New York Dolls

The summer of our '80s youth in Adventureland

Happy Ending

The Creature Double Feature

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

Freedom Rock

San Francisco's Mensclub leads the sexual devolution

Legendary Oddballs Ween Paint the Town Brown

San Francisco's Mensclub leads the sexual devolution

Sibling Mastery

The Rondo Brothers move from indie producers to a powerful pop force

Don't Call It a Comeback

The Stooges succumb to The Weirdness

The Time Flys

Rebels of Babylon (Birdman)

New York's OG glam punks saunter up to the mic once again

Rebels of Babylon (Birdman)

The Nice Boys

The Nice Boys

Killing your idols and your enemies

The Nice Boys

Citizen Kane

A film that proves which New York Doll had the weirdest life of all

Ragged Doll

A forgotten punk makes a Killer comeback

Future Tense

Culture jamming the Web

Highly Evolved

Psychic TV's long-awaited reunion pales in comparison to singer Genesis P-Orridge's odd transformation

Hear This

Flashback to the '80s with shows from the New York Dolls and Trashcan Sinatras

Gabba Gabba Henh

The Ramones bopped toward history and an unhappy end

Kings of the Stone Age

A quarter-century ago, the Weirdos jump-started West Coast punk. Now they're back.

Hear This

Punk before punk was invented, Rocket From the Tombs is back

Through the Cracks

There are some benefits of big-city gentrification. Jesse Malin's brilliant new record is one of them.

Don't Forget About It

Clubbing till the fat lady sings

Always Be Drunk

Mellow Drunk's Leigh Gregory gets wasted on poetry and the apocalypse

House of Tudor

Electroclashers, grotesque miscreations, and flying imbeciles

Punk Rock Docs

Following junkies, musicians, and junkie musicians with gritty realist filmmaker Lech Kowalski

Hear This

The sloshing, vitriolic musical madness of the Hunches

House Of Tudor

World/Inferno Friendship Society's sinister Gypsy punk, and the Rubber City Rebels' gritty Midwestern rock

Music Lesson

At Noise Pop, Alex Chilton proves you can be a fucked-up rock star and survive

Life of the Party

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

Reel World

Scumrock and 25 -- A Brief History of the Festival

Letters to the Editor

Letters from October 18, 2000

Magic and Loss

From Texas to San Francisco and back again, Alejandro Escovedo has weathered the push and pull of family and music

The House of Tudor

From Texas to San Francisco and back again, Alejandro Escovedo has weathered the push and pull of family and music

The House of Tudor

From Texas to San Francisco and back again, Alejandro Escovedo has weathered the push and pull of family and music

House of Tudor

From Texas to San Francisco and back again, Alejandro Escovedo has weathered the push and pull of family and music

House of Tudor

From Texas to San Francisco and back again, Alejandro Escovedo has weathered the push and pull of family and music

Reviews

From Texas to San Francisco and back again, Alejandro Escovedo has weathered the push and pull of family and music

Take the Bait

Our correspondent hooks a whopper in the Atlantic Northeast

The House of Tudor

Our correspondent hooks a whopper in the Atlantic Northeast

The Black Lips re-embrace the crappy

Our correspondent hooks a whopper in the Atlantic Northeast

Bitchin Kitchen's Nadia G, the Punk-Rock Julia Child

Bitchin Kitchen/FacebookNadia G's Bitchin Kitchen cooking show reecently debuted in the U.S. ​We had the pleasure of meeting a very bitchin' gal last week. Nadia G had just arrived in town from Montreal for BlogHer Food, where she was speaking on a panel called Be Your Own Food Network. You mi ... More >>

Happy Ending

Bitchin Kitchen/FacebookNadia G's Bitchin Kitchen cooking show reecently debuted in the U.S. ​We had the pleasure of meeting a very bitchin' gal last week. Nadia G had just arrived in town from Montreal for BlogHer Food, where she was speaking on a panel called Be Your Own Food Network. You mi ... More >>

The Entire Oral History of S.F. Punk Pioneers CRIME is Now Online For Your Enjoyment

Go all the way back to the beginning of punk, before it was even called "punk," before Sid Vicious was a Sex Pistol, back in the original time of those punk godfathers the New York Dolls, and you will discover a band called CRIME that formed in San Francisco. Most credit this band with recording the ... More >>

Friday Night: Buzzcocks Beat it -- Eventually -- at Slims

Romana MachadoBuzzcocks​Buzzcocks Images June 10, 2011 Slim'sBetter than: Beating your meat to pulp. First off, there were way too many women for what purist old geezers up-and-down swear is orthodox for an old-skool punk show. Many of the early arrivals milling before the stage at S ... More >>

Motley Crue Plays a Literally Explosive Show with Poison and the New York Dolls at Bill Graham Civic (Photos)

Gil RiegoMotley Crue​ Motley Crue Poison The New York Dolls June 15, 2011 @ Bill Graham Civic Auditorium Looking at those names above, how could it not have been a wild night? Brett Michaels and Tommy Lee in one giant room -- not to mention punk legends the New York Dolls? Plus, a contraption ... More >>

The Best of SF Weekly June Concert Photography

You know it's going to be a good month of concerts when the lineup starts with U2 and ends with Rihanna. Whether small or large, sweet and soulful or eardrum-piercing, you can be sure that SF Weekly was at the concert. Here are the best of the Bay Area June concerts in photos. Christopher Victorio ... More >>

Get Lit(erary) with Tunabunny's Minima Moralia

​Listen to this while high: Tunabunny's Minima Moralia.​Behind the buzz: Behold the prose accompanying the second album from this Athens, Ga., riot squad: "On last year's debut album, Tunabunny was out to destroy rock music. With Minima Moralia, they intend to redeem it." Oh, as they say, ... More >>

R.I.P. R.E.M., Masters of a Beautiful, Eclectic Rock 'n' Roll

Farewell, then.​ In case you still needed to know the difference between R.E.M. and U2, R.E.M. just broke up and U2 dies only when Bono is put in the ground. Whatever today's (honestly shocking) announcement means about R.E.M.'s 31-year-career, well, what did anything ever mean with this ban ... More >>

A Halloween Show We Can Get Behind: Nobunny, Ty Segall, Uzi Rash, and More to Play as Long-Gone Greats This Friday

Nobunny and Ty Segall play as garage greats this Friday.​On Friday, Brick and Mortar Music Hall will present a Halloween show that we're truly excited about. Naturally, it consists of some of our favorite local artists -- Nobunny and Ty Segall among them -- but given the time of the year, ther ... More >>

Forget Pedigree: Wild Flag Is a Great New Rock Band

Nobunny and Ty Segall play as garage greats this Friday.​On Friday, Brick and Mortar Music Hall will present a Halloween show that we're truly excited about. Naturally, it consists of some of our favorite local artists -- Nobunny and Ty Segall among them -- but given the time of the year, ther ... More >>

In Print: Wild Flag Is More Than a 'Supergroup'

Wild Flag​Wild Flag: The concept of a "supergroup"-- wherein performers with cool and/or exciting pedigrees find themselves in something resembling a "band" -- dies hard. Imagine your favorite musicians playing together! Frequently, expectations exceed results -- a collection of individuals do ... More >>