Subject: Lady GaGa

• Night Day: Calendar Picks for 5/27

  May 27, 2008

• Hitsville: The Year in Music, by the Numbers

  By Randall Roberts You don't need a half-wit music critic to tell you it's been a remarkable year for America, one historians will be discussing and researching for centuries to come. War, financial collapse, politics, technology: All have been dinner-table topics for many Americans. Racial barriers in 2008 were demolished by a Midwestern black man, and gender barriers were hurdled by an Arkansan and an Alaskan.Democracy has a few awesome new dance moves rolling into the Obama presidency, and i

  December 31, 2008

• Top 10 Albums That We Hope Will Actually Come Out in 2009 (But Probably Won't)

  (Dr. Dre might need an intervention in order to release his long-awaited Detox album)With the music industry in a continued state of shambles, even the average consumer is starting to understand that it's a risky venture to release an album and that this holds true for newcomers as well as those who have had a taste of superstardom. But we've still got to tease the artists that continually claim to put out a project and somehow just never quite end up getting there, which is why we're honoring t

  January 9, 2009

• San Francisco Snuggie Pub Crawl Secedes, Saves Attendants $20

  For someone wearing a pearl necklace and an evening gown fashioned out of a Snuggie, a woman standing near the entrance to Rouge nightclub was pretty mouthy. "Snugger, please," she told a guy in a Snuggie wizard costume, who had seemingly just refused to buy her a drink.  An abundance of Snuggie-clad gentlemen continued to hit her up, though, as this was Friday night's Snuggie Pub Crawl. About 200 people had gathered on Polk Street in some semblance of th

  March 23, 2009

• SF Weekly Letters

  March 18, 2009

• The Lady GaGa backlash begins here

  March 11, 2009

• Get It While You Can

  May 21, 2008

• Charlie Horse

  May 6, 2009

• Ten Things to Do This Weekend For Under $10

  Anna CondaWe're back! Ten Things was on vacation for the last two weeks and we've returned, well, broke. So we are more than happy to round up all the fun stuff to do this weekend for those who are feeling down to their bottom dollar (and we all know those bottom dollars should be saved for beer). Slideluck Potshow (Friday)So there's this photographer named Casey Kelbaugh, and when he lived in Seattle, he used to throw these really cool get-togethers called Slideluck Potshows. He solicited photo

  May 8, 2009

• Track of the Day: Kid Cudi

  If there was any doubt that Kid Cudi's on his way up in this world, the Brooklyn (by way of Cleveland) rapper's latest single should help cement his ascendency. "Make Her Say" samples Lady Gaga's "Poker Face" hit and adds two star attractions on the mic: Kanye West and Common contribute their sexual innuendos to a tune originally tagged "I Poke Her Face." The ladies spit, strip, and swallow in this litany of locker room bravado bits, but the beats keep things light and bouncy as an innocent summ

  June 15, 2009

• Wait a Second -- Is That Concert Poster Celebrating the Good Ol' Days Before the Emancipation Proclamation?

  Joe EskenaziWhat's in a name? That depends upon whether your relatives owned or were owned, right? We'll admit it. We're not huge country music fans, so the massive Kenny Chesney poster hanging off AT&T Park didn't really draw our attention. What did get us doing a double-take was the name of what appears to be the tertiary opening act: Lady Antebellum. Doing a little rudimentary Web sleuthing, we were surprised to find out that Lady Antebellum -- unlike Lady Gaga or Lady Miss Kier -- is not

  June 22, 2009

• Chron Clueless About the Current State of Radio

  Radio GaGa? No, Lady Gaga Interesting article on Bay Area radio Music Directors in today's Chron. When I say interesting, it's because the information presented runs counter not only to what's currently happening with the commercial radio industry, but is written in such a way to suggest that writer Aidin Vaziri is completely clueless to this discrepancy. In fact, this article is more notable for what it doesn't tell you than what it does: it doesn't mention that most, if not all MDs on Clear

  June 30, 2009

• Early Bird Special: The Tipsy Pig

  Jen SiskaThe mac 'n' cheese most definitely did not suck.You've been to that party, the one where you feel uncomfortably dickish. Everybody else is hammered and sweaty, screaming into their phones and busting cheesy moves to Lady Gaga, while you're, well, wondering if anyone'd notice if you booked. That's how Weekly food maven Meredith Brody felt on her second visit to The Tipsy Pig (2231 Chestnut at Pierce), the Marina comfort-food phenom that calls itself a "gastrotavern" (you know, like gastr

  July 7, 2009

• Energy 92 Sold to New Owners

  ​Yesterday, Chron radio columnist Ben Fong-Torres reported that Energy 92 (KNGY) has been sold. As far as I know, the station was the only major commercial station in this market to actively target gay and lesbian listeners with its programming. It was a bit of an anomaly in the world of commercial radio with a playlist based around electronic dance music and club hits rather than Top 40 songs. Though it played its share of songs by Black Eyed Peas and Lady Gaga,, Energy also broadcast undergr

  August 10, 2009

• Hey DJ! Friday Q&A: DJ Pee Play

  ​DJ Pee Play possesses the sort of mentality that keeps San Francisco's club--and cultural--scene vital. When he saw a nightlife void, instead of bitching about it, he went after filling it. And when one bar told him no, he started up a whole collective of likeminded DJs to do forward-thinking events at other clubs, pulling likeminded music lovers into his hive. Pee Play is a co-founder of Honey Soundsystem, a crew of party pros wanting to instigate an edgy alternative to the Castro scene. The

  August 14, 2009

• Jega's SF Record Release Party this Saturday

  Pensive: Jega​ I've always thought IDM--intelligent dance music--to be somewhat of a strange name for a microgenre. Its implications seem rather assumptive, namely that most dance music (and, by extension, dance music audiences) is stupid. Also, since dance music's primary function is to move our bodies, does the brain even need to be engaged? Doesn't rhythm happen on an instinctual/synaptic level? And can one wear black turtlenecks with silver go-go boots? Furthermore, while artists like

  August 19, 2009

• Drink Therapy: Two-for-One Vacation

  Rice Bear/FlickrYeah, baby.​How'd the Tuesday back from your three-day turn out? Brutal? Even if you don't normally go all gushy over, oh, that Lady Gaga "Paparazzi" video, or spending daylight hours in a bar with a dance floor that flashes hard enough to induce seizure, you can find some measure of weekend extension at the two-for-one well-drink happy hour (3-8 p.m.) at Badlands. Yeah, we know: BOGOs are as much a cliché of gay bars as the mirrored pee trough, or the tragically hammered

  September 8, 2009

• Hey DJ! Friday Q&A: B. Bravo of Disco vs Dubstep, Lush Life

  ​You might know this week's Q&A star, B. Bravo, from one of a couple different guises. He busts out the sax for Bayonics, has worked as a DJ both over the airwaves and in clubs, and has recorded a couple solo releases--the latest of which is his Computa Love  EP. Bravo opens for Chromeo at Mezzanine on Saturday night; get to know the guy behind the turntables below. Name: Adam Mori aka B. BravoClub night(s): Disco vs Dubstep, Lush Life @ Royale, 4th Tuesdays @ Eve LoungeStyle(s) of mu

  October 9, 2009

• Gossip trades punk for funk

  October 21, 2009

• Last Night: Weezer's 'Secret Show' at the Regency

  Joseph Schell ​WeezerWednesday, Oct. 21, 2009The RegencyBetter than: Seeing an arena rock band in an arena.Just to be clear, there was a lot of screaming going on at the Regency last night for Weezer's free "secret" show. Fans screamed when the line they were standing in outside the venue--a line snaking around the corner and down the alley next to the club--started to move indoors. They screamed, in random outbursts, between the time the opening act, Natalie Portman's Shaved Head, finished, a

  October 22, 2009

• Halloween Tricks: The 10 Creepiest Singers of All Time

  For all of America's pretty pop idols, we also have a healthy appreciation for singers who make us really uncomfortable. Who give us the creeps, if you will. As a special Halloween treat, here are the top ten performers who give us that special form of skeeves:1. Corey Taylor bill from jersey city​The Slipknot frontman is also known as #8. Is that the number of victims he's claimed? His utterly freaky masks, evoking serial killers, would seem to suggest as much.2. Gene SimmonsFrehleyKISS​The

  October 30, 2009

• Donuts' three-year anniversary

  November 4, 2009

• What To Do? Monday's Pick: Donuts' Anniversary at the Knockout

  Katherine Leigh MatutinaDJ Pickpocket (left)​Donuts 3-Year Anniversary @ the KnockoutIt's a testament to San Francisco's good taste that DJs Pickpocket and AC's Donuts club night has thrived against the mindless wave of Lady Gaga-ish '80s-glam attitude that has recently broken over the local club scene. Now Donuts celebrates three years of presenting obscure '60s to '80s DJ dance beats; innovative live music; and visual art and fashion with a lineup of the West Coast's shiniest live electronic

  November 9, 2009