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Sayonara, Vibe
Shawn MortensenVibe's First Cover Hang on to those back issues of Vibe, folks. As of today, they're officially collectors items. As reported by Daily Finance, the New York Times, and RapRadar, Vibe is ceasing publication effective June 30. According to a letter from Vibe CEO Steve Aaron, the magazine is shutting down because of the following factors: "the collapse of the capital markets" (translation: we're in debt big-time); "the print advertising collapse" (translation: fashion companies and c
July 1, 2009Everything Must Go Play Pyrate Punx Party
EKAphotographyAnti-Flag: Everything Must Go I have seen the future and its name is Everything Must Go. The Oakland quartet, fronted by the irascible Jake Hout, is quite possibly the Bay Area punk rock's scene's next breakout act-proud heirs to the legacy of such legendary groups as the Dead Kennedys, Flipper, Green Day, Rancid, A.F.I., and Neurosis. Maximum Rock & Roll called them "Oakland's best band in years," and I tend to agree. To be honest, I never really paid much attention to the u
July 6, 2009SFJFF Announces "Rockin' Puppet Mayhem"
Q: when is a puppet show not just a puppet show? A: When the puppets referred to are the Puppet Folk Revival Band. On July 31st, CellSpace hosts the West Coast concert debut of Rockin' Puppet Mayhem: the Puppet Folk Revival Band. Described in their PR as "an unholy blend of the puppetcraft of The Muppets performing a morphed version of faded and jaded rock survivors like Metallica and Spinal Tap--all sprinkled with the very blue banter of Red Orbach, an English-speaking Israeli version of Sou
July 6, 2009Joachim Garraud
July 8, 2009The Pains of Being Pure at Heart stock up for indie stardom
July 15, 2009A View from the Bridge
July 22, 2009De La Soul
July 22, 2009The Father, the Son, and the Holy Sax
July 22, 2009Bobby Ray’s alter egos duke it out
July 22, 2009NPR: Rap as Geopolitics
Il(l) like Kim Jong: Lil' Wayne National Public Radio has an interesting take on beef in the rap world: it's essentially a mirror of global politics, according to Marc Lynch, a professor at George Washington University and the director of the Institute of Middle East Studies. ""The way that rappers compete with each other -- this is soft power," Lynch is quoted as saying. "This is the way you try and make a reputation, try and get what you want, and you have to do it through this very in
July 22, 2009Arty Party This Weekend: Mexican Institute of Sound @ YBC
Napoleon HabeicaYerba Buena snagged a great musical act for this Friday's opening of its new Wallworks exhibit: Mexican Institute of Sound. The band is the brainchild of DJ /producer/president of EMI Mexico Camilo Lara, who uses the moniker as an excuse to mix together traditional Latin music with modern electronica. On his records you hear bits of everything from cumbia to cha cha cha, spiked by left field sound effects. Lara says Latin music comes out of him naturually--or, as he told SF We
July 29, 2009Last Night: Seisiún at the Plough and the Stars
Seisiún Sunday, August 2, 2009The Plough and the StarsBetter than: Drunk frat guys making all the noise at Irish bars.With so much live entertainment happening in San Francisco every night of the week, it's easy to forget about the musical events that go on with zero fanfare. For every band in town or act touring through, there are handfuls of performances by musicians who don't need their names on the marquee. Often times, they don't even need a stage, or much feedback from the crowd.
August 3, 2009High on Fire Prepping New Album
Oakland metalheads High on Fire are hard at work on a new collection of music that frontman Matt Pike promises will share with the masses "the dark seas of our new riffs and tragic stories." Next month they hit the studio to record their fifth album, working with producer Greg Fidelman (Metallica, Slayer, Johnny Cash). There's no specific news on song or album titles, but the band wants fans to know the new stuff will be "heavier, louder and more intricate." Really, is there any other way to
August 4, 2009Rock the Bells
August 5, 2009Sunn O))) slowly inverts expectations
August 5, 2009J-Culture
August 5, 2009Method Man vs. Redman: tale of the tape
August 12, 2009Rafael Casal and Mistah F.A.B. give props to modern Yay Area communication
August 12, 2009Tap Tap Tap
August 12, 2009Quantic and His Combo Barbaro Play Tonight
He makes musical statements, too: Quantic Hey there Latin lovers! Er, make that Latin music lovers. If you like rhumba, meringue, salsa, son, cumbia, and other variants on the South-of-the-border theme, you might not want to miss the debut San Francisco appearance of Quantic and his Combo Barbaro. Quantic --aka Will Holland--is a musical explorer and a bit of an ethnomusicologist who's made forays into soul, Latin, reggae and indie dance music under various monikers, including Flowering Infe
August 14, 2009Last Night: Method Man/Redman, Ghostface Killah at Mezzanine
Method Man/Red ManAugust 16th, 2009 Mezzanine By Noah Sanders Better than: Watching How High sober. Last night's Method Man/Redman show could've been swiped directly from the two veteran rapper's significant mid to late-nineties heyday. Everything was there: the clouds of weed smoke funneling upwards from the crowd, the bass-heavy party raps about chronic smoke and gettin' down, and, of course, the two massively blunted emcees commanding the stage. With one of the shoddiest light show
August 17, 2009Last Night: Pissed Jeans at Bottom of the Hill
Pissed Jeans, Mi Ami, Hissing WoundTuesday, Aug. 18, 2009Bottom of the HillBetter than: Yer typical '90s nostalgia.On record, Allentown, PA's Pissed Jeans are feral. Frontman Matt Korvette could be singing about getting a massage ("Request for Masseuse") and the tension in his voice could hammer the knots into your neck, no matter how slow and tar-thick the music. So you'd expect that live, the group would ramp up the rabid factor, really showing the crowd the fangs barely contained in the sn
August 19, 2009Ricardo Lemvo brings the Mambo to GAMH Tomorrow
Ricardo Lemvo Along with Habib Koite, Ricardo Lemvo is one of those guys who always seems to be on every Putumayo world music compilation, playing funky Congolese-inflected Latin music. Though he's currently based in Los Angeles, Lemvo hasn't appeared much on local stages, so world music fans in general and Afro-Cuban aficionados in particular might want to check for his show Saturday at the Great American Music Hall. If you're unfamiliar with Lemvo's sound, here's a video clip of him
August 21, 2009So what if August: Osage county won a Tony? It's still boring and bloated
August 26, 2009Outside Lands Day 1, Pearl Jam, Tom Jones, Black Joe Lewis
Chritopher VictorioTom JonesPearl 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 pleasant experience. There were no big hassles, and no outstanding peaks either. It was a meat 'n' potatoes evening of music on a night when everything from the concertgoers to the weather seemed in coop
August 29, 2009Fall Dance Picks
September 2, 2009Found in Translation
September 2, 2009Five Classical Music and Opera Events to See This Fall
September 2, 2009The Maestro
September 2, 2009Slavic Soul Party
September 9, 2009Kingdom
September 9, 2009F.N.M At We All We Got Tonight
www.OneShotMediaProductions.comHe'll Slapp You: Traxxamillion South Bay producer Traxamillion was arguably as big a force in the hyphy movement as any artist. His hot-shit beats backed everyone from Keak Da Sneak to Mistah F.A.B. to Dem Hoodstarz to Too $hort to 41Fever. He even produced MC Lars' "White Kids Aren't Hyphy." And he has the distinction of having a PSP app, the Traxxpad Portable Studio, named after him. Traxx's newest project is F.N.M. (Fly N*gga Movement), a group with fel
September 11, 2009Soul Slam IV: Prince vs. Michael Jackson
September 16, 2009Just Tweet It
September 23, 2009Hammer, from the waist down
September 23, 2009Kid Koala reimagines heavy rock with the Slew
September 23, 2009Tim Exile
September 23, 2009Tripping Over It
September 30, 2009New Bay Area punk oral history unearths dead babies, stinky roadies, and strong community networks
October 7, 2009Weekend Pick #2: Buju Banton
Opti-Mystic Soul: Buju Three-time Grammy nominee Buju Banton has been credited with ushering in dancehall reggae's conscious revival with 1994's "Murderer," an anti-violence tune which preceded the ascension of such artists as Sizzla, Capleton, and Fantan Mojah. Beginning his career as a popular toaster with a rapid-fire tongue--which occasionally dipped into slackness, as on the sexual prowess-affirming "Stamina Daddy" and the still-controversial "Boom Bye Bye" (which he no longer perf
October 9, 2009Music Awards Program Guide Intro
October 14, 2009Music Awards Program Guide
October 14, 2009Music Awards: Should I Stay or Should I Go?
October 14, 2009Music Awards: Jukebox Roundtable by Dan Strachota
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October 14, 2009Music Awards: Crown City Rockers
October 14, 2009Music Awards: Lazer Sword
October 14, 2009Treasure Island: Indie-rock elders move forward
October 14, 2009What To Do? Tonight's Pick: Punk Rock Sideshow
Punk Rock Slideshow at the Hemlock "You can blame Al Gore for the dearth of quality punk rock in the jukeboxes of America:he had to go and invent the internet. What a bum! Even dives with great jukes are phasing out their custom mixes in favor of those hateful touch-screen Toxic Boxes. The solution? Ditch the juke and enlist deejays instead. At the Hemlock's Punk Rock Sideshow, DJ Tragic and the Duchess of Hazard pluck gems from their deep collection of punk and hardcore records, guarante
October 26, 2009Track of the Day: Jern Eye
Jern EyeSan Francisco's BOAC has a number of notable remixes and tracks that he's produced on his Web site. He's tackled hip-hop's titans (his version of Eminem's "Crack a Bottle" sounds so much fiercer than the original) and worked with indie faves (Sunspot Jonz and Luckyiam). I'm really digging BOAC's remix of Oakland rapper Jern Eye, though. Jern's new album Vision is out now, and he teamed with the local producer to spin off a fresh version of "Get Down." The single has BOAC playing piano
October 29, 2009
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