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Dinner With Leslie

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Live It Out

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Another Serene World

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Blame Canada

Thus arrives another musically savvy Canuck, Leslie Feist, with a sultry voice and a bottomless bag of tricks

Hear This

A fervent melodic-emo torch goes out, Of Montreal reveals its happy/malevolent juxtaposition, and Michelle Shocked does it her way

Fiery Architecture

Uncategorizable but lovely Australian

Great Balls of Fire

The Arcade Fire's vast, spastic music will have you confused, thrilled, and begging for more

Film Pak's Punch

Love against the machine

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Old World Underground

A Beautiful Mess

Once a simple indie rock duo, Broken Social Scene added 13 band members and ended up with a complex, precious sound.

Track of the Day: Ring Trick

​San Francisco's Ring Trick is a very goal-oriented artist. For one month the electronic producer/musician plans on uploading one new demo a day to his blog. "The only rule," he writes, "is that it has to be recorded and produced in the span of 24 hours."Scroll down the page and you can hear a bat ... More >>

Sasquatch! Music Festival Lineup: Pavement, Dam-Funk, Girls, Massive Attack, the XX

Joseph SchellEdward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros: festival favorites​More music news today for festicationers: Sasquatch! Music Festival laid out its lineup last night at a party at Seattle's Crocodile Cafe. This Memorial Day Weekend (May 29-31) the indie rock caravans will head to Washington's ... More >>

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Joseph SchellEdward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros: festival favorites​More music news today for festicationers: Sasquatch! Music Festival laid out its lineup last night at a party at Seattle's Crocodile Cafe. This Memorial Day Weekend (May 29-31) the indie rock caravans will head to Washington's ... More >>

What to Do? Wednesday's Pick: Metric at the Fox

​Thanks to an appearance in Zombieland (as well as showing up in Gossip Girl, Grey's Anatomy, and a popular soccer videogame), "Gold Guns Girls" has given Metric's year-old Fantasies a second wind. So the Canadian indie-pop act is back on the road supporting its first album since 2005's Live It Ou ... More >>

Concert preview: Broken Social Scene

​Thanks to an appearance in Zombieland (as well as showing up in Gossip Girl, Grey's Anatomy, and a popular soccer videogame), "Gold Guns Girls" has given Metric's year-old Fantasies a second wind. So the Canadian indie-pop act is back on the road supporting its first album since 2005's Live It Ou ... More >>

Monday Morning Hangover: Hot Hot Weekend

Hanna Quevedo​Critical Mass kicked off a glorious weekend, departing from Justin Herman Plaza Friday evening and wending it's way through the city as the sun set.Gretchen Robinette​Canadian indie-rock collective Broken Social Scene took over  the stag at the Fillmore, playing tracks from th ... More >>

The Ghosts of Outside Lands Past

Now that this year's Outside Lands lineup has been released in full and stayed true to its lil-bit-hippie-lil-but-hip-hop roots and the folk vs. funk vibe, will you be forking over some coin when the tickets go on sale tomorrow? How do you think this year's lineup fares with those of previous years? ... More >>

LCD Soundsystem, Belle & Sebastian, The National, Broken Social Scene Top Treasure Island Lineup

Christopher VictorioJack White with the Raconteurs at Treasure Island 2008​The lineup for the 2010 Treasure Island Music Festival was unveiled earlier today, and it's every bit as drool-worthy as we had hoped. First: the rumors were right, and Belle & Sebastian is headlining the second day's s ... More >>

How to Succeed in Indie Music? Five Formulas For a Blog-Worthy Band

Maybe you won't admit it -- at least to your would-be fans -- but we all know it's the truth. No matter how stunning your lack of ambition may be, no matter how much you say you like sharing a one-bedroom with four guys and perfecting lattes for corporate assholes to pay the rent, you want that indi ... More >>

The Lion Sleeps Tonight: A Musical Tribute to the Berkeley Mountain Lion

This too shall pass​The Berkeley Police Department shot and killed an errant mountain lion early yesterday morning. In the minor controversy that has ensued over whether they should have made more of an effort to tranquilize her before pulling out the patrol shotgun, we've already lost sight of th ... More >>

The xx Pimps out Its Production at the Fox Theater

Joseph Schell​The xxWarpaintZola Jesus September 23, 2010@ The Fox Theater Better than: Winning a raffle at a fundraiser, knowing full well that you're essentially stealing from those children. It's always couples night when pillow rockers the xx are in town, which only meant o ... More >>

Tectonic Youth: Eight Songs For Today's Supposed Earthquake

Man, Gwar really tore this place up​What better way to close out National Preparedness Month than by getting all paranoid about the possibly apocryphal 7.0 earthquake that may or may not tear up Los Angeles today? Not like anything awesome was gonna happen in October anyway.Everything will probabl ... More >>

"It's Kind of a Funny Story": Nuthouse as hipster’s paradise

Man, Gwar really tore this place up​What better way to close out National Preparedness Month than by getting all paranoid about the possibly apocryphal 7.0 earthquake that may or may not tear up Los Angeles today? Not like anything awesome was gonna happen in October anyway.Everything will probabl ... More >>

Canada's PS I Love You Spread the Love Stateside on First Tour

Vanessa Heins​San Francisco, meet PS I Love You. They're new here, and they're psyched to meet you. The Kingston, Ontario duo of Paul Saulnier and Benjamin Nelson are a few dates into their first U.S. tour, weathering the ups and downs of the road and bringing their clamorous caterwaul to the ador ... More >>

Treasure Island Day 2: Belle & Sebastian and the National Turn Wet Misery into Rock-Out Joy

Christopher VictorioBroken Social Scene's Kevin Drew crowd-surfs at the end of his set.​Treasure Island Music Festival, Day TwoOctober 17, 2010Better than: Listening to '90s alt-rock on your Walkman during a damp walk to school.Well, it rained. But other than that wet little nod from Mother N ... More >>

The Posies: Show Preview

Christopher VictorioBroken Social Scene's Kevin Drew crowd-surfs at the end of his set.​Treasure Island Music Festival, Day TwoOctober 17, 2010Better than: Listening to '90s alt-rock on your Walkman during a damp walk to school.Well, it rained. But other than that wet little nod from Mother N ... More >>

A Stoned Moan with J Mascis and Several Shades of Why

​ This week's joint: J Mascis' Several Shades Of Why ​Behind the Buzz: To Dinosaur Jr. fans, the idea of a J Mascis acoustic album fails to spring unbidden into the mind's ear. On blunderbuss masterpieces like 1987's You're Living All Over Me, mainman Mascis founded a durably influential heavy ... More >>

Photos from Last Night: Broken Social Scene at the Warfield

Kevin Henderson​ Broken Social Scene April 13, 2011 The Warfield Coachella is the gift that keeps on giving for homebound Nor-Cal-ers. Admist the embarrassment of musical riches in S.F. this week was Canadian megatroupe Broken Social Scene, which brought its expansive lineup to the Warfield last ... More >>

Are NSFW Music Videos Brave Art, or Ploys for Horny Attention?

​ Once upon a time, depicting actual nudity or sex in a music video was basically pointless: It wouldn't get shown on MTV with those things in it, and there wasn't much use in making a video that wouldn't air on MTV (or any other TV channel). That still applies for larger mainstream artists, ... More >>

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2011: Robert Plant, Thurston Moore, Broken Social Scene, and More

Broken Social Scene is one of more than 90 acts playing Hardly Strictly Bluegrass this year.​ The lineup for this year's Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival is out, and good luck figuring out whom to call the "headliner." For the festival's 11th year, organizers have put together another insane ... More >>

Broken Social Scene To Go on Hiatus After October S.F. Shows

Broken Social Scene at Treasure Island last year.​ Canadian art-rock collective Broken Social Scene is coming to the Bay Area at the beginning of next month for two shows on Oct 1: One at the free Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival, and one at the not-free Fillmore. But while we've grown used ... More >>

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

Broken Social Scene at Treasure Island last year.​ Canadian art-rock collective Broken Social Scene is coming to the Bay Area at the beginning of next month for two shows on Oct 1: One at the free Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival, and one at the not-free Fillmore. But while we've grown used ... More >>

Set Times for Hardly Strictly Bluegrass and Treasure Island Music Festival Are Out Now

The crowd at Hardly Strictly​ Hey everyone, it's set-time-o'-clock: The point at which you can start planning which acts you'll see (along with every other mobile human on the planet) at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass (Sept. 30 to Oct. 2) and Treasure Island Music Festival (Oct. 15 and 16). Often ... More >>

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass: 10 Bands to See for Free

The crowd at Hardly Strictly​ Hey everyone, it's set-time-o'-clock: The point at which you can start planning which acts you'll see (along with every other mobile human on the planet) at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass (Sept. 30 to Oct. 2) and Treasure Island Music Festival (Oct. 15 and 16). Often ... More >>

Saturday: Broken Social Scene Brings Out Issac Brock and Stars for an Epic "Final" Show at the Fillmore

Matt SmithStars' Amy Millan and Broken Social Scene's Kevin Drew at the Fillmore Saturday night.​ Broken Social Scene Oct. 1, 2011 The Fillmore Better than: All but a handful of other '00s-era indie rock bands. It was billed as the last Broken Social Scene show for a long while -- maybe for ... More >>

Saturday at Hardly Strictly: Merle Haggard and Kris Kristofferson Become the Great HSB Unifiers

Christopher VictorioMerle Haggard and Kris Kristofferson at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass​ Merle Haggard & Kris Kristofferson A.A. Bondy Robyn Hitchcock Hugh Laurie October 1, 2011 Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Better than: Seeing Neil Young after he released Greendale, that's for sure. A man dresse ... More >>

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass: Merle Haggard Rocks! (Slideshow)

I'm not one for festivals of any sort -- or any event that requires sharing a Porta-Potty with 5,000 other people for the day. Unless of course, Merle Haggard is performing. Add in Gillian Welch, Broken Social Scene, and some warm sunshine, and I'm there -- hand sanitizer and all. If you missed the ... More >>

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

I'm not one for festivals of any sort -- or any event that requires sharing a Porta-Potty with 5,000 other people for the day. Unless of course, Merle Haggard is performing. Add in Gillian Welch, Broken Social Scene, and some warm sunshine, and I'm there -- hand sanitizer and all. If you missed the ... More >>

Learning to Deal With the Great Music Deluge

Are we suffocating from too much music?​ Two years ago, Broken Social Scene's Charles Spearin released The Happiness Project, an experimental album that brought together concepts associated with field recordings, sociology, jazz, and phonetics. If you think that sounds pretentious, you're righ ... More >>