Fleetwood Mac

20 Spot: New Mission Wine Bar Takes Cues From Past

20 Spot Brings Wine and Mid-Century Design To The Mission

Punk rock enthusiasts may mourn the loss of Force of Habit, the record shop that inhabited the space that is now wine bar 20 Spot, but the winos in town can rejoice. The wine bar, from owners Bodhi Freedom (owner of Bacchus) and chef Anthony Paone, opened in March, and boasts a list of North America ... More >>

Films From The Diaspota

Arthouse Movie Listings Mar. 27-Apr. 2, 2013

The Top Five Parties in San Francisco This Weekend

December's here, and that means things really ought to be winding down in expectation of the approaching holidays. But that doesn't seem to be what's happening. Maybe it's the threat of the approaching Mayan apocalypse, but San Francisco's promoters only seem to be ramping up. Let's go to Corinthian ... More >>

Fleetwood Mac Is Coming Back to the Bay Area Next Year

It's no longer a Rumour: Fleetwood Mac, '70s pop juggernaut, cocaine-abuse-story generator, and creator of the amazing Tusk, is reforming for a tour next year -- and the band is stopping in what was once the home turf of lead members Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham: the South Bay.

How Obama and Romney Are Presiding Over the Death of the Campaign Song

Last week in Charlotte, Bill Clinton stepped to a podium in front of his party's delegation and delivered a speech. Maybe you saw it? What I remember are words -- lots of words. Some of them wrapped around statistics, others glaring back at me like bumper stickers on chrome. Clinton's words flowed f ... More >>

Washed Out Refuses to Play Favorites, Says Playing Live and in the Studio Are Two Totally Different Things

There's a surprise awaiting anyone checking out the Friday night lineup at Outside Lands. Yes, Beck performs before normal people eat dinner, but arguably that stage's Beck-Foo Fighters-Neil Young progression is logical. And yes, Justice will close the night elsewhere, but everyone knows they'll mak ... More >>

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

The Top 15 Most Cocaine-Influenced Albums of All Time, Nos. 5-1

See also: * The Top 15 Most Cocaine-Influenced Albums of All Time, Nos. 15-11 * The Top 15 Most Cocaine-Influenced Albums of All Time, Nos. 10-6 Here we are, at the end of the blizzard: the final installment of our list of the most coked-out records ever made. Less an endorsement than an assessme ... More >>

New Year's Eve: 10 Bands Playing Live in S.F. Worth Spending Your Evening With

Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve is still an option for the night of Dec. 31, since the man himself has lived to rock another year. But if the glow of the television screen isn't gonna provide enough sonic warmth this year, there are thankfully plenty of options to hear and see music performed li ... More >>

S.F.'s Girls Seek the Holy Ghost of Rock 'n' Roll Past on Their Audacious Second Album

Girls: There is something timeless and vital in the two full-length records that San Francisco's Girls have released in the last three years. In an era of indie music dominated by irony (see the nostalgic nonchalance of chillwave) and willful obscurity (see Radiohead's latest album, King of Limbs), ... More >>

Stevie Nicks Will Play the Fillmore in October

Warner Reprise​Earlier this year, Menlo-Atherton High School graduate and former San Jose State University student Stevie Nicks released In Your Dreams, her first album in a decade -- timed with the 30th anniversary of her solo debut, Bella Donna. Today, she announced a trio of shows back in t ... More >>

Local Rapper The Jacka Wants You To Name His Near-Trainwreck of a New Song

​Pittsburg rapper The Jacka has a new album on the way next year called Murder Weapon. Today, he released the first track from the forthcoming project, simply called "Untitled." But there's a (marketing) catch: He wants fans to name the song.

Hear This While High: The Walkmen's Cover of Fleetwood Mac's 'Holiday Road'

​Listen to this while high: "Holiday Road" by The Walkmen. Posted first as a video at the Onion's A.V. Club. Listen to it (and download it) here. Behind the buzz: There's no need for recourse to the dread iconography of Fleetwood Mac to account for the nervous new wave charm of the Lindsey Buckin ... More >>

Wavves' addictive surf-punk makes it king of the beach

How The Good Life's Rock Resembles Messy Relationships [Pics added]

Chris Stevens​The Good Life@Rickshaw StopJune 10, 2010Better than: Some bullshit escapeThe anatomy of a messy relationship: Step 1. The first meeting. The Patron Saint of Messy Relationships, Mr. Tim Kasher, the driving force and lifeblood of Saddle Creek indie rock group the Good Life, climbed on ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Tom Petty and Co. Bring On Classic Rock Catharsis

Christopher Victorio​Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Joe Cocker @Oracle Arena June 5, 2010 Better than: Pill-based forms of anxiety relief Uptight white people, the remedy you require is Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. As it went down Saturday, the anxiety cure-all constituted three parts unaba ... More >>

What To Do? Monday's Pick: Mates of State

​Mates of State @ Cafe du Nord The ingredients of Mates of State are so simple and few -- drums, organ, two voices, the infectious glow of marital bliss -- that you'd think the band would be treading water after five albums. Quite the opposite: The ever-harmonizing pop duo of Kori Gardner and Jas ... More >>

Married to Drums and Keyboard

Just As Long As Alice Doesn't Show Up in a Tube Top

Fruit forward: Lynch's upcoming CD.​It promises to be a multi-dimensional Boomer blowout when a founding member of Berkeley's Delicious Revolution goes all blues rocker. On Wednesday, October 7, at the Great American Music Hall, wine import maverick and a hobbyist musician/tunesmith Kermit Lyn ... More >>

The Dry Spells

Too Soon for Flowers (Antenna Farm)

Last Night: Fleetwood Mac at the Oracle Arena

Fleetwood MacOracle Arena, OaklandPhotos by Christopher Victorio - Click here for a full slideshowBetter than: Watching American Idol's downright infuriating finale with clenched fists.Delving into the convoluted history of Fleetwood Mac is tantamount to stepping in a cow pile for the casual fan (an ... More >>

Hey DJ! Friday Q&A: DJ Fender-Rose

What are your thoughts on Christopher Cross? Hall & Oates? Men with beards so tickly that kissing them makes you giggle? If you answered with a blush to any of these mentions, get thyself to the Attic on a Tuesday night, where you'll be swimming in soft rock with the Sailing DJs. Much like their u ... More >>

Turning Japanese

At this tiny spot, tasty skewered treats are served with a vintage soundtrack.

Hey DJ! Friday Q&A: DJ Staypuft

The Big Studio Slump

The body count of legendary recording studios that have gone silent is undeniable.

LastNight: The Mountain Goats Record for Daytrotter and a Tour of the Wolfgang Vault

Girl in a Coma, The Ladybug Transistor, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum -- ASD's live music picks for Friday June 15

Choogle Your Own Adventure

The Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound paints a bright apocalypse

Heartless Bastards

All This Time (Fat Possum)

Midlake

The Trials of Van Occupanther

It's the sober life for me

Merge Records' package tour, New Buffalo's Olivia Newton-John sweetness, and the return (yet again) of American Music Club

Calexico/Iron & Wine

In the Reins

In the Year 2005

Like killer bees and cheap labor, this year's music and fashion trends are charging up from the South (by Southwest)

Bouncer

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

White Mud Free Way

Last Year's Junk

Music Highlights

From Mahler to Morrissey, the Bay Area has it all this summer.

Hammer of the Gods

With a handful of artists, "classic rock" is not

a pejorative

Mac Attack

Camper Van Beethoven's long-lost version of Fleetwood Mac's Tusk album resurfaces -- and inspires a reunion

The Langley Schools Music Project

Innocence & Despair (Bar/None)

House Of Tudor

Stinky's Peep Show Four-Year Anniversary; The Gossip; "Live From the 215"

Mojave 3

Excuses for Travellers (4AD)

Review

Vue's The Death of a Girl

Mush Never Sleeps

Riff Raff

Reviews

Riff Raff

Suspicious Minds