Mudhoney

LastNight: Triclops, Monotonix Combine Fire, Filth and Follicles in the Knockout

Friday Night: Two Gallants at the Fillmore

Two Gallants December 26, 2008 The Fillmore Review and Photos by Sam Prestianni Better Than: Banging heroin while watching "It's a Wonderful Life" for the 7th time in a row. Christmas came one day late for the Bay Area's homegrown lo-fi heroes Two Gallants. Like most native sons, guitarist-singer ... More >>

So You Wanna Be a Rock 'n' Roll Lawyer?

Meet Green Day's Legal Team of Cahn, Saltzman and Hearn

Last Night: The Murder City Devils at Great American Music Hall

The Murder City DevilsSunday, Feb. 15, 2009Great American Music HallBetter than: The Murder City Devils shows around the turn of the '00s -- where certain members were so smashed the sets didn't finish as much as they fantastically imploded. There's one thing you're pretty much guaranteed to hear ev ... More >>

Sticky Fingers

The Six Finger Satellite swindle

Samples

The Six Finger Satellite swindle

The Creature Double Feature

The local garage rock revival with the Groovie Ghoulies, Hi-Fives, Trash Women, and more

Here Comes Sickness

The local garage rock revival with the Groovie Ghoulies, Hi-Fives, Trash Women, and more

Hank IV

Refuge in Genre (Siltbreeze)

Winning the Drone Wars

Boris rises above the din

Native Monster madness

Boris rises above the din

The Heads

Under the Stress of a Headlong Dive

Misanthropes United

Country Teasers' agent provocateur allure

Nu Shooz

Film School grows better as it grows older -- shoegazer comparisons be damned

Jack Endino

Permanent Fatal Error

Boogie-rock freakoids Green Milk From the Planet Orange and No Doctors, and the megarock of OG grunge masters Mudhoney

Permanent Fatal Error

Coup de Grace

The Ventura Threeway

Hot Dark Metal Revival

Forget Black Sabbath. Don't even mention The Darkness. Dirty Power will lead the hard rock revolution to come.

Music Awards Nominees

Forget Black Sabbath. Don't even mention The Darkness. Dirty Power will lead the hard rock revolution to come.

Psyched-Out Cinema

Frank Perry's existential melodramas

The Catheters

Howling...It Grows and Grows!!!

War, What Is It Good For?

Absolutely nothing -- unless you're Clear Channel Communications

True is stranger than fiction

The loser now will be later to win

Hear This

Plugging into the sleazy punk pipeline

Everyday People

Replicator's neophytes make noisy rock -- with just the right amount of art mixed in

Life of the Party

The Pattern was supposed to be a summer vacation -- but it's ended up being a full-time job

Flipper Redux

A half-decade after his band's demise, Steve DePace is trying to write and close the book on Flipper

Night + Day

A half-decade after his band's demise, Steve DePace is trying to write and close the book on Flipper

Hear This

A half-decade after his band's demise, Steve DePace is trying to write and close the book on Flipper

SF Weekly's Wammies '98

A half-decade after his band's demise, Steve DePace is trying to write and close the book on Flipper

Night + Day

A half-decade after his band's demise, Steve DePace is trying to write and close the book on Flipper

Woodstick

Three (small) days of peace, love, and psychedelia

Riff Raff

Three (small) days of peace, love, and psychedelia

Recordings

Three (small) days of peace, love, and psychedelia

Slap Shots

Three (small) days of peace, love, and psychedelia

Hype! Dreams

A conversation with the Seattle scene's chroniclers

Recordings

A conversation with the Seattle scene's chroniclers

Billy Childish Grows Up

Off the dole, on the wagon, and out on tour

Recordings

Off the dole, on the wagon, and out on tour

Recordings

Off the dole, on the wagon, and out on tour

Recordings

Off the dole, on the wagon, and out on tour

Track of the Day: Pissed Jeans

​I really miss Sub Pop's Loser days. Back before Seattle had a Sound(TM), the Northwest had a severely caustic, nihilistic musical aesthetic, egged on by punks who had beards when they didn't give a fuck about shaving. These were dudes who personified the sarcastic sneer--Green River, Mudhoney, Ta ... More >>

Blaze of Glory

High on Fire reignites interest in Bay Area metal

Monotonix sets it off

High on Fire reignites interest in Bay Area metal

Mudhoney: Show Preview

High on Fire reignites interest in Bay Area metal

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 >>

Friday Night: Mudhoney, Hank IV, and Little Queenie Deafen the New Parish

Romana MachadoMudhoney​ Mudhoney Hank IV Little Queenie April 29, 2011 @ The New Parish, Oakland Better than: Shrooming through a Steven Seagal double feature. I was a little dubious at the outset. It was our first time at the New Parish, a downtown Oakland venue that looked scarcely big enough ... More >>

The Top 10 Hottest Men in Grunge

Sure, it was the era of long, dirty hair and long johns worn to the bar -- but '90s grunge sure did throw up some eye candy. Here, to honor the 20th anniversary of Nirvana's Nevermind, as well as Cameron Crowe's new Pearl Jam documentary Twenty, are the top 10 hottest men of grunge. (Tomorrow, we'll ... More >>

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 >>