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

The Rolling Stones Overcharge For Imperfection at Oracle Arena, 5/5/13

The Rolling Stones Sunday, May 5, 2013 Oracle Arena, Oakland Better than: Bands that don't bother building an aura in the first place. The World's Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Band is fallible. In theory, the Rolling Stones may be perfect. But onstage in Oakland last night, they were not. On the secon ... More >>

We Are The Rolling Stones, and We Are Here For Your Every Last Dollar

How much will you pay to say you've seen the Rolling Stones? In 30 years, when Mick Jagger and Keith Richards are either dead and buried, or are liquid-preserved human heads running a cybernetic body, how badly will you want to tell your (grand-) kids that yes, you saw the real Rolling Stones live? ... More >>

Small Talk: How to Read the Latest Batch of Rock Tell-Alls

The 5 Worst Appearances by Musicians in Sci-Fi and Fantasy Films

Apparently, someone behind the scenes at Game of Thrones has really bland taste in music. Now, in addition to Snow Patrol frontman Gary Lightbody making a cameo in Season 2, Coldplay drummer Will Champion is going to be joining the HBO show for Season 3 -- playing a drummer. (How creative!) The ... More >>

Taylor Swift's Red: A First Listen

Imma let you finish Kanye, but Taylor Swift made one of the best albums of 2010. While indeed beautiful, dark, and twisted, Kanye's forbidding masterpiece didn't get stick it to abusers like "Mean" or "Dear John," get laid like "Sparks Fly," bare its teeth like "Better Than Revenge," marry in style ... More >>

Tom Waits Solves His Riddles: A Music Video For "Hell Broke Luce"

Nope, it was not a tour that Tom Waits mysteriously teased in a series of cryptic emails to every music journalist in America over the last week. Nor was it a cruise, a new album, or an Internet webcast, as we'd rather imaginatively guessed would be announced today, Aug. 7. Instead, it's a new, Mat ... More >>

Grass Widow: Post-Punk Innovation in Three Voices

Gram Parsons Tribute Concert: Show Preview

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 >>

Groupies, Piss, and Penises: Five Shocking Music Memoirs

Those of you who enjoy a feel-good read and a hearty chuckle will be pleased to hear that Steven "Barrel Of Laughs" Morrissey is in the process of finishing up his memoir. So, while we sit and genuinely hope for a chapter about the punctured bicycle on a hillside, desolate, that inspired "This Cha ... More >>

Bouncer: Switching Off Reason at Olive's Happy Hour

Saturday Night: Los Lobos Rings in Bill Graham's 80th Birthday at the Fillmore

Los Lobos and Jackie Greene, through a birthday ballon. Pics by Romana Machado​Bill Graham's 80th Birthday Party BenefitLos LobosJackie GreenePoor Man's WhiskeyJanuary 8, 2010@ The FillmoreAs much fun as: Two straws in a malted mushroom.Bill Graham was due to turn eighty the same day Elvis would'v ... More >>

A Postcard from the Future

Or, how 2011 was the year everything changed in music.

Top 5 Bands That, Unlike Weezer, Should Never Break Up -- No Matter How Bad They Get

By now you've probably heard of Seattle resident James Burns' bid to raise $10 million to make Weezer break up. You may have also heard that, disturbingly, Burns has been the target of death threats for his brilliant idea prank. Frankly, we can see both sides here:  Weezer (apart from its new t ... More >>

Scientists: Why Are Ozzy Osbourne and Keith Richards Still Alive?

The Stone Foxes canceled dates, but their July 17th CD release party at Cafe Du Nord is still on.​S.F.'s The Stone Foxes cancel tour dates due to one member having to receive an emergency appendectomy. But the band's announcement doesn't say which member is having surgery. [Pollstar]Neil Young's f ... More >>

"Get Him to the Greek": Crude on the outside, sweet in the middle

Deceased S.F. Rock Photographer Jim Marshall: A Great F**king Interview

Hendrix photo by Jim Marshall, from MarshallPhoto.com​As All Shook Down reported yesterday, legendary San Francisco photographer Jim Marshall died on Tuesday at age 74. Your humble narrator spoke to Marshall several times last year regarding a lawsuit he filed against the owner of the Bill Graham ... More >>

Listomania: Top Americana Picks For 2009

We spent 2009 sorting through piles of folk and Americana releases, revising this list in our heads till the bitter end and failing repeatedly to understand the hype behind the Avett Brothers in the process. While a year of listening brought no shortage of pleasant surprises, our hands-down favorit ... More >>

Aerosmith Announces Bay Area Date

Steven Tyler Though "Boston's Bad Boys"--technically they're Grandpas by now--jumped the shark several years ago, probably around the time "I Don't Wanna Miss A Thing" was featured in the God-awful movie "Armageddon," they're no denying Aerosmith have more stamina and staying power than the Energize ... More >>

RU Sirius Releases New Book on Drugs and Music

  Rudy Rucker Yes, He Is: RU SiriusEccentric oddball and author RU Sirius --best known as onetime Editor of cyberpunk bible Mondo 2000-- has just released a new book, "Everybody Must Get Stoned: Rock Stars on Drugs." Sirius calls the book, which details the drug-induced exploits o ... More >>

He's Your Best Budd

It's Only Rock 'n' Roll -- and It's MINE. S.F. Photographer Sues Bill Graham Archives to Get Back His Famed Shots

San Francisco photographer Jim Marshall, who snapped this iconic shot of Johnny Cash, has fired off the legal equivalent of the Man In Black's one-finger salute to the owner of Bill Graham Archives.After a man's shot his thousandth musician, you'd figure he'd see some time in court. That's the case ... More >>

LastNight: Meat Puppets and Built to Spill at the Fillmore

"I'm Still Kicking Ass"

Hey, big spender! (Craigslist is ridiculous)

Fool's Gold

The Pirates are back, and they're out to ransack your wallet

Fallen Angel Gram Parsons gains flight in new documentary

A tribute to the "James Brown of Nigeria"; Robert Pollard inaugurates the Year of the Liver

It's (Not) Only Rock 'n' Roll

Saxophonist Tim Ries knows how to jazz up the Rolling Stones. After all, he tours with the band.

Lizard Kings

Is Louis XIV just another hot-to-trot retro rock band, or something far more sinister?

Group Hug 2004

It's been a shitty year on a number of levels. Here's a mix CD to cheer you up.

Hear This

M. Ward brings his dusky folk to Du Nord; buzz-band Louis XIV hits the "popscene."

Hear This

Aerosmith and Kiss tell off the Rolling Stones – sort of

Show Time!

AfroSolo's back in town

Good Things

The Starvations; Blind Boys of Alabama; Dum Dum Project

House Of Tudor

The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack

Apocalypse Then

Altamont slammed the door on rock 'n' roll's dream of peace and love. An insider remembers.

House Of Tudor

The Last Cigarette and Pretty Things

The House of Tudor

The House of Tudor

Night + Day

Slap Shots

Up in the Valley

A critical guide to week one of the Mill Valley Film Fest

Through the Past (Lightly)

Dust to Dust

The frayed ends of insurgent country: Sweetheart of the Rodeo and No Depression

Night+Day

Night Crawler

The Time Bandits

Oasis reminds us that our past is present

Recordings