Eddie Vedder

"West of Memphis": A Twenty-Year Ordeal

Ben Folds Five Makes the Past Come Alive at the Warfield, 1/31/12

Ben Folds Five Nataly Dawn Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013 The Warfield Better than: Seeing Deep Blue Something reunite in 2013 ("Breakfast at Tiffany's" for life!) Telling people you're headed to a concert is hip; it carries underlying messages about being active and keeping up on popular culture. But wh ... More >>

Top 9 Trends in Local Music From 2012

Bridge School Videos: Guns N' Roses Play Some Classics, Jack White's Full Set, and More

So Neil Young's annual Bridge School Benefit concert went down at Shoreline Amphitheatre this weekend, bringing artists like the Flaming Lips, Jack White, Guns N' Roses, Eddie Vedder, and many more onstage for an all-acoustic show. Somewhat surprisingly, Guns N' Roses actually showed up, apparently ... More >>

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

Photos: Pearl Jam, Kings of Leon Rock Oracle Party on Treasure Island

Pearl Jam Kings of Leon X Oracle OpenWorld, Treasure Island Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2012 While you were at home crying over President Obama's performance in the first presidential debate last night, Pearl Jam, Kings of Leon, and X were rocking thousands of Oracle employees and guests at its end-of-confe ... More >>

Awkward! The Top Five Most Uncomfortable Grammy Moments

​This Sunday, Rihanna and Chris Brown are both going to be present at the always-prestigious Grammy Awards ceremony in Los Angeles. It's been just three years since they both were forced to drop out of the show last minute, due to Brown having beaten the crap out of Ri-Ri on their way over. We kno ... More >>

The Year in Music Booze: Six Artist's Beverages That Made 2011 One Long Hangover

Rock 'n' roll culture died in 2011. It's got nothing to do with your opinion of Bon Iver, but everything to do with Rolling Stone. The former leading voice of modern music upheld its immaculate reputation this year... by starting an official wine club. It's filled with bottles branded with imagery f ... More >>

IFC's Portlandia Is Coming to San Francisco with Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen

Any of you eco-conscious hippies, fem-lit-reading bookstore owners, and musician-politicians find that IFC's West Coast bohemia-skewering Portlandia doesn't hit close enough to your S.F. home? Since, you know it's technically about a city some 600 miles away? Well, consider yourselves lucky: Portla ... More >>

Your Post-Bridge School Comedown Party: Watch a Film About the Benefit's First 25 Years

Neil Young at Bridge School​ We already told you about the plans to release a new, three-DVD, two-CD box set celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the now-legendary Bridge School Benefit concerts. The set will feature some stunning performances from over the years by the likes of Bob Dylan, Neil ... More >>

Five Amazing Grunge Artifacts That Time (and You) Forgot

​You stopped scrawling "World Domination" on the backs of school notebooks. You swapped your Pearl Jam Christmas singles for some Warp Records vinyl when you were graciously informed that this was the next big thing. You didn't recognize Kim Thayil in that recent photograph, what with his nav ... More >>

The Top 10 Hottest Men in Grunge

Sure, it was the era of long, dirty hair and long johns worn to the bar -- but '90s grunge sure did throw up some eye candy. Here, to honor the 20th anniversary of Nirvana's Nevermind, as well as Cameron Crowe's new Pearl Jam documentary Twenty, are the top 10 hottest men of grunge. (Tomorrow, we'll ... More >>

Bridge School Benefit 2011 Lineup: Dave Matthews, Arcade Fire, Eddie Vedder, and More

Neil Young at the Bridge School Benefit. Photo by Christopher Victorio.​ The lineup for this year's Bridge School Benefit is out, and it's as solid as ever. No big reunions -- we got Buffalo Springfield last year, sigh -- but the acoustic shows Neil Young and his wife, Pegi, put on to benefit ... More >>

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

Bouncer Tries to Sort Out the Crowd at Churchill

Eddie Vedder Plays the Soulful Surfer Boy at the Paramount Theatre (Photos Setlist)

Christopher VictorioEddie Vedder at the Paramount Theatre last night.​ Eddie Vedder Glen Hansard July 11, 2011 @ Paramount Theatre, Oakland Way better than: Eddie Vedder's all-ukulele record (Ukulele Songs, it's called). Nothing against the four-stringed instrument that resulted when Portugu ... 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 >>

What To Do? Pierced Arrows at Bottom of the Hill

​Pierced Arrows @ Bottom of the Hill "New kids on the block have taken my place/Walking on my grave," Fred Cole screeched in his last band with his wife, Toody, the mildly legendary garage-rockers Dead Moon. He has a right to those lyrics -- he turns 62 in August. In the Portland, Ore., native's ... More >>

Pierced Arrows

Outside Lands Day 1, Pearl Jam, Tom Jones, Black Joe Lewis

Chritopher VictorioTom Jones​Pearl Jam, Tom Jones, Incubus, Black Joe Lewis & the HoneybearsOutside LandsFriday, Aug. 28, 2009Better than: Anything else you could be doing in Golden Gate Park on a Friday night.The opening day of the second annual Outside Lands was, overall, what I'd call a ple ... More >>

Barrel House’s secret formula: Cool shows, free admission

Body of War

Last Night: Eddie Vedder at Berkeley's Zellerbach Theatre

Oscar-Starved

Hock the Line

Sending up the biopic, Walk Hard sells cheap laughs, lame cameos, and lifeless Cox

Various

I'm Not There (Columbia)

New on DVD -- Sesame Street, Chinatown Collector's Edition, Sicko Collector's Edition

Bridge School's Vedder, Flea Sing-along Canceled

Charlie Musselwhite Spent the Summer of Love with the Blues

The Harmonica Honcho

Bouncer

A wrong turn in the Marina sends Bouncer to a bar in Sausalito, where a lesson about love awaits

Hear This

The monsters of instrumental hip hop (and Dave Matthews) invade S.F.

Hear This

Andrew W.K. is just a frat boy dressed up like a rock star, right? Wrong.

Feline Fatale

Enchanting songstress Cat Power flashes her Cheshire grin -- and her newfound strength

House Of Tudor

Japanese cartoon-pop, and Baffling dissent

Pop Philosophy

Pearl Jam overdose

The Man Who

Pearl Jam manager Kelly Curtis is the guy behind the guys

Side Dish

A Bad Mix

Rock and a Hard Place

Music can free your soul, but can it spring the West Memphis Three?

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The Fellows Who Love Music

The House of Tudor

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Room Temperature

Suspicious Minds

Beer-Soaked Lambs

Hype! surpasses its title

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