Joshua Tree

Into the Woods

"Seven Psychopaths": A Great, Nasty Time at the Movies

S.F. Psych Outfit Sleepy Sun Talks Touring with White Hills, Losing a Singer, and Recording its Latest Album

One of the more celebrated bands to emerge in the past few years as part of San Francisco's new psychedelic-rock underground, Sleepy Sun made waves globally in 2009 with the release of its acclaimed debut album, Embrace. Shifting easily from epic Zeppelin-esque riff workouts to soulful, gospel-tinge ... More >>

Kyuss Lives! Singer John Garcia Thinks the Haters Should "Go Suck Three Bags of Dicks"

Kyuss Lives!: Bringing quintessential desert sludge to a stage near you.​ One of the most unsung heavy rock bands to emerge during the '90s, "desert rock" quartet Kyuss has a legitimate claim as its decade's Velvet Underground. While they didn't receive their due during the band's existence, t ... More >>

Top Five Reasons to Hate Bono (Other Than That Stupid Spider-Man Musical)

It was impossible to know, back when Rattle and Hum or The Joshua Tree came out, what Bono would one day turn into. He's been making it incredibly difficult to like him for about 15 years now, but -- woomp, there it is -- he just found a way to put a cherry on top of all that annoying behavior: He a ... More >>

Zola Jesus Sings About the End of the World, Hates Upbeat Indie Rock

​Twenty-two-year-old Nika Roza Danilova is not a goth -- at least that's what she told Q Magazine earlier this year. But you can see how people might be confused given the operatic vocals and dark, reverb-soaked synths in the music this Wisconsin native releases as Zola Jesus. Although her hau ... More >>

Janice Whaley Reimagines the Smiths Catalog A Cappella

The Top 6 Most Irritating Uses of a Really High Note in a Song

The moral of this list? Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should do it. Nobody likes a show-off, and nobody enjoys shattered glass and burst eardrums. Here, then, are some proponents of high notes who really should've kept their vocal cords in check.6. Muse, "Micro Cuts"    ... More >>

It's Hemp Week! And San Francisco Says 'Meh.'

Courtesy Adam Eidinger/Hemp History WeekLyster H. Dewey, a botanist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, measures a four-meter high hemp plant in 1929. He planted a grove on the current site of the Pentagon. ​ Cannabis users stole hemp farmers' fire It's easy to be overburdened with activis ... More >>

The Integratron's Psychedelic Musical Experience in the SoCal Desert

​Last week I took a big break from Internets and everything, really, to head down to Joshua Tree. But the one thing I couldn't stay away from was music, especially music that was performed in a dome built by a man who believed in aliens and located his acoustically-perfect creation in some high-en ... More >>

Video of the Day: McCabe and Mrs. Miller's Desert Drama

Lonesome country duo McCabe and Mrs. Miller fled the city for the rundown motel rooms and expansive landscapes of Yucca Valley and Joshua Tree to film the video for "Time For Leaving," a Dear John letter wrapped in bittersweet harmonies. McCabe and Mrs. Miller is the pseudonym for the musical partne ... More >>

In its search for lasting love, rock lost its libido

Cat Power Under the Covers: A Listening Party with Jukebox Muses

Fallen Angel Gram Parsons gains flight in new documentary

The Hard Sellout

Bruce Brugmann, Frank Chu, Super Balls, U2, and folk-playing surfers

Death Cab for Cutie

Plans

Frausdots

Couture, Couture, Couture

Dead Man Running

"Kucinich is, like, The normal laws of physics don't apply to me.'"

Ultra Marathon Man

Even among long-distance runners, S.F.'s Dean Karnazes is a phenom

The House of Tudor

Reviews

Letters

Under the Covers

Emmylou Harris unearths the language between the lines