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Ty Segall Has Inspired a New Guitar Pedal From Death By Audio

You know you're a guitar hero when effects makers look to you for new effects pedal ideas. And while we've (all) known for a long time that former S.F. rocker Ty Segall* was a legit six-string slayer, yet another coronation was just announced: Brooklyn's Death By Audio is making a brand-new, limited ... More >>

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Top 5 Parties in SF This Weekend: Das Racist, Shit Robot, SBTRKT, and More

A couple weeks ago, Decibal's arrival in Seattle made me question why the Bay Area doesn't have some big electronic dance music festival of its own. I'm still wondering as we ease our way out of Hardly Strictly Bluegrass and towards the Treasure Island Music Festival. And while last week's festiviti ... More >>

Morris Kitchen: Sip on Syrup from SF Expats

For the past year, we've been smuggling home bottles of preserved lemon syrup from Brooklyn's Morris Kitchen. Bi-Rite Market was an early supporter of this company, carrying its ginger and spiced apple syrups, and now stocks the preserved lemon so we don't have to risk exploding liquid in luggage an ... More >>

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Pump It Like the Future: El-P and Killer Mike Bust Hip-Hop's Boundaries

Live Review, 6/24/12: The Men and Wax Idols Stage a Unified Attack at Bottom of the Hill

The Men Wax Idols Burnt Ones Sunday, June 24, 2012 Bottom of the Hill Better than: Traveling by public transit during Pride. Given The Men's eclectic discography -- which lurched from debut Leave Home's blown-out, chaotic screeds to Open Your Heart's visceral but understated rock, it wasn't clear ... More >>

Win Tickets to See Twin Shadow, Tanlines, and Dirty Ghosts at Rdio's Private Party This Thursday

Tomorrow night -- Thursday, June 7 -- music streaming service Rdio is throwing a party at the Independent that will feature live sets by moody pop artist Twin Shadow, Brooklyn dance-pop breakouts Tanlines, and S.F.'s own Dirty Ghosts. Rdio is based in San Francisco, so it's only natural that the com ... More >>

R.I.P. MCA: A Selection of the Beastie Boys' Greatest Works

In all likelihood, you've spent the weekend doing exactly the same thing we did -- trying to come to terms with the loss of Adam "MCA" Yauch and getting together with friends for Beastie Boys parties in his memory, trying to imagine the musical landscape without the trio. Truthfully, it's hard to th ... More >>

Schmendricks Returns With Sunday Pop-Up

What: Schmendricks bagel pop-up Where: 780 Café, 780 Valencia St. When: Sun., March 18, 10:30 a.m. Cost: 50 cents off with a cafe beverage The rundown: Schmendrick may be Yiddish for a stupid person, but the bagel masters at Schmendricks are anything but. They're hosting a sold out New York b ... More >>

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Sweet History

The Cool Kids: Cool with Recording for Mountain Dew

Eleanor Friedberger of the Fiery Furnaces on Touring Alone, Using Garage Band, and Getting Old

Eleanor Friedberger and the new guitar she got last Thursday. (Really.)​ This is the part where we tell you how good Eleanor Friedberger's new solo album is. Eleanor, you may recall, is the feminine half of the Fiery Furnaces, which might just be the strangest power-pop band of the last 10 yea ... More >>

Food Forward Celebrates Real Food Heroes Across the Country

The modern food landscape is more confusing than ever. Words like "organic," "sustainable" and "all-natural" have been so diluted from overuse and vague definition as to become meaningless to most. Worse, populations across the country have little or no access to fresh produce of any kind, irrespe ... More >>

The New Countertop Appliance, Web TV Worth Watching

​Today's notes on national stories, local trends, random tastes, and other bycatch dredged up from the food media. 1. Sous Vide at Home. As immersion circulators get cheaper, the Denver Post's Kristen Browning-Blas tests the countertop Sous Vide Supreme Demi, which sells for $299 at Sur La Table ... More >>

Win Tickets to See Drop the Lime at SOM Bar This Friday

Jerome Slesinki​If you like dancing to rockabilly and bass, and want to start off Bay to Breakers this weekend with a twang, enter to win a free pair of passes to see Drop The Lime at SOM this Friday! Categorized as "Cowboy surfin' rockabilly Gotham City bass music," the Brooklyn artist is cu ... More >>

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Oakland Blog Mapzzz Launches EP Series Featuring Benefitz, Bazooka Joint, and Forest Floor

​Note: this post has nothing to do with the Brooklyn avant-skronk ensemble Zs. Sorry if you came here by mistake -- you should know where to look for them by now.No, we're here to hip you to an exciting new biweekly EP series from the excellent local 'lectro-blog Mapzzz. The latest insta ... More >>

Sizzle & Fizzle: The Best and Worst Shows from a Week at SXSW

Rocky's Swag: Roach Gigz Rides His Cocky Charm Toward Rap's Big Ring

Pants Are Always Optional in the Living Room Nightclub

Dad Rock is a new column in which Ryan Foley will attempt to look at pop music and pop culture from the precipice of middle age. If he ultimately leaps, it's because tiny hands ruined his Galaxie 500 vinyl. Accusations that he's raising five insufferable hipster children can be sent to mofrackie@gma ... More >>

Brady Campaign's New Push to Ban Open Carry in California Restaurants

formatted_dad/FlickrThe CA Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence is planning a protest Jan. 20 in Manhattan Beach.​The Jan. 8 shooting massacre at a Tucson mall is giving new impetus to a drive to make California eateries gun-free zones. State chapters of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Vio ... More >>

The Top 6 Most. Irritating. Christmas. Songs. Ever?

Oh dear God, is there a worse time of year for music than Christmas? We certainly don't think so. Walking into anywhere public right about now is like having our ears pelted from on high by sleigh bells (no, not that duo from Brooklyn -- we quite like them) and snowballs filled with glass. But! Bein ... More >>

Tonight: Free Lichens In-Store at Aquarius Records

Eat your heart out, mustachioed local bartenders​If you're taking a pre-happy hour totter through the Mission this evening after work, you should probably stop in to visit darling indie-esoterica purveyors Aquarius Records and catch a free in-store set from Lichens, the otherworldly drone project ... More >>

Weekend Paints Suburban Tranquility Black in New Video

It's about to get ugly...​Okay, so this is pretty rad. San Francisco post-punk/shoegaze trio Weekend made one intriguing new video for two songs from its upcoming album, Sports. To accompany the smooth serenity of "Monday Morning," we get sunny scenes of peaceful suburbia: residents wate ... More >>

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Download: Bay Pop Upstart K.Flay's '2 Weak,' See Her This Weekend

K.Flay​We really hope Grizzly Bear got some love from Stanford grad and Bay Area pop whippersnapper K.Flay for the obvious lifting of the Brooklyn band's bits for this rather cleverly named free download, "2 Weak." But then, "Two Weeks" makes such a crisp pop background, maybe the band should be g ... More >>

Menomena, Suckers, and Tu Fawning Play Lots of Things at Once at Great American Music Hall

Menomena​Menomena Suckers Tu Fawning September 14, 2010 @ Great American Music Hall Better than: Combing through Pat Metheny's man-fro to get a glimpse of his instrumental clusterfuck.Whatever happened to musicians playing just one instrument? These new music school grads- ... More >>

CD Review: Ratatat's 'LP4'

​ LP4, the new album from Brooklyn producers and multi-instrumentalists Mike Stroud and Evan Mast (a/k/a Ratatat), wears an appropriate title for more than just the obvious reasons. Yes, the disc is a long-player, and it is indeed the band's fourth such release. But the songs were culled from the ... More >>

Kauffman's Five: This Week in Bloggery

My favorite morsels this week from SFoodie and beyond:​1. The thought of pickled eggs induces a pang of nostalgia in anyone with Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry (ahem) ― and probably fear and distrust in most other people. John Birdsall's interview with Comstock Saloon's research-happy chef, Carlo E ... More >>

High-Fivin' anthems from Fang Island

CD Review: Lemonade's 'Pure Moods' EP

​It's readily apparent within the first 30 seconds of Lemonade's second outing, the Pure Moods EP, that this will be something altogether different from the Brooklyn-by-way-of San Francisco trio's debut self-titled record. Still intact is the group's penchant for electronic percussion and big bass ... More >>

I Am Cinematic: Cafe Gratitude-Centric Documentary Might Be Preachy, But Inspirational

Frank Ferrante, a 54-year-old Brooklyn transplant, looks like the last person who would wander into a Cafe Gratitude and stay there without the use of handcuffs, but the documentary May I Be Frank shows how the perceptively preachy vegan mini-chain helped him achieve a healthier body and outlook o ... More >>

Yeasayer pushes into new weird pop

MP3 of the Day: Woods' New Single

Erina Digby​Woods is formally located in an urban area of New York (Brooklyn to be exact), but the band's sound leaves the concrete city behind, winding along backcountry roads to a less formal, more meandering, psychedelic sound heavy on the fuzz. The group is fronted by Jeremy Earl, who also run ... More >>

First Berlin, Now Brooklyn ― Where Will Our Lovely Dolores Go Next?

Dolores California Gourmet Burritos​Grub Street reports on Mission Dolores, a new bar recently opened in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. This follows the discovery made nearly two years ago over at Mission Mission of Dolores California Gourmet Burritos, a small shop in Berli ... More >>

Moon Duo gives minimal Krautrock new gravity

Meatpaper Loves Rabbit in Its Own Special Way

​Meatpaper's 10th issue is on its way, and the magazine is holding a series of events to promote it while raising awareness about the deliciousness of rabbit, which the editors are calling "the new chicken." (Backyard chickens are now the old chicken. Which probably makes duck, which used to be th ... More >>

Russian Ink

Retro Reverb

In the Night Museum

Westward the Course of Handicrafts Takes Its Way

Dance Defying Description

The Art of Zen (Honk!)