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Easy, Noisy Living: Nor-Cal's Best Summer Music Festivals

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

Outside Lands Announces 2013 Lineup: Paul McCartney, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nine Inch Nails, Kaskade, and More

Outside Lands festival organizers today announced the lineup for the 2013 event, and it looks like a big one. Headliners include Paul McCartney, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nine Inch Nails, Phoenix, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Willie Nelson, Hall & Oates, and more. The festival takes place Aug. 9-11 in Golden Gate ... More >>

Five Cover Songs That Are Better Than the Originals

As musical pairings go, they don't come much more oddball than Mastodon with Feist. But -- we can't quite believe it either -- on Record Store Day (April 21st), the unlikely collaborators are releasing Feistodon: a split single that will feature Mastodon covering Feist ("A Commotion") and vice versa ... More >>

Young Widows Talk Recording in a Funeral Home, and Why Experimentation is Necssary

Nick ThienemanYoung Widows perform Friday at Thee Parkside​ An unusual recording environment helps add mystique and character to a record. Nine Inch Nails made The Downward Spiral in the Beverly Hills house where the Sharon Tate murders happened. Bon Iver fans have that great visual of Justin ... More >>

J*Davey and Blu Make Mischief And/Or Sense at 330 Ritch

Def Sound​J*DaveyBluDef Soul@ 330 RitchThursday, March 10, 2011Better than: A late-night spelling bee. San Francisco came out last night to party in good faith -- to get down, make noise, say Yeeaaayyuh, the usual -- but the partying spirit was damped, at least in my case, by an hour and fifteen ... More >>

The Top 5 Most Politically Incorrect Music Videos

Since yesterday's Super Bowl Half Time Show was so sorely lacking in wardrobe malfunctions -- frankly, we found the Black Eyed Peas' outfits a billion times more offensive than Janet Jackson's silver-plated nipple, but whatever -- we decided to provide a bit of dirt today, so you can all get over th ... More >>

En Garde!

Outside Lands Trivia Challenge

Zap Mama​ The headliners for this weekend's Outside Lands festival--Pearl Jam, the Dave Matthews Band, Black Eyed Peas, Thievery Corporation, Tenacious D, and M.I.A.--need little introduction. But what about the undercard? One of the coolest things about this event is the sheer number of acts play ... More >>

Pay for Play

Superstar session drummer and Dadaist marketing genius Josh Freese (Devo, A Perfect Circle, the Vandals) sells himself, his famous friends, and all-you-can-eat shrimp at Sizzler to promote his new album.

NIN/Jane's Addiction

Indie songwriters find success in wooing the superfan

Friday Night: Meat Beat Manifesto at the Independent

Last Night: Meat Beat ManifestoThe IndependentDecember 5, 2008Review by Tamara Palmer, Photos by Tim PrattBetter than:  Concerts that take place in one dimensionDownload: The unreleased Meat Beat Manifesto song "Bush of Lies"At the nerve center of Meat Beat Manifesto is its creator and vision p ... More >>

Von Iva hits the big time with Jim Carrey

MP3 of the Day: T. Raumschmiere

Pretty cult machines: NIN and Deerhunter

Nine Inch Nails Releases Physical Version of Latest Album

Survival of the fittest for the summer’s big music events

Nine Inch Nails Release New Album for Free, Play Oakland in Sept.

Lollapalooza Lineup Kicks Coachella and SF Outside Lands Lineups in the Balls

Saul Williams Teams with Trent Reznor, Bucks Industry

OiNK Admin's Bail Date Gets Extended, Gets Support from Former Member Trent Reznor

Shrooms

Saul Williams Goes the Way of Radiohead, Announces New Album Available For Free

Encore

The Rogue El Gato

Playwright Shawn Ferreyra tries his hand at writing for kids. He shoulda stuck to tales of half-naked nymphs.

Smashing Pumpkins Move to SF, Fight with Seattle

Poncho Sanchez, Skinny Puppy, David Bazan -- Plugged In: ASD's Live Music Picks, June 21

It's so easy being green: Jim Henson's lasting music legacy

RIP Disco D

The Greek Play

Free wine, plus a dripping sexiness and brutality -- what's not to like?

Johnny Cash

American V: A Hundred Highways (American/Lost Highway) Personal File (Columbia/Legacy)

If it's kinda, sorta music-related, we'll review it. This week: Rick Rubin's moxie.

Ground Beef

After nearly two decades of experiments, Meat Beat Manifesto pulls it all together with a cinematic live show

BeatBox

"We Funk" brings DJs Dusk and Miles up from L.A.; get down to the "Sounds of the Basement" with Cypress Hill's DJ Muggs

Ghost in the Machinist

Christian Bale chases phantoms and loses sleep in Brad Anderson's latest

A Cut Above

For sheer carnage, Saw shreds the competition

Industrial Strength

With his latest release as Tweaker, Chris Vrenna may finally outrun his Nine Inch Nails past

House of Tudor

Pranks for the Memories

V. Vale and RE/Search – still disseminating the alternative-culture virus

The Industrial Jazz Group

City of Angles

First, the Good News

A rehearsal space opens, a club closes

All's Well That Ends Well

This raw and raunchy version of the Shakespeare classic is not for purists

House of Tudor

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