Great American Music Hall

Louis XIV Moved to Great American Music Hall

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No Age Visits GAMH in July

ArnoCorps Invade GAMH in Aug.

Last Night: Why? at the Great American Music Hall

Black Kids Move Oct. Show to GAMH

Friday Photos: Cold War Kids at the Great American

King Buzzo to Wish You a Very Melvins Christmas at the GAMH

A little birdie just told me that those masters of idiosyncratic super-heaviness, Los Melvins de los Estados Unidos, are scheduled to play at the Great American Music Hall two days after Christmas, i.e., Saturday, Dec. 27. Tix will go for $21, so add that to your Xmas wish list if that's the way you ... More >>

Last Night: Thrasher 2008 Skater of the Year Party featuring Too $hort

Thrasher 2008 Skater of the Year Party Great American Music Hall December 12, 2008 Review and Photos by Eric K. Arnold The t-shirted, sneakered, baseball-capped hordes descended upon the Great American Music Hall Friday night for Thrasher magazine's "Skater of the Year" party. Despite at least one ... More >>

Recordings

Thrasher 2008 Skater of the Year Party Great American Music Hall December 12, 2008 Review and Photos by Eric K. Arnold The t-shirted, sneakered, baseball-capped hordes descended upon the Great American Music Hall Friday night for Thrasher magazine's "Skater of the Year" party. Despite at least one ... More >>

Recordings

Thrasher 2008 Skater of the Year Party Great American Music Hall December 12, 2008 Review and Photos by Eric K. Arnold The t-shirted, sneakered, baseball-capped hordes descended upon the Great American Music Hall Friday night for Thrasher magazine's "Skater of the Year" party. Despite at least one ... More >>

Night+Day

Thrasher 2008 Skater of the Year Party Great American Music Hall December 12, 2008 Review and Photos by Eric K. Arnold The t-shirted, sneakered, baseball-capped hordes descended upon the Great American Music Hall Friday night for Thrasher magazine's "Skater of the Year" party. Despite at least one ... More >>

Night+Day

Thrasher 2008 Skater of the Year Party Great American Music Hall December 12, 2008 Review and Photos by Eric K. Arnold The t-shirted, sneakered, baseball-capped hordes descended upon the Great American Music Hall Friday night for Thrasher magazine's "Skater of the Year" party. Despite at least one ... More >>

Stacy's Mom vs. Yolanda at the DMV counter

Thrasher 2008 Skater of the Year Party Great American Music Hall December 12, 2008 Review and Photos by Eric K. Arnold The t-shirted, sneakered, baseball-capped hordes descended upon the Great American Music Hall Friday night for Thrasher magazine's "Skater of the Year" party. Despite at least one ... More >>

Keeping the beat in New Orleans: Preservation Hall Jazz Band

Thrasher 2008 Skater of the Year Party Great American Music Hall December 12, 2008 Review and Photos by Eric K. Arnold The t-shirted, sneakered, baseball-capped hordes descended upon the Great American Music Hall Friday night for Thrasher magazine's "Skater of the Year" party. Despite at least one ... More >>

Noise Pop Tip Sheet

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Best Underage Band

Dump the Dandy Warhols for Dead Meadow

Step Right Up

Running away with the circus

Board President

Smile, Thrasher loves you

Buffy Band

Spike the Vampire has a posse

Best Subliminal Pot Endorsement

Stage Left Balcony, Great American Music Hall

Riff Raff

Ghost Story

Reviews

Ghost Story

Last Night: Black Lips at the Great American Music Hall

Black Lips April 30th, 2009Great American Music Hall Better Than: Steel wool q-tips. Most notable for live shows rife with scandal and debauchery, for Atlanta's Black Lips, bodily fluids, homoeroticism, fires, and other assorted antics are commonplace. Having been banned from countless venues do ... More >>

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 >>

What To Do? Wednesday's Pick:

​Del the Funky Homosapien @ Great American Music Hall In this week's issue, Jonah Flicker writes that Del the Funky Homosapien has "contributed his share to the canon of hip-hop classics. His first two albums, the funk-infused I Wish My Brother George Was Here and the harder-edged, battle-rappi ... More >>

What To Do? Monday's Pick: Vic Chestnutt

Sandlin Gaither​Vic Chestnutt @ Great American Music Hall "Vic Chesnutt's sense of self is as unsteady as a drunk on Sunday morning. In his songs, the Southern singer-songwriter veers rambunctiously from searing declarations ('I am not a victim ... I'm an atheist!') to dismal self-reflection ('I ... More >>

Video of the Day 2: Best Coast's "When I'm With You"

No wonder Best Coast hates sleeping alone. In this new video for her greatest songs (and one of my favorite singles of 2010) Bethany Cosentino reveals the man who earned her affections: Ronald McDonald. The dude may have a bright red honker, but he can bike ride along the beach and backyard BBQ lik ... More >>

What to Do? Tuesday's Pick: The Almighty Defenders

Photo by Megan Cullen​The Almighty Defenders @ Great American Music HallSince bailing on the super-obnoxious Spaceshits some 10 years ago, Arish "King" Khan has gone on to blaze a prolific path as the antic-prone frontman for a variety of retro-fried outfits. After a show with King Khan and the S ... More >>

Last Night: Camera Obscura and Best Coast at Great American Music Hall

Camera Obscura​Camera Obscura, Best Coast Wednesday, April 21, 2010 Great American Music Hall Better than: sipping Hawaiian punch on your back porch. Camera Obscura and Best Coast go together like girly cocktails and little pink drink umbrellas. Last night, the audience at Great American Music H ... More >>

Tortoise Doesn't Pander To Anyone But Tortoise

​TortoiseDas Boton@Great American Music HallJune 11, 2010 Better than: Not watching a genre-defying band you've idolized for over a decade. Watching a band such as Chicago's jazz-influenced post-rock ensemble Tortoise perform live is completely unlike anything else in the indie music circui ... More >>

Man Man Soaks Its Rowdy Fans' Cigarettes with Sweaty Chaos

​Man Man Let's WrestleSeptember 7, 2010 Great American Music Hall Better than: Hobo Madness Man Man and San Francisco were made for each other. The band's gang-shout vocals, madcap cacophony and random junkyard percussion make up the perfect soundtrack for oddballs, hobos and m ... More >>

The Jim Jones Revue Tells Us the Secret Behind 'The Best Damn Rock'n' Roll Band on the Planet'

​The Jim Jones Revue has been called "The best damn rock 'n' roll band on the planet" by Mojo magazine -- a classic bit of British music press hyperbole that this time has a kernel of truth to it. This Sunday (September 19), the frenetic London five-piece will bring its superheated, piano-driven r ... More >>

Free Download: Adult Swim's Righteous Metal Compilation

​In their ongoing colonization of the fertile realms beyond the province of television, the indefatigable content-providers of Cartoon Network's Adult Swim programming block -- in partnership with Scion's weirdly savvy marketing team -- have seen fit to drop another bomb on the internet. Enter Met ... More >>

How To See Rogue Wave Next Month For Free

Rogue Wave, loose in public!​So, Oakland indie-rock outfit Rogue Wave (producer of the recent Permalight) is playing a free show at Great American Music Hall. Well, sort of. The tickets are free, if you know where and when to get them. And guess what? We will tell you -- after the jump.

Delorean Reaches for (Musical) Ecstasy at Great American Music Hall

Delorean last night at Great American​DeloreanLemonadeNovember 10, 2010@ Great American Music HallBetter than: taking drugs at the Cow Palace.With all due respect to the lovers and survivors of house and trance music, the movement has moved, onward and outward, to bigger sounds and better ideas. T ... More >>

Grinderman: Show Preview

Delorean last night at Great American​DeloreanLemonadeNovember 10, 2010@ Great American Music HallBetter than: taking drugs at the Cow Palace.With all due respect to the lovers and survivors of house and trance music, the movement has moved, onward and outward, to bigger sounds and better ideas. T ... More >>

Download a Free Low Live EP Before Tuesday's S.F. Show

Low​Low's ninth album doesn't come out until next year, but here's something to hold you fans over -- and get you stoked for the somber Midwestern rock band's S.F. show next week. It's a free live EP, recorded last year in the St. Catherina Church in Eindhoven, the Netherlands.

Coachella Runoff: Animal Collective Plays Great American Music Hall This April (Updated)

The creature-loving crew of Animal Collective​ All behold the glorious largesse of Fauxchella! When many among the massive onslaught of bands coming to the Golden State for that sweaty confab down south spread the love to we cold-weather-preferring hippies of Nor-Cal! Thus heaping yet another eco- ... More >>

Music Links: Kurt Vile in the Bedroom, 13-Year-Old's Benefit Show, More

Before his sold-out show tonight, Kurt Vile played in Yours Truly's bedroom. It was rad. Watch the video. [Yours Truly]Local eighth-grader organizes a Great American Music Hall show called "It Gets Indie" on Monday for a good cause. [The Bay Bridged]

Tonight's Dredg Show at Great American Music Hall Canceled

Dredg: Not talking much at dinner tonight.​ Update: The canceled Dredg show is now just a free show by opener the Trophy Fire. Anyone can come, no ticket required. Doors open at 7 p.m., and the show is at 8. Bad news: Due to the sudden and last-minute loss of singer Gavin Hayes' voice, tonig ... More >>

Saturday Night: The Black Lips Pucker Up for a Sloppy, Sweaty Kiss at Great American Music Hall

Calibree PhotographyThe Black Lips at Great American Music Hall on Saturday.​ The Black Lips Cerebral Ballzy Personal and the Pizzas June 11, 2011 @ Great American Music Hall Better than: Getting peed on at one of those Black Lips shows of lore. The Saturday after the release of their new, M ... More >>

Thao and Mirah Hold a Cheery, Slightly Teary Group Therapy Session at Great American Music Hall

Thao and Mirah at Great American Music Hall last night.​ Thao Mirah BOBBY Led to Sea May 2, 2007 @ Great American Music Hall Better than: Group therapy, Advil Severe Cold & Sinus. As it turns out, one thing that happens when two singer-songwriters with feverishly dedicated cult followings j ... More >>

Saturday Night: Washed Out Leads a Chillwave Dance Party at Great American Music Hall

Washed Out at Great American Music Hall Saturday night.​ Washed Out Class Actress Chain Gang of 1974 July 9, 2011 @ Great American Music Hall Better than: Staying in. Call it un-chill wave, maybe, or perhaps you'd better just call it "dance music" -- because aside from a few nods to pop conv ... More >>

Tornado Rider Shreds the Cello, Reality at Great American Music Hall

Tornado Rider last night at Great American Music Hall. Pics by Ian, more after the jump.​ Tornado Rider The Phenomenauts Judgement Day August 4, 2011 @ Great American Music Hall Better than: Your last teddy bear-murdering party. So there is a guy, a medium-height, long-haired guy, and he is ... More >>

Dum Dum Girls Break Out of Their Surf-Pop Formula -- Barely -- at Great American Music Hall

Dum Dum Girls at Great American Music Hall last night. Photo by the author, more after the jump.​ Dum Dum Girls Crocodiles Oct. 4, 2011 Great American Music Hall Better than: Best Coast -- sometimes, anyway. The problem with reverb-drenched, girl-group-derived, shoegaze-descended guitar pop ... More >>

Nick Lowe Charms the NPR Crowd at Great American Music Hall

Nick Lowe at Great American Music Hall last night​ Nick Lowe J.D. McPherson Oct. 10, 2011 The Great American Music Hall Better than: What Lou Reed has chosen to do with his later career, by far. Although many original punk and new wave musicians delved into American and roots rock later in t ... More >>

Live Review: Wild Flag Gets a Grinning Reception at Great American Music Hall

Wild Flag at Great American Music Hall on Friday.​ Wild Flag Drew Grow and the Pastors' Wives Nov. 4, 2011 Great American Music Hall Better than: FM 107.7 The Bone -- usually. Wild Flag played its fifth-ever live show in San Francisco almost a year ago, for a sold-out, ecstatic crowd at Bott ... More >>

Live Review: Starfucker Asks to Be Taken Seriously While Playing in Drag

Starfucker at Great American Music Hall on Friday.​ Starfucker Painted Palms Feelings Jan. 6, 2012 Great American Music Hall Better than: Pyramid or Pyramiddd. Look, we all get it. With a name like Starfucker, it's hard to be taken seriously. Nearly any time the band is mentioned, the absu ... More >>

Live Review, 2/6/12: Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Gets Comfortable at Great American

Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra last night at Great American Music Hall.​ Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Montana Roberts Feb. 6, 2012 Great American Music Hall Better than: Any use of a flute in a rock song, ever. Before the five members of Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orc ... More >>