Mick Jagger

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

The Rolling Stones Overcharge For Imperfection at Oracle Arena, 5/5/13

The Rolling Stones Sunday, May 5, 2013 Oracle Arena, Oakland Better than: Bands that don't bother building an aura in the first place. The World's Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Band is fallible. In theory, the Rolling Stones may be perfect. But onstage in Oakland last night, they were not. On the secon ... More >>

We Are The Rolling Stones, and We Are Here For Your Every Last Dollar

How much will you pay to say you've seen the Rolling Stones? In 30 years, when Mick Jagger and Keith Richards are either dead and buried, or are liquid-preserved human heads running a cybernetic body, how badly will you want to tell your (grand-) kids that yes, you saw the real Rolling Stones live? ... More >>

Five Musicians' Kids Who Have Better Jobs Than You

Guess what, everybody? Despite the invention of child labor laws, there are whole gangs of marauding teens with careers more dazzling and exciting than any of ours. How does this depressing turn of events transpire? Well, usually it happens because someone famous made those children with their priva ... More >>

Cody ChesnuTT Reboots at the Independent, 1/29/13

By JAMES ROBINSON Cody ChestnuTT Siddhartha Tuesday, Jan. 29 The Independent Better than: Staying home and complaining about how bad The New Girl has gotten. Cody ChestnuTT had his moment in time. I walked into the kitchen of my family home a long way back and my mother had 'the Seed' turned u ... More >>

6 Best Moments From the 12.12.12 Concert: Sir Paul and Nirvana, Bruce's Bulge, and More

Last night a gigantic fundraiser took place in New York's Madison Square Garden to raise money for Hurricane Sandy cleanup and relief efforts. This thing was almost six hours long. Six! We could've flown there in that time! In case you weren't inclined to spend that insane amount of time in front of ... More >>

The 50 Best Rolling Stone Special Issues Ever

A magazine that you sometimes see in the waiting rooms of tire stores, Rolling Stone remains tirelessly dedicated to reporting on its own place in the history of the teensy sliver of music that its publisher enjoys. To that end, the august rag is forever publishing important lists ranking the best m ... More >>

"Season of the Witch": The Turbulent Growth of S.F. Values

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

The 8 Most Infuriating Quotes From the Worst Music Listicle of All Time

The worst music listicle of all time was published Sunday, April 8, 2012, on the conservative website Breitbart.com and penned by one Ben Shaprio. Headlined "Top 10 Overrated Songs of All Time," the piece attempts to savage the work of 10 pop music greats. That it does so stupidly, and with no sense ... More >>

Satellite Nations Welcome

Divorces Galore: Eight Musical Couples We Wish Were Still Together

Since Monday, media everywhere has been agog at the news that Kim Kardashian and her husband of just 72 days are getting divorced. If you ask us, that union was doomed from the get-go. Anyone who watches Keeping Up With The Kardashians knows that those two barely even knew each other (Not that we wa ... More >>

How To Be in Your Boyfriend or Girlfriend's Music Video (Without Looking Like an Idiot)

JiveBritney Spears and boyfriend Jason Trawick in the new "Criminal" video​We've all been there. You're at home, doing the dishes or washing the dog, and in swans your famous partner and demands that you be in their latest music video. Nightmare, eh? We understand that this is a really common prob ... More >>

Mick Jagger Forms Supergroup "Super Heavy," We're Super Embarrassed

​ Mick Jagger threw his name into the running for what may become the biggest supergroup of 2011, joining Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics, Damien Marley, Joss Stone, and A.R. Rahman, composer of the Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack, for what promises to be an eclectic (and hopefully not too terr ... More >>

Groupies, Piss, and Penises: Five Shocking Music Memoirs

Those of you who enjoy a feel-good read and a hearty chuckle will be pleased to hear that Steven "Barrel Of Laughs" Morrissey is in the process of finishing up his memoir. So, while we sit and genuinely hope for a chapter about the punctured bicycle on a hillside, desolate, that inspired "This Cha ... More >>

SF Weekly Letters

The Top 6 Weirdest Actor Cameos in Music Videos

What did we do on Christmas after we'd eaten a mountain of food and watched a giant stack of movies? Looked for actors in music videos, of course! Here are six of the weirdest cameos big-name actors have made in music videos. 6. Christopher Walken in Fatboy Slim's "Weapon Of Choice"
 Up until t ... More >>

Top 5 Bands That, Unlike Weezer, Should Never Break Up -- No Matter How Bad They Get

By now you've probably heard of Seattle resident James Burns' bid to raise $10 million to make Weezer break up. You may have also heard that, disturbingly, Burns has been the target of death threats for his brilliant idea prank. Frankly, we can see both sides here:  Weezer (apart from its new t ... More >>

Aerosmith Announces Bay Area Date

Steven Tyler Though "Boston's Bad Boys"--technically they're Grandpas by now--jumped the shark several years ago, probably around the time "I Don't Wanna Miss A Thing" was featured in the God-awful movie "Armageddon," they're no denying Aerosmith have more stamina and staying power than the Energize ... More >>

Live Through This: The de Young's Warhol exhibit

Download Festival, Coldplay, Zine Fest and Tour de Fat: Your Monday Morning Hangover

Friday Night: Coldplay at the HP Pavilion

Some Country for Old Men

Seniors Scorsese and the Stones are together again.

They've Put a Hex on Me

Rich Unterberger brings rare rock flicks to the Haight

Kings of Leon Roared at the Warfield Last Night

Groupies

The view from Jimmy Page's pants: groupies claim their 15 minutes

Live Wires

The high and lowlights of 2006 performances

Lips Like Sugar

Honeycut sweetens soul-pop

I Just Stopped By to See the Man

An intellectual turn-on about music, talent, and the devil's hand in both

Party Like a Rock Star Even When You're Poor as Dirt

Poverty-stricken? This handy guide will teach you how to live richly.

Solomon Burke

Make Do With What You Got

Hear This

M. Ward brings his dusky folk to Du Nord; buzz-band Louis XIV hits the "popscene."

The Makers

Stripped

Hear This

Seeking an experienced live band? The Blind Boys of Alabama boast 60+ years of show-stopping soul.

Dead Meadow

Shivering King and Others

1-2-3-Sing!

Instant Broadway with BATS

Best Place to Hand Over the Microfilm

Empress of China's Cocktail Lounge

To Die For

Mick Jagger transforms Andy Garcia into The Man From Elysian Fields

Blowin' Smoke

Ted Demme and Denis Leary are a match made in effin' heaven

Side Dish

Coffee Klatch; Curtain Going Up; Time for a Diet?; Fan Appreciation Day; Leftovers

Apocalypse Then

Altamont slammed the door on rock 'n' roll's dream of peace and love. An insider remembers.

The House of Tudor

The House of Tudor

Riff Raff

Slap Shots

Through the Past (Lightly)

Night+Day

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