Pop-Punk and Emo

Fall Out Boy Brings a Homecoming Party to the Fox Oakland, 6/16/13

Fall Out Boy New Politics Sunday, June 16, 2013 Fox Theater Better than: Doing your homework. The Boys were back in town. Clad in grey jean vests, fancy hats and tribal 'tats, Fall Out Boy hit Oakland's Fox Theater Sunday night with an exciting fervor, making young girls sob hysterically as the b ... More >>

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

Saturday Is Jawbreaker Day: The 10 Songs You Must Play To Celebrate

By RYAN RITCHIE This Saturday is May 4, also known as Star Wars Day, since "May fourth" sounds very similar to "may the force," as in, "may the force be with you." This holiday allows fans to wear non-ironic Han Solo T-shirts in public without feeling like middle-aged schlubs. Star Wars Day is supe ... More >>

30 Seconds to Mars' "Up in the Air": Too Shiny For Any Real Feelings

Is anyone else really shitting surprised that 30 Seconds to Mars is still making music? Like, who really saw that coming? When the first album came out (over a decade ago, incidentally), we were like "Oh, that's cool, Jared Leto has turned into Jordan Catalano in real life! Let him do some role-play ... More >>

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Live 105's BFD Lineup: Thirty Seconds to Mars, Passion Pit, Silversun Pickups, DJ Shadow, and More

Live 105 this morning released the lineup for its annual BFD spring mini-festival, which will head to Shoreline Amphitheatre for the 19th year on Sunday, May 19. Headlining the day are Thirty Seconds to Mars, Passion Pit, Silversun Pickups, and Jimmy Eat World. Other notable performers include DJ Sh ... More >>

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10 Great Songs About Cheating on Your Lover

Depending on your perspective, cheating's a little bit naughty, a whole bunch of fun, or one of the worst things you could possibly do to another human being. Here are our 10 favorite songs about not being able to keep it in your pants when you're supposed to. "Cry Me A River," Justin TimberlakeThe ... More >>

Happy Holidays! Here Are the Least Awful Christmas Songs of 2012!

It's a well-known fact that the worst time of year for music is Christmas. Christmas songs, by and large, stink to high heaven. They reek of sleigh bells and Santa references and tree dressing and mistletoe. They are overly sentimental and frequently border on sickly. Occasionally, however, there co ... More >>

With Cassadee Pope, The Voice Has Anointed a True Star

As it's done all season, The Voice dragged out its results show to a degree that was at best arduous and at worst excruciating. So, after two hours of performances from bus-loads of people -- including Rihanna (who had actual clothes on, miraculously), Smokey Robinson, Kelly Clarkson, The Killers, P ... More >>

Dulc-i-Tone Records: The Longtime Label of Mantles Bassist Matt Roberts

Name: Dulc-i-Tone, although the label was founded as Yakamashi. Founded: 1998 Owner: Matt Roberts Headquarters: Mission District, San Francisco Label one-sheet: Dulc-i-tone is the current name of Matt Roberts' 14-year-old record label endeavor, which he has dutifully operated throughout many pha ... More >>

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Watch: An Exclusive Video Interview with Taking Back Sunday

Over the weekend, Long Island's Taking Back Sunday came to San Francisco's Regency Ballroom to perform its first album, Tell All Your Friends, in its entirety. SF Weekly's Gil Riego and Barbara Szabo go to go backstage to interview the band's Adam Lazzara and Shaun Cooper before the show, and talked ... More >>

Live Review, 9/1/12: The Promise Ring Finds Humor in Being Aging Emo Kids

The Promise RingSaturday, Sept. 1, 2012,The FillmoreBetter than: Still being a overly hormonal teenager.Cast your minds back, if you will, to the mid-'90s, when emo was first starting to spread globally as a musical concept. Based generally on the idea that being a massive wuss and playing guitar-he ... More >>

Live Review, 8/3/12: Iron Maiden Dominates Shoreline

Iron Maiden Coheed and Cambria Friday, August 2, 2012 Shoreline Amphitheatre Better than: Spending the evening with any other '80s metal band, and arguably any metal band period. Reliving past glories with tours that focus on classic albums or eras has become a standard practice for bands across a ... More >>

Remembering Tony Sly: Bands, Fans, and Friends Mourn No Use For a Name Singer's Passing

Outpourings of grief and gratitude flooded the Internet yesterday after news broke that No Use For A Name frontman and underground Bay Area hero, Tony Sly, had passed away suddenly at the age of 41. As a key member of the pop-punk scene since the heyday of the 1990s, Sly had been a long-respected an ... More >>

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First Listens: Blink-182's Neighborhoods

​ Any energy-based band returning to the fray after eight years -- especially one whose calling card was its immaturity -- will be a nervous prospect. Yet here is Blink-182, out today with Neighborhoods. Let's see how it goes. Stream the album on Blink-182's website here. Ghost on the Dance ... More >>

Jimmy Eat World on the Success of "Bleed American"

In Print: Jimmy Eat World Revisits Bleed American, and More

Jimmy Eat World​Jimmy Eat World: In 2001, four friends from Mesa, Ariz., made an album called Bleed American -- a set of sentimental, earnest, and immensely relatable pop-punk anthems. Teenagers everywhere shoved the CD into their car stereos as they snuck out past curfew; the album went plati ... More >>

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Sunday: Alkaline Trio Plays Third S.F. Show in a Month; Remains Compulsive Viewing

Bri DeLibertisAlkaline Trio at Bottom of the Hill Sunday night.​Alkaline TrioJuly 17, 2011@ Bottom Of The HillBetter than: Sitting at home and reminiscing about how great music was ten years ago.Back in 2003, Alkaline Trio frontman Matt Skiba did a last-minute acoustic set in the back room of SOMA ... More >>

Oops! Coheed and Cambria's Michael Todd Goes to Jail Instead of His Gig

The Salt Lake Tribune​Things not to do before your gig: cut off your fingers, get lost backstage, get arrested. The list is short, but Coheed and Cambria bassist Michael Todd allegedly forgot to follow the rules before his band was scheduled to open for Soundgarden last night in Massachusett ... More >>

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Saturday Night: Coheed and Cambria Perform Two Possibly Magical Sets at the Fox Theater

Romana MachadoClaudio Sanchez of Coheed and Cambria​Coheed and CambriaThe Second Stage Turbine Blade TourMay 7, 2011@ Fox Theater, OaklandBetter than: The next three fiftysomething chuckleheads you hear pronounce rock dead. The scene outside Oakland's Fox Theater last Saturday night was as old as ... More >>

Check Out a Free Mini-Mix From the Diary Emo/Pop-Punk Party at Pop's Bar

​Diary is a monthly party at the inimitable Pop's Bar featuring the best in late-'90s and early-'00s emo, pop-punk, and screamo. Starting this week, Diary -- which is put on by Patric Fallon, an occasional SF Weekly contributor and expert blogger over at XLR8R, along with Kristopher Hannum -- will ... More >>

The Frustrators Fire Up

With Green Day on pause, Mike Dirnt's other band hits the punk dive circuit.

Forgetters Reignite Jawbreaker-Caliber Angst at Bottom of the Hill

The Forgetters at Bottom of the Hill last night. Pics by Rae, whose camera broke upon arrival, leaving us no choice but to subject you to Blackberry photos.​Forgetters January 27, 2011 @ Bottom Of The Hill Better than: Living under the false hope that Jawbreaker are going to reform one day. The ... More >>

Friday Night: Phenomenauts Lead a Locally Grown Geek-Punk Freakshow at Rickshaw Stop

Phenomenauts at Rickshaw on Friday. Pics by Chris Trenchard.​PhenomenautsTornado RiderManzanitaBobby Joe Ebola and the Children MacNuggetsJanuary 7, 2010@ Rickshaw StopBetter than: Middle Earth's music scene.The upshot of the live music malaise in early January is without a doubt the spotlight inh ... More >>

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Jimmy Eat World's Timeless Emo Inspires Flashbacks of Lost Youth at the Warfield

Richard Haick​Jimmy Eat World September 30, 2010 @ The Warfield Better than: all those dudes in eyeliner that people think are emo now. In an attic in Arizona somewhere, there are four hideously deformed paintings, getting old, Dorian Gray style, because the members of Jim ... More >>

Cap’n Jazz reunites for a tour of self-discovery

In Print: Cap'n Jazz Reunion, Jewish Black Music, and the Significance of Freddie Gibbs

​Does anyone else feel like 2010 has been particularly flush with big-name indie-rock bands getting back together? Pavement and Guided By Voices aside, another seminal outfit reassembling for a tour this year is Cap'n Jazz, a midwestern group that helped establish emo back in the early '90s. ... More >>

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Last Night: 30 Seconds to Mars, Mute Math & Neon Trees at the Fox

​30 Seconds to Mars, Mute Math, Neon Trees  Thursday, May 13, 2010 The Fox Theater Better than: seeing a Billy Idol tribute band The audience at last night's 30 Seconds to Mars show at the Fox Theater was overwhelmingly young. Even the lead singer in the opening band, Neon Trees, notic ... More >>

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