Leonard Cohen

Q&A: Philip Glass on Collaboration, Minimalism, and His Henry Miller Library Benefit Show with Joanna Newsom

Popular, influential, and cult musicians come through San Francisco every day. But it isn't every day when an event comes along that you know will be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and serve a good cause. On Monday, Philip Glass' Days and Nights Festival and local promoter (((folkYEAH!))) presen ... More >>

First Aid Kit on Discovering Roots Music Through Bright Eyes, and Growing Up in a Punk Household

Standing on the precipice of mainstream acclaim, the sisters comprising the Swedish folk duo First Aid Kit are among an emerging generation of musical disciples of bands like Bright Eyes and Fleet Foxes, whose own sound is a modern twist on traditional American country. It's a little bit of an unlik ... More >>

The Beautiful Ugly Truth

The Best of SXSW Music: Wednesday 3/14/2012

​If you're familiar with chaos theory, which in its basic form is the attempt to find patterns in the random acts of shit on Earth, then you may understand the difficulty that comes with describing a full day at SXSW. To break down the bright, scintillating chaos, Village Voice Media's roving musi ... More >>

Van Halen's A Different Kind of Truth: A First Listen

​Van Halen is about one thing: revenge. Eddie brought in Sammy to get rid of Dave, flirted with Dave again to get rid of Sammy, brought in Gary Cherone to clear out the building, trained his own son to replace his most loyal member, and brought Dave back in for now. Don't be surprised if he cans h ... More >>

Get Into the Escape

Crooked Fingers: Show Preview

Arthouse movie listings for March 3-9, 2010

Inspired by Leonard Cohen, Tegan and Sara remain obsessed with affection

Arthouse movie listings for February 24-March 2, 2010

Arthouse movie listings for February 17-23, 2010

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 >>

S-Rod

Last Night: Devendra Banhart at the Independent

Lauren DukoffDevendra BanhartTuesday, April 14, 2009The IndependentBetter than: Paying nearly $300 to bake in the Southern California sun with thousands of other music fans.It feels like there's a defacto music festival in the Bay Area right now as a number of acclaimed and underground bands perform ... More >>

Marco Benevento experiments on the ivories

The Australian Evangelist

CD Review: The Walkmen

Last Night: R.E.M. at The Greek Theater

Peter Morén

The Last Tycoon(Wichita/Quarterstick)

Einstürzende Neubauten: The Industrial Revolution Has New S.F. Headquarters

Philip Glass Spotted at Yuet Lee Before Appomatoxx Debut

Adams vs. Glass

Two contemporary music giants descend upon the Bay

Six Degrees of Separation

Lonely art-folkie P.G. Six makes new friends

Buzz-Worthy or Banal?

Wilco erects a great divide

Our top DVD picks for the week of November 14:

Hot Chip

Coming on Strong

Melting Poet

Someone else's tongue in your ear

What a Dick

My favorite funny, great big mess

Walk On

The Walkmen are not a part of that New York retro rock thing. Seriously.

House of Tudor

Rising up from the open mike scene, Neil Howard and the New Black deliver dark pop songs

Camera Obscura

Under Achievers Please Try Harder

Richard Buckner

Impasse

House of Tudor

Pressed fairies, effete torch singers, and highly techy pop acts

Sondre Lerche

Faces Down (Astralwerks)

Feel His Pain

Billy Bob has a simple plan: to sing about life and lovin' his wife

Under Ogre

Shrek offers an amusing, if empty, fractured fairy tale

Filmed on the Body 2

Week 2 of the San Francisco International Film Festival

Pop Philosophy

Paying tribute to the near-forgotten Dom Leone

House Of Tudor

Day Glo Abortions; Sunshine; Nina Simone

The 6ths

Hyacinths and Thistles (Merge)

Wonder Bread

House Of Tudor

"Second Wednesdays," Toog, Ethan James, Meg Lee Chin

Riff Raff

Night & Day

Night & Day

Selling His Soul

The traveling salesman is the symbolic star of Vic Chesnutt's sixth and sexiest album

Quiet, Please -- We're Rocking

The American Analog Set, and how quiet may be the last place for rock to go

Recordings

Recordings

Night+Day