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Smoked Out: Will Puffing Pot at Concerts Get You in Trouble?

Andrew Bogut Injury Cover-Up Was a Stupid-Ass Thing To Do

During time-outs, the Warriors, like presumably all professional sports team, hold "vote our guys to the all-star game!" gimmicks. During a game earlier this month, for instance, three or four youngish and smiling people jogged onto the court, each waving over their head a giant cut-out of a player' ... More >>

The 6 Best Concerts in San Francisco This Week

6. Simian Mobile Disco @ Mezzanine, Saturday, Dec. 1 Ever since Jas Shaw and James Ford split off from indie-pop outfit Simian circa 2006 to form Simian Mobile Disco, a cheeky sensibility has always underpinned the duo's slinky electro. On 2009's Temporary Pleasure, SMD mocked rich-kid opulence with ... More >>

Live 105 Announces Two-Day Not So Silent Night With Jack White, the Killers, M83, More

Just when you thought the season of multiple-day megaconcerts had ended, here's Live 105 with its largest Not So Silent Night concert ever. The two-day minifestival will take place Dec. 7 and 8 at Oracle Arena, with headliners Jack White and the Shins on Friday and the Killers and M83 on Saturday. C ... More >>

Photos: Justin Biebermania Overruns Oracle Arena

Justin Bieber, aka the Biebs, Senior Biebalicious, the Biebster, Your Little Sister's Favorite Band, etc. Saturday, Oct. 6, 2012 Oracle Arena There ain't no devotion like the devotion young females have for Justin Bieber. This was demonstrated right here in the Bay Area on Saturday night, as armies ... More >>

Andre Ward Comes From a Colorful Line of Bay Area Boxing Champs

With Andre Ward, of Hayward, and Nonito Donaire, of San Leandro, the Bay Area boasts two of the three best active American boxers (behind Floyd Mayweather). It's a proud moment for the Yay. Boxing greatness has tended to emanate from gritty and cold East Coast cities -- like New York and Boston and ... More >>

Andre Ward Gets HBO's 24/7 Treatment for Fight Against Chad Dawson

Boxing is about narrative. People root for a fighter because of his story as much as his left hook. In boxing, each fight is a turning point. That's why the term "crossroads fight" gets overused. Because every fight recalibrate's a guy's career trajectory. And that's why HBO's 24/7 is awesome. It s ... More >>

R&B Heartthrob Trey Songz Previews New Album Chapter Five in San Francisco

Last week, a small group of media and radio contest winners were invited to San Francisco's Studio Trilogy, where such diverse musicians as Kronos Quartet and Lady Gaga have recorded, for an exclusive listening party to hear Chapter Five, the forthcoming album from R&B star Trey Songz. Besides lett ... More >>

Live Review, 6/23/12: New Edition Reunites With Bobby Brown at Oracle Arena

New Edition Tony! Toni! Toné! Saturday, June 23, 2012 Oracle Arena Better than: Smacking it up, flipping it, or rubbing it down. New Edition's "Road to 30" tour celebrates 29 years since the band found international recording success. But its origins actually stretch back to 1978, when producer M ... More >>

They Are Now Literally Giving Away Tickets to See Van Halen This Sunday

Even before putting together this week's feature on the band, we'd gotten the feeling that maybe Van Halen's cock-swinging, getting-tired-early reunion tour wasn't quite the hot ticket some thought it might be. And either we're right about that, or the band and its, promoter Live Nation, are feeli ... More >>

Kool and The Gang's Robert "Kool" Bell on Opening for Van Halen

It was shocking enough when Van Halen announced live dates with David Lee Roth this year. But the group's choice of pop-funk favorites Kool and the Gang as opening act only raised more eyebrows. Maybe it isn't that strange, though: When we saw the two bands together earlier this year at Madison Squ ... More >>

Yes, the Warriors Moving to S.F. Would Mean a Big New Concert Arena in the City

San Francisco is so tiny, dense, and developed that the only way to put a new stadium here is to build one on top of some piers over the bay. Okay, so that's not a huge surprise. But building a giant arena over the bay was the dead-serious plan announced yesterday by city officials and the owners o ... More >>

Golden State Warriors Are Probably Moving to San Francisco

There is an immediate bit of good news accompanying the reports that the Golden State Warriors are moving to San Francisco: There's a strong chance the team will finally trash the comically antiquated "Golden State" part of the name, which it absurdly adopted when it moved from San Francisco to Oakl ... More >>

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

Defenders of the Blues: Why We Still Need the Black Keys

Why We Still Need the Black Keys

Weekend Parties: Tiger & Woods at the W Hotel, DJ Skeet Skeet at Blow Up, and More

Well, it's almost the weekend, and it's time to start figuring out what there is to do. At this point, you've probably heard all about the massive (and controversial) rave scheduled for this Saturday at the Oracle Arena, so we won't mention it. Instead, we've prepared a shortlist of four sure-fire e ... More >>

R.I.P. Solomon Kahn, DJ for the Golden State Warriors, 1977-2012

Solomon Kahn, a beloved local DJ who performed at such diverse venues as Oracle Arena, AT&T Park, and every major club in San Francisco, was tragically killed Tuesday, Jan. 31, in Bangkok, Thailand, in a car accident. He was 34. Kahn, known to clubgoers as DJ Solomon, was in Thailand as a part of a ... More >>

Van Halen, Including David Lee Roth, Will Play Oracle Arena and HP Pavilion in June

The incomparable frontman David Lee Roth is on board both for Van Halen's 2012 North American tour -- which stops in the Bay Area in June -- as well as the band's forthcoming album A Different Kind of Truth, the first Van Halen album he's appeared on since the iconic 1984. The tour is set to arrive ... 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 >>

The Foo Fighters and Their Hilarious Ice Preferences Are Coming to Oakland This Fall

The world's foremost connoisseurs of beverage ice.​ We can honestly say that, until a few moments ago, we never gave any thought to the shape of the ice cubes in our drinks, much less the company that made the machine that created them. The peak of our lifetime's worth of ice-related contempla ... More >>

Happy 4/20! Here's a Guide to Music-Related Activities on Doper Day

Photo by Jenne WarrenGet high with Cypress Hill at the Warfield tonight.​Any crunker still mired to the concept of time recognizes and observes the entirely spurious significance of April 20. Sadly, organized recognition of the day is just as ad-hoc, leaving teaheads to the dictates of their colle ... More >>

Last Night in Photos: Lady Gaga at Oracle Arena

Richard HaickGaga at Oracle last night​ Lady Gaga March 22, 2011 @ Oracle Arena After showing up at Google yesterday to answer questions fans delivered via Twitter and via YouTube, Lady Gaga did what she presumably came to the Bay Area to do: She played a nearly sold-out show to adoring monsters ... More >>

Lady Gaga Is at Google in San Francisco! Quick -- Ask Her a Question!

Lady Gaga at Google!​Lady Gaga is in the Bay Area for a show at Oracle Arena tonight -- and lucky for you snoozers, there are still some tickets left. But even luckier for you Gaga freaks, the Mother Monster is inhabiting Google in San Francisco as we type this, answering fan questions from YouTub ... More >>

Yep, So Prince is Playing Two Shows in Oakland Next Week

Nicole AnkowskiPrince performing in New York late last year.​Minneapolis' master of funk, the frequently androgynous yet fiercely masculine, I'm-so-badass-my-name-used-be-a-symbol one and only, Prince, announced two shows in Oakland today. And when are they? Oh, only next week.

The Best Bay Area Concert Photos of 2010

Given the dizzying array of musical acts that tramp through San Francisco every year, and the number of those shows our hard-working photographers attend, it was no easy feat to round up their best shots. What follows is a sampling of some of the most exciting, interesting live music photos All Shoo ... More >>

Saturday Night: Gorillaz Drag Out De La Soul, Bobby Womack, Little Dragon, and More for a Cartoonishly Fun Halloween

Calibree Photography​GorillazN*E*R*DOctober 30, 2010Oracle ArenaBetter than: Vomiting up a one-eyed octopus; also, seeing Gorillaz on not-Halloween.What are you supposed to look at during a Gorillaz performance? Do you look at the band onstage, where a  group of humans -- including Damon ... More >>

Friday Night: Shakira Opens Oracle Arena Concert with Commercial for Her Perfume

Courtesy of the artist ​Shakira October 22, 2010 @ Oracle Arena There was no opening act for Shakira on Friday night at the Oracle Arena. Quite simply, Shakira (Our Lady of "Hips Don't Lie," "She Wolf" sensation, "Waka Waka" wonder of the 2010 World Cup) needs no introduction. ... More >>

Why We Love Justin Bieber, Lil' Kim Spectacle, Willie Brown Drummers

Lucas Jackson/JustinPictures.org"Why do you love me so much?"​Lil' Kim late to wild S.F. show Monday night, ends up wearing a wedding dress after airline loses her luggage. [SF Gate]Pitchfork interviews "rising" S.F. shoegaze duo Tamaryn. [Pitchfork]Teen fans explain why they love Justin Bieber so ... More >>

Monday Hangover: Air Guitar, Matt and Kim, Tom Petty, Faust, Live 105's BFD

Summer has arrived people. You know what that means: there are several hours during he day in which you can wear shorts (in select city micro-climates) before you start freezing to death and regretting your wardrobe choice. But that's what weekends are for: drinking enough to feel comfortable in sho ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Tom Petty and Co. Bring On Classic Rock Catharsis

Christopher Victorio​Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Joe Cocker @Oracle Arena June 5, 2010 Better than: Pill-based forms of anxiety relief Uptight white people, the remedy you require is Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. As it went down Saturday, the anxiety cure-all constituted three parts unaba ... More >>

Monday Morning Hangover: Drunk Santas, Lusty Ladies and Not So Silent Night

The Holidays are creeping up on us, and that not only means more drinking, but more drinking in Santa hats. Red and green tinged parties are hard to avoid right now, and we went to more than a few of them over the weekend.Hanna Quevedo​In some parts of the country, the beginning of the Christmas s ... More >>

Slideshow of the Day: KISS at Oakland Arena

​Regardless of whether KISS is your cuppa, well, tongue, the band knows how to put on a visually dazzling show. Photographer Richard Haick traveled to the Oakland Arena to lick it up with his camera for this week's big rock 'n' roll slideshow. 

Last Night: Fleetwood Mac at the Oracle Arena

Fleetwood MacOracle Arena, OaklandPhotos by Christopher Victorio - Click here for a full slideshowBetter than: Watching American Idol's downright infuriating finale with clenched fists.Delving into the convoluted history of Fleetwood Mac is tantamount to stepping in a cow pile for the casual fan (an ... More >>

Metallica, Afrotek Festival and New College's Blowout Sale: Your Monday Morning Hangover

Weekend recap by Janine KahnWe're running on a skeleton crew here at All Shook Down this week with most of the usual suspects home for the holidays. Fortunately, our friends at sister blogs The Snitch and SFoodie were out and about this weekend, so our wrap-up won't be too terribly bare bones.On Sat ... More >>

Last Night: Live 105's Battle of the Opening Bands

(Dizzy Balloon gets crafty with the merch setup)Live 105's Not So Silent Night Local Band Competition Finals with: Picture Atlantic, Please Do Not Fight, Go Kart Mozart, Music For Animals, and Dizzy BalloonMonday, Dec. 7, 2008Cafe du NordWords and images by Jennifer MaerzLast night, Live 105-suppor ... More >>

Kanye, Jay-Z, Mary J., and Rihanna clamor for diva status

Van Halen HellBeast Slouches Toward HP Pavilion

R. Kelly to Share Closet Space with Ne-Yo in Oakland

Jersey Boys

Bruce Springsteen and Danzig battle for Garden State supremacy

We Want Candy

Beyoncé and Ciara battle it out for your entertainment dollar

Gwen Stefani and Sean Kingston in Bay

Fight Snub

The last people you would want to stiff are cage fighters, but it appears that’s what one promoter did

De-Lousing the Mars Volta

Fighting Indifference

The Hard Sellout

Bruce Brugmann, Frank Chu, Super Balls, U2, and folk-playing surfers

Ill-Cuomo

Weezer's frontman is certifiably nuts. So why doesn't he write better songs?

Sunshine, Lollipops

The future's so bright, we've got to wear shades to this week's assortment of great shows

Summer Events a Go Go!

What to do, all summer long

Dog Bites

Just a Freight Train Coming Your Way; On the Waterfront