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Bridge School Videos: Guns N' Roses Play Some Classics, Jack White's Full Set, and More

So Neil Young's annual Bridge School Benefit concert went down at Shoreline Amphitheatre this weekend, bringing artists like the Flaming Lips, Jack White, Guns N' Roses, Eddie Vedder, and many more onstage for an all-acoustic show. Somewhat surprisingly, Guns N' Roses actually showed up, apparently ... More >>

The Best of Outside Lands: Sunday, Aug. 12

Jack White Jack White likes the struggle. He's said so in interviews. He believes in hard work. The guiding force of each performance is the feeling that arises as the musicians collectively navigate the particular challenges of each moment on stage. Every show is guaranteed to be different. There a ... More >>

Live Review, 7/20/12: Melvins Lite Defy Their Moniker at Slim's

See also: * The Melvins' Dale Crover on Lazy Musicians, Knucklehead Slayer Fans, and the Band's Record-Breaking Tour Melvins Lite Hepa/Titus Friday, July 20, 2012 Slim's Better than: Hauling around your biggest amplifiers. The Melvins may need no introduction, but they sure as hell suggest a lot ... More >>

Arthouse Movie Listings October 12-18

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 >>

The Top 10 Hottest Women in Grunge

Sure, the grunge era produced its fair share of long-haired, flannel-loving, Converse-wearing male beefcake. But early '90s rock also made famous a bunch of strong-minded, talented -- and really, really sexy -- female rockers. As Nirvana's Nevermind turns 20 this week, and Pearl Jam celebrates two d ... More >>

Bouncer Tries to Sort Out the Crowd at Churchill

The 2011 Grammys, A Timeline: Lady Gaga's Boob Armor, Who Is Lady Antebellum, and What the Hell is Cee-Lo Wearing?

In which we sit through three and a half hours of Grammys twaddle, so you don't have to: 8:01 p.m.: Show opens with an Aretha Franklin montage. Okay... 8:03 p.m.: Christina Aguilera, Jennifer Hudson, Florence Welch, Yolanda Adams, and Martina McBride perform "Natural Woman" together, then take i ... More >>

X Japan's Yoshiki on Touring the U.S., the Loss of Hide, and the Future of the Band

Kirsty EvansYoshiki behind the piano.​ Shortly after X Japan's historic show at the Fox Theater last Tuesday, we got the chance to sit down with drummer, pianist, and band leader Yoshiki as he relaxed in his dressing room. A genuinely charming man, Yoshiki was friendly and remarkably frank about h ... More >>

Disappointing Outside Lands lineup selling lots of tickets

Christopher VictorioNo, he's not gonna be there this year​ Disappointed Outside Lands fan, we share your woe: The lineup this year -- at least concerning headliners -- just doesn't woo us like it has in years past. Not to slam the bands at the top of the bill. My Morning Jacket, Furthur, Al Green ... More >>

10 Things To Do For Under $10: Roller Disco, the 90s, John Waters

"You're so beautiful, it hurts to look at you." Madrone Art Bar celebrates those impetuous days of the '90s with "I ♥ the '90s" night.​Finals are over (if you're the schoolin' type), your office is starting to seem half-full (if you've got the 9-to-5 life), and the park is suddenly bursting with ... More >>

Last Night: Alice in Chains at the Fox Theater

Richard Haick​Alice in Chains Thursday, Feb. 11, 2010 The Fox Theater Better than: Seeing Alice in Chains in its early-'90s heyday With Pearl Jam touring and Soundgarden readying a reunion, 2010 is looking like the year that grunge broke through all over again. And barring the unthinkable--a re- ... More >>

What Song Should Be the Giants' Late-Inning Theme? Your Input Is Requested.

​Yesterday, the Chronicle's Henry Schulman penned a truly entertaining article about how former Journey frontman Steve Perry is peeved because the Dodgers play "Don't Stop Believin'" when the team needs a rally in the bottom of the ninth -- and Perry is a Giants fan. Any article in which Perry utt ... More >>

Patterson Hood's flannel anthems

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.

Mastodon exposes its inner prog

Death Cab will possess your vote

Fleet Foxes: the new buzz on Seattle's softer side

Tom Petty, Radiohead, Jack Johnson, Five Stages, Golden Gate Park

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

Radiohead's In Rainbows Leads to Digital Pot of Gold

It Was a Year Of ...

Well, lots of things, actually

Misc. Reviews

Heavy Metal Med Tent

Summer Listings

Music Live, Worth the Drive

Hot summer concerts for tastes all along the codger spectrum

Most Valuable Teammate

What team more than the Giants needs a morale booster and respectful team player? They got one in Mark Sweeney.

A to Z

My Morning Jacket's stunning new album marks a step forward for the atmospheric country band

A Fanclub's Notes

Once hyped as a supergroup, Teenage Fanclub may have to settle for midlevel stardom, and that may be just fine

From Here to Eternity

Figuring out Built to Spill's place in the world, and maybe mine, too

Into the Woods

How the riot grrrls of Sleater-Kinney punk'd Keith Moon and Jimi Hendrix

The Elephant Men

Mastodon's monstrous metal is just breaking the surface

Too Sexy for Their Rock

Fashionable retro rock has jumped the shark. Here's why.

Special Delivery

How Story of the Year went from delivering pizzas to dishing out the rock

OK Then

Why Pansy Division still matters -- and not just to suburban kids

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Feline Fatale

Enchanting songstress Cat Power flashes her Cheshire grin -- and her newfound strength

The Sounds of Silence

Why the Bay Area has stopped producing big-time rock bands

Hunger Strike

Can a non-9/11 benefit album make any noise?

SF Music Awards 2001

An exotic adventure into the mysterious world of sound!

Rock and a Hard Place

Music can free your soul, but can it spring the West Memphis Three?

A Fan's Notes

After Jerry Maguire, Cameron Crowe comes of age...finally

Riff Raff

Mark Kozelek, Genghis Blues, Raisha Simmons lives

The Golden Spike

Actor and rock video director Spike Jonze's Being John Malkovich is an odd masterpiece. So why is Jonze scared of his own shadow?

Detachment

Words + Guitar (+ Beats + Skronk)

What mattered and what splattered in pop, 1997

Hype! Dreams

A conversation with the Seattle scene's chroniclers

Bring in Da Noise

Michael Goldberg's rock 'n' roll Web dream

Chatterbox