Johnny Rotten

Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Last Week in S.F. Music

Four Men With Beards: Rescuing Classic Out-of-Print Releases From the Archives

Many local labels are offering obscure reissues and innovative new releases on all conceivable formats. Label Sampler will profile a different Bay Area record company every other week. Name: 4 Men With Beards Owner: Filippo Salvadori Founded: 2001 Headquarters: San Rafael Creation story: 4 Men ... More >>

Craig Finn's Clear Heart Full Eyes: A First Listen

If I may make two predictions about Clear Heart Full Eyes, the solo debut from combustible, fan-friendly Hold Steady frontman Craig Finn, they are that: 1. It's not going to save rock 'n' roll. 2. It's not going to be a meta-narrative about how it doesn't save rock and roll. If the last Hold Stea ... More >>

"Tabloid": Errol Morris Doc Covers UK Media Freak Show

If I may make two predictions about Clear Heart Full Eyes, the solo debut from combustible, fan-friendly Hold Steady frontman Craig Finn, they are that: 1. It's not going to save rock 'n' roll. 2. It's not going to be a meta-narrative about how it doesn't save rock and roll. If the last Hold Stea ... More >>

R.I.P. Poly Styrene, X-Ray Spex Singer and Punk Pioneer

Fabrizio RamoneR.I.P. Poly Styrene​ Legendary punk pioneer and X-Ray Spex frontwoman Poly Styrene, born Marianne Elliott Said, passed away last night from breast cancer at the age of 53. In an unfortunate coincidence with the passing last week of TV on the Radio's Gerard Smith, her new solo al ... More >>

Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and lows from this week in S.F. music

Fabrizio RamoneR.I.P. Poly Styrene​ Legendary punk pioneer and X-Ray Spex frontwoman Poly Styrene, born Marianne Elliott Said, passed away last night from breast cancer at the age of 53. In an unfortunate coincidence with the passing last week of TV on the Radio's Gerard Smith, her new solo al ... More >>

Crass, the Anarcho-Punk Fountainhead, Is Coming to S.F. in March -- Sort Of

​Depending on your perspective, legendary British collective Crass was either the truest band of anarchists to ever strap on guitars -- loudly, proudly advocating radical ultra-left politics through its atonal avant-punk music, Dadaist collage artwork, and edge-dwelling DIY lifestyle -- or it was ... More >>

Watch the Sex Pistols' Entire Final Concert -- San Francisco, 1978

​Without a doubt the most important punk band ever, the Sex Pistols, played their last show at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco, 1978. While some called the show a flop, it sure doesn't sound like that on the recordings I've heard. And now, you can watch the last show the Sex Pistols ... More >>

Going to Coachella vs. the S.F. staycation

​Without a doubt the most important punk band ever, the Sex Pistols, played their last show at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco, 1978. While some called the show a flop, it sure doesn't sound like that on the recordings I've heard. And now, you can watch the last show the Sex Pistols ... More >>

The Slits continue giving wild women a place in punk

​Without a doubt the most important punk band ever, the Sex Pistols, played their last show at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco, 1978. While some called the show a flop, it sure doesn't sound like that on the recordings I've heard. And now, you can watch the last show the Sex Pistols ... More >>

Wilderness

(k)no(w)here (Jagjaguwar)

Lemonade

Lemonade (True Panther)

The most egregious holiday money grabs in music history

Lemonade (True Panther)

Karaoke Opportunities: Punk Rock Singalong at Minna Gallery 12/6

Lemonade (True Panther)

Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten Offers Hope for Old Punks

Lemonade (True Panther)

Sex Pistols Re-Record ‘Anarchy in the U.K.’, Play L.A. For 'Guitar Hero III'

Lemonade (True Panther)

Noise Nerds Unite

Qui arms David Yow with new weapons of crowd confrontation

Misc. Reviews

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

Rock, The Boat

Art and music o'er the waves

Grammar School of Rock

Never mind the bollocks, here's $lot Ma¢hine, the newest, meanest punk band in town -- aged 12 and under

Gabba Gabba Henh

The Ramones bopped toward history and an unhappy end

House of Tudor

Outsider artists scream "Death to Electric Guitars!"; neo-burlesque's best step into Broad Daylight.

Say Hallelujah!

NorCal expats the Rapture and Out Hud return from NYC with a 20-year legacy in tow. Get ready to dance, punk.

Hear This

The Sex Pistols are rotten, but show up to watch tourmates the Dropkick Murphys beat their asses

Punk on Wheels

A 10-mile, two-hour bike trip that memorializes the local spots punks loved

Sí, Sí, Sí

It's their time, sweet baby, to break on through: The Yeah Yeah Yeahs come to town

Hear This

Legendary DJ Afrika Bambaataa brings his b-boy esoterica to town

Sights and Sounds

A small show at SFMOMA produces big thrills

The Clean; Slumber Party

Getaway; Psychadelicate;

House Of Tudor

Silke Tudor sings the praises of punk rock karaoke, swoons over the Faint, and revels in girlhood

I Wanna Be Sated

Fleshies have what it takes -- nudity, pissed-off lyrics, blazing noise -- to be Oakland's next great punk band

Pop Philosophy

What Bush's choices for inauguration music say about the next four years

House Of Tudor

The Last Cigarette and Pretty Things

Punks at War

Dead Kennedys, Alternative Tentacles, and the lawsuit that threatens punk's most enduring and provocative partnership.

Night + Day

Dead Kennedys, Alternative Tentacles, and the lawsuit that threatens punk's most enduring and provocative partnership.

House of Tudor

Dead Kennedys, Alternative Tentacles, and the lawsuit that threatens punk's most enduring and provocative partnership.

The House of Tudor

Dead Kennedys, Alternative Tentacles, and the lawsuit that threatens punk's most enduring and provocative partnership.

Bubble Burst

Dead Kennedys, Alternative Tentacles, and the lawsuit that threatens punk's most enduring and provocative partnership.

The House of Tudor

Dead Kennedys, Alternative Tentacles, and the lawsuit that threatens punk's most enduring and provocative partnership.

Suspicious Minds

Dead Kennedys, Alternative Tentacles, and the lawsuit that threatens punk's most enduring and provocative partnership.

Sunday in the Park With the Sex Pistols

An eyewitness account

Recordings

An eyewitness account

Suspicious Minds

An eyewitness account

The Great Escape

Blur's class act

Night Crawler

Blur's class act

The Book of Lists

SF Weekly contributors salute the best (and worst) music of 1995

Smell the Magic

Taking a whiff of the Stinky Puffs