Katy Perry

"Rust and Bone": Dismembering a Cinematic Beauty

Live Review, 9/5/12: Fucked Up and Ceremony Pummel Slim's

By MATT SAINCOME Fucked Up Ceremony Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012 Slim's Better than: Going to the zoo. A drumbeat and bassline slowly start to build, breaking the silence and turning heads toward the stage as the crowd cheers. The projector screen rolls up, revealing the Bay Area hardcore-turned-indi ... More >>

S.F. or L.A.: Which City Is More Hip?

The rivalry between Los Angeles and San Francisco is most obviously felt any time the Dodgers come into town, or vice versa. But because we can't entirely base everything on baseball, StumbleUpon, has given us these new benchmarks to determine which city is hipper. If you are a recent California tra ... More >>

Singers: Here's How to Advertise Your Celebrity Perfume

These days, everybody and their back-up dancers has a fragrance out, as if the ability to sing also comes with innate perfumier abilities. For those of you considering a career in pop mega-stardom -- and, therefore, the fragrance business -- here are some tips on how to sell that all-but-inevitable ... More >>

Taylor Momsen's The Pretty Reckless: The 7 Types of People Who Will Go See Them in San Francisco Tonight

​Tonight, ever-controversial rock 'n' rollers The Pretty Reckless are playing Bottom of the Hill. Say what you will about this quartet and its 18-year-old singer, Taylor Momsen -- they attract an audience way more diverse than most. In case you head down to Bottom of the Hill for the former Gossip ... More >>

Top 5 Reasons Lady Gaga Should Move to the Bay Area

Though she was born in New York City, recent news suggests Lady Gaga might be considering a move to the Bay Area. At the end of last month, Gaga was spotted hitting the rounds of fancy restaurants in Sonoma, and (those infallible) British tabloids now claim the 25-year-old pop star is thinking about ... More >>

The Grammys: A Timeline of Madness and Misery

The 54th Annual Grammy Awards happened yesterday. Which we're sure you know already. If you missed it, however, you may have missed some of the weirdest details. So here, for your convenience, is a timeline of events. Get comfortable, 'cause this thing was a three-and-a-half-hour carnival of absurdi ... More >>

Calmly Manic

Things Music Critics Hate: Foster the People, Cage the Elephant, Young the Giant, Portugal. The Man, Etc.

Foster the People: Not bad. But also not that good.​ Music criticism is as much an affliction as an occupation -- especially these days, it's far more reliable as a sickness than a paycheck. Things Music Critics Hate is an occasional series that will attempt to diagnose and explain the broadly ... More >>

R.I.P. DJ Mehdi, Prolific French Electronic and Hip-Hop Producer

​ DJ Mehdi, one of the leading figures in French hip-hop and electronic music over the past decade, died tragically on Tuesday at age 34. According to reports, he was on the roof of his house in Paris with friends, throwing a birthday party for fellow DJ and sometime collaborator Riton. During ... More >>

Rebecca Black Doesn't Deserve Your Bullying: An Open Letter

Jeff Reed​Dear bullies at Rebecca Black's middle school, The cat's out of the bag -- I know what you did. Rebecca Black won't be coming back to school anymore. And it's all your fault. She tattled on you to ABC, and now the world knows that you're meany-faces and probably have cooties. "Whe ... More >>

The Foo Fighters and Their Hilarious Ice Preferences Are Coming to Oakland This Fall

The world's foremost connoisseurs of beverage ice.​ We can honestly say that, until a few moments ago, we never gave any thought to the shape of the ice cubes in our drinks, much less the company that made the machine that created them. The peak of our lifetime's worth of ice-related contempla ... More >>

Lil B Records a New Track Called 'Justin Bieber,' Which Was 100% Inevitable

Lil Belieber​ Lil B has hoes on his dick because he looks like anyone you could possibly think of. Those of us with Internet addictions know this. But somehow, Justin Bieber has gone unmentioned by the Based God up until now. Which is downright shocking, when you think about it, since both artist ... More >>

The Billboard Social 50 Proves Internet Fame Can Only Get You So Far

Bieber: Fame via YouTube​In early December, Billboard launched a new chart called The Social 50. It factors in all the times an artist is mentioned across various social media outlets and ranks them accordingly. When I heard about this, I was expecting to see a mix of both big name artists and a ... More >>

Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and lows from the last several weeks in S.F. music.

How S.F. Fared on Last Night's Cupcake Wars

Food NetworkThe home team: Brandon Arnovick of Mission Minis.​Having to watch Cupcake Wars made me roll my eyes as much as when my date last night said that he was noticing that cupcakes were a big deal. Ugh, please: That is so 2000 and late. The trend is as over as the FroYo yo-yo. Basical ... More >>

Robyn is obsessed with robots

Wounded Pride

Despite its reputation, gay-friendly San Francisco is still a tough place for teens to come out.

Things Katy Perry Got Wrong About S.F. in 'California Gurls'

You're not speaking for our part of California, Katy and Snoop​Maybe it's because of Hollywood, the recording industry, the big, wide beaches, the weather, or the hilariously fucked-up crack at utopia that is Southern California, but the place's cultures, ideas and people seem to dominate musical ... More >>

Saturday: YouTube Live

Last Night: YouTube LiveHerbst Pavilion, Fort MasonNovember 22, 2008Review by Tamara PalmerSee a full YouTube Live slideshow by Sam Heller here.Better than: Going to the dentist.Watch: The show (but don't say I didn't warn you).Remembering life without YouTube isn't easy; it has permeated our online ... More >>