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The Top 10 Most Disappointing Albums of 2012 (So Far)

It's a little past the halfway point of 2012, but mid-July still seems like a good time to round up the albums that came out this year and simply failed to meet our expectations. Some of those expectations were admittedly (and deservedly) sky-high -- leading to decent records that still felt like a ... More >>

The Top 20 Greatest San Francisco Musicians: The Complete List

See also: * The Top 20 Greatest San Francisco Musicians: Honorable Mentions Here they are -- the 20 greatest San Francisco musicians ever: 20. Cameron Paul Lists of pioneering American DJs often mention the usual suspects in New York and Chicago, but go back to the '70s and '80s and you'll find ... More >>

The Top 20 Greatest San Francisco Musicians, Nos. 10-6

See also: * The Top 20 Greatest San Francisco Musicians, Nos. 20-16 * The Top 20 Greatest San Francisco Musicians, Nos. 15-11 Throughout this week, we're counting down the greatest San Francisco musicians of all time. Having already honored the likes of Etta James, Mike Patton, and Michael Tilson ... More >>

Metronomy's Top Five Remixes of Other Bands

​British electronic ensemble Metronomy plays the Rickshaw Stop tonight. Back in its home country, Metronomy scored a coveted Mercury Music Prize nomination for its last album, The English Riviera, which dropped earlier this year. That project's second single, "The Look," also grew into somethi ... More >>

Cibo Matto: Show Preview

Del the Funky Homosapien Recalls the Past, Skips Nostalgia

In Print: the Subversive Beauty of tUnE-yArDs, Del the Funky Homosapien's Trip to Hip-Hop's Past, and More

Merrill Garbus of tUnE-yArDs​ From SF Weekly's latest print music section: On tUnE-yArDs: Welcome to the edge of experimental pop in 2011. Garbus has just seen the release of tUne-yArDs' second album, w h o k i l l, which seems all but certain to accelerate her rise from DIY curiosity into one o ... More >>

Metallica Fans More Likely to 'Do It' on a First Date, Dumb Survey Says

"Nice to meet you. Wanna do it?"​Surprise! Metallica and Nirvana fans are more likely to have sex on a first date, while those who like Coldplay and Adele are the least likely to go all the way.Those are the findings of a not-entirely-scientific survey by online dating site Tastebuds, which matche ... More >>

This New Animated Video for Cake's "Long Time' Is Pretty Freaking Dark

Sad monkey.​You're forgiven for thinking that an animated music video -- even one from such a head-in-the-shitty-real-world kind of band as Sacramento's Cake -- will be at least a little cartoony. That drawn characters will cause the plot to resolve in a fantastical way. After all, Gorillaz have t ... More >>

Little Dragon, All Shook Down Pop-Up, Big Lebowski Party, Debaser Sweethearts and More

X-Ray Press plays Hemlock Tavern this Saturday ​There's plenty to do this weekend -- even a few things as enticing as the free party thrown tonight by this very blog, All Shook Down. (Hehe.) Here's our list of 10 things (or, um, ours plus nine) to do this weekend for less than the price of a bottl ... More >>

Sure, You Can Make An Entire Song on the iPhone, But It Will Probably Suck

Not your path to musical greatness, if this song is any indication.​An Israeli duo calling themselves Ilan & Sipo have posted a video on YouTube showing off a song they made entirely with an iPhone. Aside from the final Pro Tools session, every last note, effect, filter and vocal recording was ... More >>

The Top 10 Best Big Concerts I Saw in 2010, with Gaga, Green Day, Sir Paul, Pavement, and LCD Soundsystem

It just didn't seem right to lump in Oracle Arena and HP Pavilion fare with the cozy goings-on at S.F. dens like Bottom of the Hill and even Great American Music Hall. So, in search of an even comparison, I'm breaking it up: Today, here are the best concerts I saw with more than 5,000 of my fellow h ... More >>

Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and lows from this week in S.F. music

Millionyoung and Teen Daze Entrance the Rickshaw Stop

Millionyoung last night at Rickshaw Stop. Pics by Adrian.​Millionyoung Teen Daze December 9, 2010@ Rickshaw Stop Better than: Cranking up your space heater on a cold winter night. In just under two years, the nascent musical sub-genre known as chillwave has gone from buzzed about, to backlashed ... More >>

The Top 10 Music-Related Children's Costumes

So last week you may have seen us going apeshit over this rad dude who made his three-year-old son a mind-blowing Deadmau5 costume for Halloween. Having concluded that he's pretty much the best dad ever, we started thinking about what band-related costumes we'd like to put on the (unfortunate) small ... More >>

Saturday Night: Gorillaz Drag Out De La Soul, Bobby Womack, Little Dragon, and More for a Cartoonishly Fun Halloween

Calibree Photography​GorillazN*E*R*DOctober 30, 2010Oracle ArenaBetter than: Vomiting up a one-eyed octopus; also, seeing Gorillaz on not-Halloween.What are you supposed to look at during a Gorillaz performance? Do you look at the band onstage, where a  group of humans -- including Damon ... More >>

Five Bay Area Hip-Hop Stars Who Should Be Really Stinkin' Rich

Is this what it takes?​On Tuesday, Forbes published its list of hip-hop's 20 highest earners: Jay-Z at number one, naturally, with $63 million, and Senegalese crooner Akon edging out Lil Wayne by a milli -- Weezy's cash-accruing steez have been impressively unabated by his recent jail sentenc ... More >>

Links: Jerry Garcia Biopic Won't Be Able To Use His Songs

Phish​Jerry Garcia Biopic won't be able to use his actual songs. [NY Times]Check out this One Night Music video session with Devotionals, the new project from Two Gallants' Tyson Vogel and the Patzner brothers from Judgement Day. [The Bay Bridged]Tickets for the sold-out Phish shows at the Greek T ... More >>

The 10 Worst Answers to 'What Kind of Music Do You Listen To?"

BrokeNCYDE: All your fears about the younger generation, realized.​It's a terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible question. And a necessary one. Why necessary? Hell, we need some way to talk about the stuff. And it's terrible, obviously, because there's no successful way to answer it ... More >>

Coachella in Photos Day 3: Pavement, Gorillaz, Atoms For Peace, Matt & Kim, Phoenix

The last of photographer Christopher Victorio's great shots from the big desert fest down south, Coachella. Full slideshow here. Christopher VictorioGorillaz​ Christopher VictorioJonsi​ Christopher VictorioJulian Casablancas​ Christopher VictorioPavement​ Christopher VictorioPavement​ ... More >>

Going to Coachella vs. the S.F. staycation

Cosmic Disco Dragons

Over the Weekend: Dan the Automator at Yoshi's

Eric Lawson​Dan the Automator
's "Audio Alchemy"Saturday, March 13, 2010
 Yoshi's
 Better Than: An 8th grade dance. Dan the Automator has a golden hip-hop legacy going back to Kool Keith's Dr. Octagon album. But his latest "Audio Alchemy" effort, showcasing lesser-known artist ... More >>

Gil Scott-Heron's evolution (will not be televised)

Del the Funky Homosapien teams up for his best work in a decade

Zowie

De La Soul

CD ripping services put record collections in the 21st century

Danger Mouse Produces New Black Keys Album, Apparently Never Sleeps

Del's 'The 11th Hour' CD - Review and Del Interview

The Best Art Prints on the Web: Creep Machine's Josh Curates His Top 5 of the Week

Del To Drop the 11th Hour on Def Jux, Not Hiero --- Whaa?!

DethKlok to Destroy DESTROYS UC Berkeley in Bloody Surge of Destructive Destruction

Nothing in Common

To right-wingers, all rap is the same. It's not.

Sibling Mastery

The Rondo Brothers move from indie producers to a powerful pop force

Hitting the MAN-sion for Playboy

Future-Funk Overlords

Gnarls Barkley test the One Ring theory

Our top DVD picks for the week of April 4.

Zach's got a macho Posse; getting caught "Dead" with Robbie Rivera

Behind the Muzak

What do you mean you didn't keep score while watching the Grammys? We did.

Danger Doom

The Mouse and the Mask

Award Show Performers

SF Weekly Music Awards

Hear This

John Legend and De La Soul party on till the brink of dawn. Prog-psych rockers Datetenryu bring the noise from Japan

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Demon Days

Cheap Trick

Special One

Blur

Think Tank

Fischerspooner

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Hear This

Smokey & Miho's delightful re-creation of Brazilian bossa nova pop

The Sounds of Silence

Why the Bay Area has stopped producing big-time rock bands