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Last Night: Trashcan Sinatras at Cafe du Nord

Action Jackson​Trashcan Sinatras Thursday, July 30, 2009 Café Du Nord Better Than: Any other Scottish band on a wet weeknight in San Francisco The Trashcan Sinatras are one of pop's--and Scotland's--best-kept secrets. They've been around for two decades, winning fans via extensive college rad ... More >>

Jamie Stewart's infinite sadness is exhausting

Action Jackson​Trashcan Sinatras Thursday, July 30, 2009 Café Du Nord Better Than: Any other Scottish band on a wet weeknight in San Francisco The Trashcan Sinatras are one of pop's--and Scotland's--best-kept secrets. They've been around for two decades, winning fans via extensive college rad ... More >>

Eight Steps to a Better 2009

Action Jackson​Trashcan Sinatras Thursday, July 30, 2009 Café Du Nord Better Than: Any other Scottish band on a wet weeknight in San Francisco The Trashcan Sinatras are one of pop's--and Scotland's--best-kept secrets. They've been around for two decades, winning fans via extensive college rad ... More >>

The Top 10 Reissues of 2008

By Chris Gray It's time to rank the best of what went around and came around again. BILLY JOEL The Stranger (Columbia/Legacy) As punk and disco exploded, the Piano Man's deeply unhip 1978 breakthrough proved that top-shelf Broadway/Brill Building songwriting could still sell - and, occasionally, ... More >>

The Rose of Planet B612

By Chris Gray It's time to rank the best of what went around and came around again. BILLY JOEL The Stranger (Columbia/Legacy) As punk and disco exploded, the Piano Man's deeply unhip 1978 breakthrough proved that top-shelf Broadway/Brill Building songwriting could still sell - and, occasionally, ... More >>

French electro-rock luminary Richard Pinhas graces the States

By Chris Gray It's time to rank the best of what went around and came around again. BILLY JOEL The Stranger (Columbia/Legacy) As punk and disco exploded, the Piano Man's deeply unhip 1978 breakthrough proved that top-shelf Broadway/Brill Building songwriting could still sell - and, occasionally, ... More >>

Ask a Track Bike!

By Chris Gray It's time to rank the best of what went around and came around again. BILLY JOEL The Stranger (Columbia/Legacy) As punk and disco exploded, the Piano Man's deeply unhip 1978 breakthrough proved that top-shelf Broadway/Brill Building songwriting could still sell - and, occasionally, ... More >>

Citizen Kane

A film that proves which New York Doll had the weirdest life of all

Split Myself in Two

The dual personalities of Xiu Xiu's Jamie Stewart

Reps Etc.

The dual personalities of Xiu Xiu's Jamie Stewart

I, Shit

You and me and the Bravery, sitting around, full of it

A Friend Indeed

Luna's last waltz and what it means to be a best-friend band

Sunrise on a Green Day

Green Day's latest proves that a punk band can be popular and relevant, even in the Bay Area

Ay dios!

Boasting sharply written tunes and a fan in Morrissey, dios is converting the hordes with its indie rock

Music Highlights

From Mahler to Morrissey, the Bay Area has it all this summer.

The Sheltered Hipster's Guide to Getting the Slim Jimmy

From Mahler to Morrissey, the Bay Area has it all this summer.

Comfortably Numb

The road to music snobbery is paved with the music of Radiohead

Shane's Addiction

Documentarian Sarah Share delivers the man, the music, the myth: MacGowan

Hammer of the Gods

With a handful of artists, "classic rock" is not

a pejorative

Hear This

Johnny Marr steps out front with the sunny rock of the Healers

House of Tudor

Paolo Angeli's giant, maniacal guitar; a reincarnated Amber Asylum; and a slightly poncey Divine Comedy

Pete Krebs & the Gossamer Wings

I Know It By Heart

Hear This

International indie pop nirvana returns to S.F., courtesy of Shelflife Records

Club 8

Club 8 (Hidden Agenda)

Love Machine

A boy and his Casio set up shop in Heartbreak Hotel

Riff Raff

A boy and his Casio set up shop in Heartbreak Hotel

Love Letters

Belle & Sebastian's long-distance romance continues with The Boy With the Arab Strap

Night + Day

Belle & Sebastian's long-distance romance continues with The Boy With the Arab Strap

The House of Tudor

Belle & Sebastian's long-distance romance continues with The Boy With the Arab Strap

'Sticks and Stones

Belle & Sebastian's long-distance romance continues with The Boy With the Arab Strap

Stage

Belle & Sebastian's long-distance romance continues with The Boy With the Arab Strap

Reviews

Belle & Sebastian's long-distance romance continues with The Boy With the Arab Strap

Luv Story

The Mr. T Experience play their one song well

Anti-depressants

The Mr. T Experience play their one song well

Recordings

The Mr. T Experience play their one song well

Tabla Manners

Cornershop at the intersection of indie and Indian

Recordings

Cornershop at the intersection of indie and Indian

Night+Day

Cornershop at the intersection of indie and Indian

Night+Day

Cornershop at the intersection of indie and Indian

Hearing Voices

The vocal wizardry of Bjsrk and Jeff Buckley

Recordings

The vocal wizardry of Bjsrk and Jeff Buckley

Revolting Cocks

The Sex Revolts: Gender, Rebellion and Rock 'n' Roll by Simon Reynolds and Joy Press

Recordings

The Sex Revolts: Gender, Rebellion and Rock 'n' Roll by Simon Reynolds and Joy Press