Sharon Van Etten

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Burn Through Quiet at Bill Graham Civic, 4/9/13

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Sharon Van Etten Bill Graham Civic Auditorium Tuesday, April 9, 2013 Better than: Getting murdered and/or sodomized by Stagger Lee, we're assuming. Are there bad Nick Cave shows? We can't imagine what one would be like. What if there are only Nick Cave shows where your ... More >>

The Best of Outside Lands: Friday, Aug. 10

All weekend long, All Shook Down writers will be rounding up the best of the Outside Lands music festival. Here's our report from the festival's first day. Justice Okay, wait. How did we let Justice get away with appropriating the cross? There were probably other questions worth asking surroundin ... More >>

Outside Lands: The Summer Music Festival Where It's 50 Degrees and Blowing

One thing everyone in San Francisco learns very quickly is that, in this city, you always have to be prepared for the cold. Even on a day that begins with total sunshine. Outside Lands -- set in the western half of Golden Gate Park, on the front lines of fog banks rolling in off the Pacific -- is n ... More >>

Outside Lands 2012: An Updated Guide to All Our Coverage

Well, hi. We're going nuts covering the Outside Lands Festival this weekend. To help you find it all, here's an updated list of all our coverage so far. This post will be updated as we put up new stuff. Enjoy and see you out there! Festival Reviews Friday, Aug. 10 Outside Lands: The Summer Music F ... More >>

Sharon Van Etten Wants to Tell You a Story

[This post is part of our week-long preview coverage of Outside Lands 2012. Check out more of All Shook Down's Outside Lands coverage, and catch Sharon Van Etten's set this Friday at 1:15 p.m. on Outside Lands' Sutro stage.] In music today, there's no other instrument quite like it: Sharon Van Ette ... More >>

Outside Lands 2012 Set Times Are Out: Here's a Look at the Conflicts

Scheduling a festival like Outside Lands is never easy -- there's always going to be some fans who want to see two acts that happen to be playing at the same time. But judging by the set times released today, festival organizers have done a pretty decent job of minimizing the conflicts. As we wrote ... More >>

Outside Lands 2012 Lineup: Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Stevie Wonder, Metallica, Skrillex, Jack White, Foo Fighters, and More

Outside Lands just released the lineup for 2012, its fifth year -- and it's a big one. Headliners include Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Stevie Wonder, Metallica, Skrillex, Jack White, Foo Fighters, Justice, Beck, Sigur Ros, and more. The festival takes place in Golden Gate Park Friday through Sunday, ... More >>

The Worst Moments from SXSW 2012

The last few days, Village Voice Media's indefatigable music staff has been regaling you with stories of the best from SXSW 2012. In the midst of these discoveries, we've been culling another list: the worst shit. The acts that ranged from huge bore-fests to downright lame. Below, you'll find our cr ... More >>

The Best of SXSW Music: Wednesday 3/14/2012

​If you're familiar with chaos theory, which in its basic form is the attempt to find patterns in the random acts of shit on Earth, then you may understand the difficulty that comes with describing a full day at SXSW. To break down the bright, scintillating chaos, Village Voice Media's roving musi ... More >>

Marissa Nadler on Funding Records with Kickstarter, Sexism in Music, and Being Shy

"The real Marissa is filled with passion," she says. "I'm fiery, not celestial."​ By CHLOE ROTH Massachusetts-based songwriter Marissa Nadler performs this Sunday, Dec. 18, at Cafe Du Nord with local songstress Emily Jane White. We caught up with Nadler while she was working on a mysterious v ... More >>

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Ghostface Killah's Fear of God, and the Thermals' Temporary Chill

Ghostface​From SF Weekly's print music section:Ghostface Killah: This might be a common belief, but Ghostface is an uncommon man. For starters, he's intensely observant. In the rap game, his strength of recall is Proustian. His skill in breaking a verse's picture into jagged crystals is Joycean. M ... More >>