Lynyrd Skynyrd

Live Review, 3/16/12: Drive-By Truckers Are Pretty Much Why We Bothered Having Rock 'n' Roll in the First Place

​Drive-By TruckersFriday, March 16, 2012The FillmoreSomewhere out there in the multiverse, on Earth 2 or some damn place, opening for what's left of Lynyrd Skynyrd back in '02 brought Drive-By Truckers to the attention of a clutch classic rock and AOR program directors. A little embarrassed&n ... More >>

Metallica Turns 30 with Ozzy, Danzig, Rob Halford, and a Roomful of Fanatics

Metallica performing with Glenn Danzig Friday night at the Fillmore.​ Metallica (plus guests) Dec. 9 and 10, 2011 The Fillmore Better than: Turning 30 alone, we're assuming. The birthday party for the biggest metal band in the world came to its finale this weekend with classic songs and surp ... More >>

Bouncer Ponders the Afterlife in Buckshot

Metallica performing with Glenn Danzig Friday night at the Fillmore.​ Metallica (plus guests) Dec. 9 and 10, 2011 The Fillmore Better than: Turning 30 alone, we're assuming. The birthday party for the biggest metal band in the world came to its finale this weekend with classic songs and surp ... More >>

Top Six Songs About Muni That We'd Love to Play on Muni

​Okay, so none of these songs -- with the possible exception of one -- are technically about our transit system here in San Francisco. But this post on Muni Diaries got us thinking: What music would we play if we could be a Muni DJ for a day? And even better, what songs capture the essence of our ... More >>

The Drive-By Truckers continue their storytelling series

​Okay, so none of these songs -- with the possible exception of one -- are technically about our transit system here in San Francisco. But this post on Muni Diaries got us thinking: What music would we play if we could be a Muni DJ for a day? And even better, what songs capture the essence of our ... More >>

The Regulars

Bouncer visits bars in three very different S.F. neighborhoods and discovers people everywhere all want the same thing: companionship. Oh, and booze.

Ten Known (and Little-Known) Facts about Neil Young

I'm Neil Young, biatch! 10. His middle name is Percival. (This actually explains his often anguished, tortured voice). 9. Before joining Buffalo Springfield, Young was in the Mynah Birds, a band fronted by future funkster Rick James. It's unclear whether he ever told James, "I'm Neil Young, biatc ... More >>

Last Night: Treasure Island Music Festival Day 1 on Treasure Island

I'm Neil Young, biatch! 10. His middle name is Percival. (This actually explains his often anguished, tortured voice). 9. Before joining Buffalo Springfield, Young was in the Mynah Birds, a band fronted by future funkster Rick James. It's unclear whether he ever told James, "I'm Neil Young, biatc ... More >>

(Air) Guitar Heroes: A Look at the SF Finalists Pt. 2

I'm Neil Young, biatch! 10. His middle name is Percival. (This actually explains his often anguished, tortured voice). 9. Before joining Buffalo Springfield, Young was in the Mynah Birds, a band fronted by future funkster Rick James. It's unclear whether he ever told James, "I'm Neil Young, biatc ... More >>

CD Review: Against Me! -- New Wave

I'm Neil Young, biatch! 10. His middle name is Percival. (This actually explains his often anguished, tortured voice). 9. Before joining Buffalo Springfield, Young was in the Mynah Birds, a band fronted by future funkster Rick James. It's unclear whether he ever told James, "I'm Neil Young, biatc ... More >>

CD Review: Against Me! -- New Wave

I'm Neil Young, biatch! 10. His middle name is Percival. (This actually explains his often anguished, tortured voice). 9. Before joining Buffalo Springfield, Young was in the Mynah Birds, a band fronted by future funkster Rick James. It's unclear whether he ever told James, "I'm Neil Young, biatc ... More >>

That'll Do, Pig. That'll Do.

I'm Neil Young, biatch! 10. His middle name is Percival. (This actually explains his often anguished, tortured voice). 9. Before joining Buffalo Springfield, Young was in the Mynah Birds, a band fronted by future funkster Rick James. It's unclear whether he ever told James, "I'm Neil Young, biatc ... More >>

Encore Performance

Don't fret. Guitar Hero II kills the opening act.

The Price Is Variable

Would you pay as much for a good record as you would for a fine bottle of vino?

Crowe Flies Home

Elizabethtown is a mess, not that its director should care

The Dead Clone

In Imagining Argentina, Antonio's boots are made for Walken

House of Tudor

In Imagining Argentina, Antonio's boots are made for Walken

At the Movies

In which I take "The World's Most Hated Band" to see The Passion of the Christ

My Morning Jacket

It Still Moves

Hammer of the Gods

With a handful of artists, "classic rock" is not

a pejorative

Drunk Horse

Tanning Salon/Biblical Proportions (Man's Ruin)

House Of Tudor

Welcome to Brutal Planet

Night Crawler

Long Live Sport

Out of the Country

Richard Buckner gave up on major labels and "y'allternative," but not the art of storytelling

Rock Bottom

Konocti Harbor can be Northern California's baby-boomer pop hell -- when it's not the area's best-kept secret

Riff Raff

Konocti Harbor can be Northern California's baby-boomer pop hell -- when it's not the area's best-kept secret

When Rock 'n' Roll Forgets

S.F.'s Richie Unterberger writes about the greatest musicians you've never heard of

Words + Guitar (+ Beats + Skronk)

What mattered and what splattered in pop, 1997

Reviews

What mattered and what splattered in pop, 1997

The House of Tudor

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Hear This

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Room Temperature

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