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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 >>

Eight Great Moments In Musical Punctuation History

Courtesy nationalpunctuationday.com​September 24 is National Punctuation Day, at least according to a guy with a cape in Northern California. (He's still probably cooler than Lynne Truss.) Today is the day that we brittle purists may with impunity box the ears of apostrophe abusers, comma splicers ... 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 >>

Saturday is Record Store Day: Limited-Edition Releases, Rare In-Stores

  Record Store Day, that annual record-buying rite of spring that will rock independent music sellers across the world, hits again this Saturday, April 17. The event is a two-fold celebration: it's a chance for bands to put out small-run, limited-addition releases ... More >>

Concert preview: Jonsi

  Record Store Day, that annual record-buying rite of spring that will rock independent music sellers across the world, hits again this Saturday, April 17. The event is a two-fold celebration: it's a chance for bands to put out small-run, limited-addition releases ... More >>

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!

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 >>

Last Night: Metallica at HP Pavillion

​Metallica December 12, 2009 HP Pavilion At San Jose Better than: Getting drunk with your boss at the office holiday party. Still alive and kicking out the jams more than a quarter of a century after making Kill 'Em All, Metallica doesn't really have anything left to prove. The band members are ... More >>

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 >>

Juan Son makes quirky Mexican pop

​ 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

​ 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 >>

Translating Gobbledigook

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

​ 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 >>

Spaced Out

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

​ 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 >>

Dub Trio

Another Sound Is Dying(Ipecac)

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

Another Sound Is Dying(Ipecac)

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

Another Sound Is Dying(Ipecac)

Sigur Rós

Hvarf/Heim XL

My Tunes: Kronos Quartet

David Harrington of the internationally respected string quartet

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

David Harrington of the internationally respected string quartet

Sigur Ros Premieres New Film at Mezzanine 11/19

David Harrington of the internationally respected string quartet

Ulrich Schnauss

Goodbye (Domino)

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

Goodbye (Domino)

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

Goodbye (Domino)

The blissful strings 'n' things of Amiina

Goodbye (Domino)

Under Byen's Icelandic envy

Goodbye (Domino)

Stealing riffs and loser beats

Goodbye (Domino)

Under the Influence

Mogwai gives new meaning to the term buzz band

Skin Crawls

Gregg Araki's latest is more icky than mysterious

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

Behind the Music Videos

There are some pretty cool videos out there, but you won't see them on MTV

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

The Wrath of Gahan

With the release of his solo debut, the Depeche Mode frontman completes the ultimate rock 'n' roll star trek: Success, Overdose, Resurrection

Summer at Shatter Creek

Summer at Shatter Creek

Sigur Rós

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múm

Finally We Are No One (FatCat)

Pop Philosophy

The other Friends; planned insurrection

Sigur Rós

Áegetis Byrjun (Pias-America)