, including golden eagles, died alongside the windmills of Altamont Pass?