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Great American Music Hall

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    January 3, 2013

    Discover Emerging Food Vendors at Great American Music Hall

    The Great American Pop-Up Where: Great American Music Hall, 859 O'Farrell (at Polk), 885-0750 When: Mon., Jan. 14, 6 p.m. Cost: Free admission (menu items available à la carte) The rundown: Great American Music Hall occasionally flirts with pop-up food events, and the first one of the year featur ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 17, 2012

    Live Review, 4/16/12: Godspeed You! Black Emperor Stays Elusive at Great American Music Hall

    By DAVID CORCORAN Godspeed You! Black Emperor Pierced Arrows April 16, 2012 Great American Music Hall Better than: Standing planted in one spot for two hours doing almost anything else. Things You Probably Didn't Learn at Last Night's GY!BE Show That You Were Thinking Maybe You Would There were a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 23, 2012

    Live Review, 2/22/12: Cursive Is Flawless But Not Thrilling at Great American Music Hall

    CursiveUmeWednesday, Feb. 22, 2012Great American Music HallBetter than: Staying in with a record player and a glass of wine (but only just). Going to see Cursive at the Great American Music Hall tonight is a little bit like going to an amusement park and finding that only one rollercoaster is open. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 7, 2012

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

    Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra Matana 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 Orchestra ascended the stage last night at the Great American Music Hall, it was evident tha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 9, 2012

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

    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 absurdity of its name comes up. Critics cite it as a reason wh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 7, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2011

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

    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 is that it's as limited as a vegan's view of bacon. You get a monolithic merseybeat, two or three spanky ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 11, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 24, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 13, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 22, 2011

    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]

  • Blogs

    January 21, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2010

    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.

  • Music

    November 24, 2010

    Grinderman: Show Preview

    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.

  • Blogs

    November 11, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    October 26, 2010

    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.

  • Blogs

    September 23, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 17, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 7, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 12, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 22, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 14, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 30, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    November 25, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 31, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 1, 2009

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 13, 2008

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 4, 2008

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 28, 2008

    Friday Photos: Cold War Kids at the Great American

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    September 17, 2008

    Black Kids Move Oct. Show to 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 >>

  • Blogs

    August 30, 2008

    Last Night: Why? at the Great American Music Hall

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    July 3, 2008

    ArnoCorps Invade GAMH in Aug.

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    June 24, 2008

    No Age Visits GAMH in July

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 1, 2008

    Louis XIV Moved to Great American Music Hall

    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 >>

  • Music

    February 21, 2007

    Keeping the beat in New Orleans: Preservation Hall Jazz Band

    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 >>

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    February 21, 2007

    Noise Pop Tip Sheet

    Dump the Dandy Warhols for Dead Meadow

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    May 11, 2005

    Best Underage Band

    Dump the Dandy Warhols for Dead Meadow

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    May 4, 2005

    Step Right Up

    Running away with the circus

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    December 17, 2003

    Board President

    Smile, Thrasher loves you

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    May 21, 2003

    Buffy Band

    Spike the Vampire has a posse

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 17, 2000

    Best Subliminal Pot Endorsement

    Stage Left Balcony, Great American Music Hall

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    October 27, 1999

    Riff Raff

    Ghost Story

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    August 20, 1997

    Reviews

    Ghost Story

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    April 17, 1996

    Night+Day

    Ghost Story

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    October 18, 1995

    Night+Day

    Ghost Story

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    August 2, 1995

    Recordings

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    June 7, 1995

    Recordings

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