Pink Floyd

Easy Star All-Stars: Show Preview

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

Live Review, 5/11/2012: Roger Waters Takes a Stand for Bleeding Hearts and Artists Outside The Wall

Roger Waters Friday, May 11, 2012 AT&T Park Better than: Every previous Pink Floyd-related tour. No, really. Apparently those epic theatrical extravaganzas mounted by Pink Floyd in the 1970s and '80s -- with their massive film projections and towering marionettes -- just weren't getting Roger Wate ... More >>

Plug's Back On Time: Get High and Watch the Walls Melt

Listen to this while high: Back on Time by Plug. Behind the buzz: These are treats from "long-lost" tracks that didn't make genre-spanning pop wizard Luke Vibert's (recording under his drum 'n bass monicker Pluf) celebrated 1996 cult item Drum 'N Bass for Papa and were instead left to ripen a dec ... More >>

Wine Clubs Are the Coffin Nails of Rock 'n' Roll

Remember the good old days, when wine clubs were exclusively the pastime of pretentious assholes/your parents? Those days are over: Rolling Stone magazine just announced its own scheme to sell bottles of fermented grape juice to baby boomers with nothing better to blow their pension checks on. So w ... More >>

The Top 50 Songs To Get High To

As you might imagine, combing back numbers of my Listen to This While High column and my own vast library for a reasonable stab at the Fifty Stoniest Songs Ever is a labor and hashish intensive experience. Preliminary fossickings unearthed these half-hundred favorites, many of which may seem unfamil ... More >>

Great Moments in Craigslist: Southern Guy Is So Amped to Be Your Roommate

Excited Southern boy wants to live with you​UPDATE: Well, fuck. Looks like either this son of the South is looking to move to San Francisco and Boston, or this ad is a fake. Reader Robbinthehood points out the exact same ad was posted in Boston. We wanted to believe in you, excitable bro. We so fu ... More >>

Abby Normal

Maternal Gratitude

The Top 6 Weirdest Gig Venues Ever: Buses, Airplanes, Ancient Ruins, and More

This week, tens of thousands of people are going to a patch of desert to watch a pile of bands at Coachella. It's not going to be comfortable, but it's not the worst place in the world to play. How do we know? Because of the following -- the top six weirdest gig venues ever. 6. Against Me! at 1 ... More >>

How to Listen to Pink Floyd While Getting High (Hint: Don't Bother with 'Dark Side of the Moon')

​Hear this while high: Pink Floyd's Meddle. Why?: Pink Floyd is the canonical druggie rock band, and most beginning stoners need a little basic out-of-body orientation. That Floyd's early music is the platinum kush standard for progressive rock is doubted only by those farther along on this THC-s ... More >>

New Site Animates Iconic Album Covers

Pop culture is in perpetual remix. It's fun to watch all the various ways clever artists and designers re-imagine not just the music, but the images behind iconic acts. Those interpretations extend to album art. A new site called Animated Albums adds a little extra kick to static images by David Bow ... More >>

'80s Style

Easy Star All-Stars Get Psychedelic

Getting Better All the Time: Easy Star Dub All-Stars With two previous dubwise takes on classic rock albums--namely, Dub Side of the Moon and Radiodread, the Easy Star All Stars are carving out a rather interesting niche. Their latest addition to their oeuvre, Easy Star's Lonely Hearts Dub Band, ta ... More >>

MP3 of the Day: Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound

San Francisco psychsters Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound are getting ready to unleash their latest batch of magically heavy rock on April 7. The new album, When Sweet Sleep Returned, was produced by studio maestro Tim Green at Louder Studios. According to the band's label, Tee Pee Records, the disc ... More >>

MP3 of the Day: Pink Floyd's Christmas

Keeping with today's Christmas-themed music posts, the MP3 of the day is a mess of an X-mas song from Pink Floyd. According to "Raised on Indie" which hosts a version of "Pink Floyd -- Merry Chistmas Song," the song may or may not have been recorded in 1969, and may or may not be Pink Floyd. But wh ... More >>

The Alps

III (Type)

Lost albums that should remain lost

Carl Pisaturo Brings Light Art to SF

MP3 of the Day: Z-Trip Hypes Obama

And the Band Played On

Pull Back the Curtain

Richie Unterberger Kicks Out Vintage Jams Next Week

Last Night: Barn Owl at the Hemlock

Roger Waters Loses Inflatable Pig at Coachella

Coachella 2008 Lineup Announced

CD Review: Daft Punk -- Alive 2007

U.S. Immigration is so Uptight

Blank Film

Sixties Flashback

Sounds of the Summer of Love echo through today

Radio Birdman, Roger Waters, The Horrors -- Plugged In: ASD's Live Music Picks, June 19

Plugged in, ASD's music picks for Saturday, June 9 -- Chrome, CSS (Cansei de Ser Sexy)

Laurie Anderson goes for the jugular

Piper at the Pearly Gates

The Kingsbury Manx

The Fast Rise and Fall of the South

Jennifer Gentle

Valende

Hear This

Moving Units have a knack for moving your unit; Silver Sunshine sounds as bright as its name

Hear This

Ozric Tentacles will blow your mind, but Chromeo will have you dancing your ass off

Secret Machines

Now Here Is Nowhere

Give It a Spin

"Bike to Work Day" rolls on

Out of the Passé

A Québécoise becomes a choreographer

The Clientele

The Violet Hour

The Appleseed Cast

Two Conversations

Best Bar With Bottomless Snacks

Seasons Bar

Ulan Bator

Ego: Echo (Young God)

Recordings

The House of Tudor

Lone Nut

Bob Green's Grassy Knoll

Rock Fish

Flying Kamikazes matches fine sushi with an AOR soundtrack

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