Subject: Brooklyn

• Ex-Black Dice-r Hits Bay Area

  August 1, 2007

• Free Download Of The Day: Santogold's "Your Voice"

  May 5, 2008

• Earl Dax brings Novice Theory to Bubble Lounge

  May 12, 2008

• Buenos Aires Meets Brooklyn in Cross-Continental Beat Battle at the Mezz

  June 17, 2008

• MP3 of the Day: Growing

  July 28, 2008

• MP3 of the Day: Nation Beat

  July 30, 2008

• MP3 of the Day: Rosewood Thieves

  August 20, 2008

• Lemonade: Moving to NYC, Free Party

  October 14, 2008

• MP3 of the Day; Crystal Stilts

  October 27, 2008

• MP3 of the Day: She Keeps Bees

  October 28, 2008

• Buckethead, YouTube Live! and Eddie Money: Your Weekend Hitlist

  By Melissa Baron The sun finally came back out and with Thanksgiving on the way it's best to enjoy this weekend before inevitable family drama ensues. Here's what's going on: Friday night Sunlandic dance explosion Of Montreal play the Regency Center Grand Ballroom. For those of you who haven't seen them before, expect dancing, sweating, bright colors and possible nudity. Tickets are $25. There's also an incredible show in Redwood City (if you can get there): Buckethead brings his bizarre b

  November 21, 2008

• Top Ten Dance Collections of 2008, Both Mixed and Unmixed

  By Randall RobertsAny knucklehead with DSL and a laptop can now make an electronic track. With a half hour of clicking and fiddling, you can sample enough cheesy beats and mashups to clog arteries from here to Berlin. Simple dropdown mouse maneuvers can transform electro tracks into progressive house tracks (from dry and synthetic to wet and gushy), rhythm tracks can be tempo-tweaked with an upward toggle to change a Timbaland beat into a Chromeo one. Add some T-Pain-esque pitch-correction vocal

  December 22, 2008

• Costco Moment: Blue Hill Bay Whitefish Salad

  Isn't "smoked whitefish salad" redundant?

  February 24, 2009

• Last Night: Jason Webley at Bottom of the Hill

  Jason WebleyBottom of the HillWednesday, March 18, 2009Review by Melissa BaronBetter Than: Watching Lost. And that's saying something.Weirdos, misfits, hippies, Burners, and punks gathered at the Bottom of the Hill last night-- backpacks, weird hats and all--- to see their hero, accordion superstar Jason Webley and his pal Sxip Shirey. The two are touring together on the release of their combined efforts, an EP called Days With You. The disc is part of Webley's collaborative series, of which the

  March 19, 2009

• Right in the Kisser

  February 4, 2009

• Crown of Thorns

  January 28, 2009

• Stranger Than Techno

  January 21, 2009

• Shark, Blood

  January 7, 2009

• All Together Now

  May 28, 2008

• Foxy Brown

  May 21, 2008

• Nights of the Golem

  March 19, 2008

• Obsessive Consumption: Kate Bingaman-Burt

  December 5, 2007

• Track of the Day: Crystal Stilts

  The band's photo kinda says it all. Brooklyn's Crystal Stilts live inside a noir-shaded world, where drama and glamor come together behind a soft artistic focus. The band's logaze (lo-fi shoegaze) rock has been a huge hit since local label Slumberland released the group's most recent record, Alight of Night, but fans like myself want more more more. Luckily, the group has two new, previously unreleased songs (one of which, "Through the Floor," even includes those words "more more more") posted t

  April 16, 2009

• Beat Box

  October 10, 2007

• The Big Voice: God or Merman?

  August 8, 2007

• Traces

  A gorgeous circus of real people, with an indie-rock soundtrack and impressive acts

  December 20, 2006

• Training Daze

  The drills and thrills of Boot Camp Clik

  July 26, 2006

• Yeah Yeah Yeahs

  Show Your Bones

  April 26, 2006

• Crowns

  Serious hattitude, courtesy of this charming musical play about headwear

  August 10, 2005

• Mobius Band

  The Loving Sounds of Static

  August 10, 2005

• The Rogers Sisters

  Three Fingers

  September 1, 2004

• Last Crawl

  In which three Doggie Diner Dog Heads lead Silke Tudor cross-country, to a place that is not San Francisco but, even so, feels like home

  August 18, 2004

• Pants on Fire

  Brooklyn's Liars have blown it with their sophomore album. And that's a good thing.

  March 24, 2004

• House of Tudor

  The S.F. Mad Benefit: Help a dude who blew his face off with a confetti cannon

  February 11, 2004

• Hear This

  Brooklyn's Mink Lungs exhale rock that suffers from a delightful identity crisis

  June 11, 2003

• Speak To Me

  Russell Simmons' Def Poetry Jam brings hip hop home

  July 10, 2002

• Out in the Open

  A documentary film takes a poignant look at gay and lesbian Orthodox Jews

  February 27, 2002

• The Week's Can't-Miss Performance

  The Brooklyn Sax Quartet unleashes a dense matrix of polyrhythms and buttery tones

  January 23, 2002

• The Bit Player

  Vincent D'Onofrio may be the best actor of his generation, but who would notice?

  August 23, 2000

• Reel World

  Modern Times; Edward Scissorhands; Naked

  April 19, 2000

• Savage Love

  December 24, 1997

• Last Night: Santigold at the Warfield

  SantigoldThursday, May 21, 2009The Warfield TheaterReview by Jesse Ducker Better Than: A bloodless M.I.A. concert "It feels like the first day of school!" Santigold told a screaming, full house at the Warfield last night, on the opening date of her national tour. "We've got new outfits and everything!" Bay Area residents turned out in droves to see Santigold, packing the music hall to the rafters. And while a good amount of the fans were the to-be-expected twentysomething hipster crowd, a

  May 22, 2009

• Psychic Ills

  July 8, 2009

• The Hot Dog Hopeful Seek Out Artisanal Specimens at Acme

  J. BirdsallThe fancy wieners got deliciously blackened over charcoal.​As if we needed confirmation that hot dogs are the quintessential food of 2009, an overflow crowd packed the plaza in front of Acme Chophouse (24 Willie Mays Plaza, at Fourth St. and King) last night hoping to taste up to nine varieties of artisanal wieners. Acme chef Thom Fox organized the Haute Dog event in part as a fundraiser for the sustainable foods advocacy org Chefs Collaborative. Hopeful attendees ponied up $5

  August 21, 2009

• Phenomenal Handclap Band

  August 26, 2009

• Chronic City: Here's Progress -- S.F. Firefighters Rescue Marijuana Grow-Op

  Save the medical marijuana, fire teddy! ​ Sometimes the biggest signs of epochal change in society are those that are casually mentioned, five paragraphs down in a story. Such was the case with Sunday's four-alarm warehouse fire in Bayview, where fire crews remained yesterday monitoring for flare-ups."Marijuana was found growing in one of the buildings," CBS5 reported, "but police Sergeant Wilfred Williams said this morning that the narcotics unit investigation found that the marijuana is bein

  September 2, 2009

• Kingdom

  September 9, 2009

• Russian Ink

  September 23, 2009

• Adultnapper

  September 30, 2009

• Track of the Day: The xx

  (c) Christo Geoghegan​Proof that music can be sexy and subtle at the same time, London's The xx craft wintry, minimalist jams that maximize the hot 'n' heavy. With male-female come-ons slithering over basic drum machine beats, and disco guitar lines made for slow dancing in dark corners, The xx have made a loud buzz based on fairly quiet music. Check out The XX's "Basic Space" [via Brooklyn Vegan, AOL Radio]. The quartet brings the sultry to San Francisco on Monday, Nov. 23 at the Independent.

  October 26, 2009