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"Monsieur Lazhar": Algerian Instructor Teaches About Loss

Cults Play a Short, Sweet Set at the Independent

Cults at the Independent last night.​ Cults Magic Kids April 14, 2011 @ The Independent Better than: Joining the punchline. It was short but sweet. Like most, I went in to the Cults show at the Independent last night knowing a mere three songs by the headlining band: "Most Wanted "(aka that ... More >>

How to Crash the Craft Brewers Conference

agahran/FlickrTonight: Twenty taps of Deschutes at Beer Revolution.​The Craft Brewers Conference ― an annual event that starts today ― is a time to rejoice. Spring is in the air, and brewers from around the world converge in one place for four days of boozy revelry. Unfortunately, sprin ... More >>

Jon Cohen (of The Jon Cohen Experimental) Answers The Call Tonight at Elbo Room

Their flower power is no match for my glower power​ After a decade or so ensconced in Montreal's honor-festooned indie rock scene, including stints with The Dears and The Social Register, Jonathan Cohen started his own eponymous collective. Not that "The Jon Cohen Experimental" should conjure ... More >>

Kid Koala Talks Losing Bets, Growing Up on Vinyl, and His Favorite Muppet

Kid Koala​There's not much more endearing than a DJ who loves music and muppets. Hailing from Montreal, Kid Koala is known for his whimsical personality and ability to take listeners on a journey with music fit for psychedelic hip hop dreams, sans the acid. Currently on the Ninja Tune label and pr ... More >>

Globetrotting DJ Maga Bo Recorded Goats in Sudan; Cleared the 'Floor in Zanzibar

Maga Bo​Most of us spend our days planted in a cubicle fantasizing about beaches, historic monuments, and maybe seeing a penguin in its natural habitat. That latest jealousy comes from a conversation with musician, producer, composer, sound engineer -- and non-desk-bound frequent traveler -- DJ Ma ... More >>

Last Night in Photos: Stars and Geographer at the Fillmore

Calibree PhotographyStars at the Fillmore last night​StarsGeographerNovember 10, 2010@ The FillmoreMontreal's Stars met up with San Francisco's own Geographer for a show at the Fillmore last night. "Most I spoke with were there for the headliners, but were blown into a frenzy by the openers," phot ... More >>

Fresh Eats: Our weekly roundup of SFoodie news

Mysterious Non-LCD Soundsystem Track Pops up on Pitchfork as Official Remix, Then Disappears

James Murphy's wondering, "Whaa happened?"​Sometimes the Internet is just a big, bubbling mess of "Um... Okay?". For example: Earlier today, the trendsetting indie music site Pitchfork posted a Soundcloud music player under the headline "LCD Soundsystem - Dance Yrself Clean (Tiga Remix)," writing: ... More >>

Concept Concert

Stars perform their hook-heavy new record from start to finish on their current tour.

A Bracing Dip

Stars Boycotting Arizona

​Looks like San Francisco citizens are not the only budding boycotters of Arizona's new immigration law. Montreal band Stars has publicly voiced their disapproval on Twitter saying: "We love AZ but until its racist new immigration law is repealed, stars (and many others) will boycott this state... ... More >>

Sketchfest Q&A: Moshe Kasher

Frankie Norstad​SF Sketchfest brings together amazing comics in from all over the U.S., but the best news is we also get a couple of locally-grown superstars this weekend at the Punch Line when Brent Weinbach and Moshe Kasher take the stage (Thursday 8 p.m.; Friday and Saturday 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. ... More >>

Local Frequency: Bay Area Band Q&A w/ The Genie

​SF native The Genie spent three years in the subways of Montreal creating his "scratch guitar" style before bringing it back to SF to perfect it. Working with nothing but a couple of loop pedals, a guitar, and occasionally an iPod, Genie makes a hybrid of original music and covers. He produces l ... More >>

Into Thin Air

S.F. writers Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida give birth to a beautiful screenplay

Kill yourself if you listen to classic rock

Blue Monkey Used San Francisco as Springboard to World Tour

This is Wilbert, everyone. He's a a three-haired, yellow-bellied, stuffed monkey who started his world travels in San Francisco on May 4, 2008. Since then, he's hit up Paris, Jamaica, New York City, Toronto, Vegas, Tokyo, the Amazon, Rio De Janeiro, China, Greece, Oklahoma, ... More >>

Tindersticks to Make Rare(ish) Concert Appearance in March

Richard Dumas Nineties-born forebears to much of today's orchestral, literate indie-pop, Britain's Tindersticks will be touring in support of last year's album, The Hungry Saw. That disc was released by Montreal's Constellation Records -- home to Godspeeed You Black Emperor, Silver Mt. Zion, etc. -- ... More >>

Last Night: Street Eaters at The Stud

Street Eaters 
The Stud January 8th, 2009 Review by Brian Moss Better Than: Staying at home to sulk. 
 After a week involving a grueling breakup and a bombardment of telephone calls from debt collectors there's definitely something to be said about the cheerful nature of a punk show held at ... More >>

Buy Line

In these desperate times, the Chronicle considers desperate measures.

Dinner and a Movie in Palo Alto

Wolf Parade

At Mount Zoomer (Sub Pop)

Manic Mondays: a club for the '80s and the gays who love them

Afro-Cuban-American

Dengue Fever Plays Independent in April

Xiu Xiu To Release "New Women as Lovers Double LP" and 2008 Tour

Radiohead Coming To SF

Sex Sells Itself at the Aurora Theater in Berkeley

'A Confederacy of Cunces' at the Purple Onion Re-Pluralizes "Cunt" Thursday

Your Monday Morning Hangover: Fests and Feists, RIP Norman Mailer

Your Monday Morning Hangover: Fests and Feists, RIP Norman Mailer

Six-string giant Buddy Guy delivers sublime blues

Puppy Love

In the era of the sex-minded circus, AcroSports' production is just a playful tease

The Maddening Crowd

Seasonal New American food in a reimagined industrial setting draws a noisy throng downtown

Scavenged Audio

Amon Tobin turns sound scraps into specialized beats

Buying In

Opening your eyes and ears

The devil and death-metalheads

Islands

Return to the Sea

Nobody Listens to Techno

Why San Franciscans are suffering from a case of technophobia

Stars

Set Yourself on Fire

Akufen

Fabric 17

BeatBox

Sound Kills You: Monolake and Deadbeat get freaky on a 10-plus-channel system

Lucky 7

Small-scale circus comes home

Feed Your Head

The San Francisco International Arts Festival now rocks with world music

Time of the Gypsies

The S.F. International Film Festival loses a programming director

The House of Tudor

Recycling America

As the millennium approaches, the country is engulfed in a bicycling craze that's reminiscent of our last fin de siecle. A Bay Area street kid named George Mount helped start it all. Savior on Wheels