John Cage

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Last Night: Andrew W.K. and Calder Quartet at Swedish American Hall

​Andrew W.K. and Calder QuartetWednesday, Oct. 7, 2009Swedish American HallBetter than: Metallica and the San Francisco Symphony.Hours before he took the stage, Andrew W.K. was amping up his fans. His Twitter feed was bursting with typical AWK excitement: "PARTY MINDSET OF THE DAY: Remember that e ... More >>

Hey DJ! Friday Q&A: DJ Pee Play

​DJ Pee Play possesses the sort of mentality that keeps San Francisco's club--and cultural--scene vital. When he saw a nightlife void, instead of bitching about it, he went after filling it. And when one bar told him no, he started up a whole collective of likeminded DJs to do forward-thinking eve ... More >>

Sunn O))) slowly inverts expectations

​DJ Pee Play possesses the sort of mentality that keeps San Francisco's club--and cultural--scene vital. When he saw a nightlife void, instead of bitching about it, he went after filling it. And when one bar told him no, he started up a whole collective of likeminded DJs to do forward-thinking eve ... More >>

Punk Family Values

Meet the Rosenthals: two generations of art stars in one six-story warehouse.

CD Review: Prefuse 73 -- Preparations/Interregnums

Meet the Rosenthals: two generations of art stars in one six-story warehouse.

My Tunes: Kronos Quartet

David Harrington of the internationally respected string quartet

Prefuse 73

Preparations/Interregnums (Warp)

Galleries and Museums

Preparations/Interregnums (Warp)

Indie Dim Sum

The Mission Creek Music & Arts Festival offers tasty treats from the underground

Award Show Guide

Americana/Folk/Country DJ/Turntablist Electro/Electronic/Experimental Hard Rock Hip Hop Indie Rock/Noise Pop Jazz Soul/R&B World Music Music Video

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Americana/Folk/Country DJ/Turntablist Electro/Electronic/Experimental Hard Rock Hip Hop Indie Rock/Noise Pop Jazz Soul/R&B World Music Music Video

Divide and Convolute

The Fiery Furnaces' Blueberry Boat has indie rockers confused: Are the brother-sister pair hacks, geniuses, or somehow both?

Lazy Like a Foxx

Breakin' All the Rules packs all the fun of a mediocre sitcom

Reps Etc.

Breakin' All the Rules packs all the fun of a mediocre sitcom

San Francisco

Breakin' All the Rules packs all the fun of a mediocre sitcom

Reps Etc.

Breakin' All the Rules packs all the fun of a mediocre sitcom

Affirmative Action:

"Yes Yoko Ono" is surprisingly good

Love and War

Charles Mee's plays can be funny, but here the humor comes too late

The Scott Rosenberg Skronktet

Charles Mee's plays can be funny, but here the humor comes too late

The Sweat of His Brow

Charles Mee's plays can be funny, but here the humor comes too late

Riff Raff

Pop (Do We Not Like That?)

Pointed Counterpoints

A decade after their first collaboration, Steve Reich and Kronos Quartet rediscover the art of the ensemble composition

Uncharted Territories

Trailblazing composer Terry Riley still seeks out new sources for improvisation

Take This Tradition and Shove It

Experimentalist Eugene Chadbourne reworks country and jazz, sticks it to the KKK, makes guitars out of rakes and toasters -- and dreams of working with Willie Nelson

Week 2 of the 41st S.F. International Film Festival

Experimentalist Eugene Chadbourne reworks country and jazz, sticks it to the KKK, makes guitars out of rakes and toasters -- and dreams of working with Willie Nelson

Chaos Control

Experimentalist Eugene Chadbourne reworks country and jazz, sticks it to the KKK, makes guitars out of rakes and toasters -- and dreams of working with Willie Nelson

Stage

Experimentalist Eugene Chadbourne reworks country and jazz, sticks it to the KKK, makes guitars out of rakes and toasters -- and dreams of working with Willie Nelson

Whipping Post

Experimentalist Eugene Chadbourne reworks country and jazz, sticks it to the KKK, makes guitars out of rakes and toasters -- and dreams of working with Willie Nelson

Stage

Experimentalist Eugene Chadbourne reworks country and jazz, sticks it to the KKK, makes guitars out of rakes and toasters -- and dreams of working with Willie Nelson

Quadraphonia

The Flaming Lips want you to play all four of their new CDs -- at the same time

Letters

The Flaming Lips want you to play all four of their new CDs -- at the same time

Recordings

The Flaming Lips want you to play all four of their new CDs -- at the same time

Double Fantasy

Yoko Ono and son Sean collaborate on Rising

Night+Day

Yoko Ono and son Sean collaborate on Rising

Night+Day

Yoko Ono and son Sean collaborate on Rising

Pet Sounds

Douglas Hollis combines audio with visual in his larger-than-life environmental sculptures

Senses Working Overtime

From Audium to the Wave Organ and Ye Olde Pizza Joynt, little-known local sites turn music into an assault on all the senses

The Sound of Silents

The Knitting Factory's "Loud Music Silent Film" series comes to San Francisco