Iggy Pop

Half-Naked Twister, Steely Dan, Comic-Con and a Reality TV Overdose: Your Monday Morning Hangover

Last Night: Monotonix and Triclops!

Triclops! Montonix and Triclops! Saturday, March 28th, 2009 Elbo Room Words and Images by Brian Moss Better Than: Sappy sad rock in the rain. Ah, springtime in the city. Gone is the soggy gloom of winter and the fog has yet to spoil our summer. Sunshine, exposed skin, outdoor socializing, and u ... More >>

Lust for Life

Iggy Pop wants to be your Naughty Little Doggie

Franz Ferdinand

Tonight: Franz Ferdinand (Domino)

Getting 'Touchy' in 2008

Tonight: Franz Ferdinand (Domino)

The Big Studio Slump

The body count of legendary recording studios that have gone silent is undeniable.

Altered States

The body count of legendary recording studios that have gone silent is undeniable.

Sia

Some People Have Real Problems (Monkey Puzzle Records)

CREEM of the crop: Rock mag maintains hip status in new book

Some People Have Real Problems (Monkey Puzzle Records)

Don't Call It a Comeback

The Stooges succumb to The Weirdness

Misc. Reviews

Band-name watch: Gettin' Grizzly

Misc. Reviews

If it's kinda, sorta music-related, we'll review it. This week: The Tomorrow Show With Tom Snyder: Punk & New Wave.

Chewy Marzolo's b-day and bands, Heavy Trash's wretched rock, and the return of goth pinups Bauhaus

If it's kinda, sorta music-related, we'll review it. This week: The Tomorrow Show With Tom Snyder: Punk & New Wave.

Chuck Prophet

Age of Miracles

The Art of Reuniting

Once upon a time, S.F.'s Death Angel was poised to bring thrash metal to the mainstream. Then its bus crashed. Now the band is back to finish the job.

New Year's Repetitions

Somehow it found me: Arnold Schwarzenegger's Total Body Workout. And work out I did.

Prick

Somehow it found me: Arnold Schwarzenegger's Total Body Workout. And work out I did.

Hear This

The apocalyptic acid-rock attack of Comets on Fire

Survival

When the captain brought the journalist along on the whale hunt, the elders predicted trouble. The elders were right. The whale tried to kill them all.

House Of Tudor

Murder City Devils; Superstarlet AD; All-You-Can-Eat Fourth of July Barbecue

Going to a Go-Go

The GO

Fingerpickin' Good

Bad Livers

The House of Tudor

Bad Livers

The House of Tudor

Bad Livers

The House of Tudor

Bad Livers

Suspicious Minds

Bad Livers

Suspicious Minds

Bad Livers

Sunday in the Park With the Sex Pistols

An eyewitness account

Heat Stroke

Pulpit-pounding with the Reverend Horton Heat

Delusions of Banjer

Bad Livers outgrow their "thrash/bluegrass" label; the countrified timbre of Richard Buckner

Charlie Horse

Bad Livers outgrow their "thrash/bluegrass" label; the countrified timbre of Richard Buckner

Ten Things to Do This Weekend For Under $10

Anna CondaWe're back! Ten Things was on vacation for the last two weeks and we've returned, well, broke. So we are more than happy to round up all the fun stuff to do this weekend for those who are feeling down to their bottom dollar (and we all know those bottom dollars should be saved for beer). S ... More >>

Last Night: Noisettes at the Rickshaw Stop

​Noisettes Rickshaw Stop July 28, 2009 Better than: Any show I've seen in a long time. America hasn't yet fallen under the spell of London trio Noisettes, but it's gonna happen soon. They are well known in their homeland, and their latest single, "Never Forget You," leaps out of my speakers whe ... More >>

Liars

Liars(Mute)

Halloween Clips: The Ten Scariest Music Videos of All Time

1. Alice Cooper - "Welcome To My Nightmare"You can't have Halloween without Alice Cooper. From his decapitation-happy live shows to his self-mocking sense of humor, he's rock's king demon. (Sorry, Marilyn--we know how hard you try.) But was Cooper ever better than when accompanied by the Muppets? ... More >>

Misfit Medleys

1. Alice Cooper - "Welcome To My Nightmare"You can't have Halloween without Alice Cooper. From his decapitation-happy live shows to his self-mocking sense of humor, he's rock's king demon. (Sorry, Marilyn--we know how hard you try.) But was Cooper ever better than when accompanied by the Muppets? ... More >>

Peaches and the Hologram

Electro-clasher and performing artist Peaches explains to The Creators Project what goes into being Peaches and putting on a good show. Hint: it involves time travel, tech revolutions and an Iggy Pop Hologram. SOLD!

What to Do? Tuesday's Pick: Chemlab @ DNA Lounge

Chemlab @ DNA Lounge Apparently they're calling this multi-band package jaunt the "MIDI Ghetto Tour" -- a phrase that encapsulates the Chemlab ethos nicely. Chemlab has always been self-consciously cyberpunk, a gang of sci-fi rock 'n' roll poets and pill-popping console jockeys looking for their ... More >>

Monday's Pick: M.O.T.O., Midnight Creeps, Sharp Objects, The Spurts at Elbo Room

The Midnight Creeps' Jenny Hollywood​M.O.T.O.Midnight CreepsSharp ObjectsThe SpurtsElbo Room9 p.m., $6Camps that teach young women how to rock are certainly commendable, but it's a safe bet Jenny Hurricane learned the old-fashioned way: by simply watching Iggy Pop. The Midnight Creeps frontwoman p ... More >>

Bare Wires' Matthew Melton Talks Oakland Vs. S.F. and the Band's Upcoming Album

Bare Wires, with Matthew Melton in the center​Bear traps? Painful. Barbed Wire? Equally dangerous. But Oakland garage-rock trio Bare Wires is mostly harmless. No matter how much its members may have been influenced by The Stooges, the no-holds-barred confrontational demeanor of Iggy Pop was left ... More >>

'The Anthropology of Bono,' and Other Music Courses We'd Like To See

​Recently a few colleges, including the Universities of Virginia and South Carolina, announced plans to offer an undergraduate course on the music, celebrity and all-around mindfuck of Lady Gaga. UVA's is called "GaGa for Gaga: Sex, Gender, and Identity."We've all heard about legendary and hard-to ... More >>

Best Practices for Eating a Burrito in San Francisco

​John Birdsall​ A happy man once said, "The best burrito in the city is the one you are eating." He said it while cradling a ruptured super whose mass had burst through its tinfoil housing and was flowing, lavalike, down his forearms and plopping onto the sidewalk. We caught sight of let ... More >>

Lose the Groupies: Glitter Wizard Explains How to Be a Rock God on a Budget

As we all know, rock gods are a vital piece of the world's cultural fabric. Think of how much duller Earth would be if Iggy Pop hadn't developed a lust for life, David Lee Roth had never jumped, and Def Leppard had never prompted hysteria. The world needs more rock gods. But how do you become one ... More >>

The Raveonettes, Tamaryn Trip Out at Bimbo's 365 Club

Kevin HendersonThe Raveonettes at Bimbo's last night.​The RaveonettesTamarynMay 10, 2011@ Bimbo's 365 ClubBetter than: Love in a trash can.Bimbo's 365 Club was built in 1931, during the latter years of Prohibition. Despite its status as San Francisco's first modern nightclub, you can still see des ... More >>

Is There Something Ironic About Buying Vinyl Online?

We use our newest gadgets to buy some of our lowest-tech gear.​ A colleague today raised this question: Is it ironic, or weird, or even funny, to buy vinyl -- analog music -- online? The issue was prompted by the news of Vinyl Dreams, a new online-only record store started by Michelangelo Bat ... More >>

Iggy Pop Breaks Foot, Cancels Stooges' West Coast Gigs

Iggy Pop at a Stooges gig this summer. Via Facebook​ Turns out Iggy Pop is mortal: After breaking two bones in his foot during a Stooges' show in Romania, the shirtless madman canceled all four of the band's upcoming West Coast dates, including the shows planned for Sept. 12 and 13 at the Warf ... More >>

'Slightly Damaged': A Conversation with Iggy Pop

Iggy Pop at a Stooges gig this summer. Via Facebook​ Turns out Iggy Pop is mortal: After breaking two bones in his foot during a Stooges' show in Romania, the shirtless madman canceled all four of the band's upcoming West Coast dates, including the shows planned for Sept. 12 and 13 at the Warf ... More >>

Iggy Pop on Playing with the Stooges, Where He Can't Go in America, and More

Iggy and the Stooges​Music stories from SF Weekly's latest print edition: "Slightly Damaged": A Conversation with Iggy Pop: After two rings, a gravelly voice picks up the phone and mutters a chewy "hello." There's no publicist or handler -- this is Iggy Pop himself, taking press calls at wh ... More >>

Iggy Pop on Making Kill City, Life in '70s Los Angeles, and the Jim Jarmusch Stooges Doc

Foot mended, Iggy and the Stooges are ready to hit the stage in S.F.​ Earlier this year, before Iggy Pop was aware that he'd broken his foot during a Stooges show in Romania, he had a delightful, cuss-filled conversation with us from his home in the Cayman Islands. Afterward, when Pop found ou ... More >>

Comparing M.I.A.'s Super Bowl Middle Finger to Music's Greatest Bird-Flippers

Juvenile, numbskulled, pointless, banal, outrageous -- M.I.A. flipping the bird at this year's Super Bowl halftime show might have been all or none of those things, depending on whom you ask, but it was one thing above all: A surefire plot to join the ranks of the middle-finger-flashing musical elit ... More >>