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Mike Watt

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2012

    Best of Coachella Weekend One: Saturday, April 14

    See also: *The Best Of Coachella: Day One *"What My Spirit Hood Means To Me": Coachella-Goers Explain *Coachella Preview 2012: Everything You Need to Know About the Performers*Radiohead, Weekend 1: No Alarms, No Surprises Radiohead certainly had the most pre-festival buzz for Saturday, but once we ... More >>

  • Music

    January 25, 2012

    The Wizard of Wilco: A Conversation with Guitarist Nels Cline

    See also: *The Best Of Coachella: Day One *"What My Spirit Hood Means To Me": Coachella-Goers Explain *Coachella Preview 2012: Everything You Need to Know About the Performers*Radiohead, Weekend 1: No Alarms, No Surprises Radiohead certainly had the most pre-festival buzz for Saturday, but once we ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2012

    Lass Out Loud: Rachel Fannan on Her New Band, Only You, and Playing with "Three Vixen Warlords"

    The women of the Bay Area music scene are breaking rules and defying expectations. Lass Out Loud is a new column exploring their lives and work. Former Sleepy Sun singer Rachel Fannan's new all-girl group, Only You, takes a break from the sunnier shores of Southern California to perform at Brick an ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2012

    Wilco's Nels Cline on Working with Jeff Tweedy and His Reputation for Weird Sounds

    From SF Weekly's latest print music section: The Wizard of Wilco: Nels Cline is extremely lucky, and he knows it. Widely regarded as one of the world's finest living guitarists, Cline came up playing styles of music whose audience is sadly shrinking: jazz, improvisatory, and avant-garde. If those w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 27, 2011

    Five Amazing Grunge Artifacts That Time (and You) Forgot

    ​You stopped scrawling "World Domination" on the backs of school notebooks. You swapped your Pearl Jam Christmas singles for some Warp Records vinyl when you were graciously informed that this was the next big thing. You didn't recognize Kim Thayil in that recent photograph, what with his nav ... More >>

  • Music

    May 4, 2011

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

    ​You stopped scrawling "World Domination" on the backs of school notebooks. You swapped your Pearl Jam Christmas singles for some Warp Records vinyl when you were graciously informed that this was the next big thing. You didn't recognize Kim Thayil in that recent photograph, what with his nav ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 2, 2011

    Friday Night: Mike Watt Plays the Grizzled Natural at Bottom of the Hill

    Mike Watt at Bottom of the Hill Friday night. ​ Mike Watt April 29, 2011 @ Bottom of the Hill Better than: Listening to the words without the face. If such a thing were possible, I'd believe, without hyperbole or winking wit, that Mike Watt was born to play the bass. His fingers fly across t ... More >>

  • Music

    April 27, 2011

    Catching Up with Mike Watt, Former Minuteman and Writer of Punk Operas

    Mike Watt at Bottom of the Hill Friday night. ​ Mike Watt April 29, 2011 @ Bottom of the Hill Better than: Listening to the words without the face. If such a thing were possible, I'd believe, without hyperbole or winking wit, that Mike Watt was born to play the bass. His fingers fly across t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2011

    In Print: TV on the Radio's Apocalyptic Love, Mike Watt's World, and More

    TV on the Radio​From SF Weekly's latest print music section:  TV on the Radio: Nine Types of Light is also the first TV on the Radio album to be recorded away from the band's comfy boho surroundings in north Brooklyn. And then some: The band decamped to a mall-based studio near Rodeo Drive th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2011

    KUSF Still Isn't Saved; Help Support it by Seeing Economen This Friday

    Minutemen tribute band Economen: Too econo to hold still.​Raise your hand if you still miss KUSF 90.3 FM. Raise your hand if you still pine for the good ol' days of earlier this year, when you could turn on a radio in San Francisco and hear a DJ who was also in San Francisco playing music by peopl ... More >>

  • Music

    February 2, 2011

    The Nels Cline Singers: Show Preview

    Minutemen tribute band Economen: Too econo to hold still.​Raise your hand if you still miss KUSF 90.3 FM. Raise your hand if you still pine for the good ol' days of earlier this year, when you could turn on a radio in San Francisco and hear a DJ who was also in San Francisco playing music by peopl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 7, 2010

    Tera Melos Isn't A Simpsons Reference. Or Are They Just Lying?

    ​ Hark, ye of little attention span: Sacramento spazz-rockers Tera Melos are bringing their refined mayhem to town tonight, their last stop before they embark upon a tour of Japan and South Korea with Mike Watt and the Missing Men. They're supporting their new album, Patagonian Rats, out a month a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2010

    Al Qaeda Performs Free Show at Murio's Tonight

    Chris StevensAl Queda​It a rare occasion that you get to see live music at Murio's--the best dive in the Haight. Tonight they're hosting four acts for free starting at 10 p.m. The lineup includes Al Qaeda, who Emily Savage profiled for us back in December (the skinny on these guys: "Repetitive, ha ... More >>

  • Music

    December 16, 2009

    Al Qaeda’s experimental noise attracts members of the Minutemen and Pinback

    Chris StevensAl Queda​It a rare occasion that you get to see live music at Murio's--the best dive in the Haight. Tonight they're hosting four acts for free starting at 10 p.m. The lineup includes Al Qaeda, who Emily Savage profiled for us back in December (the skinny on these guys: "Repetitive, ha ... More >>

  • Culture

    June 3, 2009

    Kaya Oakes' Slanted and Enchanted: The Evolution of Indie Culture

    Chris StevensAl Queda​It a rare occasion that you get to see live music at Murio's--the best dive in the Haight. Tonight they're hosting four acts for free starting at 10 p.m. The lineup includes Al Qaeda, who Emily Savage profiled for us back in December (the skinny on these guys: "Repetitive, ha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 31, 2009

    Last Night: John Vanderslice and the Magik*Magik Orchestra at the Great American Music Hall

    John Vanderslice and the Magik*Magik Orchestra Friday, January 30, 2009 Great American Music HallReview By Melissa BaronBetter Than: Shows where artists use keyboards and samples artificially replicate the sound of real instruments (ie violins, horns).As a budding young tuba player, I immersed mysel ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 9, 2008

    Oh, Rickie, You're So Fine

    John Vanderslice and the Magik*Magik Orchestra Friday, January 30, 2009 Great American Music HallReview By Melissa BaronBetter Than: Shows where artists use keyboards and samples artificially replicate the sound of real instruments (ie violins, horns).As a budding young tuba player, I immersed mysel ... More >>

  • Music

    October 24, 2007

    Hear This

    John Vanderslice and the Magik*Magik Orchestra Friday, January 30, 2009 Great American Music HallReview By Melissa BaronBetter Than: Shows where artists use keyboards and samples artificially replicate the sound of real instruments (ie violins, horns).As a budding young tuba player, I immersed mysel ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 1, 2007

    Sean Lennon Interview

    John Vanderslice and the Magik*Magik Orchestra Friday, January 30, 2009 Great American Music HallReview By Melissa BaronBetter Than: Shows where artists use keyboards and samples artificially replicate the sound of real instruments (ie violins, horns).As a budding young tuba player, I immersed mysel ... More >>

  • Music

    April 11, 2007

    Don't Call It a Comeback

    The Stooges succumb to The Weirdness

  • Music

    April 5, 2006

    Misc. Reviews

    The Stooges succumb to The Weirdness

  • Music

    January 25, 2006

    Find out what Spain's done for Josh Rouse; take on LSD and the Search for God

    The Stooges succumb to The Weirdness

  • Music

    December 21, 2005

    The big-band jams of the Realistic Orchestra, and the twisted sounds of fusion supergroup Banyan

    The Stooges succumb to The Weirdness

  • Calendar

    November 9, 2005

    The Dance Front

    Moving for social change

  • Calendar

    July 27, 2005

    Pedro Rocks

    A new film catches up with legendary punk rockers the Minutemen

  • Summer Guide

    June 29, 2005

    Bang Thy Head Carefully

    A survival guide for the summer's more vigorous music festivals

  • Music

    January 5, 2005

    Hear This

    Funeral for a Friend carries the torch for U.K. emo; Banyan explores the intersection of punk, rock, and free jazz.

  • Calendar

    June 2, 2004

    Ms. Sterious

    Funeral for a Friend carries the torch for U.K. emo; Banyan explores the intersection of punk, rock, and free jazz.

  • Music

    January 31, 2001

    House Of Tudor

    Stinky's Peep Show Four-Year Anniversary; The Gossip; "Live From the 215"

  • Music

    February 9, 2000

    The Lonesome Ballad of Jim Campilongo

    In which an instrumental guitarist finds his voice in musical history

  • Music

    March 17, 1999

    Riff Raff

    In which an instrumental guitarist finds his voice in musical history

  • Music

    February 17, 1999

    Riff Raff

    In which an instrumental guitarist finds his voice in musical history

  • Music

    February 3, 1999

    Riff Raff

    In which an instrumental guitarist finds his voice in musical history

  • Music

    January 7, 1998

    Ball Hog

    In which an instrumental guitarist finds his voice in musical history

  • Music

    December 31, 1997

    The House of Tudor

    In which an instrumental guitarist finds his voice in musical history

  • Music

    October 8, 1997

    The House of Tudor

    In which an instrumental guitarist finds his voice in musical history

  • Music

    June 12, 1996

    Recordings

    In which an instrumental guitarist finds his voice in musical history

  • Music

    July 5, 1995

    Recordings

    In which an instrumental guitarist finds his voice in musical history

  • Music

    June 21, 1995

    The Crazy Train

    Fetishizing madness with Daniel Johnston, Wesley Willis, K. McCarty, and Hate Man

  • Calendar

    May 17, 1995

    Night+Day

    Fetishizing madness with Daniel Johnston, Wesley Willis, K. McCarty, and Hate Man

  • Music

    April 19, 1995

    Recordings

    Fetishizing madness with Daniel Johnston, Wesley Willis, K. McCarty, and Hate Man

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