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Bon Jovi

  • Blogs

    May 15, 2012

    After 25 Years, Mötley Crüe's Girls, Girls, Girls Still Hasn't Brought About the Apocalypse

    Today, the Antichrist heads up a company that charters private jets. The standard rental features a plush, zebra-striped interior. He also operates a chain of bar-and-grill restaurants that specialize in garish décor and $9.95 caprese salads. In the mid-1980s, it was impossible to escape the apoc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2012

    The Top 15 Most Cocaine-Influenced Albums of All Time, Nos. 5-1

    See also: * The Top 15 Most Cocaine-Influenced Albums of All Time, Nos. 15-11 * The Top 15 Most Cocaine-Influenced Albums of All Time, Nos. 10-6 Here we are, at the end of the blizzard: the final installment of our list of the most coked-out records ever made. Less an endorsement than an assessme ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 21, 2011

    Six Reasons We're Really Glad Jon Bon Jovi Is Not Dead

    ​Earlier this week, you may have seen the online rumor -- clearly started by some evil, ungrateful little trolls -- that Jon Bon Jovi was dead. Before we knew it, the news had spread all over Twitter, and Bon Jovi fans the world over had commenced crying into their puffed up, acid-washed denim jac ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 12, 2011

    Metallica Turns 30 with Ozzy, Danzig, Rob Halford, and a Roomful of Fanatics

    Metallica performing with Glenn Danzig Friday night at the Fillmore.​ Metallica (plus guests) Dec. 9 and 10, 2011 The Fillmore Better than: Turning 30 alone, we're assuming. The birthday party for the biggest metal band in the world came to its finale this weekend with classic songs and surp ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 11, 2011

    Top 10 Break-Up Songs To Help Get Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak Out of Office

    In politics, as in love, there sometimes comes a need for one party in a relationship to say goodbye. Adios. See ya. Get the eff outta here, dude. And in politics, as in love, music can help get that difficult message across. We don't mean to make light of the situation over in Egypt -- lord kn ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 2, 2011

    Just Like Every Cowboy

    In politics, as in love, there sometimes comes a need for one party in a relationship to say goodbye. Adios. See ya. Get the eff outta here, dude. And in politics, as in love, music can help get that difficult message across. We don't mean to make light of the situation over in Egypt -- lord kn ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 10, 2011

    The Top 6 Most Irritating Uses of a Really High Note in a Song

    The moral of this list? Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should do it. Nobody likes a show-off, and nobody enjoys shattered glass and burst eardrums. Here, then, are some proponents of high notes who really should've kept their vocal cords in check.6. Muse, "Micro Cuts"    ... More >>

  • Music

    November 10, 2010

    Bouncer: Hanging with drunk folks on the 38 Geary

    The moral of this list? Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should do it. Nobody likes a show-off, and nobody enjoys shattered glass and burst eardrums. Here, then, are some proponents of high notes who really should've kept their vocal cords in check.6. Muse, "Micro Cuts"    ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2010

    Muni's a Perfect Setting for the Battle of the Drunk Baseball Fans

    ​On the night of the first game of the World Series, I was working in Golden Gate Heights until about 10. When I got off, I waited for the 38 Geary, gingerly taking my seat at the bus stop amid young men with bottles of Mickey's and giddy, postgame expressions on their Springsteen-fan faces. The ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 29, 2009

    Listomania: Top Southern Rap Picks For 2009

    Yeah, it stirred the Yankees to the World Series championship, but was there a more boring album this year than Jay-Z's The Blueprint 3? Perhaps it was a geographic thing; with a few exceptions like Raekwon and Kid Cudi, most of 2009's exciting, innovative rap records came from Southern artists. Sur ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 13, 2009

    Has Outhouse Arsonist Returned? Another S.F. John Goes Up in Flames.

    ​In the most unwelcome comeback since, say, Bon Jovi, the person or persons lighting porta-johns ablaze may have made a return. More than two dozen porta-johns were burned into malodorous puddles of plastic in a crime wave that garnered national -- and even international -- coverage in 2008 and ea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2009

    What Song Should Be the Giants' Late-Inning Theme? Your Input Is Requested.

    ​Yesterday, the Chronicle's Henry Schulman penned a truly entertaining article about how former Journey frontman Steve Perry is peeved because the Dodgers play "Don't Stop Believin'" when the team needs a rally in the bottom of the ninth -- and Perry is a Giants fan. Any article in which Perry utt ... More >>

  • Film

    April 22, 2009

    Revealed: Everything you wanted to know — or didn't — about Canuck headbangers Anvil

    ​Yesterday, the Chronicle's Henry Schulman penned a truly entertaining article about how former Journey frontman Steve Perry is peeved because the Dodgers play "Don't Stop Believin'" when the team needs a rally in the bottom of the ninth -- and Perry is a Giants fan. Any article in which Perry utt ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 22, 2009

    Anvil

    ​Yesterday, the Chronicle's Henry Schulman penned a truly entertaining article about how former Journey frontman Steve Perry is peeved because the Dodgers play "Don't Stop Believin'" when the team needs a rally in the bottom of the ninth -- and Perry is a Giants fan. Any article in which Perry utt ... More >>

  • Music

    April 15, 2009

    Anvil: Heavy metal's obscure teddy bears

    ​Yesterday, the Chronicle's Henry Schulman penned a truly entertaining article about how former Journey frontman Steve Perry is peeved because the Dodgers play "Don't Stop Believin'" when the team needs a rally in the bottom of the ninth -- and Perry is a Giants fan. Any article in which Perry utt ... More >>

  • Music

    February 18, 2009

    Best friends and coke fiends at Noe's Bar

    ​Yesterday, the Chronicle's Henry Schulman penned a truly entertaining article about how former Journey frontman Steve Perry is peeved because the Dodgers play "Don't Stop Believin'" when the team needs a rally in the bottom of the ninth -- and Perry is a Giants fan. Any article in which Perry utt ... More >>

  • Music

    September 3, 2008

    Hair metal fantasies realized at Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy Camp

    ​Yesterday, the Chronicle's Henry Schulman penned a truly entertaining article about how former Journey frontman Steve Perry is peeved because the Dodgers play "Don't Stop Believin'" when the team needs a rally in the bottom of the ninth -- and Perry is a Giants fan. Any article in which Perry utt ... More >>

  • Music

    May 21, 2008

    ‘The Worst Music Ever’ pulls Smash Mouth from the crapper

    ​Yesterday, the Chronicle's Henry Schulman penned a truly entertaining article about how former Journey frontman Steve Perry is peeved because the Dodgers play "Don't Stop Believin'" when the team needs a rally in the bottom of the ninth -- and Perry is a Giants fan. Any article in which Perry utt ... More >>

  • Music

    September 12, 2007

    The Donnas' Bitchin' Party

    SF's ladies lose the major label and regain the rock

  • Blogs

    July 17, 2007

    Porn, Skateboarding and True Love: the Chris Nieratko Long Interview

    SF's ladies lose the major label and regain the rock

  • Music

    May 24, 2006

    Flying Vs and fake cocaine at the U.S. Air Guitar Championships

    SF's ladies lose the major label and regain the rock

  • Music

    March 1, 2006

    Dark Side of the Songbird

    Isobel Campbell sheds the twee and gets ballsy

  • Music

    February 9, 2005

    Bouncer

    The best place to ponder the Metallica movie Some Kind of Monster: Zeitgeist, of course

  • Music

    October 27, 2004

    Various

    Left of the Dial: Dispatches From the '80s Underground

  • Music

    September 15, 2004

    Bouncer

    Big boobs abound as "Stinky's Peep Show" finds a new home at Cafe Du Nord

  • Culture

    February 4, 2004

    Memphis

    The man who brought rock 'n' roll to the radio is hip, corny, irrepressible, and soulful

  • Calendar

    January 21, 2004

    This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

    The man who brought rock 'n' roll to the radio is hip, corny, irrepressible, and soulful

  • Music

    August 6, 2003

    Steadman

    Revive

  • News

    June 11, 2003

    The Freeloaders' Handbook

    If you ask, they will give. Really.

  • Music

    November 21, 2001

    Pop Philosophy

    America attacks back -- in the key of D

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 23, 2001

    Best and Worst Karaoke Bar

    The Mint

  • Music

    April 25, 2001

    Pop Philosophy

    The difference between "naff" and "wack"

  • Culture

    April 4, 2001

    Blowin' Smoke

    Ted Demme and Denis Leary are a match made in effin' heaven

  • Music

    October 25, 2000

    Pop Philosophy

    College Music Journal’s Music Marathon

  • Music

    May 7, 1997

    Recordings

    College Music Journal’s Music Marathon

  • Music

    March 19, 1997

    Suburban Renewal

    Pavement vs. Poison in the burbs

  • Music

    October 16, 1996

    Inane Asylum

    The fans hit the shit at Tim McQuaid's Fan Asylum

  • Music

    January 3, 1996

    The Book of Lists

    SF Weekly contributors salute the best (and worst) music of 1995

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