Lou Reed

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Assessing Metallica After 30 Years and Four Nights at the Fillmore

10 Actually Good Songs on Metallica's Despised Load and Reload Albums

It's not that bad. Really.​ As we celebrate Metallica's 30th Anniversary, it's time to reexamine a popular mindset among critics and fans of the most enduringly popular band in metal history: Many believe that that all four of Metallica's 1980s albums were unimpeachable classics, and that afte ... More >>

Music Links: Seventeen Evergreen Goes on a Yarn Orgy, the Soft Moon on SF, and More

Reviewing goth girls Chelsea Wolfe and Zola Jesus at the Independent. [SF Gate] Everyone gets yarn-bombed in the great new video from SF's Seventeen Evergreen. [The Bay Bridged]

John Cameron Mitchell, of Hedwig and the Angry Inch Fame, Is DJing in S.F. This Sunday

John Cameron Mitchell​There's a scene in the seminal rock musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch in which Hedwig, as a young boy growing up in East Berlin, shows how he used to lie with his head in the oven, listening to the likes of Iggy Pop, Lou Reed, and David Bowie on the American Armed Forces ... More >>

Rock Mag Creem Will Be Resurrected -- For the Third Time

​In what sounds like a weak "Bed Intruder" rip-off, the once-extinct Creem magazine has announced its return to the world of the living: "Lock the doors, hide your children, we're back!" This isn't the first time -- or even the second. After publishing its last issue in 1989, it was resurrect ... More >>

Noah & The Whale Bring Good Vibes to The Independent

[Editor's note: All Shook Down accidentally sent two writers to the show, but we're posting both reviews, since they're both so good.] Lauren Sloss​Noah and the Whale Bahamas May 26, 2011 @ The Independent Better than: mastering the choreography to Duckie's Otis Redding dance alone in your r ... More >>

Conversing on Choreography

[Editor's note: All Shook Down accidentally sent two writers to the show, but we're posting both reviews, since they're both so good.] Lauren Sloss​Noah and the Whale Bahamas May 26, 2011 @ The Independent Better than: mastering the choreography to Duckie's Otis Redding dance alone in your r ... More >>

War Revives its Old-School Funk Hits Along with a Few Classics at Yoshi's

Romana MachadoWar at Yoshi's last night.​WarJanuary 25, 2011@ Yoshi's SFBetter than: Doin' the funky BransonHow well performer or act bears the ravages of time seems to be inversely related to how deadly serious it took itself in the first place. The reception given a beloved dotard like Lou Reed ... More >>

Sonic Booty

Six sets worth plundering at this year's Treasure Island Music Festival.

El Rio's Birthday Party, Moon Duo, Autobahn, Mission Dolores Fiesta and More

Cody T WilliamsDiamond Daggers will perform at El Rio this Saturday​If you don't have tickets to Giants playoffs games this weekend, didn't want to pay the jacked-up prices, or simply do not care about baseball, check out every other cheap event in the city. There are many. Here's our list of 10 t ... More >>

In Other News: Hell Freezes Over

Cody T WilliamsDiamond Daggers will perform at El Rio this Saturday​If you don't have tickets to Giants playoffs games this weekend, didn't want to pay the jacked-up prices, or simply do not care about baseball, check out every other cheap event in the city. There are many. Here's our list of 10 t ... More >>

Listen to Oakland's Grand Lake Cover Pavement's 'In The Mouth of a Desert'

File this under bizarre: Oakland's Grand Lake have just covered the classic Pavement tune "In the Mouth of a Desert." So how does it sound? At first listen: weird. Second listen: very weird. Frontman Caleb Nichols tweaks Malkmus' lines in a nasally vocal spray over a persistent, distorted drum-machi ... More >>

Smashing Classical Boundaries at Switchboard Music Festival

Zoe Keating​The Bay Area is at the center of one of the most radical movements in music these days: the joyful destruction of the boundary between so-called "classical" music and "popular" music. The two worlds have been cross-fertilizing for years -- see Lou Reed and John Cale hanging with minima ... More >>

Madam, I'm Adam

Zoe Keating​The Bay Area is at the center of one of the most radical movements in music these days: the joyful destruction of the boundary between so-called "classical" music and "popular" music. The two worlds have been cross-fertilizing for years -- see Lou Reed and John Cale hanging with minima ... More >>

Women's Music

Zoe Keating​The Bay Area is at the center of one of the most radical movements in music these days: the joyful destruction of the boundary between so-called "classical" music and "popular" music. The two worlds have been cross-fertilizing for years -- see Lou Reed and John Cale hanging with minima ... More >>

November Book Events: Howard Junker, Joshua Clover, Lierre Keith, and William S. Burroughs

Zoe Keating​The Bay Area is at the center of one of the most radical movements in music these days: the joyful destruction of the boundary between so-called "classical" music and "popular" music. The two worlds have been cross-fertilizing for years -- see Lou Reed and John Cale hanging with minima ... More >>

The Velvet Aboveground

Zoe Keating​The Bay Area is at the center of one of the most radical movements in music these days: the joyful destruction of the boundary between so-called "classical" music and "popular" music. The two worlds have been cross-fertilizing for years -- see Lou Reed and John Cale hanging with minima ... More >>

Farewell to Oreo

Zoe Keating​The Bay Area is at the center of one of the most radical movements in music these days: the joyful destruction of the boundary between so-called "classical" music and "popular" music. The two worlds have been cross-fertilizing for years -- see Lou Reed and John Cale hanging with minima ... More >>

Last Night: Antony and the Johnsons at Nob Hill Masonic Center

Gretchen RobinetteAntony and the JohnsonsTuesday, Feb. 24, 2009Nob Hill Masonic CenterBetter than: Old Nina Simone records.When it comes to Antony Hagerty live, nothing is as you'd expect it. For example, that such a powerfully feminine voice would flow out of such a large man's body. Or that a voic ... More >>

Dean and Britta’s Screen Test

Gretchen RobinetteAntony and the JohnsonsTuesday, Feb. 24, 2009Nob Hill Masonic CenterBetter than: Old Nina Simone records.When it comes to Antony Hagerty live, nothing is as you'd expect it. For example, that such a powerfully feminine voice would flow out of such a large man's body. Or that a voic ... More >>

TiVo Alert: Dysfunctional Family Re-Opens Fancy-Schmancy Restaurant

By Meredith Brody You may have noticed that there's precious little new stuff to watch during the holidays - a period which The New York Times describes as "a profound holiday slumber of repeats and musical specials." But we can't even find any musical specials, and are reduced to re-watching A Co ... More >>

Dan Zanes kicks off an international seasonal celebration

By Meredith Brody You may have noticed that there's precious little new stuff to watch during the holidays - a period which The New York Times describes as "a profound holiday slumber of repeats and musical specials." But we can't even find any musical specials, and are reduced to re-watching A Co ... More >>

Holiday Hootenanny

Dan Zanes kicks off an international seasonal celebration.

Spiritualized

Songs in A&E (Universal/Spaceman/Fontana)

My Revolver, Papercuts, Black Moon -- ASD's Live Music Picks, July 3

Songs in A&E (Universal/Spaceman/Fontana)

Let's get Sic; Riding the Gravy Train!!!

Songs in A&E (Universal/Spaceman/Fontana)

Indie stalwarts Minmae come to Thee Parkside; Swedish trio E.S.T. updates altrock for the jazz set

Songs in A&E (Universal/Spaceman/Fontana)

Hip Hop, Year 2 A.J.

Songs in A&E (Universal/Spaceman/Fontana)

The JT Show

Reclusive writer reigns

Pants on Fire

Brooklyn's Liars have blown it with their sophomore album. And that's a good thing.

House of Tudor

The Femmes who "Blister in the Sun" prove they're still violent after all these years

Clem Snide

Soft Spot

The Velvet Underground

Bootleg Series Volume 1: The Quine Tapes (Polydor)

Pop Philosophy

Beyond the stupid; dancing Bush; lukewarm Chron

Lightning Bolt

Ride the Skies (Load)

Personal Best

What the world needs now is a wholly subjective, occasionally snarky awards ceremony

Pop Philosophy

Anger and disenfranchisement make good musical bedfellows; National Novel Writing Month

I Am the Cosmos

By picking at his scabs, Her Space Holiday's Marc Bianchi uncovers heady poptronica

Zoom Lens

Not Politics as Usual: The Jewish Film Festival

Riff Raff

Have you heard? The Bay Area music scene is dead. Somebody killed it.

House Of Tudor

Zmrzlina, Little Jimmy Scott, Hank Crawford, and Jimmy McGriff

House Of Tudor

Doc Watson, "21st Century Stripper Sinema," Botanica, and Super Furry Animals

SFW Stage

Doc Watson, "21st Century Stripper Sinema," Botanica, and Super Furry Animals

Night + Day

Doc Watson, "21st Century Stripper Sinema," Botanica, and Super Furry Animals

Stage

Doc Watson, "21st Century Stripper Sinema," Botanica, and Super Furry Animals

Zoom Lens

Doc Watson, "21st Century Stripper Sinema," Botanica, and Super Furry Animals

Recordings

Doc Watson, "21st Century Stripper Sinema," Botanica, and Super Furry Animals

Recordings

Doc Watson, "21st Century Stripper Sinema," Botanica, and Super Furry Animals