David Bowie

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

Robyn Hitchcock: Show Preview

Robyn Hitchcock Talks About 1990's Eye and Returning to San Francisco

​In 1989, Robyn Hitchcock, England's esteemed man-of-psych-pop, holed up at Hyde Street Studios here in town and laid down a record touched with greatness. This Thursday he holes up at Slim's to play it straight through. Today, Hitchcock calls his spare, moody Eye "a skeletal predecessor of ... More >>

Andrew Goldfarb, the Slow Poisoner, Discusses Arsenic, Laundromats, and Keeping S.F. Weird

Andrew Goldfarb, aka the Slow Poisoner.​The Slow Poisoner is the one-man band of Andrew Goldfarb, a talented San Franciscan of considerable eccentricity. Describing his music as a "hoe-down on Mars," or a combination of Johnny Cash and David Bowie, Goldfarb has plied his tunes across the country f ... More >>

Destroyer, Nine Albums In, Remains A Singular Band, Plays Monday at Great American Music Hall

Ted BoisThe answer, my friend, is blowing in my hair​ In the past ten years or so, there's been a proliferation of "bands" that are essentially one person, and whoever accompanies him or her on an album/tour. Perhaps it's a way for performers to "distance" themselves from being pigeonholed by a ... More >>

Happy Ending

Ted BoisThe answer, my friend, is blowing in my hair​ In the past ten years or so, there's been a proliferation of "bands" that are essentially one person, and whoever accompanies him or her on an album/tour. Perhaps it's a way for performers to "distance" themselves from being pigeonholed by a ... More >>

Gary Numan's New Wave Mastery Owns the Fillmore

​Gary Numan MotorNovember 2, 2010@The Fillmore  Better than: Carly Fiorina's concession speech.News on the car radio spoke in graveyard tones of a wholesale rout for President Obama and Democrats as we inched through traffic to the Fillmore for my first-ever visit. Months of ritual ... More >>

Small Black: Show Preview

​Gary Numan MotorNovember 2, 2010@The Fillmore  Better than: Carly Fiorina's concession speech.News on the car radio spoke in graveyard tones of a wholesale rout for President Obama and Democrats as we inched through traffic to the Fillmore for my first-ever visit. Months of ritual ... More >>

It Takes a Village To Plan a Crazy Velvet Underground Cover Show

​Think you know the players of the Bay Area music scene? Well, you can test your chops next Tuesday at Coda Jazz Music Supper Club, when a positively ridiculous number of them join forces to pay tribute to the 1967 classic The Velvet Underground and Nico. In album order, each song will be gang-int ... More >>

The Top 6 Most Awkward 'Buddy' Moments in Music Video History

Think back to the last time you were at a family event and someone pointed a camera at you right at the moment you'd been cornered by a relative you couldn't stand. The discomfort shining through your fake smile and awkward body language is captured forever and stuck in the family photo album for al ... More >>

Thrillpeddlers' smash run of Pearls over Shanghai just keeps going

Think back to the last time you were at a family event and someone pointed a camera at you right at the moment you'd been cornered by a relative you couldn't stand. The discomfort shining through your fake smile and awkward body language is captured forever and stuck in the family photo album for al ... More >>

Arthouse movie listings for December 30, 2009-January 5, 2010

Think back to the last time you were at a family event and someone pointed a camera at you right at the moment you'd been cornered by a relative you couldn't stand. The discomfort shining through your fake smile and awkward body language is captured forever and stuck in the family photo album for al ... More >>

Arthouse movie listings for December 23-29, 2009

Think back to the last time you were at a family event and someone pointed a camera at you right at the moment you'd been cornered by a relative you couldn't stand. The discomfort shining through your fake smile and awkward body language is captured forever and stuck in the family photo album for al ... More >>

What To Do? Tuesday's Pick: Moon at the Red Vic

​Moon @ the Red Vic (through Wed.) Moon is one of my favorite films of 2009. Created by David Bowie's son Duncan Jones, the movie riffs off 2001: A Space Odyssey but has its own pop culture sheen and subtle humor. Without saying too much, it's the story of astronaut Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell), whose ... More >>

Ray Zor Beam

​Moon @ the Red Vic (through Wed.) Moon is one of my favorite films of 2009. Created by David Bowie's son Duncan Jones, the movie riffs off 2001: A Space Odyssey but has its own pop culture sheen and subtle humor. Without saying too much, it's the story of astronaut Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell), whose ... More >>

Happy Ending

​Moon @ the Red Vic (through Wed.) Moon is one of my favorite films of 2009. Created by David Bowie's son Duncan Jones, the movie riffs off 2001: A Space Odyssey but has its own pop culture sheen and subtle humor. Without saying too much, it's the story of astronaut Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell), whose ... More >>

The Twisted Path

​Moon @ the Red Vic (through Wed.) Moon is one of my favorite films of 2009. Created by David Bowie's son Duncan Jones, the movie riffs off 2001: A Space Odyssey but has its own pop culture sheen and subtle humor. Without saying too much, it's the story of astronaut Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell), whose ... More >>

M. Ward: Hold Time (Merge)

​Moon @ the Red Vic (through Wed.) Moon is one of my favorite films of 2009. Created by David Bowie's son Duncan Jones, the movie riffs off 2001: A Space Odyssey but has its own pop culture sheen and subtle humor. Without saying too much, it's the story of astronaut Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell), whose ... More >>

30 Century Man

​Moon @ the Red Vic (through Wed.) Moon is one of my favorite films of 2009. Created by David Bowie's son Duncan Jones, the movie riffs off 2001: A Space Odyssey but has its own pop culture sheen and subtle humor. Without saying too much, it's the story of astronaut Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell), whose ... More >>

Club Night Review: Lights Down Low at Paradise Lounge

Lights Down Low at Paradise Lounge Last seen: November 28, 2008 Review and Photos by Crystal Akins After a three-year stint at the 222 Club (222 Hyde St.) and a brief hiatus, Lights Down Low took its final bow at the newly renovated Paradise Lounge last Friday (until it goes underground, anyway). ... More >>

The Dead Science

Villainaire (Constellation)

The Dandy Warhols

Earth to the Dandy Warhols (Beat the World)

Destroyer

Trouble in Dreams(Merge)

New hipster coffee table tome on the New York music underground

Trouble in Dreams(Merge)

Instrumentally Challenged

Beastie Boys clam up on The Mix-Up

Muppets and David Bowie in SF Tonight at Labyrinth Screening

Beastie Boys clam up on The Mix-Up

Placebo releases Extended Play '07

Beastie Boys clam up on The Mix-Up

Stern Grove goes 'Aquatic'

Beastie Boys clam up on The Mix-Up

Getting zoned with Psychic Ills

Beastie Boys clam up on The Mix-Up

Misc. Reviews

If it's kinda, sorta music-related, we'll review it. This Week: The Dick Cavett Show -- Rock Icons DVD.

Do the Killers

The Killers aren't reinventing the rock wheel, but they are repopulating the dance floor

House of Tudor

Anyone good enough for Laugh-In and David Bowie is good enough for you, right?

Taking Sides

Two parties, two plays

Don't Forget About It

Clubbing till the fat lady sings

Reps Etc.

Clubbing till the fat lady sings

Lessick

Elevator

Reps Etc.

Elevator

Sound Advice

Punk goes to the Dogs, and Stephanie Galetti succumbs to darkness.

The Langley Schools Music Project

Innocence & Despair (Bar/None)

Look Ahead

D.A. Pennebaker doesn't make history, but he's captured so much of it

Review

Vue's The Death of a Girl

Side Dish

Vue's The Death of a Girl

Night Crawler

Vue's The Death of a Girl

After the Politics

Vue's The Death of a Girl

Mush Never Sleeps

Vue's The Death of a Girl

Six Degrees of Peter Criss

Vue's The Death of a Girl

The House of Tudor

Vue's The Death of a Girl

Riff Raff

Vue's The Death of a Girl

The House of Tudor

Vue's The Death of a Girl

Suspicious Minds

Vue's The Death of a Girl