Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum

LL Cool J: Show Preview

Leonard Cohen Performs Marathon Show at the Paramount, 3/3/13

Leonard Cohen Sunday, March 3, 2013 The Paramount Theatre Better than: Four 20-year-olds put together. It's doubtful that any aspiring musicians think to themselves, "I want to be the best performer in the world when I'm 78." And yet, last night's performance by Leonard Cohen makes concerts put on ... More >>

S.F. Travelodge Accused of Not Accepting Black Musicians' Credit Cards

A local venue owner says that last night a manager at the San Francisco Travelodge on Market Street refused to accept the credit cards of three members of the Meters Experience -- because they were black. Jason Perkins, who operates the New Parish in Oakland and S.F.'s Brick and Mortar Music Hall, ... More >>

Treasure Island 2012: The xx, M83, and Public Enemy Compete With Gorgeous Views and Weather

Treasure Island Music Festival Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 13 and 14, 2012 Treasure Island, San Francisco Better than: Getting an October sunburn anywhere else this weekend. It was around sunset on Sunday evening when Best Coast's Bethany Cosentino sang what everyone at Treasure Island Music Festiva ... More >>

Why Kraftwerk Make Me Laugh

Kraftwerk have been a lot of different things to a lot of different listeners. To the '70s American mainstream, the Düsseldorf electronic music pioneers were a novelty group responsible for the unlikely Beach Boys-meets-"Tubular Bells" hit "Autobahn." To David Bowie around the same time, they were ... More >>

The Top 20 Greatest San Francisco Musicians: The Complete List

See also: * The Top 20 Greatest San Francisco Musicians: Honorable Mentions Here they are -- the 20 greatest San Francisco musicians ever: 20. Cameron Paul Lists of pioneering American DJs often mention the usual suspects in New York and Chicago, but go back to the '70s and '80s and you'll find ... More >>

Axl Rose Is Batshit: His Top Five Craziest Moments

You may have noticed in the last couple of weeks that Axl Rose is running amok all over the press again (it's been a while, Axl, thanks for coming back to us). Not only have there been reports that -- try not to vomit on your keyboards -- he's dating Lana Del Rey (so, so wrong on so many levels we d ... More >>

The Top 20 Greatest San Francisco Musicians, Nos. 10-6

See also: * The Top 20 Greatest San Francisco Musicians, Nos. 20-16 * The Top 20 Greatest San Francisco Musicians, Nos. 15-11 Throughout this week, we're counting down the greatest San Francisco musicians of all time. Having already honored the likes of Etta James, Mike Patton, and Michael Tilson ... More >>

The Top 20 Greatest San Francisco Musicians Ever, #20-16

Choosing the best S.F. musicians is kinda like forcing yourself to choose your favorite Bay Area bridge: Whatever you pick, there's always a good reason to go with another answer. San Francisco has a well-earned reputation as one of the world's rock 'n' roll meccas, but its contributions to music ha ... More >>

R.I.P. Etta James, Blues Queen with San Francisco Roots

By JESSICA HILO Etta James, the incomparable force behind such hits as "At Last" and "Tell Mama," winner of six Grammys and seventeen Blues Music Awards, died Friday morning in Riverside, Calif. after a lengthy battle with leukemia and dementia. She was 73. James was an integral member of a cult ... More >>

Don't Kill Lulu: Redeeming Lou Reed and Metallica's New Album

Finding Redemption in the Horrors of Lou Reed and Metallica's Lulu

​Don't Kill Lulu Yet: No, there is not one conventionally good song on Lulu, the 87-minute, hyped-to-infinity, Frankenstein's monster of Lou Reed babble and Metallica chug that came out the day after Halloween. Not really. This is a batch of 10 challenging pieces that average more than eight m ... More >>

'Slightly Damaged': A Conversation with Iggy Pop

Iggy Pop on Playing with the Stooges, Where He Can't Go in America, and More

Iggy and the Stooges​Music stories from SF Weekly's latest print edition: "Slightly Damaged": A Conversation with Iggy Pop: After two rings, a gravelly voice picks up the phone and mutters a chewy "hello." There's no publicist or handler -- this is Iggy Pop himself, taking press calls at wh ... More >>

5 Real Reasons the Monkees Don't Belong in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

The Monkees: Where are their leather pants?​ Do the Monkees belong in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? Of course they don't. But not for the reasons Jann Wenner and his cabal of ex-Rolling Stone interns have decreed, which add up to the charge that Micky Dolenz, Davey Jones, Michael Nesmith, an ... More >>

Shocker: Metallica and Lou Reed Team Up for New Album

Now just imagine a tall, skinny Lou Reed in there somewhere...​ Well, we certainly didn't see this coming: Bay Area metal giant Metallica and former Velvet Underground frontman/living god Lou Reed are about 90 percent done with a new album they've recorded together. Lou Reed and Metallica? Yes ... More >>

Taking Stoned Delight in Phil Spector's Wall of Sound

​ This week's joint: Wall of Sound: The Very Best of Phil Spector 1961-1966 ​ Behind the buzz: News from the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame is usually weird enough sans dope, but the fact that the Hall took until last Wednesday to admit Darlene Love is downright surreal. A finalist since 2009, Lov ... More >>

Tom Waits No Longer To Be Inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Instagram username TomWaitsForNoMan (Wait, is that headline confusing? "No longer" modifies the verb "waits," not the compound adjective "to be inducted." Sorry if that seemed sensationalistic. But while we're on the subject of names that parse as verbs, consider the difficulty of writing a snappy h ... More >>

Jimmy Cliff: Show Preview

Hail to the Queen

Spinning Blues Into Lies

Cadillac Records can't handle the truth.

Schoolhouse Rock

Rainn Wilson comedy is more childish pop than hardcore funny.

Madonna' "Sticky & Sweet Tour" Visits Oakland's Oracle in Nov.

R.E.M. and Modest Mouse Perform in Berkeley 5/31

Folkster Jim Post Performs Songs About Mark Twain Feb. 2

San Francisco Van Morrison Show Pictures and Concert Review

"I'm Still Kicking Ass"

Ozzy Coming to Oakland With Rob Zombie in November

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, March 15, 2006

Oh, Pioneers

Behold - the forgotten history of the Beau Brummels, the true originators of the San Francisco sound of the '60s

Indie stalwarts Minmae come to Thee Parkside; Swedish trio E.S.T. updates altrock for the jazz set

The Little Animation Company That COULD

After struggling uphill in the difficult yet potentially profitable world of computer animation films, Wild Brain is on the cusp of success

Gabba Gabba Henh

The Ramones bopped toward history and an unhappy end

Holiday Highlights 2001

Holiday Event Lisitngs

Rapper's Delight

The history of hip hop, at Yerba Buena Center

They Love Bloomie's

The Chron and Ex drool over Bloomingdale's as the city coughs up $27 million

Wu-Tang Forever?

U-God comments on the state of the Wu nation after a tumultuous year for its members

Remembering Charles Brown

The Bay Area bluesman's influence was recognized as massive eventually

Night + Day

Fake It to the Limit

For 10 years, Lewis Peter Morgan impersonated Randy Meisner, an obscure former bass guitar player for the Eagles rock group. Morgan smooth-talked his way into a borrowed lifestyle of guitars, girls, and casinos. He could have checked out of the deception

Riff Raff

Riff Raff

Get It While You Can

Jerry Ragavoy and the ghost of Janis Joplin

Riff Raff

Slap Shots

Boys Will Be Boys

Recordings

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