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Chron Clueless About the Current State of Radio

Radio GaGa? No, Lady Gaga Interesting article on Bay Area radio Music Directors in today's Chron. When I say interesting, it's because the information presented runs counter not only to what's currently happening with the commercial radio industry, but is written in such a way to suggest that writer ... More >>

Leah Tysse Makes Her Yoshi's Debut

Leah Tysse If there's anything the blues genre needs, it's a fresh face. As you may or may not know, the genre has struggled in recent years, and though blues once dominated the Bay Area's nightlife scene, there are few dedicated local venues committed to preserving the root of R&B, jazz, and s ... More >>

Plead Not Guilty

Leah Tysse If there's anything the blues genre needs, it's a fresh face. As you may or may not know, the genre has struggled in recent years, and though blues once dominated the Bay Area's nightlife scene, there are few dedicated local venues committed to preserving the root of R&B, jazz, and s ... More >>

Sonic Youth massages the past

Leah Tysse If there's anything the blues genre needs, it's a fresh face. As you may or may not know, the genre has struggled in recent years, and though blues once dominated the Bay Area's nightlife scene, there are few dedicated local venues committed to preserving the root of R&B, jazz, and s ... More >>

High-Heeled Horrors

Leah Tysse If there's anything the blues genre needs, it's a fresh face. As you may or may not know, the genre has struggled in recent years, and though blues once dominated the Bay Area's nightlife scene, there are few dedicated local venues committed to preserving the root of R&B, jazz, and s ... More >>

Track of the Day: Wallpaper. Gives Mariah Fool's Gold

​Local producer/remixer/dancefloor commander Wallpaper. posted a new upbeat number this week. Main man Eric Frederic mashed a little Mariah Carey ("Emotions") into Fools Gold's "Surprise Hotel." Frederic told Stereogum (which posted the track) that the song is part of a new  "SiSTRS From Diff ... More >>

Not Just the Name of a Great Christmas Movie

​Local producer/remixer/dancefloor commander Wallpaper. posted a new upbeat number this week. Main man Eric Frederic mashed a little Mariah Carey ("Emotions") into Fools Gold's "Surprise Hotel." Frederic told Stereogum (which posted the track) that the song is part of a new  "SiSTRS From Diff ... More >>

What To Do? Thursday's Pick: Home for the Holidays

​Home for the Holidays @ Castro Theater Illumination appears in the strangest places sometimes. We were watching the train wreck of our hometown television show Trauma a little bit ago, hating it, but wanting to see our house in the background. The writing, the characters, bleh. And then boom, be ... More >>

Listomania 2009: Unintentional Lyrical Hilarity

​Home for the Holidays @ Castro Theater Illumination appears in the strangest places sometimes. We were watching the train wreck of our hometown television show Trauma a little bit ago, hating it, but wanting to see our house in the background. The writing, the characters, bleh. And then boom, be ... More >>

Stop What You're Doing and Watch: Mariah Carey Drunk

Just what you wanted for your lunch break, right? To watch a video clip of Mariah Carey, drunk, slurring her acceptance speech for an award from the Palm Springs International Film Festival [via Idolator]. You're welcome.

Mariah Carey Sued in S.F. Court by Outraged Songwriters

Okay, checking ... left, right ... both there. Lawsuit? Got that too. ​Chanteuse Mariah Carey has been named in a San Francisco lawsuit -- and not because of any ruptured eardrums caused by her dog whistle vocal range. Instead a pair of Oakland songwriters filed suit against Carey and a bevy of ot ... More >>

The Worst First Pitches of All Time

Karen Peterson served as a schoolteacher in nearby Woodside for many a year. Her name did not become known nationally. Prior to Saturday's San Francisco Giants game, she threw what may be the worst ceremonial first pitch in the history of humanity. And now you know who she is. Welcome to the Interne ... More >>

Exclusive: Obama's Music Video Career Revealed

By now you've probably heard about the latest, most improbable, and quite possibly most awesome rumor about Barack Obama's past thus far: that he made a cameo appearance in the 1993 music video for Tag Team's "Whoomp! There It Is." Gawker's Adrian Chen made an admirable attempt to separate fact from ... More >>

Why The Critics Are Wrong: Rap Albums You Probably Don't Know But Should, Part II

​Since many recent Next Big Things in rap have proven disappointing -- see Wale, Asher Roth and B.o.B. -- it might be time to consider the possibility that hip-hop tastemakers don't know what to look for in the first place. Here's an alternative to the critical consensus on rap. Yesterday, we ... More >>

KMEL's Summer Jam breaks hot local artists

​Since many recent Next Big Things in rap have proven disappointing -- see Wale, Asher Roth and B.o.B. -- it might be time to consider the possibility that hip-hop tastemakers don't know what to look for in the first place. Here's an alternative to the critical consensus on rap. Yesterday, we ... More >>

In Print: Oneohtrix Point Never, Marlena Shaw, and KMEL's Summer Jam

Oneohtrix Point Never​Behind the "abrasive, frightening introduction" to Oneohtrix Point Never's new album, Returnal, lies another bewildering set of tracks from a Brooklyn electronic artist whose style straddles the line between noise and pop. As Reyan Ali writes in our print edition this week, O ... More >>

When Your Facebook Stalker Won't Take 'No' For an Answer

​Dear Anna,

I, like many others in my generation, am a bit of a Facebook junkie. I love the quizzes, the event invites, even the Farmville updates (I know, weird right?), but there is one thing I hate: boys that think 
Facebook is some weird stalker version of OkCupid.

There is this gu ... More >>

Download a Tom Tom Club Remix Before It Plays Great American Friday

Tom Tom Club​Everyone loves a good reunion, right? There's nothing quite like reliving the past through the music of bands that have long been filed away into the annals of history. One such group has recently regrouped and will be playing its funky crowd pleasers this Friday, October 8, at Great ... More >>

Friends of Friends Taps Shlohmo for a Healthy Dose of 'Pretty Boy Swag'

​L.A. label Friends of Friends has quietly been rising over the last couple of years as a notable player in the experimental electronic scene. Now, just in time for the holidays, it's dropped Pop Massacre, a new label comp featuring interpretations of wonderfully low- and middlebrow pop from a hi ... More >>

Lonely holiday: Grillade finds soul in a Christmas song

​L.A. label Friends of Friends has quietly been rising over the last couple of years as a notable player in the experimental electronic scene. Now, just in time for the holidays, it's dropped Pop Massacre, a new label comp featuring interpretations of wonderfully low- and middlebrow pop from a hi ... More >>

The Top 6 Most Irritating Uses of a Really High Note in a Song

The moral of this list? Just because you can do something doesn't mean you should do it. Nobody likes a show-off, and nobody enjoys shattered glass and burst eardrums. Here, then, are some proponents of high notes who really should've kept their vocal cords in check.6. Muse, "Micro Cuts"    ... More >>

Saturday Night: Bone Thugs-n-Harmony Turn Yoshi's Into the Bone Thugs Club

Tamara PalmerBone Thugs-n-Harmony at Yoshi's.​Bone Thugs-n-Harmony March 12, 2011 @ Yoshi's S.F.Better than: Partying with tuneless gangsters. Yes, Thugs is part of this Ohio-born, multi-platinum selling group's name, but make no mistake: This is one of the most emotional acts in rap mu ... More >>

Top Five Musicians We Didn't Need to See Naked (Slightly NSFW)

When Demi Moore took her kit off for the cover of Vanity Fair in 1991, it caused a storm of controversy. A -- gasp! -- naked, pregnant woman, looking -- double gasp! -- sexy! People freaked out. It was kind of cool, but the problem was that it opened the floodgates. And now, more than a decade ... More >>

Gayngs at the Independent: Sexier (and Obviously Weirder) Than Your Prom

Gayngs at the Independent​Gayngs White Hinterland June 1, 2011 @ The Independent Better than: Your actual prom, including the hotel room after-party Picture a prom night in the early 1990s, in a glittering hall with a live band that plays soulful, heart-thumping music, cajoling the entirety of t ... More >>

How Your Favorite Musicians Will Die

Monte "M-Dog" Talbert-- the "Teach Me How To Dougie" guy-- was recently gunned down in a drive-by in South Central L.A.. The "Teach Me How To Dougie" guy! Shot and killed! That's crazy. How many famous musicians have we lost to unusual deaths? A lot. Biggie and Tupac. John Lennon. Dimebag Darrell. A ... More >>

Bump & Grind: The Top Five Pregnant Performances

​What the hell is up with the tabloids and pregnancies? Usually when a lady celebrity has so much as a big lunch, or gets photographed from a bad angle, they announce that an offspring is probably imminent. And here's Beyonce Knowles, being totally upfront about her and Jay-Z's baby-to-be, rubbing ... More >>

Holiday Cheesecakes, Zachary's New Vegan Pizza, & Quorn Goes Vegan!

​ • Hey kids, I've got a slight cold and when that happens, I cannot function, as all of my efforts must be spent screaming for more hot toddies, ringing bells for service (read: more screaming), and watching Downton Abbey. Let's just get this thing done so I can go back to crying to Mariah Care ... More >>

The Top 10 Worst Film Performances By Musicians

By DAVE GIL DE RUBIO Rock star, singer-songwriter, producer, interior designer -- now we should add thespian to the many creative hats sported by Lenny Kravitz, who performs tonight (Feb. 14) at the Fox Theater in Oakland. In keeping with the family business -- his mom was the late Roxie Roker, a.k ... More >>