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Record Peddler: Speculators Make a Mockery of Record Store Day

[Record Peddler is an occasional column by Sam Lefebvre on life and music as viewed from behind the counter of an independent record store.] Record Store Day is an internationally recognized, annual event in which record labels release special titles, often in limited quantities, that are only avai ... More >>

Animal Collective Faces the Strange

Fall Arts: Classical Revolution Charts a New Course

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

Live Review, 8/17/12: Phish Pleases the Loyalists at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium

Phish Aug.17, 2012 Bill Graham Civic Auditorium Better than: The record, as always. As comedians Harris Wittels and Scott Aukerman concluded in their hilarious and thoughtful Analyze Phish podcast, Phish is an objectively silly musical phenomenon with an undeniably infectious appeal, mostly owing ... More >>

Jerry Garcia 70th Birthday Tribute Includes Huge Guest Roster, Will Be Streamed Online

The Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia would have turned 70 this Aug. 1, 2012, and to celebrate, fellow Dead member Bob Weir and a ton of other musicians are throwing Move Me Brightly, a Garcia tribute show that will be live-streamed from Weir's own TRI Studios in San Rafael. The list of musical guests f ... More >>

Breathe Easy: Study Finds No Link Between Marijuana Smoking and Lung Problems

​Tobacco smoke and marijuana smoke have some things in common. For example, they are both "smoke." Yet it appears there are some significant differences between the two, according to a study conducted by University of California San Francisco researchers.  For starters, one causes lung proble ... More >>

One Last Spin: A Look Back at the Year in Bay Area Music

A Roving Rock Band Called the Violators Came to Terrorize Haight Street Last Night

It happened on Haight Street last night.​ The Violators (?) Haight Street between Fillmore and Steiner Oct. 24, 2011 Better than: A Frasier rerun. Last night I was sitting at home, finishing my dessert of fresh raspberries soaked in the blood of overzealous Phish fans, when I heard the sound ... More >>

Set Times for Hardly Strictly Bluegrass and Treasure Island Music Festival Are Out Now

The crowd at Hardly Strictly​ Hey everyone, it's set-time-o'-clock: The point at which you can start planning which acts you'll see (along with every other mobile human on the planet) at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass (Sept. 30 to Oct. 2) and Treasure Island Music Festival (Oct. 15 and 16). Often ... More >>

Sizzle & Fizzle: Outside Lands Edition

SF Weekly Letters

Friday: Vetiver and tUnE-yArDs Sway Late into the Night at the Rickshaw Stop

tUnE-yArDs at the Rickshaw Stop Friday night.​ Vetiver Tune-Yards Extra Classic DJ Britt Govea of ((folk yeah)) August 12, 2011 Rickshaw Stop / Outside Lands night show Better than: Freezing your ass off while listening to Phish for three hours in the Outer Sunset. No, seriously. "This squar ... More >>

Thirteen Lesser-Known Artists You Should See at Outside Lands 2011

From SF Weekly's latest print music section: tUnE-yArDs is one act you shouldn't miss at Outside Lands​Outside Lands Must-Sees: You're obviously going to catch the headliner sets at this weekend's Outside Lands Festival, so we'll assume you're already more than familiar with Arcade Fire, Muse ... More >>

Outside Lands Food Gets Even Better

W. Blake GrayThe huarache Alambre from El Huarache Loco​Outside Lands last year had what might have been the best lineup of food purveyors ever at a music festival -- not hard because at most big outdoor shows, people are happy if they can even get food. This year the music lineup is signifi ... More >>

Why You Should Never, Ever Write Anything Negative About Phish

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5 Things to Like About the Outside Lands Festival Schedule

Outside Lands: Now without (hopefully) the painful decision-making!​ The schedule for this year's Outside Lands festival hit the web earlier today. But you can stop gritting your teeth and clutching the edge of that desk: Although many festival schedules are an exercise in painful decision-mak ... More >>

Bouncer Encounters a Jokester at the Page

Reviving the Lost Art of the Bar Joke at the Page

​From this week's Bouncer column: I have spent a fair amount of time talking about bars in this town that seem to have an eerie presence, as if they were built on an Indian burial mound or something. You walk into one and immediately want to turn around and walk out, despite their friendly en ... More >>

Adele Is Coming Back, But Now You Must Choose: Greek Theatre Or Outside Lands?

"Pick me!"​ Anyone sick of hearing "Britney's back, bitch"? We didn't think so (who can tire of good, old-fashioned alliteration?), but that doesn't mean we should forget that poor, sick Adele has been gone. First, we announced in April that the British R&B superstar would be taking her act t ... More >>

My Morning Jacket: Comfortable, If Not Cool

A Guide to NorCal Music Festivals

Outside Lands 2011: Phish, Muse, Arcade Fire, Black Keys, Deadmau5, and More

Three days of this for 2011!​As promised, Outside Lands' avatar Ranger Dave announced the lineup this morning for the festivals fourth incarnation, to be held August 12-14, 2011. Your headliners: Phish, Muse, and Arcade Fire. Also playing: the Black Keys, Deadmau5, MGMT, Girl Talk, Decemberists, a ... More >>

How To Manage Your iPod Without Looking Like an Idiot or a Crazy Person

Note: Nelly Furtado not required to maintain respectability​iPod gigs don't grow on trees, as much as we've tried to plant lesser MP3 devices in the ground (in hopes of a bountiful Apple product harvest). And until somebody makes an infinite-RAM MP3 player, or we're capable of streaming music from ... More >>

Make a Famous Musician -- Wayne Coyne! Bob Weir! -- Remind You To Vote

Russ Harrington (russharrington.com) for Harp MagazineGrace Potter gets intimate with democracy​So you're the kind of person who forgets to vote. And in such a democracy-happy burg as S.F., where voters are asked to weigh in frequently on such trivialities as the mix of recycled material in the to ... More >>

The Top Five Best Animal Band Names, as Submitted by Our Readers

Dabchick: Scandinavian pop or tween metal?​You may remember that way back in the old days of this morning, we offered up a free pair of tickets to the Panda Bear/Nite Jewel show on Monday at the Fox Theater to the reader who came up with the best animal-related band name. Well, the e-mails have ar ... More >>

Links: Jerry Garcia Biopic Won't Be Able To Use His Songs

Phish​Jerry Garcia Biopic won't be able to use his actual songs. [NY Times]Check out this One Night Music video session with Devotionals, the new project from Two Gallants' Tyson Vogel and the Patzner brothers from Judgement Day. [The Bay Bridged]Tickets for the sold-out Phish shows at the Greek T ... More >>

Sound Tribe Sector 9 explores hippie fans and hypnotic beats

People Under the Stairs on The Simpsons, on Deck

​Gavin Newsom wasn't the only familiar celeb to be part of The Simpsons' 20th anniversary special last Sunday night.  Hip-hop duo People Under the Stairs were in on Homer's action as well. Thes One and Double K--who live in L.A., but we consider localish since they're on Bay label Om Records- ... More >>

Early Bird Special: Nombe

Lara HataSkewered: Izakaya-style grilled meats at Nombe.​An early nibble from the Weekly's Wednesday food review. Big duh: Street food was huger than Jesus in San Francisco this year, which is why the November launch of Mission District izakaya joint Nombe (2491 Mission at 21st St.) made tot ... More >>

Trainiquette

A commuter's demands from Caltrain.

Bonnaroo Lineup Announced

BruceSpringsteen.netThe BossBreak out the Sharpie and circle your calendars. The lineup for the 2009 Bonnaroo Festival has just been announced, and suffice to say Woodstock and Lollapalooza have nothing on this. Just when you thought the four-day music and arts extravaganza, held on a farm in rural ... More >>

CD Review: Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks -- Real Emotional Trash

Apricot Jam Session

Last Night: Vampire Weekend at the Independent

Dave Matthews Band Voter Registration: So Begins Another Inane 'Rock the Vote' Season

Hot Tuna, Les Claypool, Dirty Dozen Brass Band -- ASD's Live Music Picks, June 29

Do Make Say Think

You, You're a History in Rust (Constellation)

Oddballers

BLVD: the only live band at the rave

Misc. Reviews

Heavy Metal Med Tent

Up From the Underworld

This year, blood-soaked extreme metal took its rightful place in the world of heavy music.

Head Trips

Drugs and their religious uses, as experienced by three explorers of psychedelia

Not Your Mother's Peace Movement

Major anti-war groups change strategy, hoping to win over mainstream voters the Bush administration can't ignore

House Of Tudor

Morbid Curiosity's issue six, F-Hole's punk video party, and Crane's sonic mytho-poetry

Over the Hill

A drinking tour of Potrero

Pop Philosophy

Electronica's new clothes

The Mix

Tender Is the Night

Night + Day

Riff Raff

CyberTowne U.S.A.

Tired of computer gimmickry and gadgetry for Christmas? Prepare for exhaustion!