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Do the Hipster Shuffle: Electro Events Swap Venues in Krazy Klub Shake-Ups

Oy, what’s a neon-togged trustfundie to do? Electro is blowing up everywhere -- but suddenly you have to be everywhere at once just to figure out where your favorite lazer-bass event went. For example, this Saturday sees Youngbloodz swap its original location, Haight Street hip-hop club Milk, fo ... More >>

Hear It in SF First: Mapei

While I was busy judging the Live 105 battle of the bands last night, music director Aaron Axelsen put a bug in my hear about a new favorite act of his, Mapei. She's a rapper from Stockholm of all places, and her grimy beats and tough chick delivery make the tracks on her MySpace page instantly stic ... More >>

Free Indie Rock Holiday Show This Wednesday at Virgin

To celebrate the release of Talking House Records' second installment in its Foggy Holiday series, The Matches, Loquat, and the Federalists are playing a free lunchtime concert on Wednesday, Dec. 17, at the Virgin Megastore on Market Street. That's like a box of Neapolitan ice cream: three differen ... More >>

Odd Nosdam to Release Soundtrack for Element Skate Film

If there's two things we can't get enough of, it's beats and skateboards. Element Skateboards along with Oakland DJ/producer Odd Nosdam came correct with both a few years back with the release of This Is My Element, a skate film featuring an original soundtrack with songs composed specifically for e ... More >>

MP3 of the Day: Uzi & Ari

(Photo by by Serina Nielson) Strange when an indie record store in Salt Lake City lists among its most popular releases a relatively unknown band from San Francisco. But in the Jan. 22 issue of Rolling Stone's "local favorites" column, the Bay Area's own Uzi & Ari's Headworms was listed amo ... More >>

Sunspot Jonz This Week's Featured Artist on MySpace

DIY 4 life: Sunspot Jonz Back in the day, the litmus test for independent hip-hop artists was being played on "The Wake Up Show." These days, it's being featured on MySpace. Oakland-born, original DIY rapper Sunspot Jonz --pioneer of the "Unsigned and Hella Broke" ideology and a founding member of ... More >>

Track of the Day: Tartufi

If we took a mid-year count of favorite records in 2009, Bay Area artists would be amongst the highest ranking. So many excellent albums coming from our home turf--among them Tartufi's Nests of Waves and Wire. On this melodic batch of post rock, everything seems to move in emotive cascades, from the ... More >>

Parker Day: Queen promoter

If we took a mid-year count of favorite records in 2009, Bay Area artists would be amongst the highest ranking. So many excellent albums coming from our home turf--among them Tartufi's Nests of Waves and Wire. On this melodic batch of post rock, everything seems to move in emotive cascades, from the ... More >>

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Mickey Avalon scores with hipsters, hustlers, and MySpace suits

Track of the Day: Freeman Gheenga

Imagine that you stayed up all night getting stoned and listening to Boards of Canada, and by the time sun rose, you flipped on Saturday morning cartoons. Your brunchtime brain scramble might sound a little like the remix locals Telepathik Friend made for Spanish buddy Freeman Gheenga, available on ... More >>

New Club Opens Friday in SOMA: Liquid

Liquid's Walnut Creek club, from the venue's MySpace photo galleryWalnut Creek literally comes to the 11th St. stretch in SOMA when a new club called Liquid opens on Friday night at 314 11th St. (the old Fat City space). Judging from the venue's MySpace page, this will be the San Francisco branch of ... More >>

Researcher says white folks are fleeing MySpace for Facebook

Liquid's Walnut Creek club, from the venue's MySpace photo galleryWalnut Creek literally comes to the 11th St. stretch in SOMA when a new club called Liquid opens on Friday night at 314 11th St. (the old Fat City space). Judging from the venue's MySpace page, this will be the San Francisco branch of ... More >>

SF Weekly Letters

Liquid's Walnut Creek club, from the venue's MySpace photo galleryWalnut Creek literally comes to the 11th St. stretch in SOMA when a new club called Liquid opens on Friday night at 314 11th St. (the old Fat City space). Judging from the venue's MySpace page, this will be the San Francisco branch of ... More >>

Track of the Day: Nisennenmondai

​Like a locomotive charging ahead on frantic drum beats, feedback whistle blaring to announce a slight change of course, Nisennenmondai's music is a loud woosh of steady, intrepid momentum. The Japanese trio offers both the soundtrack for dancefloor convulsions and jarring noise rock experiments. ... More >>

Track of the Day: Washed Out

​Washed Out's lo-fi cosmic disco has a tight rubber band bounce underneath airy washes of synth and, in one especially sweet summer jam, steel drum interludes. The music is made for slow swaying with a head full of stars, the vocals delivered swaddled in a soft melodic hush and fuzzy distortion. E ... More >>

Hey DJ! Friday Q&A: White Mike

​It's always entertaining hearing about a DJ's worst request. Usually they remember a poor song choice, or some dumbshit asking for "something I can dance to." But DJ White Mike's tale takes the cake: some chick wanting him to stop his set so she can get a photo of herself pretending to be on deck ... More >>

Tropicália’s Swedish Stars

​It's always entertaining hearing about a DJ's worst request. Usually they remember a poor song choice, or some dumbshit asking for "something I can dance to." But DJ White Mike's tale takes the cake: some chick wanting him to stop his set so she can get a photo of herself pretending to be on deck ... More >>

The Last 8 Personality Types Left on MySpace

BuzzFeed​When was the last time you got a friend request through MySpace? Or, for that matter, when was the last time you thought about MySpace (for anything other than music)? Even your mom knows to set up social networking shop--and comment on all your photos--through Facebook. According to ... More >>

Cheat Sheet for Cassettes to Care About in 2010

​Toro y Moi Chazwick Bundick's brand of chillwave is less grandiose than Washed Out and less distinguished than Neon Indian but makes better-suited cassette listening with more minimal dance grooves than nostalgia-evoking 80s chintz effects. You can even dance (grind?) to "You Hid" sober. ​N ... More >>

MySpace's Days as a Vital Music Site May Be Numbered

To call a MySpace page essential for bands would be an understatement. These clunky, ugly, music-streaming pages are valuable for many up-and-coming artists as well as big names -- partly because they were among the first places where anyone could post and stream songs for free.​ But that all coul ... More >>

Ghosts On Tape Comes Out Creepy

myspace.com/ghostsontapesf​"Tropical plants and girls with the daisy dukes on." "The future and the dirty south." "Brain sandwich." These are a few of the phrases used by Ryan Merry, the DJ behind Ghosts On Tape, to describe the sounds he makes with floppy discs and turntables. Ghosts On Tape ... More >>

Is Fresno Rapper PtheG Purely Clueless Or Just Totally Cynical?

Is Fresno's Princeton the Great One, or PtheG, really "the worst rapper in the Bay Area," or is he having a laugh at rap's expense? The conceit of "Cheeseburger" is asinine, from the rhythmically braindead chorus to the way P keeps forgetting to lip-sync and reaches for the steering wheel instead, b ... More >>

Goodbye Myspace: Music Makers Rock the Internet with Soundcloud

​Generally, the Beantown Boogie Down website is more interesting for dance music fans who also happen to live in the greater Boston area, but from time to time, blog curator/writer Nick Minieri also offers excellent tips on music production, exclusive DJ mixes, music-making tools, and plenty of ot ... More >>

The Sword: Show Preview

​Generally, the Beantown Boogie Down website is more interesting for dance music fans who also happen to live in the greater Boston area, but from time to time, blog curator/writer Nick Minieri also offers excellent tips on music production, exclusive DJ mixes, music-making tools, and plenty of ot ... More >>

Facebook, MySpace Have *Very Important* Announcement!

OMG!!!​In the latest communique that gets folks in the tech media bellowing "stop the presses" -- even though there are no presses -- Facebook and MySpace sent out invitations to favored journalists for some manner of joint announcement today.  The CEO of MySpace -- which has become a metapho ... More >>

Facebook Colonizes MySpace with 'Mashup'

Like MySpace, the rebellious Vercingetorix eventually surrendered to Caesar​In the latest piece of tech trivia to emerge in a technologically trivial week, MySpace CEO Mike Jones announced today that his ailing social network will now allow its users to import a wide range of information from thei ... More >>

The Soft Moon Hovers Above Hallucinogenic San Francisco

​Introducing San Francisco's The Soft Moon, the haunted house of a solo project from Mojave desert native Luis Vasquez, which released its self-titled debut last week on Brooklyn spook-factory Captured Tracks. Like that label's flagship act, Blank Dogs (although check out this link too), The Soft ... More >>

Myspace Is a Steaming Pile of Suck and Should Just Go Away Already

Ugh.​The latest news coming out of the Internets is that Myspace is still hemmoraghing money (and web traffic), even after its big redesign. Once prime real estate for established and aspiring musicians to post new tracks for insatiable web denizens, the site has spiraled downward into irrelevance ... More >>

See The Oh Sees' Frontman John Dwyer's Photo Show at the Rite Spot Starting Tomorrow

Claire Marie Vogel​What's it like to see the world through the eyes of a touring musician? Probably largely the same as seeing the world through the eyes of a touring non-musician, unless we're talking about Stevie Wonder or something, but why would you even say such a thing? Too soon. For al ... More >>

Justin Timberlake: Top 5 Ways He Can Save MySpace

New media mogul?​Justin Timberlake's newly announced ownership stake in MySpace is without doubt the coolest thing to happen to the ailing social network in some time. Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. just sold MySpace, which it acquired six years ago, at a $545 million loss. But new owner Specific Med ... More >>

Top 5 Ways Justin Timberlake Can Save MySpace

Don't fret, Justin -- we can help.​So now Justin Timberlake -- unequivocal hearthrob, former member of N*Sync, and pop prodigy -- owns a stake in MySpace. Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. sold the ailing social media site yesterday to Specific Media at a $545 million loss. Figuring Timberlake and Speci ... More >>

MySpace Says It's Bringing TV to the Web -- But It Isn't

​Specific Media, now the owners of MySpace, took Justin Timberlake on stage with them Monday night at the Consumer Electronic Show, and with a lot of fanfare, they announced ... essentially nothing. The purported big news is that MySpace is revolutionizing television by bringing it to the Web an ... More >>