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

Goldenvoice Announces First City Festival in Monterey With Modest Mouse, Passion Pit, MGMT, Beach House, More

Every year seems to bring more entrants to the Northern California music festival scene. The latest is First City, a two-day festival this Aug. 24-25 at the Monterey fairgrounds that will bring out big, indie-leaning names like Modest Mouse, Passion Pit, MGMT, Beach House, Toro y Moi, and Neko Case ... More >>

Johnny Marr on Making a Solo Album and Not Caring About His Age

It's been more than 25 years since the Smiths broke up. Why did it take guitarist Johnny Marr so long to finally come out with a solo album, this year's The Messenger ? Well, he's been a bit busy. Not content with simply creating the blueprint that most British indie bands followed ever since, Marr ... More >>

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

Live Review, 1/25/12: "Siri, Did the iCrowd Enjoy Seeing Modest Mouse at the Warfield?"

Modest Mouse Talkdemonic Jan. 25, 2012 The Warfield Better than: Working in an Apple factory. Barker-in-chief Issac Brock's band Modest Mouse played at the Warfield last night, some special event related to the giant Macworld confab going on downtown. The show drew a crush of bearded dudes and lea ... More >>

Is This the Coachella 2012 Lineup?

Coachella 2012 is still more than four months away -- so naturally, it's time to start hyperventilating over rumored lineups for the first year the festival will stretch over two weekends. One "leaked" lineup appeared last week on StarzUncut, a celebrity gossip website with more than 58,000 Twitter ... More >>

IFC's Portlandia Is Coming to San Francisco with Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen

Any of you eco-conscious hippies, fem-lit-reading bookstore owners, and musician-politicians find that IFC's West Coast bohemia-skewering Portlandia doesn't hit close enough to your S.F. home? Since, you know it's technically about a city some 600 miles away? Well, consider yourselves lucky: Portla ... More >>

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

Saturday: Broken Social Scene Brings Out Issac Brock and Stars for an Epic "Final" Show at the Fillmore

Matt SmithStars' Amy Millan and Broken Social Scene's Kevin Drew at the Fillmore Saturday night.​ Broken Social Scene Oct. 1, 2011 The Fillmore Better than: All but a handful of other '00s-era indie rock bands. It was billed as the last Broken Social Scene show for a long while -- maybe for ... More >>

This Is Noise Pop: What Not to Miss at S.F.'s Signature Indie Music Fest

Bear Hands: Show Preview

Bridge School Benefit 2010: Buffalo Springfield, Elton John, Elvis Costello, Pearl Jam, Modest Mouse, More

Buffalo Springfield​LiveNation today announced the lineup for this year's Bridge School Benefit -- Neil Young's annual show for the school he helped found for his son -- and, well, wow: In addition to the regulars, the classic '60s outfit Buffalo Springfield is reuniting for the show, minus t ... More >>

Ninja Tune Announces Free 20th Anniversary Show with Amon Tobin, Kid Koala, Eskmo, and More

This is a picture of a ninja. The label is called Ninja Tune. That was all the connection we needed.​We don't really remember it all that well, but our twentieth birthday party probably involved a case of Tecate, a few Modest Mouse records, and our roommate's six-foot bong. Whatever the details, w ... More >>

Mark Kozelek: Show Preview

End of the Year Hangover: 2009 in Music, NSFW, and Cannabis Club

While you were out shopping or flying or arguing with the family, we were combing our photo archives to compile the best and the brightest of San Francisco 2009. From Morrissey, to Modest Mouse, from the Flaming Lips to KISS, from Dizzy Balloon to Silversun Pickups and festivals galore in between. ... More >>

The Art of Restraint, Warhol Live Pop Party and the Grilled Cheese Invitational: Your Monday Morning Hangover

Our weekend involved cheese, ropes and Andy Warhol. In that order:Saturday afternoon's Grilled Cheese Invitational at Dolores Park was well attended - all 500 tasting wristbands sold out in minutes, a good hour before the event began! Tamara Palmer  has the skinny at SFoodie.Saturday evening wa ... More >>

Treasure Island picks: in haiku form!

The Show Shoulda Been Packed: Love as Laughter

Song of the Day: Feral Children

MP3 of the Day: Love as Laughter

Bohemian Carnival, Laughing Squid, Heights Ultra-Lounge and R.E.M.: Your Monday Morning Hangover

Last Night: R.E.M. at The Greek Theater

Born Ruffians

Red, Yellow & Blue (Warp)

R.E.M. and Modest Mouse Perform in Berkeley 5/31

Sketchfest stokes the musician-comedian love affair

SF Weekly Best Albums Of 2007 : Jennifer Maerz Rounds Them Up

Best CDs of 2007

Live 105 Not So Silent Night Local Band Showcase Finalists Announced

The Thermals Back in SF at Slim's December 5

LastNight: Modest Mouse, Spoon and Thievery Corp at Treasure Island Music Festival

Treasure Island Live: 'All Shook Down'- Island Edition

Treasure Island Booty

A Guide to Getting Shipwrecked This Weekend

The Good Magazine Block Party

Everybody's a GOOD Samaritan these days: the music trend of worthy causes

M.I.A., DJ Shadow, and Modest Mouse: shipwrecked on Treasure Island!

Plugged in -- ASD's music picks for Sunday, June 3

Indie rock rules the roost: Modest Mouse and Meat Puppets

Modest Mouse

We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank (Epic)

The snorification of indie rock

Keeping Abreast

Sun Kil Moon and Antarctica

Local legend Mark Kozelek takes on the songs of Modest Mouse

Dios (malos) drops dream pop at the Great American, and the experimental Fog City thrill ride that is Eddie the Rat

From Here to Eternity

Figuring out Built to Spill's place in the world, and maybe mine, too

Blood Brothers

Crimes

Punk in Drublic

Piecing together a long night of drinking the old fashioned way: horribly

The Six Parts Seven

Lost Notes From Forgotten Songs

Pretty Girls Make Graves

The New Romance

Ugly Casanova

Sharpen Your Teeth (Sub Pop)

House Of Tudor

Tour photographs; "Dark Wave"; Sacred steel; Dirty Three

House Of Tudor

Nightmare Alley, Fantastic Plastic Machine, Nerves, Love as Laughter, and Beth Custer

Three Blind Mice