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Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and lows from the last week in S.F. music

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The 5 Worst Appearances by Musicians in Sci-Fi and Fantasy Films

Apparently, someone behind the scenes at Game of Thrones has really bland taste in music. Now, in addition to Snow Patrol frontman Gary Lightbody making a cameo in Season 2, Coldplay drummer Will Champion is going to be joining the HBO show for Season 3 -- playing a drummer. (How creative!) The ... More >>

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Is This the Coachella 2012 Lineup?

Coachella 2012 is still more than four months away -- so naturally, it's time to start hyperventilating over rumored lineups for the first year the festival will stretch over two weekends. One "leaked" lineup appeared last week on StarzUncut, a celebrity gossip website with more than 58,000 Twitter ... More >>

Here's Duck Sauce's New, NSFW Video for "Big Bad Wolf," and Six Other Videos in Which the Human Face Is Absolutely Terrifying

Yesterday, Billboard.com asked its readers if they thought Duck Sauce's new video, for the track "Big Bad Wolf", was the most disturbing video of 2011. Well, we've just had a look -- and while it's definitely weird and it's definitely uncomfortable, we're just gonna go ahead and say that this scathi ... More >>

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Download a Free EP (Recorded in Journey's Old Studio!) From S.F. Trio Pance Party

Corrugate your FACE​I can't pretend some prescriptivist tendency in me doesn't disapprove of the misspelling (because I don't think they're talking about this), but I'm finding it hard to claim that the three cardboard-faced gentlemen of San Francisco's Pance Party didn't choose the perfect ... More >>

Com Truise on the Good Side of Chillwave, and Why Hardware Synths Are Better Than a Laptop

Synthesizing scientist. ​You may cringe at the thought of more chillwave infiltrating your eardrums, and we don't blame you. It seems like more and more artists are using airy melodies filled with incomprehensible lyrics, making it hard to distinguish one track or musician from the next. Thankfull ... More >>

Friday Night: Mr. Oizo Thumps Parisian Bangers at 103 Harriet

​Mr. Oizo Boyz IV Men NastyNasty December 3, 2010@ 103 Harriet Better than: A 10-hour flight to Paris. Before the rise of Justice, Crookers, and, um, Ke$ha, Mr. Oizo (along with Daft Punk) was laying the foundation for the crunchy, electro-influenced sound sometimes referred to as bloghouse. Fav ... More >>

Download a Tensnake Mini-Mix Before He Hits S.F.

Sima KorenivskiTensnake​German DJ and producer Marco Niemerski (who makes disco-friendly house music under the name Tensnake) has been climbing the ladder of universal interest of late, thanks largely in part to a single by the name of "Coma Cat." The bubbling party tune--which borrows largely fro ... More >>

Hear the New N*E*R*D Album at a Listening Party This Weekend

'Nothing' hits the streets and the web Nov. 2​So what's up with N*E*R*D's new album? Oh, nothing.No seriously -- Nothing is what it's called. The trio's fourth album -- whose new single, "Hypnotize U," was produced by Daft Punk -- comes out Nov. 2. But you can hear it in advance at an S.F. li ... More >>

Saturday Night Fever Indie Division

How the hipster set learned to shake their skinny jeans.

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Screen Rock

Mainstream Mex-Tech

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Weekend Party Preview: South American Dance and A New Party in the Mission

The Twelves​This weekend we get down to a bit of French-house-friendly dance music from south of the equator, and usher in a new club to the realm of the Mission's excellent party hubs. It's a couple days of fresh tunes, fresh starts, and (hopefully) refreshing weather. Nothing terribly life-chang ... More >>

Track(s) of the Day: Bossasaurus' Giant Tunes

In this week's paper, Phillip Mlynar profiles Oakland remix/production crew Bossasaurs. He writes of this group of hip-hop heads and dinosaur hoodie retailers:All four members of Bossasaurus are serious about their aims to be seen as creators. They openly scorn the current remix scene, dissing "lap ... More >>

Treasure Island Music Festival, Day One

It takes an iron will and a penchant for risk to submit to the risky calculus of the day-long music festival. In the weeks leading up to the Treasure Island Music Festival, there was no doubt that the lineup would yield something for just about any modern music fan from dreaded dubstep nodders to ho ... More >>

Etienne de Crecy DJ set

12 Jockeys

Sebastien Tellier: France’s top pop chanteur

Kiss and Tellier

Hail France’s top pop chanteur.

A brief history of vocal fakery from Zapp to "Lollipop"

Sunday Dispatch: Bay to Breakers

Kanye, Jay-Z, Mary J., and Rihanna clamor for diva status

CD Review: Daft Punk -- Alive 2007

Battles Culture-Shocked After Jarring London-Vegoose Flight

Las Vegas Vegoose Festival Coverage: Daft Punk, Iggy and More

Vegoose Brings 'Bay' Faves Daft Punk, RATM to the Desert: Lucky Bastards

Justice At Mezzanine: Dance Party of 2007 or Millennium?

Chemical Brothers Tom Interview: 'Drugs Are Bad' Mmkay

Kanye West

Graduation (Island Def Jam/Roc-A-Fella)

CD Review: VHS or Beta -- Bring on the Comets

Blank Film

Digitalism

Idealism (Astralwerks)

Live review on Daft Punk/Rapture show

Dancing robots take control from a gigantic laser pyramid

Daft Punk Funks Up Berkeley Tonight

Grinderman, Daft Punk, Sila & the Afrofunk Experience -- ASD’s Live Music Picks for Friday, July 27

CD Review: Justice, †, Grade: A

French robots rule! Daft Punk takes the lead at the summer's biggest dance party

Justice

† (Vice)

Holy Molar!

All Teeth and Knuckles knock some sense outta our scene

What's in store for indie rock and prime time in a post-O.C. universe

BeatBox

Superstars Basement Jaxx and Deep Dish spin back-to-back nights of big beats at Ruby Skye

BeatBox

MC Myka Nyne and friends celebrate that most blurry of holidays; the best in dirty French techno comes to town

Derrick Carter + Mark Farina

Live at Om

H_Foundation

Environments