Liz Phair

Liz Phair brings 'Guyville' to S.F. June 23

Last Night: Liz Phair at the Fillmore

DJs dig into '90s nostalgia

Liz Phair returns from Guyville exile

Pink Nasty

Mold the Gold (Self-released)

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Mold the Gold (Self-released)

The Dance Front

Moving for social change

What's in store for indie rock and prime time in a post-O.C. universe

Moving for social change

Exile in Mainstream

Can the songwriter's follow-up to the disastrous Liz Phair reconcile her altrock past with her pop-rock present?

Going Postal

Like it or not, the Zip Code Rapists are back

Hear This

Ellen Fullman plays her homemade and very weird "Long String Instrument"; film composer Michael Penn shows his pop side at Café Du Nord

Jimmy Eat World

Futures

White Mud Free Way

Last Year's Junk

Best Dressed

Couture breezes through downtown S.F.

Soap Scum

Serial sagas meet high camp

Für Alles

Cinema from the fatherland

Anxiety Attack

Part street theater, part punk-rock-a-thon, the Nervous Breakdowns' show is back. Sort of.

Continuous Peasant

Exile in Babyville

Fanning the Flames

In-your-face flamenco

Drive-By Truckers

Decoration Day

Liz Phair

Liz Phair

Shock and Brouhaha

Why San Francisco is better than Austin, even during the South by Southwest music festival

Hear This

Loretta Lynch gives traditional bluegrass a good goosing

Play Misty for Me

The latest project from indie director Finn Taylor

Happy Go Lucky

Barbara Manning's broke, semihomeless, and doesn't have a record contract. She couldn't be more thrilled.

Stalker Fiction

Camden Joy turned Cracker's David Lowery into fiction. Too bad he's real -- and really angry.

House of Tudor

Camden Joy turned Cracker's David Lowery into fiction. Too bad he's real -- and really angry.

Letters

Camden Joy turned Cracker's David Lowery into fiction. Too bad he's real -- and really angry.

Letters

Camden Joy turned Cracker's David Lowery into fiction. Too bad he's real -- and really angry.

Letters

Camden Joy turned Cracker's David Lowery into fiction. Too bad he's real -- and really angry.

Whitechocolate What?

Camden Joy turned Cracker's David Lowery into fiction. Too bad he's real -- and really angry.

Nuthin' But a She Thing

Camden Joy turned Cracker's David Lowery into fiction. Too bad he's real -- and really angry.

Liver Than You'll Ever Be

Camden Joy turned Cracker's David Lowery into fiction. Too bad he's real -- and really angry.

Suspicious Minds

Camden Joy turned Cracker's David Lowery into fiction. Too bad he's real -- and really angry.

The Sound vs. Fury

The secret success of 1995's rhythm nation

Recordings

The secret success of 1995's rhythm nation

The Dark Shadow

Barbara Manning and the S.F. Seals find that Truth Walks in Sleepy Shadows

Recordings

Barbara Manning and the S.F. Seals find that Truth Walks in Sleepy Shadows

Saturday Night: Barbara Manning and the Sleaze Tax at the Hemlock Tavern

​Barbara Manning and the Sleaze Tax Hemlock Tavern, Saturday, August 8, 2009 Electric folkie, indie-rock goddess, and baseball nut Barbara Manning must have been in the witness protection program. Or maybe she was farming alpacas in New Zealand. In any case, she's been largely absent from the S. ... More >>

Thoughts on a Night with Liz Phair, Stephan Jenkins, the Velvet Underground, and Practically Every Musician in the Mission

Stephan Jenkins performing "European Son" with members of Os Beaches and the Blank Tapes​Stephan Jenkins, frontman of Third Eye Blind, is tall. This I realized last night, as I was standing next to the man inside Coda Jazz Supper Club on Mission Street, stumbling for words to introduce him to ... More >>

'The Anthropology of Bono,' and Other Music Courses We'd Like To See

​Recently a few colleges, including the Universities of Virginia and South Carolina, announced plans to offer an undergraduate course on the music, celebrity and all-around mindfuck of Lady Gaga. UVA's is called "GaGa for Gaga: Sex, Gender, and Identity."We've all heard about legendary and hard-to ... More >>

Saturday Night: Dean Wareham Plays Galaxie 500 at the Fillmore

​Dean Wareham The Papercuts November 13, 2010 @ The Fillmore Better than: Listening to On Fire and pretending someone could love you. The rise of the Galaxie 500 cult is one of the many gratifications of onrushing rock geezerdom. Like that of many other music fans around during the trio's thr ... More >>

100 S.F. Musicians Teaming Up To Record -- and Perform -- Pixies' Dolittle

​Earlier this fall, more than 40 local musicians got together -- along with Liz Phair and Third Eye Blind's Stephan Jenkins -- to perform the Velvet Underground's seminal debut album at Coda Jazz Supper Club. This project was the first from a new coalition of Mission music regulars, artists, and p ... More >>

Coda Jazz Supper Club to Close Jan. 1

​It's official folks: Coda Jazz Supper Club at Mission and Duboce is closing for good on Jan. 1, 2011.This sad news follows our report last week that the Triple Crown, a DJ-friendly bar at Market and Octavia, will also shut down operations after its New Year's Eve party.

Coda Owner Bruce Hanson Says the Recession Killed His Mission Jazz Venue

​Coda, the upscale Mission music venue and restaurant that's played host to the likes of Stevie Wonder, Liz Phair, and some of the city's best jazz musicians, will close its doors Dec. 31, a victim of the tough economic times.Coda replaced Levende Lounge at 1710 Mission St., opening its doors on A ... More >>

Opinions About Opinions: Parsing the Year in Pitchfork Ratings

"Proclivity," eh?​They say any publicity is good publicity. It just might work for Ghostland Observatory, whose album Codename: Rondo got the lowest Pitchfork rating of 2010, clocking in at 1.5 out of 10. What, you may wonder if, like me, you never listened to it, was so irksome to the tastemaking ... More >>

Lesson of the Day: Don't Throw Away Your Mix CDs

SF Weekly's own Exhibitionist uncovered a "Secret Admirer" mix CD (double disc!) found in the used bin of a Valencia Street bookstore, complete with a (possibly unopened) note giving track-by-track commentary, and saddest of all, a date of creation: May 2011. ​Highlights include: An (iron ... More >>

Girls' Father, Son, Holy Ghost -- A First Listen

​ I've been everywhere with the San Francisco band Girls: Love 'em, hate 'em, find them overhyped, find the detractors overly cynical. I think they like it that way. Girls' hugely-acclaimed 2009 Album blew me away for a week. Then I found myself having trouble rekindling that need to hear it a ... More >>

The Top 10 Hottest Women in Grunge

Sure, the grunge era produced its fair share of long-haired, flannel-loving, Converse-wearing male beefcake. But early '90s rock also made famous a bunch of strong-minded, talented -- and really, really sexy -- female rockers. As Nirvana's Nevermind turns 20 this week, and Pearl Jam celebrates two d ... More >>

Lana Del Rey's Disappeared Full-Length Debut: A First Listen

Lana Del Rey, aka Lizzy Grant​ Lana Del Rey, aka Lizzy Grant, might have had last year's then-obscure album as Lizzy Grant off the market after it floundered on iTunes for two months, but sure enough, it has resurfaced. And the record puts a lot more body under the myth and the controversy tha ... More >>