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With Cassadee Pope, The Voice Has Anointed a True Star

As it's done all season, The Voice dragged out its results show to a degree that was at best arduous and at worst excruciating. So, after two hours of performances from bus-loads of people -- including Rihanna (who had actual clothes on, miraculously), Smokey Robinson, Kelly Clarkson, The Killers, P ... More >>

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The Nuns' Jennifer Miro: An Appreciation By Jack Boulware

By JACK BOULWARE [Editor's note: Jack Boulware is the co-author, with Silke Tudor, of Gimme Something Better: The Profound, Progressive, and Occasionally Pointless History of Bay Area Punk from Dead Kennedys to Green Day.] If we're talking the birth of Bay Area punk, there are as many points of vi ... More >>

The Top 6 Most Annoying Teen Pop Stars -- Other Than Justin Bieber

Justin Bieber: Is there anything more annoying than his stupid helmet hair, saccharine songs, creepy affinity for hitting on older women and tiny, little, smooth, smug face? Not yet, no. But if Ashton Kutcher gets his way, there may well be. For PerezHilton.com has just reported that not only would ... More >>

Last Night: Vampire Weekend and Abe Vigoda at the Fox

Photo of a previous Vampire Weekend show by Moses Namkung​Vampire WeekendThe Fox TheaterApril 19, 2010Better Than: getting bitten by a vampire wearing high-tops, skinny jeans, and shaggy bangs.Last night, the Columbia grads of Vampire Weekend, led by frontman Ezra Koening and his impressive falset ... More >>

Local Frequency: Bay Area Artist Q&A w/ Rykarda Parasol

Shot at the Walter Maciel Gallery, LA. Robb Putnam wall art and sculptureSarah Morrison Photography. Josette Church Makeup. ​On her second full-length effort, For Blood and Wine, Rykarda Parasol invites you on a journey where the main character, a lawless woman trapped in time, drifts between the ... More >>

Thirst: A vampire movie worthy of The Hunger

Creators of Emily the Strange assert their character's lack of originality in court

The Gorey Details

Our Body Music, Ourselves

Halloween at the Cat Club, Dia de los Muertos in the Mission and the Alternative Press Expo: Your Monday Morning Hangover

Q&A: Wednesday 13 at Slim's

Last Night: Glay at the Fillmore

Do You Need a Woman Who Needs Bad Religion?

YBCA women's show revives the F word

Dub Trio

Another Sound Is Dying(Ipecac)

Wii's No More Heroes Lightsabers Geek Chic With Absurdist Gusto

Tiger Beat: Clever Letter Contrasting Lethal Zoo Cat, 9x Muni Bus Brightens Everyone's Day

My Chemical Romance Rocks SF Today (Sunday)

King Misfit

My Chemical Romance posits outcast status as rock nirvana

Striking the same old chords: the bane of the punk documentary

The Dating Game

Death and the Dead surround 6/6/06

Ministry

Rio Grande Blood

Like Star Trek With Worms

This Game Bites

The new Castlevania is the last nail in the franchise's coffin.

Bang Thy Head Carefully

A survival guide for the summer's more vigorous music festivals

Marrying the Mainstream

White men learned to dance, and the emoting was as thick as the eyeliner on the year's best pop-rock records.

Hip to Be SquarePants

There's nothing absurd about the appeal of SpongeBob's first movie

New Found Glory

Catalyst (Drive-Thru)

House of Tudor

Rap-metal prodigy Schäffer the Darklord plays his swan song (as if you cared).

Dance Fever

Young hoofers get down

Ladies Who Lunch

Lydia Lunch was punk back when it took guts just to look strange

Blitzkrieg Pop

Punk has crossed over from underground filth to mainstream fluff, and Vendetta Red suggests that its music is the bridge

House Of Tudor

16 Horsepower; Le Tigre; Wammies