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The High Five: Great New Songs from Tyler the Creator, Watch the Duck, the Pastels, and More

Welcome, time-crunched and over-stimulated music fan, to All Shook Down's High Five -- a place where Byard Duncan wades through the shit to find you the hits. Well, five of them, anyway. Sad times here at the High Five. With one notable exception, this week's picks take different approaches to the ... More >>

Beyonce's "Bow Down": How Did She Go So Wrong?

You may have noticed, if you saw our Superbowl Halftime coverage, that we're quite enamored with Beyonce. We said things like: "If there is a more compelling pop performer than Beyonce on Earth right now, we have yet to find them," and: "Bey is living, kicking proof that wearing revealing, leathery ... More >>

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

Solange Kicks Off Her U.S. Tour at the Independent, 2/5/2013

SolangeKelelaTuesday, Feb. 4, 2013The IndependentBetter than: Sitting at home listening to early Janet Jackson records. All the cool kids came out of hiding last night to hear Solange play the hits off her new EP, Truth. The Independent's usual passive crowd was replaced with a bustling sold-ou ... More >>

Beyonce's Half-Time Show Was So Rad That the Power Went Out Afterward

How awesome was Beyonce's half time show at the 2013 Superbowl last night? So insanely awesome taht she caused a power outage in half the stadium immediately afterwards. Okay, okay, so we don't know if it was her fault, per se, but this thing was definitely explosive. When the lights went out in the ... More >>

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

10 Great Songs About Cheating on Your Lover

Depending on your perspective, cheating's a little bit naughty, a whole bunch of fun, or one of the worst things you could possibly do to another human being. Here are our 10 favorite songs about not being able to keep it in your pants when you're supposed to. "Cry Me A River," Justin TimberlakeThe ... More >>

Destiny's Child Return -- And Wander Straight Into a Boring Wine Bar

At the end of last week, when we found out that new Destiny's Child material was coming our way, we literally did a happy dance. Would this new single be an I-am-woman-hear-me-roar triumph, like "Survivor"? Would it be an iconic dance party classic, like "Bootylicious"? Or would it be a sassy modern ... More >>

Top 10 Black Pop Stars Who Should Go Country

With the nation's major-party political conventions recently drawing to a close with a rousing reelection appeal from the nation's first black president, it seems fitting to cast a spotlight on an equally rare profession: the black country music artist. Or, rather, the former black pop star seeking ... More >>

After 20 Years, Sir Mix-a-Lot's "Baby Got Back" Is Still Huge Because America Loves Asses

There are songs that mention hands, touching numbers that express feelings of giddy togetherness and devilish desire: "Put Your Hands Together" by Eric B. & Rakim, "I'm Throwin' up My Hands" by Rev. Gary Davis. There are songs that mention feet and how they hastily whisk us away or keep us rooted in ... More >>

The Bob Marley Parasite and Other Weird Crap Named After Musicians

If you've walked along upper Haight recently, you'll have no doubt noticed the series of tributes to much loved musical heroes who are no longer with us, lovingly arranged around single trees. Amy Winehouse recently joined Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin on that run. But tributes to musicians -- both ... More >>

Good Vibrations Oakland and Kandi Burruss of Real Housewives of Atlanta Come Together

Female-friendly and home-grown sex-toy retailer Good Vibrations has a new store in Oakland. Reality TV star, R&B musician, and newly minted sexpert Kandi Burruss has a new line of sexual products. Where do the two intersect? Well, literally speaking, in Oakland later this month. Good Vibes plans to ... More >>

Top 5 Songs To Help You Survive Christmas Shopping

We feel your pain. We know what's going on. Christmas is bearing down on all of us, and gift-purchasing season is kicking our asses this week. It's the same every year: It creeps up like a post-Thanksgiving death knell, and if we don't submit, our entire family and most of our social circle will de ... More >>

Exclusive: NastyNasty's 'Lazer Soul' DJ Mini-Mix

Luba RonissNastyNasty​Jasper Reeder is San Francisco lazer-bass aficionado NastyNasty, a vital asset to our city's increasingly vibrant electronic music landscape. He contributes his speaker-wobbling tracks to a handful of labels, including local institution Frite Nite, and can be seen regularly r ... More >>

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Last Night: Adele at The Warfield

Adele The Warfield January 29, 2009 Better than: Watching Amy Winehouse frolic a step away from death. British singer/songwriter Adele Laurie Blue Adkins (known simply as Adele) totes a voice that's dripping with old soul, yet she's only 20. When she took to the stage last night at the Warfiel ... More >>

History as predicted by Inauguration Day's #1 hits

Rap and Bullshit

Today’s R&B is pure garbage.

Beyoncé

I Am ... Sasha Fierce  (Columbia/Music World)

Bay Area Contestants Bust Out of American Idol Auditions at Parc 55 Hotel

Vallejo Rapper Soldier Hard Brings Home Iraq's Harsh Realities

The most egregious holiday money grabs in music history

Kelly Rowland

Ms. Kelly (Columbia)

Welcome to MySpace, Whoever You Are

This year, it's all about You, so put Yourself out there

Diamond in the Rough

Steve Martin's Pink Panther piddles on its predecessor

Journalism 101

Dear Reactionaries: If you think the New Times merger spells trouble for local music, read this column

Hear This

The final farewell of Destiny's Child, the return of Olivia Tremor Control, and some girl named Kelly Clarkson

Get Started as a Bedroom Musician

Learning to make music can make for a new you in the new year

Cliché-Free Zone

Don't expect to see bling at the S.F. Hip Hop DanceFest

House of Tudor

Comic Neil Hamburger tells lame, awkward anti-jokes. What's so funny about that?

House of Tudor

Plane old new wave/speed metal, the visualization of sound, an African update of Carmen, and the über-proto-feminist lifestyle-radical

What Becomes a Legend Most

A modest proposal for commercializing S.F. neighborhoods.

The Monster Mash-up

2 Many DJ's is never enough

Powers Off

In Goldmember, Myers' mojo is running low

Persistent Visions

This season's cinema demands attention

Pop Philosophy

What Bush's choices for inauguration music say about the next four years

We're No. 1

SF is Travel & Leisure's favorite city, Destino, Teatro ZinZanni

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