Michael Jackson

Bruno Mars' "When I Was Your Man": An Effective Cure for Insomnia

Hey insomniacs, how are you dealing with your sleep deprivation these days? Nothing worse than lying around all night, unable to switch your brain off, watching the clock and knowing you're going to feel like ass tomorrow. Well, we might have just stumbled across a non-habit-forming sleep aid for yo ... More >>

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G.O.O.D. Music's Cruel Summer: A First Listen

Kanye West has officially become the bad guy, people. He's rich, he's rude, he's entitled, he's a rock 'n' roll legend who's awaiting a legit artistic backlash any year now, and he's also a smart businessperson. After Taylor Swift-gate and record sales of his third Pazz & Jop-winning "masterpiece" f ... More >>

Bouncer Finds a Loud Homophobe at the Pilsner Inn

The Prince and Michael Experience Charters a Party Bus

DJs Dave Paul and Jeff Harris have taken their S.F.-based Prince and Michael Experience on the road for the past few years, traveling to cities such as New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia. But now they're literally giving their party some wheels. They've chartered a party bus to tour the streets of ... More >>

Why Do Artists' Sales Increase So Much After They Die?

​This week, Whitney Houston became the first female artist to have three albums in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 album chart at one time. In the two and a half weeks following her death, Whitney sold 2.7 million songs and 668,000 albums -- a massive increase. There's no doubt that if she were st ... More >>

What Happens When Children Start a Band

On wikiHow, there are instructions on how to properly start up a band. The entry splendidly reduces the whole tortuous process to a series of simply phrased steps -- "Don't have people in the band who refuse to practice!" "Watch out for egos!" "Try to wear the same colors!" -- while conveying an unc ... More >>

Restaurateurs Beware: Michael Jackson Could Cost You $40,000

Rascal Flatts Is the Worst Hugely Popular Music Act in America

Executive Visions, Inc.Rascal Flatts or a heartland radio station's morning zoo?​Rascal Flatts will be performing tonight at the Shoreline Ampitheatre in San Jose. We won't be there. Rascal Flatts is produced by the guy who played guitar on "Straight Up" by Paula Abdul. That's not reason en ... More >>

The Top 10 New Jack Swing Anthems of All Time

This Thursday, one-time New Edition member and new jack swing icon Johnny Gill will be performing a set at Yoshi's. Credited as the creation of Teddy Riley, new jack swing saw R&B vocals being fused with uptempo beats coated in the bumptious attitude of hip-hop. At the subgenre's height in the '90s, ... More >>

This Is Your City: Housing Authority Bans San Franciscans from Public Housing

Dine with Famous Dead Folks at the Contemporary Jewish Museum

WWBHE? (What Would Billie Holiday Eat?)​Where: Contemporary Jewish Museum, 736 Mission. When: Thursday, June 2, 7:00-9:00 p.m., Sunday, June 5, 1:00-3:00 p.m. and 4:00-6:00 p.m. Cost: $10 CJM Members, $20 General The rundown: We had to read the event description three times to begin to und ... More >>

Which Bar Has North Beach's Best Jukebox?

The juke at Tosca​The heyday of authentic jukeboxes is long over. With many bars installing those nasty touchscreen digital Internet boxes, the old school record-flipping kind of jukebox is a dying breed. And this is in the town that originated the concept of jukeboxes back in 1889. So what denote ... More >>

How To Manage Your iPod Without Looking Like an Idiot or a Crazy Person

Note: Nelly Furtado not required to maintain respectability​iPod gigs don't grow on trees, as much as we've tried to plant lesser MP3 devices in the ground (in hopes of a bountiful Apple product harvest). And until somebody makes an infinite-RAM MP3 player, or we're capable of streaming music from ... More >>

Drink 2011: Party Like It's 1999 -- Or Earlier

Drink 2011: Party Like It's 1999 -- Or Earlier

Michael Jackson, Zombie

The dark art of posthumous releases

In Print: Michael Jackson's Zombiefied Pop, and the Wanderings of Tricky

Mike Bertino for SF Weekly​MJ's new album: Michael promises 10 tracks of zombiefied pop, Thriller come (back) to life. According to the official Jackson website, the album is a work of "newly completed recordings." This means Michael is a compilation of outtakes and rehashes primped for the 2 ... More >>

BT Magnum's Advice: 'Do Loads of Drugs and Have as Much Sex as Possible'

BT Magnum​The man behind the excellent events curated at our city's (arguably) best dance venue, Mezzanine, and the Internet's go-to blog for old-school dance jams is one Brian Tarney. Party goers and vintage-tune seekers may know him better as BT Magnum, Tarney's alter-ego, who runs about S.F. DJ ... More >>

10 Things: Good Bands, Gay Pride, Free Market and The Life and Death of an Italian Cat

Portland's The Caps, performing at Summer Solstice Spectacle on Saturday​On this fine Pride weekend, let's step back and take a moment to appreciate all the superb events our foggy town has to offer without high costs or shitty attitudes. Where else in the world can you find citywide Michael Jacks ... 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 >>

Michael Jackson's Dance Moves, Pandora's iPad Ads, Blog Love for Ty Segall and Safe

Safe's Christopher F. Edley III​Michael Jackson's dance moves make for new video game. [Daily Swarm]Pandora's iPad app pairs music and videos with ads from Starbucks, Lexus and Budweiser. [Digital Music News]Pitchfork gives Ty Segall's Melted a 7.5, says "it seems in some ways like his first prop ... More >>

SXSW Roundup Thursday PM Pt. 2: Surf City NZ

Levi's took over the east side of Austin for all of SXSW, creating a semi-private world of tight pants and tall beers, a denim labyrinth where the 45-minute line to grab a wristband was made slightly more entertaining by a DJ who loved Michael Jackson. Loved him so much he told the crowd repeatedly, ... More >>

Devendra Banhart

Smooth and Smokey

Soul Slam IV: Prince vs. Michael Jackson

Gesamtkunstwerk It, Girl

Hipsters, Rejoice: PVMJ Wristbands Are Here

BombHipHop.comAvailable in Purple (and other colors, too)​ Despite your PBR tattoo, pimped-out track bike, and closet full of guayabera shirts and skinny pants, admit it: your life as a hipster was incomplete. You desperately searched for meaning at Kuduro parties, chic art openings, and mons ... More >>

10 Things To Do This Weekend For Under $10

Being a cheapskate is easy in this city -- there's plenty of culture to be had for less than the price of a fancy farmer's market cocktail. Below, our picks for a low-budget weekend.Dead Meadow at McLaren Park on SaturdayHex Dispensers @ Annie's (Friday) Loud, fast, and macabre: That seems to be the ... More >>

Michael Jackson vs. Prince This Saturday

Played in Full: Prince vs. MJ So you wanna be startin' something? Head over to the Madrone Lounge this Saturday, when the legendary Prince vs. Michael Jackson party makes its first official SF appearance since MJ's passing. Fresh off of victorious stops in Seattle and Portland, this edition of PVM ... More >>

Clueless in the Castro

5 Things I'd Rather Hear About Than More Michael Jackson Coverage

Amadou & Maryam Believe it or not folks, there are other things happening in the entertainment world besides the seemingly endless Michael Jackson media feeding frenzy - which should have concluded with his memorial service and BET tribute. Here are a few: 5. Amadou & Mariam opening for Co ... More >>

Never Can Say Goodbye

Michael Jackson in 1987 I'm not trying to be cynical or morbid here, but Michael Jackson's death was the best thing to happen to him in years. In death, Michael lives on forever. He has now joined the ancestors, among them musical icons like Bob Marley, Jimi Hendrix, James Brown, Marvin Gaye, Jacki ... More >>

New Forest City Rockers Episode Up Now

The Forest City Rockers - Episode 3 from Eighty Four Films on Vimeo. Jay Howell's animated comedy/musical variety show, Forest City Rockers, has a new episode on offer. His latest work (which includes a crew of actors and animators) has a heavy pizza focus--which means a lot of goofy vignettes, my ... More >>

Natural Sweets for the Sweet: Cookbook Event at Red Hill Books, Just in Time for Valentine's Day

Chef Mani Niall, who's done everything culinary from being Michael Jackson's private chef (really) to operating his own eponymous bakery on Fairfax in Los Angeles, will be discussing his new cookbook, Sweet! From Agave Nectar to Turbinado, Home Baking With Every Kind of Natural Sweetener, on Februar ... More >>

The Terrible Infant Speaks

Harmony Korine talks about his new movie Mister Lonely and coming home.

Holiday Inn Bondage, Playboy's Rock the Rabbit, Stagecoach and the How Weird Street Faire: Your Monday Morning Hangover

Break Guinness Record for 'Thriller' Dance in Dolores Park

RaidersSuckNinersSuck: Week 5

The 50 Cent Interview with SF Weekly

Black Hole Son

Chris Cornell gets a little help from his friends

Get Way Down

Moky's Life 101

Moky Huynh, self-help jackhammer, is inspiring, abrasive, and one of a kind

Department of What the Fuck?

What does the ghost of INXS's Michael Hutchence think of his band's reunion?

Go! With the Spirit

For the six members of the U.K. indie-pop provocateurs the Go! Team, having fun is serious business

Going BATS

Inventing a bunch of stories

2003: Year of the Wonka Record

For the year's 10 best records, go somewhere else. For the year's 10 best "Wonka Records," you've come to the right place.

Play Rotorecall

Have fun with democracy, before it has fun with you

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