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Bottle Rock Napa Valley Still Owes $630,000 to More Than 140 Workers

A month after Bottle Rock Napa Valley finished its first-ever music and food festival with major acts like the Black Keys and Kings of Leon, organizers still owe workers who produced the event more than $630,000. The Press-Democrat reports that 142 stagehands haven't been paid for much of the work ... More >>

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Black Keys, Furthur, Kings of Leon to Headline BottleRock Festival in Napa

Since the Bay Area obviously doesn't have enough music festivals already, there's a new one coming -- to Napa, of all places. The inaugural BottleRock Napa Valley festival will run May 9 to 12 and has booked a huge slate of big-name pop-rock acts, including the Black Keys, Kings of Leon, Furthur, th ... More >>

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Photos: Pearl Jam, Kings of Leon Rock Oracle Party on Treasure Island

Pearl Jam Kings of Leon X Oracle OpenWorld, Treasure Island Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2012 While you were at home crying over President Obama's performance in the first presidential debate last night, Pearl Jam, Kings of Leon, and X were rocking thousands of Oracle employees and guests at its end-of-confe ... More >>

The Black Keys' El Camino: A First Listen

No matter what you've read, the Black Keys are as generic as Kings of Leon. The super-successful Brothers was a good record, but didn't escape its own sameyness by the time you're waiting for it to be over. And their success only speaks to the market's sore vain need for a famous rock band right no ... More >>

Top 5 Ways to Ruin a Perfectly Respectable Career, Featuring Kings of Leon

Is it really so hard to be Kings of Leon? That's a question that countless arena-rock sobsters have been asking themselves in the wake of the Followill clan's tour cancellation, a move which disappointed fans, upset beer manufacturers, and may damn near bankrupt Live Nation. Rather than revel in the ... More >>

Eight Rock 'n' Roll Poop Bombs: Exploring Pop Music and Shit

Dookie​Three of my sons have reached the age where they've begun exhibiting the symptoms of chronic privy mouth. Shakespeare relished a good poop quip every now and then (see Henry V). Ditto for Marquis de Sade and Geoffrey Chaucer. Graffiti from the buried Roman city of Pompeii featured humor ... More >>

The Top 10 Harshest Pitchfork Disses of 2011 -- So Far

Tthere's something undeniably juicy about reading an excoriating review of a new album -- especially on a site like Pitchfork, where a low score carries considerable weight, and where writers are given plenty of space and freedom to carve up the works they don't like. Given the choice, wouldn't you ... More >>

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

Toke Along with Scala & Kolacny Brothers, Then See Them at the Independent Tonight

​ This week: Toke along with Scala & Kolacny Brothers. ​ Behind the buzz: Anyone claiming mystification at this Coachella-bound rock choir needs a sharp rap across the skull with one of those dildos left over from a Die Antwoord video. You'd think cultural memory of a lopsided pair of So ... More >>

Metallica Fans More Likely to 'Do It' on a First Date, Dumb Survey Says

"Nice to meet you. Wanna do it?"​Surprise! Metallica and Nirvana fans are more likely to have sex on a first date, while those who like Coldplay and Adele are the least likely to go all the way.Those are the findings of a not-entirely-scientific survey by online dating site Tastebuds, which matche ... More >>

The 2011 Grammys, A Timeline: Lady Gaga's Boob Armor, Who Is Lady Antebellum, and What the Hell is Cee-Lo Wearing?

In which we sit through three and a half hours of Grammys twaddle, so you don't have to: 8:01 p.m.: Show opens with an Aretha Franklin montage. Okay... 8:03 p.m.: Christina Aguilera, Jennifer Hudson, Florence Welch, Yolanda Adams, and Martina McBride perform "Natural Woman" together, then take i ... More >>

'Kings of Leon Tour Bus Catches Fire' And Other Headlines SF Artist Johnny Selman Should Interpret

​What's that you say? A San Francisco-based artist agitating for sociopolitical change? My stars, now we've seen everything! But seriously, folks. Transplanted Virginian and extremely assiduous master's candidate Johnny Selman has embarked on a pretty cool project for his Academy of Art thesis: fo ... More >>

Outside Lands, Day Two: More People and More Fun

The right side of the crowd during Phoenix's "1901"​The first thing we noticed about the second day of the Outside Lands festival was all the people. We're still waiting on official figures to back this up, but here are our impressions: On Saturday afternoon on the polo fields felt laid back, with ... More >>

Sound and Vision: The year Outside Lands stumbled

Food and Wine at Outside Lands: You Should Probably Be Excited

J. BirdsallAztec Chocolate Cupcakes from Mission Minis​Just imagine: Al Green could chow down on a mint It's-It ice cream sandwich this weekend in Golden Gate Park. Those brothers from Kings of Leon might try a Maverick's pulled-pork sandwich or a gourmet cupcake from Mission Minis. Maybe Cat Powe ... More >>

Outside Lands Promoters 'Scared to Death,' Sonny & the Sunsets sign to Fat Possum

Sonny and the Sunsets at Bottom of the Hill last year​Outside Lands promoters are "scared to death" of the soft economy and bad concert season, which is why they cut the festival back to two days. Contrary to what we heard, promoters say tickets are selling slowly. From SF Gate:Organizers said the ... More >>

Summer Bloodbath? The Concert Industry Had It Coming

Was seeing Petty's grin worth the price? Tell us in the comments section​Summer 2010 is turning out to be a bloodbath for the concert industry. As Billboard reports:Individual shows, legs of tours, or entire tours have been canceled or postponed by such artists as U2 (due to Bono's back surgery), ... More >>

Disappointing Outside Lands lineup selling lots of tickets

Christopher VictorioNo, he's not gonna be there this year​ Disappointed Outside Lands fan, we share your woe: The lineup this year -- at least concerning headliners -- just doesn't woo us like it has in years past. Not to slam the bands at the top of the bill. My Morning Jacket, Furthur, Al Green ... More >>

Exclusive: Outside Lands Full Lineup Unveiled

Without any further ado, the full line up for San Francisco's own Outside Lands Music Festival, presented in a very endearing video format brought to by The Eclectic Method.The lineup is not too shabby. Who we're most excited about? Kings of Leon, The Strokes, My Morning Jacket, Gogol Bordello, Ca ... More >>

Outside Lands lineup leaked in both Rolling Stone and Spin

Phoenix at Outside Lands: It's Leak-omania​This is almost too neat to be an accident. The Outside Lands 2010 lineup was supposed to be a secret until tomorrow, but both Spin and Rolling Stone broke the two-day festival's headliners in issues that dropped last week.SFist has the full run-down on th ... More >>

Free Tastes of New Bonnaroo Ice Cream at Ben & Jerry's

Mmmm... Kings of Leon​Bonnaroo, the giant Manchester, Tennessee music festival in mid-June, just got a little tastier. You can now count down the days until Stevie Wonder, Jay-Z, Conan O'Brien, The Flaming Lips, and a billion other marquee names take multiple stages down south by licking your way ... More >>

Win Our Kings of Leon Prize Pack

In case you missed the e-mail blast: SF Weekly is giving away four tickets to the Kings of Leon show with The Walkmen at the Bill Graham Civic on May 21. But wait -- there's more. The winner of this contest also gets hotel accommodations for four, a $175 dinner at Colibri, and a Bauer's Limousine f ... More >>

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