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Jim Morrison

  • Blogs

    May 16, 2012

    The Top 10 Best Music Biopics

    The news that Alan Rickman will be portraying Hilly Kristal in a new CBGB biopic half excited us, then half scared us yesterday. He'll be good, but Lordy, who is going to play Debbie Harry? And The Ramones? Those are big shoes to fill... So we comforted ourselves with this -- a list of our top 10 fa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2011

    The Top 50 Songs To Get High To

    As you might imagine, combing back numbers of my Listen to This While High column and my own vast library for a reasonable stab at the Fifty Stoniest Songs Ever is a labor and hashish intensive experience. Preliminary fossickings unearthed these half-hundred favorites, many of which may seem unfamil ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 26, 2011

    Puff It up with Pendulum by Creedence Clearwater Revival

    ​ Listen to this while high: Pendulum by Creedence Clearwater Revival​Behind the buzz: This clutch of untelegenic megabuck hippies was supposedly outselling The Beatles as the '60s crumbled into the '70s. This second CCR album of 1970 is typically regarded as psychedelic as these country boys ev ... More >>

  • Music

    February 16, 2011

    Dirty Beaches: Show Preview

    ​ Listen to this while high: Pendulum by Creedence Clearwater Revival​Behind the buzz: This clutch of untelegenic megabuck hippies was supposedly outselling The Beatles as the '60s crumbled into the '70s. This second CCR album of 1970 is typically regarded as psychedelic as these country boys ev ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2011

    Was Mogwai Based Before Lil B Was Based?

    No, not that kind.​Scotland's dignified linear noise factory Mogwai has released the tracklisting for its forthcoming seventh studio album, which you may have mistaken for a David Shrigley print hanging in the punk rock section at the coolest record store you've never been to: Hardcore Will Never ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2010

    Pardon Jim Morrison, But Penalize Jimmy Page and Led Zeppelin

    Jim Morrison performing in Miami, March 1, 1969​At the time of his death in a Paris bathtub in the summer of 1971, James Douglas Morrison, singer and lyricist for epochal L.A. band The Doors, was looking at six months' hard labor in Florida. Among other offenses at a March, 1969 performance at Di ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 20, 2010

    Top 5 Most Excruciating Moments in Music Documentaries

    We've yet to see Joaquin Phoenix documenting his own nervous breakdown in new movie I'm Still Here, but critics have been largely disgusted by what's on view. With that in mind, here are five other moments in music documentaries that have left us feeling queasy and depressed.5. Jim Morrison Having H ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 6, 2010

    Four Opening Acts You Don't Want to Miss This Week

    Eric FischerAlexa Wilding performs Saturday at Great American Music Hall​Not overstuffed, but certainly not empty -- the mid-summer brings us a straight-up solid week of shows here in the Bay Area. We'll have a couple big names heading through town, while several smaller venues are taking a pause. ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 2, 2010

    When You're Strange

    Eric FischerAlexa Wilding performs Saturday at Great American Music Hall​Not overstuffed, but certainly not empty -- the mid-summer brings us a straight-up solid week of shows here in the Bay Area. We'll have a couple big names heading through town, while several smaller venues are taking a pause. ... More >>

  • Film

    April 7, 2010

    A conversation with "When You're Strange" director Tom DiCillio

    Eric FischerAlexa Wilding performs Saturday at Great American Music Hall​Not overstuffed, but certainly not empty -- the mid-summer brings us a straight-up solid week of shows here in the Bay Area. We'll have a couple big names heading through town, while several smaller venues are taking a pause. ... More >>

  • Dining

    March 24, 2010

    Heart doesn't play by the usual restaurant rules

    Eric FischerAlexa Wilding performs Saturday at Great American Music Hall​Not overstuffed, but certainly not empty -- the mid-summer brings us a straight-up solid week of shows here in the Bay Area. We'll have a couple big names heading through town, while several smaller venues are taking a pause. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 24, 2010

    Jonathan Kauffman Parties Down at Rule-Smashing Wine Bar Heart

    Yeah, it's a cliché. But Heart actually does feel like a party.​Like some college house party where the host raids his parents' wine cellar, serving up boutique Cabs in red plastic party cups, Mission wine bar Heart is a rule breaker. Owner Jeff Segal embraces iconoclasm, shunning traditional ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 24, 2010

    San Francisco Star Photographer Jim Marshall Dies

    ​Few photographers become as legendary as the performers they capture, but Jim Marshall was a different breed of camera man. He was San Francisco's portal into a classic era of jazz and rock 'n' roll, his portraits of Jimmy Hendrix, Janis Joplin, the Rolling Stones, and, perhaps most famously, Joh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2010

    Rhea's Deli Serving Up Korean Taco Deliciousness

    Lolia S./YelpKorean tacos began appearing a few months ago.​The relentless patter of rain sloshing the street outside our living room window has subsided, if only for a few minutes. There is a hopeful brightness behind the clouds, but we're wasting no time. We're pulling on our boots. Our favo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 21, 2009

    Tom Cable's Alleged Rodeo Clown Treatment of Assistant Just the Latest in Bay Area Coaching Violence

    At least the bull doesn't tell the clown 'I'm going to kill you'​ By now, even Bay Area readers who can't tell a football from a futbol have heard all about how Oakland Raiders head coach Tom Cable is accused of channeling Ike Turner and hospitalizing assistant coach Randy Hanson by bouncing him o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 19, 2009

    Last Night: Pissed Jeans at Bottom of the Hill

    ​Pissed Jeans, Mi Ami, Hissing WoundTuesday, Aug. 18, 2009Bottom of the HillBetter than: Yer typical '90s nostalgia.On record, Allentown, PA's Pissed Jeans are feral. Frontman Matt Korvette could be singing about getting a massage ("Request for Masseuse") and the tension in his voice could hammer ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2009

    Tupac's Birthday Today

    Everyone's favorite thug angel, Tupac Amaru Shakur, would have been 38 today. Born in 1971 to a Black Panther mother, 'Pac came to symbolize the voice of his generation like no one except maybe Jim Morrison, another societal rebel who became a pop culture phenomenon. (Interestingly, neither 'Pac no ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2009

    Ten Known (and Little-Known) Facts About Tupac

    Thug Immortal: Tupac Shakur 10. Pac was born June 16, 1971 in East Harlem, NYC. He also lived in Baltimore, Marin City, Oakland, Los Angeles, and Atlanta. 9. The name Tupac Amaru is a reference to the last indigenous Inca ruler of Peru, who died in 1572. Amaru's name was later adopted by Tupac A ... More >>

  • Film

    April 29, 2009

    Matthew McConaughey is scary bad in Ghosts of Girlfriends Past

    Thug Immortal: Tupac Shakur 10. Pac was born June 16, 1971 in East Harlem, NYC. He also lived in Baltimore, Marin City, Oakland, Los Angeles, and Atlanta. 9. The name Tupac Amaru is a reference to the last indigenous Inca ruler of Peru, who died in 1572. Amaru's name was later adopted by Tupac A ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 4, 2009

    They’re Also for Reading

    Thug Immortal: Tupac Shakur 10. Pac was born June 16, 1971 in East Harlem, NYC. He also lived in Baltimore, Marin City, Oakland, Los Angeles, and Atlanta. 9. The name Tupac Amaru is a reference to the last indigenous Inca ruler of Peru, who died in 1572. Amaru's name was later adopted by Tupac A ... More >>

  • Culture

    November 12, 2008

    "ODO": Lutz Bacher at Ratio 3

    Thug Immortal: Tupac Shakur 10. Pac was born June 16, 1971 in East Harlem, NYC. He also lived in Baltimore, Marin City, Oakland, Los Angeles, and Atlanta. 9. The name Tupac Amaru is a reference to the last indigenous Inca ruler of Peru, who died in 1572. Amaru's name was later adopted by Tupac A ... More >>

  • Culture

    October 1, 2008

    All You Can Eat serves up empty calories

    Thug Immortal: Tupac Shakur 10. Pac was born June 16, 1971 in East Harlem, NYC. He also lived in Baltimore, Marin City, Oakland, Los Angeles, and Atlanta. 9. The name Tupac Amaru is a reference to the last indigenous Inca ruler of Peru, who died in 1572. Amaru's name was later adopted by Tupac A ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2007

    LastNight: Prefuse 73 Glitches Out Slim's

    Thug Immortal: Tupac Shakur 10. Pac was born June 16, 1971 in East Harlem, NYC. He also lived in Baltimore, Marin City, Oakland, Los Angeles, and Atlanta. 9. The name Tupac Amaru is a reference to the last indigenous Inca ruler of Peru, who died in 1572. Amaru's name was later adopted by Tupac A ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 14, 2007

    True West

    Thug Immortal: Tupac Shakur 10. Pac was born June 16, 1971 in East Harlem, NYC. He also lived in Baltimore, Marin City, Oakland, Los Angeles, and Atlanta. 9. The name Tupac Amaru is a reference to the last indigenous Inca ruler of Peru, who died in 1572. Amaru's name was later adopted by Tupac A ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2007

    Queen of Rock Sluttitude in SF Tonight (Friday)

    Thug Immortal: Tupac Shakur 10. Pac was born June 16, 1971 in East Harlem, NYC. He also lived in Baltimore, Marin City, Oakland, Los Angeles, and Atlanta. 9. The name Tupac Amaru is a reference to the last indigenous Inca ruler of Peru, who died in 1572. Amaru's name was later adopted by Tupac A ... More >>

  • Music

    July 25, 2007

    Groupies

    The view from Jimmy Page's pants: groupies claim their 15 minutes

  • Blogs

    July 11, 2007

    Jim Morrison Died on Nightclub Shitter: New Book Reveals

    The view from Jimmy Page's pants: groupies claim their 15 minutes

  • Music

    April 11, 2007

    Choogle Your Own Adventure

    The Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound paints a bright apocalypse

  • Music

    August 31, 2005

    Department of What the Fuck?

    Thunder on the Tundra: Heavy-metal Thor kicks everyone's ass!

  • Music

    August 10, 2005

    The Eyes Have It

    Veronica Lipgloss & the Evil Eyes continue the age-old tradition of merging sex and trash

  • News

    June 15, 2005

    Altered Mindstates

    Dog Bites trips out over the Mindstates global psychedelic convention

  • Music

    May 4, 2005

    I, Parasite

    Bouncer copes with being a critic during a night of bands at the Cherry Bar.

  • Music

    March 2, 2005

    Adam Green

    Gemstones

  • Music

    February 18, 2004

    Low Flying Owls

    Elixir Vitae

  • Music

    July 16, 2003

    Hear This

    Can the Cult's Ian Astbury fill Jim Morrison's shoes? Probably not, but you'll be too drunk to notice.

  • Music

    May 21, 2003

    Ian McCulloch

    Slideling

  • Music

    December 4, 2002

    Hear This

    The spazzy punks in Sexy make pants-dropping tunes

  • Music

    January 23, 2002

    Sound Advice

    Animal memoirs, royal vocalists, and intestinal fortitude

  • Dining

    November 14, 2001

    Chef's Choice

    Women think Auberge du Soleil's cook is a pretty tasty morsel

  • Music

    May 30, 2001

    House Of Tudor

    Silke Tudor smiles upon the Angry White Male Tour

  • Music

    November 22, 2000

    The Beautiful South; Fatboy Slim

    Beautiful South: Painting It Red (Ark 21) / Fatboy Slim: Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars (Astralwerks)

  • News

    August 13, 1997

    Letters

    Beautiful South: Painting It Red (Ark 21) / Fatboy Slim: Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars (Astralwerks)

  • Film

    July 16, 1997

    Best of the Jewish Film Fest

    Beautiful South: Painting It Red (Ark 21) / Fatboy Slim: Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars (Astralwerks)

  • Calendar

    April 16, 1997

    Night+Day

    Beautiful South: Painting It Red (Ark 21) / Fatboy Slim: Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars (Astralwerks)

  • Music

    April 16, 1997

    Riff Raff

    Beautiful South: Painting It Red (Ark 21) / Fatboy Slim: Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars (Astralwerks)

  • Calendar

    February 26, 1997

    Night+Day

    Beautiful South: Painting It Red (Ark 21) / Fatboy Slim: Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars (Astralwerks)

  • Music

    November 27, 1996

    Boys Will Be Boys

    Beautiful South: Painting It Red (Ark 21) / Fatboy Slim: Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars (Astralwerks)

  • Music

    August 14, 1996

    SF Weekly Picks

    Beautiful South: Painting It Red (Ark 21) / Fatboy Slim: Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars (Astralwerks)

  • Film

    September 6, 1995

    Femme Fatale

    Nico-Icon trails the downward spiral of the Velvet Underground chanteuse

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