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Prince's Seven Most Dickish Moments... And Why We Still Love Him

Purple Pain. twitter.com/CaptainKDougla...— Kirk Douglas (@CaptainKDouglas) March 2, 2013 Prince is a dick. The litte guy just goes around the planet doing whatever he wants like some kind of mischievous, tiny demigod. Case in point: His recent appearance on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon. Here' ... More >>

Carly Rae Jepsen Attempts To Get No One To Call Her Ever

Last year was the year of "Call Me Maybe". Carly Rae Jepsen nailed everything that was awesome about pop music with that song: It was infuriatingly catchy, had great video, was, adopted and openly loved by the country's hottest stars (and therefore became extraordinarily zeitgeisty), and showed ... More >>

Top 21 Bay Area Metal Albums of All Time, #21-11

Thrash. Thrash. Thrash. Yes, thrash is what the Bay Area metal scene is famous for. But it doesn't all begin and end with blistering riffs -- our local bands have churned out plenty sludgy stoner metal as well, and even some very heavy shit that's damn near unclassifiable. It's all here on our list ... More >>

Metallica and Vans Shoes? Five Better Product Ideas for the Metallica Marketing Machine

Well no, actually -- a Metallica-Vans partnership doesn't seem all that "inevitable" to us, despite this statement from both parties today chirping that "many a skate trick is landed with Vans shoes on the feet and a Metallica tune in one's head." Maybe that was true in, like, 1992. Maybe the Vans f ... More >>

How to Watch Kiss and Motley Crue Tonight Without Feeling Shame

That's right, folks. Tonight, Wednesday, Aug. 15, 2012, Mountain View's Shoreline Amphitheatre is playing host to absurdist rock royalty, Kiss, and its even sleazier counterparts, Motley Crüe. Obviously, it will be a spectacle for the ages. But how does one go and bear witness to this riot of ridic ... More >>

Live Review, 7/14/12: The U.S. Air Guitar Championships Bring an Invisible Axe Battle to the Independent

See also: * US Air Guitar Championships: Witness the Madness of People Rawking on Thin Air Last Night: US Air Guitar Championships Regional Qualifier July 14, 2012 The Independent Better than: Air bassoon. This summer, like so many summers before it, brings an aura of excitement to ambitious com ... More >>

Hit So Hard: Hole Drummer Patty Schemel on the '90s Revival, Courtney's Antics, and the New Film About Her Life

[Editor's note: Matt Momchilov plays in an S.F.-based, all-gay Hole tribute band called Butthole. He seemed like the perfect person to interview original Hole drummer Patty Schemel about the new documentary covering her life, so when we were pitched this story through a friend of Momchilov's, we too ... More >>

The Melvins' Old Van Is for Sale, But Here Are Five Tour Vehicles We'd Much Prefer

​Remember when you were 12 years old and you'd draw the logos of your favorite bands all over your school books? Well, one time, Kurt Cobain did that to The Melvins' van, leaving behind a little portrait of Kiss (plus logo) which remains to this day on the side of that piece-of-shit '72 Dodge Spor ... More >>

Lost in the Night: ESG Goes Out With a Bang at Mezzanine

No Way back Presents ESG Mezzanine Saturday, March 3 "It's perfect, they play it all perfect. Now everyone'll get to go and say they saw them and you can file it away and tell people 'I was there, maaaan.'" This was the warning given to me by a friend when I told him I was headed to ESG's farewell ... More >>

Signal to Noise: Local DJs Pick Five of Their Favorite Tracks

In the pantheon of nightlife, few people are as influential as the local DJs working the scene. As promoters, talent scouts, and party rockers, these tastemakers are trusted to be at the fore of what's happening in music today. For this edition of Signal to Noise, we're focusing our attention on fiv ... More >>

New Year's Eve: 10 Bands Playing Live in S.F. Worth Spending Your Evening With

Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve is still an option for the night of Dec. 31, since the man himself has lived to rock another year. But if the glow of the television screen isn't gonna provide enough sonic warmth this year, there are thankfully plenty of options to hear and see music performed li ... More >>

The Year in Music Booze: Six Artist's Beverages That Made 2011 One Long Hangover

Rock 'n' roll culture died in 2011. It's got nothing to do with your opinion of Bon Iver, but everything to do with Rolling Stone. The former leading voice of modern music upheld its immaculate reputation this year... by starting an official wine club. It's filled with bottles branded with imagery f ... More >>

What Do You Do If Your Kid Doesn't Like Kiss?

Parents are continually influencing various aspects of their child's character development. You know, important things, like the growth of social competence and self-esteem, as well as how frequently a kid says "please" and "thank you," and doesn't hang up on telemarketers. Then there's the slightly ... More >>

Rascal Flatts Is the Worst Hugely Popular Music Act in America

Executive Visions, Inc.Rascal Flatts or a heartland radio station's morning zoo?​Rascal Flatts will be performing tonight at the Shoreline Ampitheatre in San Jose. We won't be there. Rascal Flatts is produced by the guy who played guitar on "Straight Up" by Paula Abdul. That's not reason en ... More >>

Five Things to Know About the Grateful Dead's New Licensing Efforts

The 1960s Grateful Dead, inside their house at 710 Ashbury St., S.F.​ After years of keeping the band's considerable legacy on the down-low in terms of merchandise and licensing, the surviving members of the Grateful Dead are ramping things up. As the L.A. Times explains today, that doesn't me ... More >>

Meet Your New Favorite Band (to Intensely Dislike): Black Veil Brides

Calibree PhotographyBlack Veil Brides at the Warped Tour​ At first we thought that was KISS strutting up at us from our slideshow of this weekend's Warped Tour at Shoreline Amphitheatre. But no -- monstrous black-and-white makeup aside, those guys are way too skinny to be in KISS. Turns out ... More >>

Kill, or Rather Own, 'Em All: Metallica Monopoly Is Coming Next Week

Consequence of SoundIt can be yours next week, crappy cartoons and all!​ Hit the lights, 'cause we're about to do some damaging incorporation: Bay Area metal megalith Metallica is following the likes of the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and, uh, Kiss next week and releasing its own Monopoly boa ... More >>

A Father's Day Wishlist: Kiss Hilarity, Glen Hansard Busking, My Bloody Valentine Humming, and More

Cake Picture Gallery​ Lou Reed set the bar rather low with his idea of the perfect day: sips of sangria in the park, a trip to the zoo, a movie. "It Was a Good Day" also kept it simple, with Ice Cube's ideal 24 hours consisting of mom's home cooking, playing craps, and a Lakers victory. Nigeri ... More >>

Leadbelly, the Murderer Who Sang Children's Songs

www.leadbelly.org/Huddie Ledbetter: Convicted murderer, children's singer.​I recognize that schoolyards are dens of rumor and conjecture, places where over the crackle of Pop Rocks and the snap of bubblegum kids swap sordid, little secrets. It's why I caught myself smiling when my 11-year-old ... More >>

Listening to the Music of Home: Diddy, Deerhunter, and the Field Mice

​The last moment I spent at my childhood home was essentially a re-enactment of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show"'s final scene: I smiled regretfully at an empty room, flicked off the lights, and quietly closed the door. Life's weighty moments demand significant gestures on our part. I guess mine aren't ... More >>

Everlast Talks Run D.M.C., Rapping While White, and the House of Pain Reunion Tour

House of Pain's Danny Boy and Everlast are at the Fillmore tonight.​More than a decade after its last "Jump Around," the indelible white rap group House of Pain -- featuring original members Everlast and Danny Boy -- is back out on the road for a reunion tour that kicks off tonight at the Fillmore ... More >>

The Top 10 Bay Area Hip-Hop Albums of 2010

2010 has been a pretty good year for Bay Area hip-hop, if only because it saw the next generation of local rappers come into its own, eager (and maybe even ready) to put the Bay back on the national radar once again. Even after the death of hyphy, rappers here just continue to get weirder and weirde ... More >>

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Guided By Voices' Robert Pollard Gets Straight Up Avuncular on the Warfield's Ass

Pollard with smoke and beverage in hand.​Guided by VoicesTimes New VikingOctober 5, 2010@ the WarfieldBetter than: 1,039 smoothed out slappy hours  For the record, Robert Pollard still has hops. The Guided by Voices frontman and creative "Hot Freak" in fact has most of the move ... More >>

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Scorpions say goodbye with one last power ballad

10 Things To Do For Under $10: KISS Cover Love, Screaming Females, World Cupping

Screaming Females play tonight at Hemlock​There seems to be something cheap for everyone this lovely first weekend of June. Art openings, the ultimate underground foodie event, plenty of live music and D.J.s ready to vie for your attention -- and it's all for less than the cost of a quality six-pa ... More >>

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End of the Year Hangover: 2009 in Music, NSFW, and Cannabis Club

While you were out shopping or flying or arguing with the family, we were combing our photo archives to compile the best and the brightest of San Francisco 2009. From Morrissey, to Modest Mouse, from the Flaming Lips to KISS, from Dizzy Balloon to Silversun Pickups and festivals galore in between. ... More >>

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Slideshow of the Day: KISS at Oakland Arena

​Regardless of whether KISS is your cuppa, well, tongue, the band knows how to put on a visually dazzling show. Photographer Richard Haick traveled to the Oakland Arena to lick it up with his camera for this week's big rock 'n' roll slideshow. 

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Under the Gypsy Moon

Guitar Hero III Easily the Best Entry in the Franchise

Let's Get Killed

Oakland's Story Club hosts Budget Rock. Awesome ridiculous!

The Men of la Mantra

San Francisco's OM Records foretells the future of enhanced CDs

Fandemonium

Idle Worship with KISS, Nancy Sinatra, Camille Paglia, and Chevy Chase

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