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BOSF 2012: How to Be a TV Dance Star

The Tupac Hologram Is Terrifying and Distasteful. Let's Stop This Madness Now.

On Sunday, April 15, 2012, the world officially entered science fiction-land. Sure, iPods are pretty futuristic, GPS is spy magic from space, and we all have stupidly intelligent phones now, but nothing has felt quite as much like living in a Buck Rogers episode than when Tupac got resurrected in ho ... More >>

Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Last Week in S.F. Music

On Sunday, April 15, 2012, the world officially entered science fiction-land. Sure, iPods are pretty futuristic, GPS is spy magic from space, and we all have stupidly intelligent phones now, but nothing has felt quite as much like living in a Buck Rogers episode than when Tupac got resurrected in ho ... More >>

Signal to Noise: Five Local Resident DJs on Their Favorite New Tracks

Juanita MORE! throws some wild parties ​ Resident DJs are sometimes overlooked, but always influential -- these are the devoted tastemakers working to make your night out a good one. For this week's Signal to Noise we caught up with some of our favorite local residents and asked them to tip u ... More >>

A Quick Guide to Lady Gaga's (Possible) Plagiarisms, From 'Telephone' to 'Born This Way'

​As a member of the media, it's my job to accuse Stefani Germanotta of things so she can respond to them. (Born which way? She doesn't have to specify because it's a hot topic -- and the length of Gaga's beloved fame largely depends on juggling those.) So it shouldn't shake this proud piece of pla ... More >>

Marina and the Diamonds plan for megastardom

​As a member of the media, it's my job to accuse Stefani Germanotta of things so she can respond to them. (Born which way? She doesn't have to specify because it's a hot topic -- and the length of Gaga's beloved fame largely depends on juggling those.) So it shouldn't shake this proud piece of pla ... More >>

Tuesday's New Music: Class Actress' Journal of Ardency

​What started as a solo bedroom project, with singer Elizabeth Harper writing synth-heavy pop songs à la early Madonna, has blossomed into a full-fledged act with the addition of producer Mark Richardson and his wide array of vintage synthesizers. Now, the outfit known as Class Actress, based i ... More >>

Openers: Hit the Show Early For Butterfly Bones

Cody Bouscaren​"Openers" is a new All Shook Down column where research the best opening bands in San Francisco each week and tell you why it's worth showing up early to catch them. Our ambition is to uncover music that you aren't familiar with and would otherwise probably eat a burrito through. An ... More >>

Local Grammy Winners: Green Day, Metallica, More

​For those who follow the Grammys, we have a couple locals in the running. Nominations were announced today, and the following Bay Area acts are up for little gold statues:Green Day's "21 Guns" got a nod in two categories: "Best Rock Song" and "Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals," ... More >>

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​For those who follow the Grammys, we have a couple locals in the running. Nominations were announced today, and the following Bay Area acts are up for little gold statues:Green Day's "21 Guns" got a nod in two categories: "Best Rock Song" and "Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals," ... More >>

Katya: What Becomes a Legend Most?

​For those who follow the Grammys, we have a couple locals in the running. Nominations were announced today, and the following Bay Area acts are up for little gold statues:Green Day's "21 Guns" got a nod in two categories: "Best Rock Song" and "Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals," ... More >>

Listomania: If You've Got a Little Time on Your Hands!

By Meredith Brody We love lists, as it happens, almost as much as magazines and their cover blurb writers do (as in Cosmopolitan's invariable "365 New Sexual Positions!" and O the Oprah Magazine's "53 Ways to Give Your Looks a Lift" and Allure's "52 Tips for Irresistible Hair, Makeup, Skin - and At ... More >>

Bark Ode

By Meredith Brody We love lists, as it happens, almost as much as magazines and their cover blurb writers do (as in Cosmopolitan's invariable "365 New Sexual Positions!" and O the Oprah Magazine's "53 Ways to Give Your Looks a Lift" and Allure's "52 Tips for Irresistible Hair, Makeup, Skin - and At ... More >>

Obama and Bush are Like Family. Really.

By Meredith Brody We love lists, as it happens, almost as much as magazines and their cover blurb writers do (as in Cosmopolitan's invariable "365 New Sexual Positions!" and O the Oprah Magazine's "53 Ways to Give Your Looks a Lift" and Allure's "52 Tips for Irresistible Hair, Makeup, Skin - and At ... More >>

Cosmic Icons: Once You Go Bonbon, You Never Go Back

By Meredith Brody We love lists, as it happens, almost as much as magazines and their cover blurb writers do (as in Cosmopolitan's invariable "365 New Sexual Positions!" and O the Oprah Magazine's "53 Ways to Give Your Looks a Lift" and Allure's "52 Tips for Irresistible Hair, Makeup, Skin - and At ... More >>

City Lights Hosts Akashic Books

By Meredith Brody We love lists, as it happens, almost as much as magazines and their cover blurb writers do (as in Cosmopolitan's invariable "365 New Sexual Positions!" and O the Oprah Magazine's "53 Ways to Give Your Looks a Lift" and Allure's "52 Tips for Irresistible Hair, Makeup, Skin - and At ... More >>

The Spamburglar

By Meredith Brody We love lists, as it happens, almost as much as magazines and their cover blurb writers do (as in Cosmopolitan's invariable "365 New Sexual Positions!" and O the Oprah Magazine's "53 Ways to Give Your Looks a Lift" and Allure's "52 Tips for Irresistible Hair, Makeup, Skin - and At ... More >>

Doin' Da Mayor at the Endup

Local candidates for national dance crazes

Hiphop gets back to its Roots

Local candidates for national dance crazes

Zach's got a macho Posse; getting caught "Dead" with Robbie Rivera

Local candidates for national dance crazes

Defanged

Like Anne Rice's novels, Lestat employs metaphysical chest-beating at the expense of storytelling

Future Tense

Culture jamming the Web

Fitness Gurus: What's Hot for 2005

Core training and other exercise regimens you might actually follow

Good Food, Great Cause

Get your glutton on

Don't Speak

A man of few words, dance-music hero Sasha talks with his turntables

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

A man of few words, dance-music hero Sasha talks with his turntables

Letters to the Editor

Week of November 5, 2003

They Might Be Authors

Kiddie books meet rock

"Crappy Records"

Zagat's new "music guide" is absurd, but its "format" offers a "nice way" to review "lame albums."

Soul Powered

Micaya's hip hop dance troupe takes to the stage

House of Tudor

Japanese ukulele ladies, a Canadian electro androgyne, and Iraq's most popular singer

Oakenfold

Bunkka

Various Artists

Like, Omigod! The '80$ Pop Culture Box (Totally) (Rhino)

Hear This

Puffy AmiYumi brings its madcap genre interpolations stateside

Praying to the Egyptian God of Half-Naked Violinists

Chock full of nuts

Hunger Strike

Can a non-9/11 benefit album make any noise?

The More the Merrier

From Brazil, a lovely bossa nova fantasy -- with roots in feminist reality

Rhymes With "Taffy"

Raffi

Reel World

Shattered Image, Sinners in the Sun, and Out of the Past

Riff Raff

A Punk's Progress; Critic's Corner

Life is Art

A Punk's Progress; Critic's Corner

William Ørbit

Pieces in a Modern Style

Reviews

Pieces in a Modern Style

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

Pieces in a Modern Style

Riff Raff

Pieces in a Modern Style

Riff Raff

Pieces in a Modern Style

Night Crawler

Pieces in a Modern Style

Night+Day

Pieces in a Modern Style

Night Crawler

Pieces in a Modern Style

Samples

Pieces in a Modern Style