Santana (Band)

Smooth Pride: The Legacy of Malo's "Suavecito"

Big Boi's Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors: A First Listen

Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors is the title. Why? Does Big Boi even have any enemies? Has anyone ever beefed with him...ever? Who is he referring to, disgruntled Idlewild ticket-buyers? Or is he increasingly in denial that Outkast -- his meal ticket artistically and commercially -- is over? It's ... More >>

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

What Are the Best-Selling Bay Area Singles of the Last 25 Years?

Compared to the relatively few big-selling Bay Area albums of the last quarter-century, there's a plethora of singles that have sold at least a half-million copies since 1987. Can you guess the Bay Area singles that have sold the most in the last 25 years? Here are the surprising answers: See Also: ... More >>

Kreayshawn's Somethin 'Bout Kreay: A First Listen

Kreayshawn's contribution to Western culture is one classic line: "One big room/ Full of bad bitches." It's still awaiting its hot song. Her success is somewhere between William Hung and Jesse Camp and the 8th Street Kidz. She's an eliminated contestant without a reality show. From her phenomenally ... More >>

Bouncer Finds a Hermitage of Sanity at Alembic

Casa Sanchez: Etching the Next Era at the Home of the Taco Tattoo

Casa Sanchez has long been home of the "taco tattoo" story. If you get a tattoo of "Jimmy the Cornman" riding his corn on the cob rocket, you get free lunch for life. Pretty good deal, especially considering that Casa Sanchez brand tortilla chips and fresh salsa are now the highest selling chip ... More >>

The Top 20 Greatest San Francisco Musicians, Nos. 5-1

See also: * The Top 20 Greatest San Francisco Musicians: Honorable Mentions * The Top 20 Greatest San Francisco Musicians, Nos. 20-16 * The Top 20 Greatest San Francisco Musicians, Nos. 15-11 * The Top 20 Greatest San Francisco Musicians, Nos. 10-6 Here it is: After a week-long countdown, we br ... 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 >>

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 >>

Concord, Calif., Named One of Country's 10 Best Music Scenes

The website Livability today compiled a list of the top 10 cities with the best music scenes that aren't New York, L.A., or Nashville. The results were in some ways predictable (Minneapolis, Athens, Ga., and Portland all made it), and in some ways spectacularly weird: Omitted from the list for no ap ... More >>

Super Sideman

Rusty Anderson has learned a lot playing with Paul McCartney.

This Week: Ariel Pink's Rent Bill, Paul McCartney's Guitar Player, and Mob Figaz' Spiritual Side

Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti​In the print section this week, Dan Weiss finds out why Ariel Pink is happy to discuss his personal finances but not his personal life, and discovers the dude has a penchant for saying too much. Meanwhile, David MacFadden-Elliott talks to longtime Paul McCartney Band ... More >>

Last Night: New Folk Rock Supergroup The Emerald Triangle

The Emerald TriangleMonday, Nov. 2, 2009The IndependentBetter than: Watching Vetiver open for Chris Robinson's Wooden Family open for Jonathan Rice open for Ryan Adams open for Interpol.Paul Scott ​"We're aware that this is a very strange thing," Vetiver front man Andy Cabic announced from the sta ... More >>

Woodsuck: Crummy festivals I attended in the late '60s and early '70s

Santero Record Release at Mighty Friday Night

Tanit SakakiniSantero The Bay Area's indigenous Latin musica scene is  blazing right now, with urban-identified groups like Bayonics, Bangdata, and Brwn Bflo, and solo artists like Rico Pabon, Femi, and Deuce Eclipse carrying a torch lit years ago by Santana, Malo, and Pete Escovedo. There's s ... More >>

"Cocaine" Dealer

Last Night: Santana at the Fillmore

Various Artists

Love Is the Song We Sing: San Francisco Nuggets 1965-1970 (Rhino)

Bouncer

Salvia and psychonauts at Eagles Drift In

Hip Hop 101: the Underdogs/Alt-Rock 101: the Secret of Their Overseas Success/ DJ Culture 101: the Critical Mash Honors Club

Parchman Farm

Mining San Francisco's psych-rock past to forge a bright new future

Bullshitting the Lie Detector

Infiltrator cooks up a criminal past. A PAX TV show absolves him of it. Ain't it a great country?

Still They Ride

A newly minted star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame offers an occasion to look back on the career of Journey. That's right, Journey.

Americana Pie

Grab a slice of 2004's best roots music while it's still hot.

Ozomatli

Street Signs

Music Highlights

From Mahler to Morrissey, the Bay Area has it all this summer.

The Musical is Political

Forget policies and party affiliations, choose your next Mayor based on his top five favorite albums

Prick

Various Artists

Welcome to the Newsroom

The Sounds of Silence

Why the Bay Area has stopped producing big-time rock bands

Thrown for a Loop

Local indie rock group 20 Minute Loop attempts to find the middle ground between darkness and light

SF Music Awards 2001

An exotic adventure into the mysterious world of sound!

Pop Philosophy

Channeling stupidity, and exploding nicely

House Of Tudor

Damned; Money Mark Nishita; Cousteau; Nigel Peppercock

Bad to The Bone

With an unorthodox take on classic rock, The Bone has become the Bay Area's newest radio sensation

Ransom Notes

Can one man convince millions of people to pay for their "free" music?

Personality Crisis

As commercial hip hop radio becomes tired, turf wars flicker out, and the underground diversifies, does the Bay Area have its own identity anymore?

Blue Sky Notes

Free Outdoor Music!

Apocalypse Then

Altamont slammed the door on rock 'n' roll's dream of peace and love. An insider remembers.

Night +Day

The Fall of Love

Chet Helms and his Avalon Ballroom were the heart and soul of the Summer of Love. Thirty years of stupid business moves later, love is all that's left.

Slap Shots

Wammies 1996

Chinese Peaches

The Chinese New Year brings firecrackers, the parade down Kearny, and the Miss Chinatown USA Pageant

Slap Shots

This Is for La Raza

The brown and proud "Latinfest '96" descends on Oakland

Night+Day

Rock of la Raza

Dr. Loco's Rockin' Jalape–o Band celebrates the history of Latin American music

So You Wanna Be a Rock 'n' Roll Lawyer?

Meet Green Day's Legal Team of Cahn, Saltzman and Hearn