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How Obama and Romney Are Presiding Over the Death of the Campaign Song

Last week in Charlotte, Bill Clinton stepped to a podium in front of his party's delegation and delivered a speech. Maybe you saw it? What I remember are words -- lots of words. Some of them wrapped around statistics, others glaring back at me like bumper stickers on chrome. Clinton's words flowed f ... More >>

Live Review, 7/14/12: The U.S. Air Guitar Championships Bring an Invisible Axe Battle to the Independent

See also: * US Air Guitar Championships: Witness the Madness of People Rawking on Thin Air Last Night: US Air Guitar Championships Regional Qualifier July 14, 2012 The Independent Better than: Air bassoon. This summer, like so many summers before it, brings an aura of excitement to ambitious com ... More >>

R.I.P. Adam Yauch, the Beastie Boys' Visual and Humanitarian Genius

Adam Yauch, the musician and filmmaker best known as Beastie Boys member MCA, died today of the cancer he was diagnosed with in 2009. Yauch was 47.It's so easy to underrate the Beastie Boys, in part because nobody did what they did, and for so long. From fighting for their right to party to fighting ... More >>

Live Review, 4/16/12: Godspeed You! Black Emperor Stays Elusive at Great American Music Hall

By DAVID CORCORAN Godspeed You! Black Emperor Pierced Arrows April 16, 2012 Great American Music Hall Better than: Standing planted in one spot for two hours doing almost anything else. Things You Probably Didn't Learn at Last Night's GY!BE Show That You Were Thinking Maybe You Would There were a ... More >>

Why Musicians Matter to the Occupy Movement

​It's been over two weeks since the protest in SF's financial district commenced -- prompted by the occupation of Wall Street that started almost a month ago -- and four days since Oakland joined this now apparently worldwide movement. As we all know, Occupy Wall Street was outright ignored by mai ... More >>

Nine They Might Be Giants Songs That Should Be Heard by People Who Think They Don't Like They Might Be Giants

​With the release last week of Join Us, their first album for grown-ups in four years, They Might Be Giants has managed something that few pop musicians ever pull off: still creating music of the type and caliber of what made them famous full decades after their start. The record has been hera ... More >>

Why Oh Why: Souls of Mischief's A-Plus Drops Red Hot Chili Peppers Tribute EP

The music makes about as much sense as the cover art.​ Maybe there was something in his blunt. Otherwise, what the hell was A-Plus thinking? The Oakland rapper -- a member of the celebrated alternative hip-hop crews Souls of Mischief and Hieroglyphics -- just went and dropped a tribute EP cal ... More >>

America Sucks: Six Great Songs Complaining About the USA

​So it's almost the Fourth of July -- a day when we are all obligated to find a barbeque, pretend it's sunny, get drunker than we probably should in the middle of the day, and complain about British people. As is the case with so many national holidays, this whole deal is a pain in the ass for the ... More >>

Mick Jagger Forms Supergroup "Super Heavy," We're Super Embarrassed

​ Mick Jagger threw his name into the running for what may become the biggest supergroup of 2011, joining Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics, Damien Marley, Joss Stone, and A.R. Rahman, composer of the Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack, for what promises to be an eclectic (and hopefully not too terr ... More >>

Top 6 Songs To Avoid If You Want To Keep Your New Year's Resolutions

Are you one of those hopelessly optimistic people who decides to transform yourself into a better human every time a New Year rolls around? You may have been brimming with enthusiasm for your resolution as the clock hit midnight last Friday, but we're guessing that, by now, the cracks are probably s ... More >>

Watch Alec Empire Discuss the Atari Teenage Riot Reunion

Any child who came of age in the '90s has probably at least heard of Atari Teenage Riot. Band leader Alec Empire and his rotating crew of anarchist cronies brought their gritty, blown-out electronic speed punk (known best as 'digital hardcore' or 'breakcore') stateside from Riot's home base in Ber ... More >>

The Thrashers: Local Fourth Graders Rock Past Curfew

​ One problem faces The Thrashers at the band's CD release party on Friday, Feb. 26, at Broadway Studios. "The show starts at 8 and we go on at 9:45," says keyboardist Brandon Lurie, "and that's past our bedtimes." "Not on Fridays," counters rhythm guitarist Charley Rutledge. Not many bands ha ... More >>

Kid Koala reimagines heavy rock with the Slew

Tom Morello and Boots Riley rage as one in Street Sweeper

Special Guests Announced For Tom Morello's Slim's Show

EKAphotographySomebody's Watching You: Tom Morello Back in the pre-Obama days, Tom Morello was like, the only guitar god with a conscience. While Slash and Jack White were doing bumps off of stripper tits, Morello was playing demonstrations outside the Democratic National Convention (with Rage Agai ... More >>

“Not for Babies – They Can’t Read”

Wu-Tang Clan at Grand Ballroom in Dec., Tickets on Sale this Week

DJs dig into '90s nostalgia

The Pharcyde, A Tribe Called Quest, Nas Headline Annual Rock the Bells Festival

Lollapalooza Lineup Kicks Coachella and SF Outside Lands Lineups in the Balls

The Police, Daft Punk, and DethKlok Among The Top National Concerts of '07

CD Review: Puscifer -- V Is for Vagina

Guitar Hero III Easily the Best Entry in the Franchise

Rock the Bells, The Expendables, New Monsoon -- ASD's Live Music Picks for Saturday, August 18

LiveFEED: Rock the Bells, 2007!

SF Weekly and Pharoahe Monch Chop It Up About Rock the Bells, White People

For Whom the Bottom Line Tolls

Hip hop's big Rock the Bells thinkers break free from industry shackles

Rock the Bells Rises in SF

Live review on Daft Punk/Rapture show

Dancing robots take control from a gigantic laser pyramid

Original smooth crooner Johnny Mathis returns to the stage

The Nightwatchman

One Man Revolution (Epic)

Don't Call It a Comeback

The Stooges succumb to The Weirdness

Dissent for Sale

Opposition is a commodity in Sundance docs

Encore Performance

Don't fret. Guitar Hero II kills the opening act.

John Cale

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Accidental Tourists

Is the Music the next big thing or just a bunch of very lucky guys?

War, What Is It Good For?

Absolutely nothing -- unless you're Clear Channel Communications

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Short Takes

The Short Attention Span Film and Video Festival. Got a minute?

Letters to the Editor

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South to the Future

Military to Form PC Corps

The House of Tudor

Night + Day

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Tibetmania!

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Disposable Heroes of Hypocrisy

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