Neil Young

SF MusicTech Summit: Big Predictions, Blanket Dismissals, and Lots of Bad Words

Prediction: In 10 years, no one's going to care about owning music as long as they have access to it. Prediction: No one except for .1 percent of music listeners and Neil Young will pay for Neil Young's high-quality digital audio service. Prediction: In 3030, mashups will finally be legal. So i ... More >>

Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Last Week in S.F. Music

Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Last Week in S.F. Music

Old Versus New at Outside Lands 2012, With Old the Heavy Favorite

It was around 8:30 p.m. on Sunday night at Outside Lands, when Stevie Wonder and his band went into "Living For the City," that the festival's reverence for the past became most painful. Over on the Twin Peaks stage, Skrillex, the black-clad millionare monster at the top of EDM food chain, was just ... More >>

Outside Lands 2012 Set Times Are Out: Here's a Look at the Conflicts

Scheduling a festival like Outside Lands is never easy -- there's always going to be some fans who want to see two acts that happen to be playing at the same time. But judging by the set times released today, festival organizers have done a pretty decent job of minimizing the conflicts. As we wrote ... More >>

The Top 10 Most Disappointing Albums of 2012 (So Far)

It's a little past the halfway point of 2012, but mid-July still seems like a good time to round up the albums that came out this year and simply failed to meet our expectations. Some of those expectations were admittedly (and deservedly) sky-high -- leading to decent records that still felt like a ... More >>

Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Last Week in S.F. Music

Calling All Holiday Lushes: Top 5 Pumpkin Beers!

It's pumpkin time in beer town, and I came to party! Naturally, that means consuming only the best of the best of the pumpkin beers, and then sharing my findings with you. Of course, Beer Advocate has a snobby list, but you know what, I don't think Dogfish Head Punkin Ale is the greatest best. Dogfi ... More >>

Your Post-Bridge School Comedown Party: Watch a Film About the Benefit's First 25 Years

Neil Young at Bridge School​ We already told you about the plans to release a new, three-DVD, two-CD box set celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the now-legendary Bridge School Benefit concerts. The set will feature some stunning performances from over the years by the likes of Bob Dylan, Neil ... More >>

Saturday at Hardly Strictly: Merle Haggard and Kris Kristofferson Become the Great HSB Unifiers

Merle Haggard & Kris Kristofferson A.A. Bondy Robyn Hitchcock Hugh Laurie October 1, 2011 Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Better than: Seeing Neil Young after he released Greendale, that's for sure. A man dressed in an official Hardly Strictly shirt walks out to say that the biggest set of the day will ... More >>

Now You Can Experience 25 Years of Bridge School Benefit Shows, All For a Good Cause

Macca at Bridge School​ There are probably some music fans who have been to all 25 of the heavy-duty Bridge School Benefit shows that go down every fall at Shoreline Amphitheatre. And while we extremely jealous of those fortuitous (or foresight-blessed) souls, now there's at least a way for t ... More >>

Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Last Week in S.F. Music

On the Unifying Power of Angry 9/11 Songs: "It's Like Attending a Memorial"

Toby Keith at Shoreline last month.​ It's a scene that's played out innumerable times since 2002 -- and with the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11 here, it will now be executed with even more patriotic fervor and bicep-flexing machismo. Behold, a Stetson-wearing, sleeveless Toby Keith, his American ... More >>

Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Last Week in S.F. Music

Burn a Bongload with Buffalo Springfield

​ This week: Burn a bongload with Buffalo Springfield.​ Behind the buzz: Though perhaps not one of those Ice Capades-in-Hell moments, the Buffalo Springfield reunion is welcome news for weed rockers, retro-cultists, and hippies of every age. This accidental and short-lived folk-rock supergroup ... More >>

In 2010, Time Is What Matters: A Nugget of Wisdom from the Music Critic of the Year

Zing!​Our sister blog in New York today published an interview with the anonymous Twitterer @Discographies, whom it declared Music Critic of the Year. Go read that fascinating, funny and worthwhile interview, but first, it's worth calling out a particularly wise morsel from it. For me, these few s ... More >>

S.F. Experimental Outfit Barn Owl Spreads Its Wings, Plays the Independent Tonight

Barn Owl​Thanks to both the national media and the local one, most of us know about the more-than-worthy garage-rock, shoegaze, indie-pop, and electronic sounds emanating from the S.F. scene. But far less appreciated are the aquifers of creativity stirring beneath us in the Bay Area's experimental ... More >>

Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and lows from this week in S.F. music

Neil Young Show To Raise $3 Million for UCSF Hospital

Thanks, Neil! ​U.C. San Francisco is out of the blue and into the black. A full $3 million into the black thanks to Neil Young. Tonight's benefit show for the UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital is sold out -- sorry. You could scalp a ticket, but then you're not really doing much to help build an "in ... More >>

Bridge School 2010: Last Grizzly Bear Show for 'Quite Some Time'

Grizzly Bear has a sense of humor. Witness it soon or wait a while.​Yesterday, we posted the facial-expression-inducing lineup for this year's Bridge School Benefit concert, where Neil Young and Stephen Stills will likely draw thousands of former Bay Area hippies with a Buffalo Springfield reunion ... More >>

Bridge School Benefit 2010: Buffalo Springfield, Elton John, Elvis Costello, Pearl Jam, Modest Mouse, More

Buffalo Springfield​LiveNation today announced the lineup for this year's Bridge School Benefit -- Neil Young's annual show for the school he helped found for his son -- and, well, wow: In addition to the regulars, the classic '60s outfit Buffalo Springfield is reuniting for the show, minus t ... More >>

Top Six Songs About Muni That We'd Love to Play on Muni

​Okay, so none of these songs -- with the possible exception of one -- are technically about our transit system here in San Francisco. But this post on Muni Diaries got us thinking: What music would we play if we could be a Muni DJ for a day? And even better, what songs capture the essence of our ... More >>

Or, The Whale's New NSFW Video Follows the Naked SF Trend

Rusty Gold from michael jeter on Vimeo. Wanna get your video noticed? Follow the current San Francisco trend and get some naked dudes in the mix. On the heels of local popsters Girls'  headline-grabbing clip featuring flesh of the male and female variety, alt country kids Or, the Whale have a n ... More >>

It's Your Friday Morning News Quiz!

Is this elf even unionized?​Rock! Roll! Real estate! Are you ready for a news quiz? Well, here it is anyway. 1. What San Francisco rock musician unloaded his Pac Heights mansion for nearly $9 million? A. Mickey Hart, Grateful DeadB. Carlos SantanaC. Les Claypool, PrimusD. Kirk Hammet, MetallicaE. ... More >>

Last Night: Neil Young's Bridge School Benefit

Christopher VictorioNeil Young and Adam Sandler​Neil Young's Bridge School Benefit Concert October 25, 2009Shoreline AmphitheaterCheck out our Bridge School slideshow by Christopher Victorio here.  Better Than: watching AC/DC play at Marine World. Combine a huge rock' n roll show with a scho ... More >>

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New Doc on Big Sur (((folkYEAH!))) Fests

One of my favorite local(-ish, he's based in Monterrey) promoters is (((folkYEAH!))). Under that name, music fan Britt Govea has brought a host of freak folk, heavy drone, psych rock, and the like to the Fernwood and the Henry Miller Library in Big Sur -- as well as concerts in the Santa Cruz Mounta ... More >>

Being unfaithful to San Francisco at Murphy's Pub

ZZ Top Cancel Bridge School Appearance

Jewish Mags and Marching Bands

Cruising the bargain bins with Vetiver’s Andy Cabic

Hear This

Spider Bags

A Celebration of Hunger (Birdman)

Choogle Your Own Adventure

The Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound paints a bright apocalypse

Brave New World

M. Ward creates a Post-War state

The Court & Spark

Hearts (Absolutely Kosher Records)

The Mother Hips

Red Tandy

Solo artists Soltero and ex-Ride frontman Mark Gardener bring their respective low-key rock to town

Hear This

Neil Young, Arthur Lee, Coughs, White Mice, and Fountains of Wayne. Did you get all that?

Da Da

Down at Da Corner, Bouncer gets her crunk on, coins term "muff muffle."

Radar Bros.

The Fallen Leaf Pages

Magnolia Electric Co

Trials and Errors

Film It Yourself

The Film Arts Festival of Independent Cinema: an ideal reality check

Zoom Lens

For a relatively small film festival, Mill Valley's got a surprisingly high profile

Mojave 3

Excuses for Travellers (4AD)

Crooked Fingers

Crooked Fingers

Night + Day

Recordings

Riff Raff

Recordings