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San Francisco Storm, Erik Otto, and Ramblin Jack Elliott - It's Your Friday Morning Pre-Party!

San Francisco Storm, Erik Otto, and Ramblin Jack Elliott - It's Your Friday Morning Pre-Party!

San Francisco Storm, Erik Otto, and Ramblin Jack Elliott - It's Your Friday Morning Pre-Party!

The Lowbrow Art Sale: Audrey Kawasaki, James Jean & Joshua Petker

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Bebe, Baby!

Here Lies Jenny Weills away the hours

Letters to the Editor

Week of December 10, 2003

Words Into Type

Jim Parkinson designs the letters that let you read

Hot Hot Heat

Make Up the Breakdown

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A Fan's Notes

After Jerry Maguire, Cameron Crowe comes of age...finally

Best Jann Wenner Memory Under Glass

After Jerry Maguire, Cameron Crowe comes of age...finally

William Ørbit

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Why We Fight

Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love -- or at least respect -- Third Eye Blind

Riff Raff

Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love -- or at least respect -- Third Eye Blind

Bring in Da Noise

Michael Goldberg's rock 'n' roll Web dream

Outside Lands Post-Script

EKAphotographyVinyl Vamp: Zap Mama​ Fickle weather and last-minute headliner replacements aside, Outside Lands was a success, by most yard sticks. Here's what folks are saying about the three-day extravaganza, which drew more than 100,000 people to Golden Gate Park: Local reaction: The Chron ... More >>

New MP3 from 2010's Big Pop Contenders The Morning Benders

Weston Walker​I got a sneak listen to Big Echo, the new album due out in March from the Morning Benders. And I know it's early, but I already think this record could end up on my best of 2010 list. The group enlisted Grizzly Bear's Chris Taylor as co-producer, and the songs are just slightly weird ... More >>

Outside Lands lineup leaked in both Rolling Stone and Spin

Phoenix at Outside Lands: It's Leak-omania​This is almost too neat to be an accident. The Outside Lands 2010 lineup was supposed to be a secret until tomorrow, but both Spin and Rolling Stone broke the two-day festival's headliners in issues that dropped last week.SFist has the full run-down on th ... More >>

Summer Bloodbath? The Concert Industry Had It Coming

Was seeing Petty's grin worth the price? Tell us in the comments section​Summer 2010 is turning out to be a bloodbath for the concert industry. As Billboard reports:Individual shows, legs of tours, or entire tours have been canceled or postponed by such artists as U2 (due to Bono's back surgery), ... More >>

Top Five Songs For Vampire Hipsters

photo via Flickr/spacedustdesign​Justin Bieber is no vampire. Tina Fey had it right when she said he's like a dreamy Christmas elf. But Rolling Stone disagrees. The magazine's site is running a photo gallery on its home page of several pop star portraits that have been mutated to include razor sha ... More >>

Birds and Batteries Release Free New MP3, Sign to Velvet Blue For Third Album

Birds and Batteries​San Francisco electro-folk-rock outfit Birds and Batteries announced today that they've signed with Spune/Velvet Blue Music and plan to release their third full-length album, Panorama, on October 12. Having earned praise from Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, and others -- as well as o ... More >>

Tickets for the Next Pop-Up Magazine Go Onsale at Noon Today. You Have Been Warned.

​The last three performances of Pop-Up Magazine -- y'know, the amazing magazine-as-live-show event deemed by some (ahem) to be one of the best things in S.F. -- sold out more quickly than an old-school print editor can down a shot of Old Overholt. (Tickets for Issue Three even crashed the ticket-s ... More >>

Top 10 Signs the Album You Are About to Hear Is Going to Suck

Uh, did the cover say "Nickelback" on it?​All cliches aside about not judging art/entertainment objects by their covers, sometimes you can predict with perfect confidence that some new record is going to drag you down into a pool of shit. Other times, one or two aspects of some new release -- what ... More >>

Sunday Night: The Black Crowes Begin Their Last Stand at the Fillmore

Calibree PhotographyThe Black Crowes at the Fillmore last night.​The Black Crowes December 12, 2010 @ The Fillmore Better than: That thing Martin Scorsese lugged a camera to. To an Appalachian hillbilly transplant shivering through his first winter in the Bay Area, hearing that durable Southern ... More >>

Win Tickets to Monsters of Accordion This Saturday at Slim's

Corn Mo will provide you with an education, we'll cover the tuition.​Let's face it: You have an insufficient appreciation for the accordion. You still think of squeezeboxes as the musical tools of drunken Bulgarians on their second-cousins' wedding nights. You haven't warmed to the instrument's st ... More >>

New Strokes Single, 'Under Cover of Darkness,' Soon To Be Uncovered and Illuminated

Where's the money, Leboffski?​Has the breakup of the White Stripes left you jonesing for some new simple, monosyllabic early-aughts post-garage rock? If so, never fear: The Strokes are hear to pat your hand and whisper soothing secrets in your ear.

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

Where's the money, Leboffski?​Has the breakup of the White Stripes left you jonesing for some new simple, monosyllabic early-aughts post-garage rock? If so, never fear: The Strokes are hear to pat your hand and whisper soothing secrets in your ear.

How Could I Leave This Behind?

Where's the money, Leboffski?​Has the breakup of the White Stripes left you jonesing for some new simple, monosyllabic early-aughts post-garage rock? If so, never fear: The Strokes are hear to pat your hand and whisper soothing secrets in your ear.

Bay Music Links: Britney Spears in S.F., Prince Fan Gets Beat Up, Lil B in XXL, and More

Wait. Britney ... telephone? We're confused. Anyway, she's coming to S.F. next month.​Britney Spears will perform live on Good Morning America from the Castro the day her new album is released. [SF Examiner]Man beaten up by crowd after catching Prince's guitar in Oakland. [ABC 7]How the Thee Oh Se ... More >>

Tune-Yards Featured in Rolling Stone, Because 'Bizness' Is Amazing

Anna M CampbellTune-Yards' Merrill Garbus​So we're into predictions lately. Here's one: 2011 is going to be a great year for Tune-Yards, the Oakland-based project of Merrill Garbus, whom you may as well start thinking of as the one-girl Dirty Projectors of the West. (A problematic comparison, but ... More >>

Saturday Night: Greg Ginn, Big Scenic Nowhere, and Glitter Wizard Rattle Thee Parkside

Romana MachadoGlitter Wizard​Greg Ginn, Big Scenic Nowhere, Glitter WizardMarch 19, 2011 @Thee Parkside Marginally better than: Listening to Billy Joel records in a Seattle parking garage. It's SXSW season, and few things are longer than the faces of Facebook non-attendees this year. My ne ... More >>

Bright Eyes: Show Preview

Romana MachadoGlitter Wizard​Greg Ginn, Big Scenic Nowhere, Glitter WizardMarch 19, 2011 @Thee Parkside Marginally better than: Listening to Billy Joel records in a Seattle parking garage. It's SXSW season, and few things are longer than the faces of Facebook non-attendees this year. My ne ... More >>

Hear All of Tune-Yards' Amazing New Album on NPR Now

Tune-Yards' Merrill Garbus​We've already sung the praises of Tune-Yards new album, w h o k i l l, here once before. But today, the whole album's up on NPR for you to stream. We recommend you do. With w h o k i l l, Oakland-based Merril Garbus has blown way past her project's lo-fi roots and i ... More >>

Top Five Musicians We Didn't Need to See Naked (Slightly NSFW)

When Demi Moore took her kit off for the cover of Vanity Fair in 1991, it caused a storm of controversy. A -- gasp! -- naked, pregnant woman, looking -- double gasp! -- sexy! People freaked out. It was kind of cool, but the problem was that it opened the floodgates. And now, more than a decade ... More >>

In Print: the Subversive Beauty of tUnE-yArDs, Del the Funky Homosapien's Trip to Hip-Hop's Past, and More

Merrill Garbus of tUnE-yArDs​ From SF Weekly's latest print music section: On tUnE-yArDs: Welcome to the edge of experimental pop in 2011. Garbus has just seen the release of tUne-yArDs' second album, w h o k i l l, which seems all but certain to accelerate her rise from DIY curiosity into one o ... More >>

Big 4 Tour: Are More U.S. Dates Likely for Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax, and Megadeth?

Richard HaickWide-eyed Kirk Hammet, coming soon to a major city near you?​ Pretty much since the moment we heard about the Big 4 tour, we've been wanting to see it hit the U.S. Interstate system. Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, and Anthrax have played dates all over Europe, so when they announced ... More >>

One '90s Reunion That Won't Happen: The Smashing Pumpkins

The Smashing Pumpkins in 1990. Sigh.​ This '90s revival thing is off the hook. Even Soundgarden is getting back together after 14 years to drive around the U.S. and blast old, loud-ass songs like "Spoonman" and "Fell on Black Days" to apparently eager audiences. But there's one big '90s rock ... 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 >>

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

​ 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 >>

The 10 Greatest Music Video Babes of All Time

From the dawn of the music video, there has been the music video babe. Perhaps she's the star of the video, perhaps she's a backup dancer, maybe she just looks longingly at a musician. Most of the music is terrible, a lot of the videos are insipid, and yet somehow these women make it all worthwhile ... More >>

All Shook Down Isn't Your Average Music Fest

From the dawn of the music video, there has been the music video babe. Perhaps she's the star of the video, perhaps she's a backup dancer, maybe she just looks longingly at a musician. Most of the music is terrible, a lot of the videos are insipid, and yet somehow these women make it all worthwhile ... More >>

'Slightly Damaged': A Conversation with Iggy Pop

From the dawn of the music video, there has been the music video babe. Perhaps she's the star of the video, perhaps she's a backup dancer, maybe she just looks longingly at a musician. Most of the music is terrible, a lot of the videos are insipid, and yet somehow these women make it all worthwhile ... More >>

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 >>

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 ... More >>

The Year in Music Booze: Six Artist's Beverages That Made 2011 One Long Hangover

Rock 'n' roll culture died in 2011. It's got nothing to do with your opinion of Bon Iver, but everything to do with Rolling Stone. The former leading voice of modern music upheld its immaculate reputation this year... by starting an official wine club. It's filled with bottles branded with imagery f ... More >>

A Charlie Brown Christmas Composer Vince Guaraldi's Heirs Suing for $2M in Unpaid Royalties

​Given the time of year, you've probably seen -- and heard -- A Charlie Brown Christmas recently. The 1965 animated TV special's celebrated soundtrack was performed by noted San Francisco jazzman Vince Guaraldi's trio, and recorded at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley. But for the pianist and compo ... More >>