Huey Lewis

Watch: Huey Lewis Goes American Psycho on Weird Al as Sports Gets Reissued

Remember that scene in American Psycho where Patrick Bateman extolls the virtues of the Bay Area's Huey Lewis and the News, just before pounding an axe through the cranium of Jared Leto? Yeah, of course you do -- and if you don't, well, it doesn't really matter: this clip of Huey and Al re-enacts it ... More >>

Scientists Think Pop Music is More Depressing Now -- So We Double Checked

According to a couple of sciencey types (named Glenn Schellenberg and Christian Von Scheve), pop music has been getting steadily more depressing over the last 50 years. The pair's study -- published in Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts -- analyzed over a thousand Top 40 hits from bet ... More >>

Laughing at the Man

Mountain Winery 2011: Huey Lewis! Grace Potter! Neko Case! Yacht Rock!

The Mountain Winery​Sorry for all the exclamations, but there's a lot of shows here we're going to make our parents take us to. The Mountain Winery recently announced its schedule for 2011, and there are some most notable artists coming. Among them, a five-day period this September in which b ... More >>

Learn Promoter Bill Graham's Surprising Story at a New Exhibit on His Life and Work

Ken ReganBill Graham​ He was born to Jewish parents in 1930s Germany, escaped the Holocaust to New York City (his mother died at Auschwitz), and later moved to San Francisco, where he helped foster a historic and still-thriving rock 'n' roll scene. So there's pretty much no disputing that conc ... More >>

In Print: Zoe Keating's Tech-Fueled Cello Explorations, the Beautifully Stoned Noise of Young Prisms, and More

​Zoe Keating: "The technology creates this little box that you're always pushing against the edges of," she says. "I find it really good to have these limitations of [recording] latency or RAM or even frustration -- all those things are annoying, but they actually create the music." This goes ... More >>

The Top 6 Reasons Why Huey Lewis and the News Aren't Playing S.F. on Their Current Tour

Eighties pop-rock icon and Marin County pretty boy Huey Lewis and his longtime band the News recently recorded a new album of Stax covers called Soulsville. To support the new record, Huey and the News are going on tour. Trouble is, they're not playing San Francisco -- at least not according to the ... More >>

Celebrate Bill Graham's 80th Birthday with Los Lobos and Jackie Green at the Fillmore this Saturday -- It's For a Good Cause

Jan SimmonsBill Graham driving across the Golden Gate Bridge in 1983​There are a lot of good reasons to go see concerts -- music being generally foremost among them. But there's also the supporting of good causes through benefit shows, something that the legendary Bay Area concert promoter Bill Gr ... More >>

Watch Huey Lewis and the News Play Stax Hits on Jimmy Kimmel

​Well, the Giants didn't get much love from Jimmy Kimmel's L.A. crowd last night, but Kimmel did call out Marin's Huey Lewis on Sports being kind of a lame title for an essential multi-platinum-selling album. And Lewis, to his credit, summoned a rather humorous retort.But more to the point: Lewis ... More >>

Huey Lewis To Be Honored by Stax Records Museum

​Local boy Huey Lewis is getting props from one of the great houses of American soul.Lewis and the News' new album -- their first in nine years -- is called Soulsville, and consists of songs released on Memphis' Stax label, the home of Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Issac Hayes, and Booker T. & ... More >>

Download an EP from Central Services, the Bitter Cynic's Gnarls Barkley

If you're like everyone in the world, you've been into Cee-Lo's irrepressibly catchy reprisal anthem, "Fuck You." Maybe you've even checked it out in Spanish!Well. Think that's subversive? Try "Fuck Me." Meet Camu Tao: Ohio player, Def Jux staple, and member of some of underground rap's most venerab ... More >>

Links: Joanna Newsom's Flannel Maxi-Pad, What's With All The Two-Piece Bands?

Joanna Newsom​Joanna Newsom: " When I was 12, I went to a fertility empowerment workshop with my mom. We hand-embroidered flannel maxi-pads together." (She plays the Fox on Aug. 2) [7x7]Sit in on a conversation with Huey Lewis. [SFist]What's with all these two-piece bands, anyway? [The Owl Mag]Loc ... More >>

Doggy Bag: Drinking in the Atmo - or Just Drinking

RAY S./YelpJust another night at Pittsburgh's.​Our favorite morsel from the blogs. B-gals: In different posts, the girls of SFAppeal mingle with the hammered and sweaty in the city's murky taverns. Last week, it was Katie Ann Doze sloughing brain cells in Outer Sunset alky pit Pittsburgh's Pu ... More >>

Behind the Bar at Perry's, Da Mayor Turns Into Da Bee-otch

JinkyBurns/FlickrWillie: Not feelin' the gray hairs who showed up at Perry's.​Perry's owner Perry Butler must have been thrilled when he read ex-mayor Willie Brown's take in yesterday's Chron about his guest stint as bartender during the restaurant's 40th birthday celebration last Friday: "On ... More >>

Kill yourself if you listen to classic rock

True Bromance

Rogen and Franco, on the run and madly in love in Pineapple Express.

Huey Lewis and the News, CalArtsSF, San Francisco Free Folk Festival, Rolling Stones -- Night and Day, Sunday 6/17

Let the Gaming Begin

Has a labor boss in trouble with the feds joined a high-powered Democratic lobbyist to merge Konocti Harbor Resort with Indian gambling?

A Union Made in Political Heaven

A labor boss in trouble with the feds joins a high-powered Democratic lobbyist to merge Konocti Resort with Indian gaming

Sweet Spot

Bing Ji Ling's ice cream picks

Some of My Best Friends Are Records

SF Weekly writers pick their favorite Bay Area records of all time

And You Thought They Sucked

These bands actually rule -- just like the Grateful Dead does

Mad Bombers

The art of chaos

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, August 17, 2005

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, August 10, 2005

A Very Special Concert

The enduring bond between Huey Lewis and the developmentally disabled

Megabeth

Funny girl Beth Lisick asks: "Why is anything considered weird anymore?"

OK Then

Top 10 reasons for making a Top 10 list

The forgotten Top 10: The best records of 2001 that you won't see on anyone else's list

The Song Remains the Same

Jackpot proves that karaoke movies are a bad idea even if you're a hip auteur

House Of Tudor

"Cover to Cover"; Brian & Chris; "Haydn and the Gypsies"

The Tired Gun

Or: Why winning an Oscar sometimes means losing sight of a career

It's a Wonderful Life

Jim Greer fights the shrinking music scene and an indifferent industry with a smile and a song

Reel World

Modern Times; Edward Scissorhands; Naked

The Red Menace

Bad music. Bad press. Bad hair. Sammy Hagar's heard the insults. But for the Bay Area's Red Rocker, the best revenge is living well.

A Star Is Demo'd

Slap Shots

The Crazy Train

Fetishizing madness with Daniel Johnston, Wesley Willis, K. McCarty, and Hate Man

Mal on the Street

Verbal Prankster Mal Sharpe and his partner, Jim Coyle, bushwacked San Francisco in the early '60s, posing absurd man-in-the street questions to the unsuspecting. Taping the encounters, the dup invented a shtick that was part comedy, part performance art

Signed, Sealed and Misdelivered

The Rise and Fall of Bay Area Bands