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Arthouse Movie Listings December 5-11, 2012

Old Versus New at Outside Lands 2012, With Old the Heavy Favorite

It was around 8:30 p.m. on Sunday night at Outside Lands, when Stevie Wonder and his band went into "Living For the City," that the festival's reverence for the past became most painful. Over on the Twin Peaks stage, Skrillex, the black-clad millionare monster at the top of EDM food chain, was just ... More >>

The Best of Outside Lands: Saturday, Aug. 11

Norah Jones They may not all admit it, but everyone likes Norah Jones. And more universally than that, everyone gets down to Norah Jones. As we walk through Lindley Meadow on our way closer to the stage, we see couples of all kinds dancing, pecking, staring dreamily, or full-on making-out to the smo ... More >>

The Best Things We're Eating and Drinking at Outside Lands: Day 2

We're eating like crazy at Outside Lands and bringing you the good and the bad. Check out yesterday's recommendations for fried pickles, Outside Lands saison beer, Malaysian nachos, and more. Lamb Poutine from The Whole Beast Make trek up to Michael Mina's pop-up at Outside Lambs for this meaty and ... More >>

Top 5 Beers to Drink at Outside Lands

It's no secret that booze and music pair well together. Listening to Johnny Cash demands a shot of whiskey. When Snoop's "Gin and Juice" comes on the radio, you know what to reach for. And every time we see Celine Dion live, we always have a glass of rose in hand. While you're bound to see flocks ... More >>

What to See at Outside Lands: Nine Artists

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 >>

Usher's Looking 4 Myself: A First Listen

For some reason, I've always managed to ignore or miss Usher. "You Make Me Wanna..." is a classic, of course, but I managed to resist the supposed charms of "Yeah!," "Burn," "Love in This Club," and "Lil Freak." This year the Diplo-produced "Climax" stopped me dead in my tracks. So I'm willing to be ... More >>

Summer Guide: Choosing the Season's Best Music Festivals

Sigur Rós' Valtari: We Imagine What Scenes the Soundtrack Kings' New Album Will Set

We've read interviews with music supervisors -- those folks responsible for selecting, negotiating, and placing music in television programs, movies, and commercials -- where the questions centered on topics such as licensing agreements, working relationships with filmmakers, and general inspiration ... More >>

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

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 >>

Outside Lands 2012 Lineup: Seven Artists We're Damn Sure Will Be On It

Yes, yes, the world's atwitter with Coachella at the moment, but that will be over before you know it. The next big thing for California music fans to look forward to is S.F.'s own Outside Lands, which will be looking to follow up the roundly lauded proceedings of last year with a lineup worthy of t ... More >>

MTV at 30: The Top 10 Most Controversial Music Videos (NSFW)

via Flickr​As MTV celebrates its 30th birthday, it seems poised for a calm middle-aged life in a nice neighborhood, where it can safely raise Jersey Shore and Teen Mom into even more reliable moneymakers. But it wasn't always that way: Before it gave up on music, MTV swept through American hou ... More >>

Stop, Drop and Roll: Justin Bieber is White?

Biebster on the mic​I think I can still legitimately claim to have never heard a real Justin Bieber song, which doesn't bother me very much. Doesn't keep me from appreciating his cherubic wholesomeness and his unauthorized novelties, such as the Sigur Rós-caliber majesty of "U Smile" slowed down ... More >>

Bay Area Music Links: Heavy Metal Cruise Ship, DaVinci Doesn't Dare

Rosie Droll is one of the 32 singer-songwriters featured on the new Portraits compilation​New Portraits compilation celebrates local songwriters. [The Bay Bridged] So there's a cruise ship dedicated to heavy metal, and local longhairs Testament and Death Angel are playing aboard the 70,000 Tons ... More >>

Concert preview: Jonsi

The Album Leaf's Magik Local Connections

Bil Zelman​After cutting his teeth in San Diego's hardcore scene, Jimmy LaValle went post-rock with Tristeza, and he's never looked back. The Album Leaf started out as a side project, but it's turned into LaValle's main gig, attracting the attention of such notables Sub Pop Records and Sigur Rós. ... More >>

En Garde!

Track of the Day: Julianna Barwick

​I played a little of Julianna Barwick's new record, Florine, for a friend recently and he said it sounded like being in church. There's definitely something holy in the harmonies she creates when looping her own voice, her melodies dissolving into the rafters. She's a choir of one emboldened by h ... More >>

Track of the Day: Jónsi & Alex

Lilja Birgisdottir​It's like going to church, without all the praying. Jónsi & Alex, the side project of Sigur Rós' Jon Thor Birgisson, makes good use of angelic choir vocals, which hum warmly over a gradual build of celestial electronics. The group is a partnership between Birgisson and Ale ... More >>

Stripmall Architecture Plays Café Du Nord Thursday

​ Hey shoegazers! Yeah, you. Up here. That's it. Do you have a hankering for trance-inducing, dreamy indietronica? Does the mention of a band somewhere in-between Sigur Ros and the Cocteau Twins make those little hairs on the back of your neck tingle? If so, you owe it to yourself to check for ... More >>

The Outer Limits

Translating Gobbledigook

The Lowbrow Art Sale: John Brophy, James Jean & Chris Peters

Spaced Out

The Lowbrow Art Sale: Joe Sorren, James Jean & Roland Tamayo

Dub Trio

Another Sound Is Dying(Ipecac)

Depressed SFers Rejoice: Sigur Rós Film Heima Screens at Embarcadero Center Tomorrow

"Get on Your Grind!" — Wednesday is HuMP3 Day: SF Weekly's Music Section Streamed

Sigur Rós

Hvarf/Heim XL

My Tunes: Kronos Quartet

David Harrington of the internationally respected string quartet

CD Review: Sigur Rós -- Hvarf/Heim, Heima

Sigur Ros Premieres New Film at Mezzanine 11/19

Ulrich Schnauss

Goodbye (Domino)

Benni Hemm Hemm, Adam Franklin, Samba Mapangala -- ASD's Live Music Picks for Monday, July 16

The Artists Behind Michael Jackson, Sigur Ros and God of War -- A curated tour by Creep Machine's Josh

The blissful strings 'n' things of Amiina

Under Byen's Icelandic envy

Stealing riffs and loser beats

Hear This

Simon Finn's wacky '70s Brit-folk gets a second chance; the Album Leaf soaks the Independent in psychedelic ambience

Shorties

EPs are usually ignored by reviewers. Here are a few recent releases worth taking note of.

The Album Leaf

In a Safe Place

Various Artists

Shanti Project Collection 3

Hear This

Marooned on a desert island? Better hope it's not alongside U.K. punks Kaito.

To the Lighthouse

Not too long ago, in a studio far, far away, Iceland's múm developed a transcendental brand of indie-electronic music

Summer at Shatter Creek

Summer at Shatter Creek

Sigur Rós

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múm

Finally We Are No One (FatCat)

Sigur Rós

Áegetis Byrjun (Pias-America)