Guitar Hero

The Adventures of a Videogame Rebel: Tim Schafer at Double Fine

The Tupac Hologram Is Terrifying and Distasteful. Let's Stop This Madness Now.

On Sunday, April 15, 2012, the world officially entered science fiction-land. Sure, iPods are pretty futuristic, GPS is spy magic from space, and we all have stupidly intelligent phones now, but nothing has felt quite as much like living in a Buck Rogers episode than when Tupac got resurrected in ho ... More >>

Six Signs of Metallica's Pervasive Influence on Pop Culture

​ See more of our Metallica Week coverage: Metallica Kicks off Its 30th Anniversary Week with Notable Guests, Rare Songs, and Lots of Talking Sad But True: How the Black Album Both Made and Ruined Metallica Can't Make It to Metallica's 30th Anniversary Concerts? Celebrate at These Shows In ... More >>

Top Ten Videogame Cakes

It seems like America has gotten a little obsessed with cake lately. Just look at your cable listings (Cake Boss, Ace of Cakes, and Cupcake Wars) or your Internet bookmarks (Cake Wrecks). To liven up the party, you don't just need a cake. You now need a life-size fondant-covered replica of Grandma's ... More >>

Film director Sofia Coppola's journey to "Somewhere"

"Somewhere": Celebrity living has its downside

Meet Local Guitar God Joe Satriani in S.F. This Saturday

Satriani: Not the first to shave his head after balding set in.​Nowadays, with Guitar Hero turning everyday basement dwellers into rock gods, and electronica granting everyone with a laptop the ability to make impossible masterpieces, a skilled technician like Joe Satriani must feel left behind. ... More >>

The New Up: Sultry Psych-Pop Jams for the End of the World and Beyond

​Hey, remember Garbage? No no, hear me out. If you go back and revisit their first album, the one with the pink feathers, I think you'll find time has proven them right about a few things: a balance between heavy-alternative jangle and fetching lead melodies, the virtue of buzzing guitars and a rh ... More >>

Video of the Day: Metallica Stirs Up Another Riot

What is it about Metallica shows in South America that makes the fans so crazy? Today Spin reported that the Bay Area legends caused a second riot in two months, this time in Bogota, Columbia, where police sprayed overeager metalheads with tear gas and water canons. At the end of January, the band ... More >>

Last Night: Neil Young's Bridge School Benefit

Christopher VictorioNeil Young and Adam Sandler​Neil Young's Bridge School Benefit Concert October 25, 2009Shoreline AmphitheaterCheck out our Bridge School slideshow by Christopher Victorio here.  Better Than: watching AC/DC play at Marine World. Combine a huge rock' n roll show with a scho ... More >>

Rodrigo y Gabriela pay tribute to a history of axe-slingers

Golden Star Tea: Just Like Champagne, But Without All the Remorse

Victorcab via FlickrThis just might save you from going home with your exWe remember attending a party years ago at which a guest pulled us aside and muttered, "What do they have here for the alcoholics?" Inquiries were made. The answer was water. Not even the fizzy kind. And perhaps said guest woul ... More >>

How the crash will reshape the music industry

Last Night: Tom Morello, Steve Earle, Wayne Kramer, Sammy Hagar, Boots Riley, Corey Taylor, Joe Satriani and Damian Kulash

Tom Morello, Steve Earle, Wayne Kramer, Sammy Hagar, Boots Riley (The Coup), Corey Taylor (Slipknot), Joe Satriani, and Damian Kulash (OK Go) Thursday, March  26, 2009Slim'sBetter than: Playing Guitar Hero.It was midway through the Tom Morello hootenanny when Rage's shredding machine grinned at ... More >>

Zion-I Return with New Album, Studio, Remix Contest

EKAphotography copyright 2009. all rights reservedZion-I and Goapele at the Zoo. If you've been waiting for local hip-hop to get back on track following a so-so 2008, you'll be overjoyed to know that The TakeOver, Zion-I's long-awaited follow-up to True & Livin', is upon us. Vibrantly electrifi ... More >>

Last Night: Bang Data at the Elbo Room

Bang Data at the Elbo Room January 12, 2009 Review by Eric K. Arnold Photos by EKAphotography What more could anyone ask from a Tuesday night in the Mission than discovering both a new favorite taqueria and a new favorite band? First the taqueria: Los Coyotes on 16th (in-between Mission and Valenci ... More >>

The Trail of Dead Winds Thru S.F. in Mid-March (Be Afraid ... Be Very Afraid)

Arty Texas post-hardcore band ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead has a new album, The Century of Self *, due out in February. The group'll also be hitting the asphalt for a national tour, which finds its way into Slim's on Monday, March 16; tickets cost $18 and go on sale this Sunday, Jan ... More >>

Roasting the four new S.F. supervisors at Temple

Political Satire, Like Prostitution, is Being Ruined By Amateurs

THIS is how you make fun of progressive supervisors! I have a message for the four new Supervisors: Hello. My name is Benjamin. And my job is to say much, much, funnier things about you than anybody did last night. Last night, of course, was the "Roasted Supes" party, which is a vaguely cle ... More >>

Guns N' Roses' fine-print insanity

YouTube Live, No Pants Party and Of Montreal: Your Monday Morning Hangover

Weekend recap by Janine KahnThe bad news is, it's Monday. The good news? This is bound to be one short week! All Shook Down will likely be mostly crickets and echoes this Thursday and Friday as our crew heads out to spend time with their respective clans, so we overdid it this past weekend to make i ... More >>

Saturday: YouTube Live

Last Night: YouTube LiveHerbst Pavilion, Fort MasonNovember 22, 2008Review by Tamara PalmerSee a full YouTube Live slideshow by Sam Heller here.Better than: Going to the dentist.Watch: The show (but don't say I didn't warn you).Remembering life without YouTube isn't easy; it has permeated our online ... More >>

Friday Night: El Guincho at the Independent

El GuinchoFriday, Nov. 21, 2008The Independent ( 628 Divisadero St.)Review by Jennifer MaerzBetter than: Watching your friends play Guitar Hero to Animal Collective. I imagine that being a one-man band is pretty sweet in a lot of ways. You never have to argue with your bandmates about what ... More >>

Deerhoof

Offend Maggie (Kill Rock Stars)

Outside Lands Day 3: Andrew Bird is Good, Jack Johnson is Charming, and Wilco Still Plays Too Long

Outside Lands Day 3: Andrew Bird Rocks, Crowd Plays Guitar Hero

Limited Perspective Playhouse: The Olympic Diet, Part 2 - Michael Phelps Edition

(Air) Guitar Heroes: A Look at the SF Finalists Pt. 2

(Air) Guitar Heroes: A Look at the SF Finalists

Guitar Hero and Rock Band give new meaning to "rock and roll excess"

Paging Freaks

Mortified: Love Is a Battlefield

Guitar Hero Peripherals Getting Cheesy, Lamer Than Original (in a Bad Way )

Book nerds unite at the Marina's Horseshoe Tavern

SF Weekly Best Albums of 2007: Michael Leaverton Weighs In

Queens of the Stone Age Interview — Josh Homme on Jimmy Iovine, Interscope, the Grammys and Hollywood

Almost Famous

It's never been easier to start your own (fake) band.

Guitar Hero III Easily the Best Entry in the Franchise

DethKlok Brutality at UC Berkeley Limited To Guitar Hero III

Bang Camaro Makes You Pay for Karaoke Metal

Sex Pistols Re-Record ‘Anarchy in the U.K.’, Play L.A. For 'Guitar Hero III'

Led Zepp, Meg White and 50 Cent: The 'All Shook Down' Week in Review

We Are So There, We've Passed It. We Have to Double Back to ...

Encore Performance

Don't fret. Guitar Hero II kills the opening act.

Puddle of Fun

LocoRoco is the perfect one-night stand

Beat Down

This DJ simulator is nothing to rave about.

For Those About to Rock

Guitar Hero cranks rhythm-gaming up to 11.