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Best of Coachella Weekend One: Saturday, April 14

See also: *The Best Of Coachella: Day One *"What My Spirit Hood Means To Me": Coachella-Goers Explain *Coachella Preview 2012: Everything You Need to Know About the Performers*Radiohead, Weekend 1: No Alarms, No Surprises Radiohead certainly had the most pre-festival buzz for Saturday, but once we ... More >>

Friday Night: Mike Watt Plays the Grizzled Natural at Bottom of the Hill

Mike Watt at Bottom of the Hill Friday night. ​ Mike Watt April 29, 2011 @ Bottom of the Hill Better than: Listening to the words without the face. If such a thing were possible, I'd believe, without hyperbole or winking wit, that Mike Watt was born to play the bass. His fingers fly across t ... More >>

Catching Up with Mike Watt, Former Minuteman and Writer of Punk Operas

In Print: TV on the Radio's Apocalyptic Love, Mike Watt's World, and More

TV on the Radio​From SF Weekly's latest print music section:  TV on the Radio: Nine Types of Light is also the first TV on the Radio album to be recorded away from the band's comfy boho surroundings in north Brooklyn. And then some: The band decamped to a mall-based studio near Rodeo Drive th ... More >>

Dig the New Mogwai Album, Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will, and a New Video Today

Scottish post-rock/#BASED progenitors Mogwai release album number seven today, Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will. It's less what you'd call a return to form than a spirited condensation of their roomy, moody noise epics; as they've done before, most notably on 2006's Mr. Beast, this album finds ... More >>

Was Mogwai Based Before Lil B Was Based?

No, not that kind.​Scotland's dignified linear noise factory Mogwai has released the tracklisting for its forthcoming seventh studio album, which you may have mistaken for a David Shrigley print hanging in the punk rock section at the coolest record store you've never been to: Hardcore Will Never ... More >>

U.S.S. Iowa's Final Battle Pits Vallejo vs. L.A.

If only someone would tow this thing to Des Moines​By Jan. 18, Vallejo must submit a plan for slithering out of bankruptcy. Former banker Merylin Wong, the head of a maritime enthusiast's group there, has a plan for keeping the city on firm financial footing henceforth: Pay millions of dollars yea ... More >>

Die Antwoord, Gutwrench, Rank/Xerox, Free SF MOMA Admission and More

Jillian WestRank/Xerox plays the Hemlock this Sunday with Toys That Kill​You have two major choices this weekend -- high art or low art. There's free museum admission and frolicking dancers. Or grimy South African rap and San Francisco crust punk. Whatever you choose, take comfort in knowing it wa ... More >>

Toys That Kill, S.F. Vs. L.A., Indoor Block Party, C*nt Sparrer, and More

C*nt Sparrer plays Laszlo on Sunday​Well, it's really summer now! Bundle up, grab a hoodie and go check out the many fun and cheap events our chilly city has to offer this weekend. Here's our list of 10 shows, fests and fairs for less than two cups of quality hot cocoa. S.F. vs L.A. @ Levi's Work ... More >>

Welcome to Mi Pueblito, Washington

The small-town, family-farm lifestyle that we love to celebrate is being preserved — thanks to Mexican immigrants.

Al Qaeda’s experimental noise attracts members of the Minutemen and Pinback

The Las Vegas Locomotives? Sin City Football Franchise's Lame Name and Lamer Rationale Bode Poorly for Today's San Francisco Unveiling

When is a name a trainwreck? ​ As we reported last week, the San Francisco franchise in the nascent United Football League will today unveil its name, logo, and uniform design at a 10:30 press conference at AT&T Park. Yes, we'll be there with a camera. But our expectations have now been marked ... More >>

Sidestepping sports movie clichés, Sugar finds the sweet spot

Crossing Over: Borderline Offensive

Citizen's arrest for Wayne Kramer's tasteless immigrant drama.

Repertory Film Listings

Repertory Film Listings

Pedro Rocks

A new film catches up with legendary punk rockers the Minutemen

Reps Etc.

Reps Etc.

Altered Mindstates

Dog Bites trips out over the Mindstates global psychedelic convention

Water World

Kayaking for a cause

Eat Our Dust, Muni!

Man vs. machine in annual clash

Below the Law

Herod's Law skewers dirty Mexican politics

Through the Cracks

There are some benefits of big-city gentrification. Jesse Malin's brilliant new record is one of them.

California Loved

Roger Troutman and his family brought funk to West Coast hip hop and influenced everyone from Ice Cube to Tupac Shakur. Then his older brother put four bullets in him.

Conundrum

At the same time hundreds of dead gray whales were washing up on beaches, their birthrate was plunging. Theories abound, but little hard data has been gathered to solve this environmental puzzle.

South of the (Mexican) Border

From Chinatown to Niketown

Robert Towne, the best screenwriter in the business and the man who invented Jake Gittes, is back with a bio of Olympic runner Steve Prefontaine

Ball Hog