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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 >>

Floydian Slip

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 >>

Get High and Leave Your Head with Future of the Left

​Listen to this while high: Future of the Left's Polymers are Forever EP.​Behind the buzz: Hyperliterate Welsh provocateurs Future of the Left scored heavily with 2009's Travels with Myself and Another, so it won't do to dismiss the Polymers are Forever EP (out as of yesterday on Xtra Mile and ... More >>

Old Rocker (Roger Waters) to Perform Old Album (The Wall) for (Old) Fans in AT&T Park

Roger Waters can't hear the kids, but they're shouting, "Dude, rock 'n' roll is dead!"​ It's not ageism, people -- this blog reviewed Roger Waters' performance of the Wall in Oakland last December and found it humongous, riveting, and revolutionary. To call the Wall a classic rock document is ... 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 >>

Blow Smoke with Ancestors' Invisible White EP

​ This week: Blow smoke with Ancestors' Invisible White EP.​ Behind the buzz: The exciting new release finds SoCal's reigning kings of heavy psych in a neither lighthearted nor frolicsome mood. Weightier than Tee Pee labelmates Night Horse or The Warlocks, this quintet specializes in a dro ... More >>

The Best Bay Area Concert Photos of 2010

Given the dizzying array of musical acts that tramp through San Francisco every year, and the number of those shows our hard-working photographers attend, it was no easy feat to round up their best shots. What follows is a sampling of some of the most exciting, interesting live music photos All Shoo ... More >>

Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and lows from this week in S.F. music

Given the dizzying array of musical acts that tramp through San Francisco every year, and the number of those shows our hard-working photographers attend, it was no easy feat to round up their best shots. What follows is a sampling of some of the most exciting, interesting live music photos All Shoo ... More >>

Folk for the Gamer Generation: Powerglove's antics elevate videogame metal

Given the dizzying array of musical acts that tramp through San Francisco every year, and the number of those shows our hard-working photographers attend, it was no easy feat to round up their best shots. What follows is a sampling of some of the most exciting, interesting live music photos All Shoo ... More >>

Friday Night: Roger Waters Turns The Wall Into A Rallying Cry at Oracle Arena

Christopher VictorioRoger Waters performed The Wall at Oracle Arena Friday night.​Roger Waters' 'The Wall' December 3, 2010@ Oracle Arena Better than: A hippie-dippy stoner protest. We don't need no education We don't need no thought control We sang the anthem as school kids. In bong-fuele ... More >>

Metallica Might Possibly Begin Work on New Album Next Year, Maybe

"This is boring, let's write some songs!"​After nearly two years of touring in support of the 2008 album Death Magnetic -- the return-to-form-of-sorts that followed the musical and image disaster of 2003's St. Anger -- the Bay Area's own Metallica is discussing plans to record its next album. Of c ... More >>

Metallica May Be Planning (Especially) 'Theatrical' Tour

Who you callin' theatrical?​At first, when we heard that Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich told a New Zealand newspaper that his Bay Area metal band is working on a "theatrical" new tour, were kinda confused. Did he mean a tour of smaller theaters (which would be rad, although likely impossible t ... More >>

MP3 of the Day: New Scissor Sisters Track "Invisible Light"

​What I assume is the cover of the new Scissor Sisters record, Night Work, visible on the group's Web site, is pretty awesome. Who doesn't love a close up photo of a tight ass in sweatpants? No one, that's who. The album comes out June 28, and the first single, "Invisible Light" continue ... More >>

Stagecoach 2008: Friday dispatch photos

​What I assume is the cover of the new Scissor Sisters record, Night Work, visible on the group's Web site, is pretty awesome. Who doesn't love a close up photo of a tight ass in sweatpants? No one, that's who. The album comes out June 28, and the first single, "Invisible Light" continue ... More >>

Roger Waters Loses Inflatable Pig at Coachella

​What I assume is the cover of the new Scissor Sisters record, Night Work, visible on the group's Web site, is pretty awesome. Who doesn't love a close up photo of a tight ass in sweatpants? No one, that's who. The album comes out June 28, and the first single, "Invisible Light" continue ... More >>

Coachella 2008 Lineup Announced

​What I assume is the cover of the new Scissor Sisters record, Night Work, visible on the group's Web site, is pretty awesome. Who doesn't love a close up photo of a tight ass in sweatpants? No one, that's who. The album comes out June 28, and the first single, "Invisible Light" continue ... More >>

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