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  • Blogs

    March 27, 2012

    Music Labels Make Life Tough for Spotify

    ​Patrick Carney of the Black Keys is not a fan of Sean Parker, to say the least. Parker is an "asshole," Carney told NME.com on Monday. It's hard to blame Carney, though his rage might seem a bit misdirected -- or maybe just too concentrated on one person. Parker of course was the guy who brought ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2012

    Marijuana Legalization Measure Courts Billionaires for Vital Campaign Cash

    Close. But close enough?​Regulate Marijuana Like Wine, a marijuana legalization measure vying to get onto the November ballot, has only $80,000 in cash on hand, according to finance records. But in a poll released this week, it had potential support from 62 percent of likely voters -- and that, ba ... More >>

  • Music

    December 14, 2011

    Assessing Metallica After 30 Years and Four Nights at the Fillmore

    Close. But close enough?​Regulate Marijuana Like Wine, a marijuana legalization measure vying to get onto the November ballot, has only $80,000 in cash on hand, according to finance records. But in a poll released this week, it had potential support from 62 percent of likely voters -- and that, ba ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 14, 2011

    In Print: Assessing Metallica After 30 Years and Four Nights at the Fillmore, and More

    From SF Weekly's latest print music section: Metallica at the Fillmore​Metallica at 30: Text messages like the one I got from a friend before the third Metallica show last week -- "You are dead to me" -- were exactly the reason I decided to go to all four of the Bay Area metal band's 30th ann ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2011

    Metallica's Top 5 Most Alienating, Hate-Inducing Actions

    ​"Metallica loves to be hated," James Hetfield told Playboy in a 2001 interview. The group's detractors would argue that over the years, Hetfield and the boys have done a more than capable job of cultivating that hate. There are young music fans, born around the mid-1990s, who only know a wor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 29, 2011

    Facebook's Cheesy Ads: Do They Make it Worth $100 Billion?

    ​A couple of weeks ago, Business Insider, the puerile gossip 'n' lies site run by disgraced, bubble-era Internet-stock analyst Henry Blodget, informed us that a "source close to Facebook employees" said in an e-mail to the site that the company would go public within weeks. The article's author, N ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 23, 2011

    Snoop Dogg, The Killers, and Jane's Addiction Soundtrack the Opulence at a Facebook/Spotify Party (Photos)

    Snoop Dogg. Photographs courtesy of Julie Schugard for Spotify​ Open bars of oysters, sushi, wine and cheese, and lots booze. Sound too good to be true? How about adding surprise musical entertainment by the Killers, Jane's Addiction, Snoop Dogg, and Kaskade? Yep, it happened. Last night's p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 22, 2011

    The Killers, Jane's Addiction, and Snoop Dogg Are Playing a "Secret Show" for the Gods of Tech Tonight

    ​After hearing rumors all day, it appears this is finally actually confirmed: Snoop Dogg, Jane's Addiction, Kaskade, and the Killers are playing a "secret" show after today's Facebook conference, hosted by Napster founder Sean Parker, according to SFist. So after spending the day hearing abou ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2011

    Hey, When Did Metallica's Lars Ulrich Turn into a Cool, Funny Guy?

    ​Over the years, Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich just hasn't done a lot of things to make people like him. Let's recount: he's often an obnoxious interviewee; he pulls some of the most annoying faces in drumming history; he played a role in one of the most embarrassing music documentaries on earth, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 1, 2011

    MTV at 30: A Reflection on the Journey from Beavis and Butt-Head to Jersey Shore

    ​When I was born, MTV had already passed its eighth birthday. Now that I've dated myself, I'll make another confession: I never had cable television growing up. So I watched MTV take over the planet like someone who lived in a different dimension -- I watched music videos with my friends at th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 30, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 10, 2011

    Google Launches Bummer of a Cloud-Based Music Service -- Blame the Big Labels

    GoogleUpload your music to the cloud, and play it on all your devices.​ It's on. It's live. And, for a little while, anyway, it's free: Go here to request an invitation to Google's cloud music service, released today under the entirely unthrilling name Music Beta. So what's it do? We ran thro ... More >>

  • Music

    October 27, 2010

    Stopping piracy: How ultracheap downloads could save the music industry

    GoogleUpload your music to the cloud, and play it on all your devices.​ It's on. It's live. And, for a little while, anyway, it's free: Go here to request an invitation to Google's cloud music service, released today under the entirely unthrilling name Music Beta. So what's it do? We ran thro ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2010

    Napster's Sean Parker Showers $100K on Marijuana Measure

    RamaScreenNapster's Sean Parker -- yes, the guy played by Justin Timberlake in The Social Network -- put his pot money where his mouth is​The e-mail came Monday from Oaksterdam University's Richard Lee, the main driving force (at least publicly) behind cannabis semi-legalization measure Propos ... More >>

  • Film

    September 29, 2010

    "The Social Network": David Fincher on Facebook's unlovable creator, Mark Zuckerberg

    RamaScreenNapster's Sean Parker -- yes, the guy played by Justin Timberlake in The Social Network -- put his pot money where his mouth is​The e-mail came Monday from Oaksterdam University's Richard Lee, the main driving force (at least publicly) behind cannabis semi-legalization measure Propos ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 20, 2010

    Top 5 Most Excruciating Moments in Music Documentaries

    We've yet to see Joaquin Phoenix documenting his own nervous breakdown in new movie I'm Still Here, but critics have been largely disgusted by what's on view. With that in mind, here are five other moments in music documentaries that have left us feeling queasy and depressed.5. Jim Morrison Having H ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2010

    Record Labels Suing Everything Good Into Oblivion

    MP3Tunes' Michael Robertson: "The music industry is still suing ... anyone they even think is taking their business." ​"Geeks say greedy record companies hinder innovation" "Copyright licenses cramp our creativity, techies yelp at 'summit'" "NorCal biz dudes: SoCal biz dudes think we're shitting ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 13, 2009

    Last Night: Metallica at HP Pavillion

    ​Metallica December 12, 2009 HP Pavilion At San Jose Better than: Getting drunk with your boss at the office holiday party. Still alive and kicking out the jams more than a quarter of a century after making Kill 'Em All, Metallica doesn't really have anything left to prove. The band members are ... More >>

  • Music

    April 29, 2009

    Indie songwriters find success in wooing the superfan

    ​Metallica December 12, 2009 HP Pavilion At San Jose Better than: Getting drunk with your boss at the office holiday party. Still alive and kicking out the jams more than a quarter of a century after making Kill 'Em All, Metallica doesn't really have anything left to prove. The band members are ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 9, 2009

    Metallica's Hetfield Hospitalized, Spinal Tap Rolls On

    Metallica.comTime to Turn the Page? Metallica's James Hetfield New Music Express has reported that that Metallica's James Hetfield was hospitalized for "a stomach bug and dehydration," forcing a cancellation of a March 8 Stockholm show .This latest health-related incident parallels a similar incid ... More >>

  • Music

    December 31, 2008

    Cell phones: the future of music broadcasting

    Metallica.comTime to Turn the Page? Metallica's James Hetfield New Music Express has reported that that Metallica's James Hetfield was hospitalized for "a stomach bug and dehydration," forcing a cancellation of a March 8 Stockholm show .This latest health-related incident parallels a similar incid ... More >>

  • Music

    December 17, 2008

    Metallica: Metal heroes once more

    Metallica.comTime to Turn the Page? Metallica's James Hetfield New Music Express has reported that that Metallica's James Hetfield was hospitalized for "a stomach bug and dehydration," forcing a cancellation of a March 8 Stockholm show .This latest health-related incident parallels a similar incid ... More >>

  • News

    January 23, 2008

    BitTorrent, Comcast, EFF Antipathetic To FCC Regulation of P2P Traffic

    Metallica.comTime to Turn the Page? Metallica's James Hetfield New Music Express has reported that that Metallica's James Hetfield was hospitalized for "a stomach bug and dehydration," forcing a cancellation of a March 8 Stockholm show .This latest health-related incident parallels a similar incid ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 5, 2007

    Welcome Back to School, Now Stop the Downloading

    Metallica.comTime to Turn the Page? Metallica's James Hetfield New Music Express has reported that that Metallica's James Hetfield was hospitalized for "a stomach bug and dehydration," forcing a cancellation of a March 8 Stockholm show .This latest health-related incident parallels a similar incid ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 22, 2007

    Bay Area's MySpace Top Ten

    Metallica.comTime to Turn the Page? Metallica's James Hetfield New Music Express has reported that that Metallica's James Hetfield was hospitalized for "a stomach bug and dehydration," forcing a cancellation of a March 8 Stockholm show .This latest health-related incident parallels a similar incid ... More >>

  • News

    June 27, 2007

    Band Width

    Metallica.comTime to Turn the Page? Metallica's James Hetfield New Music Express has reported that that Metallica's James Hetfield was hospitalized for "a stomach bug and dehydration," forcing a cancellation of a March 8 Stockholm show .This latest health-related incident parallels a similar incid ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 13, 2007

    Dangermouse and Girl Talk talk Copyright

    Metallica.comTime to Turn the Page? Metallica's James Hetfield New Music Express has reported that that Metallica's James Hetfield was hospitalized for "a stomach bug and dehydration," forcing a cancellation of a March 8 Stockholm show .This latest health-related incident parallels a similar incid ... More >>

  • News

    December 14, 2005

    Letters to the Editor

    Week of Wednesday, December 14, 2005

  • Calendar

    August 24, 2005

    This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

    Week of Wednesday, December 14, 2005

  • Music

    May 25, 2005

    The Tinkerers

    The Books, Battles, Prefuse 73, and other bands for whom, musically speaking, freedom is on the march

  • Music

    February 9, 2005

    Bouncer

    The best place to ponder the Metallica movie Some Kind of Monster: Zeitgeist, of course

  • Film

    July 7, 2004

    Head Trip

    Between hard rock and a safe place, Metallica finds itself

  • News

    March 17, 2004

    Letters to the Editor

    Week of Wednesday, March 17, 2004

  • Music

    March 3, 2004

    Polishing the Brass

    Judging from last week's Music Law Summit West, the future of the music biz is unclear – but that's not what the RIAA wants you to think

  • Music

    February 25, 2004

    Hear This

    Join indie hip-hopper Sage Francis in saying "Fuck Clear Channel."

  • Music

    July 9, 2003

    House of Tudor

    A Deadhead's Songcatchers and the best rock band in America

  • Music

    July 9, 2003

    Metallica

    St. Anger

  • Music

    January 29, 2003

    Download or Die

    The RIAA's war on the consumer

  • Music

    April 10, 2002

    Various Artists

    The Amos House Collection, Volume II (Wishing Tree)

  • Music

    December 5, 2001

    Slack Keys and MP3s

    Two Bay Area collectors put the spotlight on vintage Hawaiian music

  • Music

    November 14, 2001

    Pop Philosophy

    A flock of nostalgia; an early -- and bloody -- valentine.

  • News

    October 3, 2001

    Digital Wage

    What a difference a year makes, to the country, and to the New Economy

  • Music

    July 18, 2001

    Pop Philosophy

    BART considers late-night trains, DNA reopens, Napster smooches Metallica

  • Music

    June 6, 2001

    House Of Tudor

    Silke Tudor uncovers lonesome organists, DIY provocateurs, and noisemaking bastards

  • Culture

    November 8, 2000

    Ransom Notes

    Can one man convince millions of people to pay for their "free" music?

  • Music

    September 20, 2000

    Pop Philosophy

    Buddy, Can You Spare Some Change?

  • News

    September 6, 2000

    I Have a Dream 2.0

    New Seybold upgrade brings ethics, privacy, adulation, salvation via Internet

  • Music

    July 26, 2000

    Riff Raff

    This Column Is Brought to You by the Letter M, the Letter P, the Number 3, and the Concept "Death of the Artist"; On That Note ...

  • Music

    May 10, 2000

    Riff Raff

    Free Lars Ulrich!; New Groove; Sound Off

  • Music

    April 19, 2000

    Riff Raff

    Everything I Ever Needed to Know About the Music Business I Learned From Eddie Money, etc...

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