Lisbon

Fados

Sound System Gonna Bring Me Back Up

2008 Music Awards Nominees

Little GoCars are big polluters

Making Grown Indie Boys Weep: Xiu Xiu

Art House

Hit List

The top movies of 2007

Shout at the Diabo

The top movies of 2007

Animal Collective's Panoramic Kingdom

A casting call of the wild

Downy Drummers

Soft Circle and Panda Bear embrace a new age of folksy experimentalism

Pop Quizzical

U.K. electro outfit Hot Chip confounds as it funks

SFIFF Film Capsules

U.K. electro outfit Hot Chip confounds as it funks

Orphans of Beauty

Unmarketable inventions, often called orphan technology, are generally considered useless. Paul DeMarinis considers them precursors to art.

House of Tudor

A Deadhead's Songcatchers and the best rock band in America

Dont Look Back

Pissing off the local cinephile community at the S.F. International Film Festival

House of Tudor

Electroclashers, grotesque miscreations, and flying imbeciles

Don Lennon

Downtown (Secretly Canadian)

Buraka Som Sistema Coming to SF

Straight Outta Lisbon: Buraka Som SistemaThis is an official Hipster Alert: Lisbon outfit Buraka Som Sistema, one of the hottest acts to emerge from the burgeoning worldtronica movement, are coming to the Rickshaw Stop April 21. How hot are Buraka? The group recently dropped a new album, Black Dia ... More >>

Uncharted Territories

Trailblazing composer Terry Riley still seeks out new sources for improvisation

Stage

Trailblazing composer Terry Riley still seeks out new sources for improvisation

Sex, Drugs, Rock 'n' Roll. Korea.

The 41st San Francisco International Film Festival

Recordings

The 41st San Francisco International Film Festival

Recordings

The 41st San Francisco International Film Festival

The Barefoot Contessa

The melancholy mornas of Cape Verde's Cesaria Evora

The Joy of Cookin'

The melancholy mornas of Cape Verde's Cesaria Evora

A Bausch in Your Step

The melancholy mornas of Cape Verde's Cesaria Evora

Last Night: Joyride Art Show at Market Street Gallery and Ever Gold Gallery

The Bicycle Film Festival in San Francisco Multiple locations: See here. Joyride Art Show: Market Street Gallery - 1554 Market Street Ever gold Gallery - 441 O'Farrell Better than: Critical Mass Also see: The Film Festival Trailer It's the stuff of nightmares: A clear fall afternoon in Man ... More >>

Fuck Buttons crank the noise, add nuance

The Bicycle Film Festival in San Francisco Multiple locations: See here. Joyride Art Show: Market Street Gallery - 1554 Market Street Ever gold Gallery - 441 O'Farrell Better than: Critical Mass Also see: The Film Festival Trailer It's the stuff of nightmares: A clear fall afternoon in Man ... More >>

Weekend Chatter: Buraka Som Sistema Q&A

​Lisbon-based Buraka Som Sistema headlines Mezzanine Saturday night, bringing its mashup of vocal percussion with zombified, broken-legged dance contortions. The foursome who leapt into global view with 2008's Black Diamond is now making its second SF visit. The group will batter crowds with dis ... More >>

Neighborhood Fruit is the Urban Foraging Database We Were Yearning For. Sort Of

Neighborhood FruitThe city fruit-tree finder has a mobile app, too.​Last week, we posted about Portland's Urban Edibles, a cool online database of that city's wild foods sources. We wondered if such an operation might soon surface in San Francisco. Almost immediately, we learned that it had †... More >>

S.F. International Film Fest preview

Neighborhood FruitThe city fruit-tree finder has a mobile app, too.​Last week, we posted about Portland's Urban Edibles, a cool online database of that city's wild foods sources. We wondered if such an operation might soon surface in San Francisco. Almost immediately, we learned that it had †... More >>

Business in Front

Neighborhood FruitThe city fruit-tree finder has a mobile app, too.​Last week, we posted about Portland's Urban Edibles, a cool online database of that city's wild foods sources. We wondered if such an operation might soon surface in San Francisco. Almost immediately, we learned that it had †... More >>

DJ Sabo: Show Preview

Neighborhood FruitThe city fruit-tree finder has a mobile app, too.​Last week, we posted about Portland's Urban Edibles, a cool online database of that city's wild foods sources. We wondered if such an operation might soon surface in San Francisco. Almost immediately, we learned that it had †... More >>

Magic Kids, ZineFest, Prince vs. Michael, Doin' It in the Park, and More

Magic Kids plays Bottom of the Hill this Sunday​It's Labor Day! Meaning: an extra day to your weekend, 10 percent more texts than usual and even more chances to nurse epic hangovers. Have fun San Francisco, you deserve it. Here's our list of fun things to do this weekend for less than a ticket to ... More >>

At Viva Goa, authenticity sometimes trumps taste

Magic Kids plays Bottom of the Hill this Sunday​It's Labor Day! Meaning: an extra day to your weekend, 10 percent more texts than usual and even more chances to nurse epic hangovers. Have fun San Francisco, you deserve it. Here's our list of fun things to do this weekend for less than a ticket to ... More >>

Pitchfork's Best Albums List: What It Got Right, and What It Got Wrong (So Far), in 10 Sentences

​Some music website called Pitchfork is unveiling its list of the year's best albums this week. Since this site and its opinions are marginally important to the music world, and since the whole point of lists is to agree and/or disagree, here's our reaction -- in the form of 10 brief sentence ... More >>

"Somewhere": Celebrity living has its downside

​Some music website called Pitchfork is unveiling its list of the year's best albums this week. Since this site and its opinions are marginally important to the music world, and since the whole point of lists is to agree and/or disagree, here's our reaction -- in the form of 10 brief sentence ... More >>

Weekend Parties: Egyptian Lover at 1015 Folsom, Derrick May and Kevin Saunderson at Public Works, and More

Egyptian Lover demonstrates the proper attire -- and vehicle -- for "I Love The 80s" at 1015 Folsom​ It just doesn't stop, does it? We're two steps shy of winter and it seems that nightlife in San Francisco is still going off. Sure, it's getting colder, but with weekends this consistently good ... More >>

Year in Film: "Margaret" Is the Best Forgotten Cursed Film of 2011

Egyptian Lover demonstrates the proper attire -- and vehicle -- for "I Love The 80s" at 1015 Folsom​ It just doesn't stop, does it? We're two steps shy of winter and it seems that nightlife in San Francisco is still going off. Sure, it's getting colder, but with weekends this consistently good ... More >>

Live Review, 1/22/12: The Walkmen Celebrate 10 Years at the Independent

The Walkmen at the Independent on Friday.​ The Walkmen The Independent Friday, Jan. 22, 2012 Better than: The Walkmen playing at a sunny outdoor festival. The Walkmen played the first of two sold out shows at the Independent on a very rainy Friday night, in celebration of the band's 10th An ... More >>