Motorhead

The Adventures of a Videogame Rebel: Tim Schafer at Double Fine

Six Signs of Metallica's Pervasive Influence on Pop Culture

​ See more of our Metallica Week coverage: Metallica Kicks off Its 30th Anniversary Week with Notable Guests, Rare Songs, and Lots of Talking Sad But True: How the Black Album Both Made and Ruined Metallica Can't Make It to Metallica's 30th Anniversary Concerts? Celebrate at These Shows In ... More >>

Author Brian Lew on the Early Days of Metallica and the Bay Area Thrash Metal Scene

Brian Lew Cliff Burton playing live with Metallica for the first time at the Stone in San Francisco, 1983​ See more of our Metallica Week coverage: Six Signs of Metallica's Pervasive Influence on Pop Culture Metallica Kicks off Its 30th Anniversary Week with Notable Guests, Rare Songs, and L ... More >>

Arthouse movie listings for February 2-8, 2011

Brian Lew Cliff Burton playing live with Metallica for the first time at the Stone in San Francisco, 1983​ See more of our Metallica Week coverage: Six Signs of Metallica's Pervasive Influence on Pop Culture Metallica Kicks off Its 30th Anniversary Week with Notable Guests, Rare Songs, and L ... More >>

Film Showtimes for the week of September 22-28, 2010

Brian Lew Cliff Burton playing live with Metallica for the first time at the Stone in San Francisco, 1983​ See more of our Metallica Week coverage: Six Signs of Metallica's Pervasive Influence on Pop Culture Metallica Kicks off Its 30th Anniversary Week with Notable Guests, Rare Songs, and L ... More >>

High on Fire polishes its metal weaponry

Brian Lew Cliff Burton playing live with Metallica for the first time at the Stone in San Francisco, 1983​ See more of our Metallica Week coverage: Six Signs of Metallica's Pervasive Influence on Pop Culture Metallica Kicks off Its 30th Anniversary Week with Notable Guests, Rare Songs, and L ... More >>

Saturday night: Hank III and Assjack at the Grand Ballroom

Hank III and AssjackThe Grand BallroomFebruary 28, 2009Better than: "That shit they call pop country music." Don't even get the dude started. "The barbarians have invaded the opera," my friend observed, taking in the radical aesthetic disjunction between the gilt trim and crystal chandeliers of the ... More >>

Judas Priest plods through history

Hank III and AssjackThe Grand BallroomFebruary 28, 2009Better than: "That shit they call pop country music." Don't even get the dude started. "The barbarians have invaded the opera," my friend observed, taking in the radical aesthetic disjunction between the gilt trim and crystal chandeliers of the ... More >>

Torche: metal with a big pop buzz

Hank III and AssjackThe Grand BallroomFebruary 28, 2009Better than: "That shit they call pop country music." Don't even get the dude started. "The barbarians have invaded the opera," my friend observed, taking in the radical aesthetic disjunction between the gilt trim and crystal chandeliers of the ... More >>

Last Night: Hopping along with Kepi: The Band at the Bottom of the Hill

Hank III and AssjackThe Grand BallroomFebruary 28, 2009Better than: "That shit they call pop country music." Don't even get the dude started. "The barbarians have invaded the opera," my friend observed, taking in the radical aesthetic disjunction between the gilt trim and crystal chandeliers of the ... More >>

Bay Area metal dominates the nation

Hank III and AssjackThe Grand BallroomFebruary 28, 2009Better than: "That shit they call pop country music." Don't even get the dude started. "The barbarians have invaded the opera," my friend observed, taking in the radical aesthetic disjunction between the gilt trim and crystal chandeliers of the ... More >>

Metal boys and their Lesbian lovers

Hank III and AssjackThe Grand BallroomFebruary 28, 2009Better than: "That shit they call pop country music." Don't even get the dude started. "The barbarians have invaded the opera," my friend observed, taking in the radical aesthetic disjunction between the gilt trim and crystal chandeliers of the ... More >>

Howling with Hagerty; Scottish indie-pop gets brawny

Hank III and AssjackThe Grand BallroomFebruary 28, 2009Better than: "That shit they call pop country music." Don't even get the dude started. "The barbarians have invaded the opera," my friend observed, taking in the radical aesthetic disjunction between the gilt trim and crystal chandeliers of the ... More >>

On New Year's, the Supersuckers prescribe booze and babes; Les Claypool will be serving sandwiches

Hank III and AssjackThe Grand BallroomFebruary 28, 2009Better than: "That shit they call pop country music." Don't even get the dude started. "The barbarians have invaded the opera," my friend observed, taking in the radical aesthetic disjunction between the gilt trim and crystal chandeliers of the ... More >>

Award Show Guide

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Flame On

Having conquered the Bay Area, Oakland metal monolith High on Fire sets its sights on the entire nation

Meow Mix

Tune in, turn on, say "fuck": This is the story of a man named Monkey and his very special Pirate Cat Radio

Grammar School of Rock

Never mind the bollocks, here's $lot Ma¢hine, the newest, meanest punk band in town -- aged 12 and under

Hip to Be SquarePants

There's nothing absurd about the appeal of SpongeBob's first movie

Naked Midgets!

OK, so they didn't show. But the Dwarves' gig last Saturday rocked anyway.

Saddle Chic

Sharing a spotlight with Bright Eyes is no easy task. But Cursive is up for it.

House Of Tudor

Compulsive Numbers, retro-refracted Flaming Stars, and filmmaker Peter Sempel

House Of Tudor

Dyke-punk bike messengers, and men of porn

Six Eye Columbia

A Million Six; Frowny Frown (Self-released)

Check Your Head

If it's loud, lewd, or crude, it's bound to be on Reality Check

SF Weekly Wammies 2000

Your choices of the top local bands

Pop Goes the Formula

The Knit Separates have audiences asking: What was that?

White Trash Nation

The stereotype may be racist and classist, but that hasn't kept a generation from embracing the white trash aesthetic -- a disposable culture populated by trailer parks; junk cars; big hair and gaudy makeup; loud, angry music; and empty beer cans -- and i

Drag Kings

From San Francisco to London, women are donning men's clothes, assuming males personas, and challenging the very concept of gender. Just what is male and female, anyway?

Delusions of Banjer

Bad Livers outgrow their "thrash/bluegrass" label; the countrified timbre of Richard Buckner

Recordings

Bad Livers outgrow their "thrash/bluegrass" label; the countrified timbre of Richard Buckner