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Live Review, 2/24/12: Bob Mould Blasts Through Copper Blue at Bottom of the Hill

Iann IvyBob Mould at Bottom of the Hill on Friday​ Bob Mould Fake Your Own Death Distortion Vir Friday, Feb. 24, 2012 Bottom of the Hill Better than: Celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the best-selling album of 1992, Billy Ray Cyrus' Some Gave All. On a night that was all about reliving me ... More >>

A Cold-Stricken J Mascis Talks About Dinosaur Jr. Playing Loud, SF Hippies, and the Relative Inferiority of Bug

Dinosaur Jr. plays the Fillmore this Thursday.​ The person whose job it is to get musicians to say interesting things over the phone already faces something of a challenge when interviewing J Mascis, singer-guitarist of Dinosaur Jr., and O.G. slacker of legendary proportions. Since the '80s, M ... More >>

Live Review: They Might Be Giants Improve Flood By Playing It Backwards

Matt SmithThey Might Be Giants at the Fillmore​They Might Be GiantsJonathan CoultonNov. 13, 2011The Fillmore"We know you had your choice of ossified alternative rock bands, so thank you for flying with us!" hollered John Flansburgh, the gregarious, guitar-playing half of Brooklyn's They Might ... More >>

Mick Jagger Forms Supergroup "Super Heavy," We're Super Embarrassed

​ Mick Jagger threw his name into the running for what may become the biggest supergroup of 2011, joining Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics, Damien Marley, Joss Stone, and A.R. Rahman, composer of the Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack, for what promises to be an eclectic (and hopefully not too terr ... More >>

Can't Get Any Satisfaction: A Tour of the Most Grammatically Misguided Songs in Pop

​Today is National Grammar Day, which means until midnight you're legally obligated to put up with the prescriptivist fulminations of that one buy or girl in your office whose knickers get all bunched when you say "15 items or less" or "the reason is because." (Lucky for everyone in the world I wo ... More >>

Surfer Blood quits school, gets educated in hype

Juan Son makes quirky Mexican pop

Eagles of Death Metal at the Fillmore in Feb.

If you like your beer cheap, your mustache handlebarred, and your guitar rock snarling, then better secure your tickets for Eagles of Death Metal in '09. EoDM filters out all the stoner-metal vibes from guitarist Josh "Babyduck" Homme's other band, Queens of the Stone Age, and replaces it with 70's ... More >>

MP3 of the Day: Girl Talk

Sketchfest stokes the musician-comedian love affair

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Pools Together Roots Music Enthusiasts

Spaz of All Trades

Weasel Walter sneezes and a new song comes to life

Encore Performance

Don't fret. Guitar Hero II kills the opening act.

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, September 27, 2006

The Nice Boys

The Nice Boys

Diamonds in the rock; Ice Cube reigns supreme

Ill-Cuomo

Weezer's frontman is certifiably nuts. So why doesn't he write better songs?

Meet the New Boss

The Hold Steady's version of classic rock is full of sex, drugs, and Jesus

Too Jaded for Gay Pride? Get Over It!

A queer guide to Pride events

Lizard Kings

Is Louis XIV just another hot-to-trot retro rock band, or something far more sinister?

Bouncer

The Beauty Bar thinks it's cool, which is exactly why it isn't

Hot Dark Metal Revival

Forget Black Sabbath. Don't even mention The Darkness. Dirty Power will lead the hard rock revolution to come.

Club Directory

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Special One

Eyes on the Pride, Asses in the Clubs

There's another reason everyone comes to S.F. for the Pride Parade. Can you spell p-a-r-t-y?

Best Friday Party for Fags

"Cheap Trick" at the Stud

Oh, Inverted World

A handful of sleepers to wake up the neighbors

Hear This

Swag travels through time for perfect power-pop

House Of Tudor

Silke Tudor celebrates "Indie-Pendence Day," Germanic shock rock, and Cheap Trick covers

The New Pornographers

Mass Romantic (Mint)

Mars Attacks

There's no reason to fear Red Planet -- especially if you like high energy, old-fashioned rock

Review

The Promise Ring's Very Emergency!

1998: The Year in Lists

House of Tudor

Reviews

House of Tudor

House of Tudor

Riff Raff

Night + Day

Night+Day

Night+Day

Night Crawler

Recordings

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Recordings

Night Crawler

The House of Tudor

Fandemonium

Idle Worship with KISS, Nancy Sinatra, Camille Paglia, and Chevy Chase

Barbarian at the Gate

Heavy-metal titan Glenn Danzig inaugurates his own comic book line with Verotik Publishing