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    January 17, 2012

    Saturday: Devo Invokes Sid Vicious and Incites a Mosh Pit at the Fillmore

    Devo Jan. 14, 2012 The Fillmore Better than: Bands that try to cash in on '80s nostalgia without keeping up their chops. Watching concerts from bands that were popular in the '80s can be really depressing -- or, in the case of Devo, incredibly energizing. Since its formation in 1973, the band has ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2011

    10 Actually Good Songs on Metallica's Despised Load and Reload Albums

    It's not that bad. Really.​ As we celebrate Metallica's 30th Anniversary, it's time to reexamine a popular mindset among critics and fans of the most enduringly popular band in metal history: Many believe that that all four of Metallica's 1980s albums were unimpeachable classics, and that afte ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    December 30, 2009

    Local Frequency: As A People

    ​If variety is your thing then As A People may be what you're looking for. Songs on the band's 2008 release Carpet Bomb Ballet vary drastically from post-rock, to metal, and punk. While so many genres in one place would usually come across as scatterbrained, the album is held together by singer A ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 29, 2009

    Outside Lands Day 1, Pearl Jam, Tom Jones, Black Joe Lewis

    Chritopher VictorioTom Jones​Pearl Jam, Tom Jones, Incubus, Black Joe Lewis & the HoneybearsOutside LandsFriday, Aug. 28, 2009Better than: Anything else you could be doing in Golden Gate Park on a Friday night.The opening day of the second annual Outside Lands was, overall, what I'd call a ple ... More >>

  • Music

    June 24, 2009

    Pay for Play

    Superstar session drummer and Dadaist marketing genius Josh Freese (Devo, A Perfect Circle, the Vandals) sells himself, his famous friends, and all-you-can-eat shrimp at Sizzler to promote his new album.

  • Film

    August 20, 2008

    Schoolhouse Rock

    Rainn Wilson comedy is more childish pop than hardcore funny.

  • Music

    July 18, 2007

    Incredibly Strange Wrestlers vs. Japanese tourists vs. the great pinot grigio

    Rainn Wilson comedy is more childish pop than hardcore funny.

  • Music

    March 1, 2006

    Dark Side of the Songbird

    Isobel Campbell sheds the twee and gets ballsy

  • Dining

    December 7, 2005

    The Myth of Fernet

    The saga of Fernet, and its cultlike popularity, says a lot about San Francisco

  • News

    August 31, 2005

    Headbanging for Jesus!

    Infiltrator gets booked on a Christian talk show

  • Music

    February 9, 2005

    Turn Around, Bright Eyes

    Indie icon Conor Oberst grows up -- and blows up

  • Music

    February 2, 2005

    A Friend Indeed

    Luna's last waltz and what it means to be a best-friend band

  • News

    November 10, 2004

    Hot Dark Metal Revival

    Forget Black Sabbath. Don't even mention The Darkness. Dirty Power will lead the hard rock revolution to come.

  • Calendar

    October 27, 2004

    Scary Affairs

    A frightening array of the scariest parties on S.F.'s biggest holiday

  • Music

    April 7, 2004

    The Peels Sessions

    They're San Francisco's hottest garage band -- in Los Angeles, anyway. Will their hometown give them the respect they deserve?

  • Music

    September 3, 2003

    Planet Rock

    Break out the dance pants and hide your jewelry: You're about to meet the Crack Emcee

  • Music

    May 28, 2003

    Coat Tales

    My Morning Jacket may have a big new label, but its haunting brand of country remains as comfortable as ever

  • News

    January 1, 2003

    And a Reagan New Year!

    Learning to live with -- and even love -- a retro-'80s fad that just ... won't ... die

  • Music

    December 19, 2001

    The Silent Type

    Mark Lanegan's downbeat folk-rock speaks volumes -- without resorting to a whole lot of noise

  • Music

    June 27, 2001

    Torch Singers

    The hard-rocking women of the L.A.-based Betty Blowtorch prove their mettle with Are You Man Enough?

  • Music

    November 15, 2000

    Bad to The Bone

    With an unorthodox take on classic rock, The Bone has become the Bay Area's newest radio sensation

  • Music

    May 31, 2000

    Riff Raff

    Flipper's a Cover Band Now, OK?

  • Music

    March 22, 2000

    Very Glitter

    Drawing on a wealth of rock 'n' roll relics, the glam-rockers in Vue finally get their act together

  • Music

    April 28, 1999

    Fanfare for the Common Band

    Metallica and the San Francisco Symphony play the Berkeley Community Theater for two nights, and for what?

  • Calendar

    September 9, 1998

    Night + Day

    Metallica and the San Francisco Symphony play the Berkeley Community Theater for two nights, and for what?

  • Calendar

    April 29, 1998

    Night + Day

    Metallica and the San Francisco Symphony play the Berkeley Community Theater for two nights, and for what?

  • Calendar

    March 5, 1997

    Night+Day

    Metallica and the San Francisco Symphony play the Berkeley Community Theater for two nights, and for what?

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