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June 1, 2009
San Francisco High School Relishes Last Spin as Skateboarding Mecca
Adam WeatherfordChris Pfanner attempts to conquer Raoul Wallenberg High's famed "Big Four" At first glance, San Francisco's Raoul Wallenberg High looks to be just another city school with peeling paint, tall fences, and randomly tagged walls. And yet, this is is one of the most hallowed and revered ... More >>
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June 28, 1995
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Adam WeatherfordChris Pfanner attempts to conquer Raoul Wallenberg High's famed "Big Four" At first glance, San Francisco's Raoul Wallenberg High looks to be just another city school with peeling paint, tall fences, and randomly tagged walls. And yet, this is is one of the most hallowed and revered ... More >>
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December 31, 2008
Experiment in Terror
Adam WeatherfordChris Pfanner attempts to conquer Raoul Wallenberg High's famed "Big Four" At first glance, San Francisco's Raoul Wallenberg High looks to be just another city school with peeling paint, tall fences, and randomly tagged walls. And yet, this is is one of the most hallowed and revered ... More >>
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June 18, 2008
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June 23, 2004
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From Mahler to Morrissey, the Bay Area has it all this summer.
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October 10, 2001
Swerving on Irving
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November 14, 2007
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July 27, 2009
MP3 of the Day: Slayer
On its upcoming album, World Painted Blood, Slayer has found God. And by that I don't mean the band has come around on the Holy Spirit--nah, these heathens have this time nailed Him down as a disease, once again expressing their unyeilding contempt for the whole religious shebang. On the new trac ... More >>
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August 4, 2009
High on Fire Prepping New Album
Oakland metalheads High on Fire are hard at work on a new collection of music that frontman Matt Pike promises will share with the masses "the dark seas of our new riffs and tragic stories." Next month they hit the studio to record their fifth album, working with producer Greg Fidelman (Metallica ... More >>
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October 17, 2007
Blaze of Glory
High on Fire reignites interest in Bay Area metal
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September 23, 2009
Rodrigo y Gabriela pay tribute to a history of axe-slingers
High on Fire reignites interest in Bay Area metal
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November 22, 2009
Last Night: Dethklok, Mastodon, Converge and High on Fire
Metalocalypse Tour with Dethklok, Mastodon, Converge and High on Fire Nov. 21, 2009 San Jose State Event Center Better than: Getting your ass whupped by Glenn Danzig's cartoon twin. It takes a pretty stellar concert lineup to coax even the most fanatical San Francisco music fan all the way to S ... More >>
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November 23, 2009
Cutting the Deficit: More Ways for Government to Earn Spare Bucks
We noted earlier today that, because the city is having cash-flow problems of the sort experienced by meth addicts with seven girlfriends, creative methods of earning additional revenue may become a necessity. Fortunately, this is a creative place, governed by creative people. Take Chris Daly. With ... More >>
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November 25, 2009
Hatebreed’s fan-friendly model for survival
We noted earlier today that, because the city is having cash-flow problems of the sort experienced by meth addicts with seven girlfriends, creative methods of earning additional revenue may become a necessity. Fortunately, this is a creative place, governed by creative people. Take Chris Daly. With ... More >>
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December 30, 2009
Listomania: Top Metal Picks For 2009
This year was such a good one for heavy music, I wound up having to cheat when putting this list together. I just couldn't settle on ten albums that kicked my ass the hardest in 2009; there were dozens of candidates. The best I could do was fourteen, so each of my top four slots are ties. Mastod ... More >>
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January 8, 2010
Slayer, Megadeth, Testament Cancel Tour Due to Back Injury
It's not quite as metal as throwing out your neck headbanging, but Slayer bassist/vocalist Tom Araya has a back injury serious enough that it's forced him to call off the giants of thrash tour. The Slayer/Megadeth/Testament tour, which was scheduled to hit the Cow Palace Jan. 21, has been indefin ... More >>
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February 1, 2010
Slayer/Megadeth/Testament Tour To Hit the Bay Area After All
So we wrote that the metal titans tour involving Slayer, Megadeth, and Testament was thrown off course after Slayer bassist/vocalist Tom Araya threw out his back in a serious-headbanging-injury sorta way. Well, although that Jan. 21 show didn't happen, the tour will indeed kick start anew after A ... More >>
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February 24, 2010
High on Fire polishes its metal weaponry
So we wrote that the metal titans tour involving Slayer, Megadeth, and Testament was thrown off course after Slayer bassist/vocalist Tom Araya threw out his back in a serious-headbanging-injury sorta way. Well, although that Jan. 21 show didn't happen, the tour will indeed kick start anew after A ... More >>
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March 29, 2010
Sightglass Coffee Readying Roastery, Café Expansion
Soon to be an oval coffee bar.Over the past six or so months, Sightglass Coffee, Jared and Justin Morrison's coffee roastery and cafe on Seventh St. and Folsom, has been selling coffee from a kiosk set inside an old warehouse they're renovating. Tarps separate the espresso machine from the constr ... More >>
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April 30, 2010
10 Things To Do This Weekend For Under $10: Gastronomic Adventures, Free Comics, Electro-disco Noiseniks
Clipd BeaksWere those glorious super-warm days of last weekend simply a tease? Are we doomed to a more traditional mid-season S.F. weekend of half-sunny, half-windy days? Well I hate to say it fellow park-dwellers, but if you don't like the weather in our oft-overcast city, perhaps you are in the ... More >>
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June 16, 2010
Concept Concert
Stars perform their hook-heavy new record from start to finish on their current tour.
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June 16, 2010
New Slayer Video Is Relevant: Evil Corporations, Bloody Apocalypse
The plot seems perfect for our era of the mind-bogglingly huge, corporate fuck-up oil leak: A creepily coiffed CEO sends his sharp-toothed tanks out from the boardroom to dominate a ruined world, slaying humans in the process. But the tanks somehow morph into a skull-headed mutant spider that destro ... More >>
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June 21, 2010
Last Night: Iron Maiden's Metal Juggernaut Gets Father's Day Crowd Headbanging
Iron MaidenDream Theater@Sleep Train PavilionSunday, June 20, 2010Better than: Any other metal band with 35 years under its belt. Iron Maiden has always fallen into that category of venerable metal or hard-rock outfit that you simply do not miss when they come to town. You don't miss Slaye ... More >>
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August 11, 2010
Master of Puppets
Iron MaidenDream Theater@Sleep Train PavilionSunday, June 20, 2010Better than: Any other metal band with 35 years under its belt. Iron Maiden has always fallen into that category of venerable metal or hard-rock outfit that you simply do not miss when they come to town. You don't miss Slaye ... More >>
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August 30, 2010
Slayer's Kerry King Talks Messing Up Guitar Solos, the New Metallica, and Playing with the Beastie Boys
Mark SeligerSlayer, with Kerry King at far rightLos Angeles thrash-metal juggernaut Slayer has been kicking ass so ferociously for so long that the word "fucking" has practically been appended to the front of the band's name. Raising the metal bar for brutality and blasphemy over the course of ne ... More >>
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October 5, 2010
X Japan's Yoshiki on Touring the U.S., the Loss of Hide, and the Future of the Band
Kirsty EvansYoshiki behind the piano. Shortly after X Japan's historic show at the Fox Theater last Tuesday, we got the chance to sit down with drummer, pianist, and band leader Yoshiki as he relaxed in his dressing room. A genuinely charming man, Yoshiki was friendly and remarkably frank about h ... More >>
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November 9, 2010
Metallica Might Possibly Begin Work on New Album Next Year, Maybe
"This is boring, let's write some songs!"After nearly two years of touring in support of the 2008 album Death Magnetic -- the return-to-form-of-sorts that followed the musical and image disaster of 2003's St. Anger -- the Bay Area's own Metallica is discussing plans to record its next album. Of c ... More >>
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November 23, 2010
Watch: This Year, Soundtrack Your Christmas Lights with Slayer
Sure, you could be like everyone else on the block this holiday season and set the automatic music-synch on your tacky Christmas light display to "Jinglebell Rock." But why do that when you could also set it to a face-melter like Slayer's "Raining Blood"? Watch the Christmas carnage that ensues w ... More >>
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December 15, 2010
Sub Swara: Show Preview
Sure, you could be like everyone else on the block this holiday season and set the automatic music-synch on your tacky Christmas light display to "Jinglebell Rock." But why do that when you could also set it to a face-melter like Slayer's "Raining Blood"? Watch the Christmas carnage that ensues w ... More >>
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December 17, 2010
Sub Swara, Renegade Craft Fair, Todd Rundgren Tribute, Agent Ribbons, HoliGay Buffet, and More
Christopher Fairman Agent Ribbons plays the Crescent Hotel this FridaySan Francisco spoils you. It really does. There are so many free or dirt-cheap shows this weekend, you'll have your choice of genre and neighborhood. We hope you feel blessed to live in such an music-friendly city. Here's our l ... More >>
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January 25, 2011
Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax, Megadeth Announce Plans to Play Together. Once. In Indio.
It's called the Big 4 Tour -- Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax, and Megadeth, together on one bill -- and finally, after seven shows in Europe, it's coming to the U.S. Only problem is the date and time -- and the fact that as of today's announcement, the long-awaited Big 4 Tour (sorry, make that " ... More >>
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February 2, 2011
Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and lows from the last week in S.F. music
It's called the Big 4 Tour -- Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax, and Megadeth, together on one bill -- and finally, after seven shows in Europe, it's coming to the U.S. Only problem is the date and time -- and the fact that as of today's announcement, the long-awaited Big 4 Tour (sorry, make that " ... More >>
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February 16, 2011
Masterminds 2011: SF Weekly Recognizes Local Artists
It's called the Big 4 Tour -- Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax, and Megadeth, together on one bill -- and finally, after seven shows in Europe, it's coming to the U.S. Only problem is the date and time -- and the fact that as of today's announcement, the long-awaited Big 4 Tour (sorry, make that " ... More >>
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April 25, 2011
Photos from the Big Four Show, with Metallica, Anthrax, Slayer, and Megadeth
Richard HaickMetallica at the Big Four fest The Big Four Festival: Metallica Megadeth Anthrax Slayer Empire Polo Grounds, Indio, CA April 24, 2011 Well, the Big Four show -- featuring metal titans Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, and Anthrax -- finally arrived in the U.S for a one-off show. The ... More >>
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April 25, 2011
Big 4 Tour: Are More U.S. Dates Likely for Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax, and Megadeth?
Richard HaickWide-eyed Kirk Hammet, coming soon to a major city near you? Pretty much since the moment we heard about the Big 4 tour, we've been wanting to see it hit the U.S. Interstate system. Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, and Anthrax have played dates all over Europe, so when they announced ... More >>
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April 27, 2011
Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Last Week in S.F. Music
Richard HaickWide-eyed Kirk Hammet, coming soon to a major city near you? Pretty much since the moment we heard about the Big 4 tour, we've been wanting to see it hit the U.S. Interstate system. Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, and Anthrax have played dates all over Europe, so when they announced ... More >>
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June 2, 2011
Juan MacLean on DJing with Vinyl, Why the West Coast Rules for Club Nights, and His New Album
Joshi RadinA longtime resident of DFA Records, Juan MacLean has dabbled in everything from dance-punk to electro-pop. Although mostly known for his work with bands Six Finger Satellite and The Juan MacLean, he has been touring regularly as a solo DJ all over the world since his release on the DJ- ... More >>
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July 6, 2011
Buckethead: Show Preview
Joshi RadinA longtime resident of DFA Records, Juan MacLean has dabbled in everything from dance-punk to electro-pop. Although mostly known for his work with bands Six Finger Satellite and The Juan MacLean, he has been touring regularly as a solo DJ all over the world since his release on the DJ- ... More >>
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August 11, 2011
New York Times Gets Huffy At SF Weekly
The Slayer. Would you call it "beautiful?"We got an email earlier this week through the "feedback:" portion of our website, where Letters to the Editor are sent. The writer objected to a March 2010 blog post in which Jonathan Kauffman wrote in part, "Sightglass is one of the first cafes in S ... More >>
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September 16, 2011
Hey, When Did Metallica's Lars Ulrich Turn into a Cool, Funny Guy?
Over the years, Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich just hasn't done a lot of things to make people like him. Let's recount: he's often an obnoxious interviewee; he pulls some of the most annoying faces in drumming history; he played a role in one of the most embarrassing music documentaries on earth, ... More >>
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September 30, 2011
Music Links: Is Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Getting Too Big?
Hardly Strictly is getting pretty big... Is Hardly Strictly getting too big for its own good? [SF Gate] "Employees must carve 'Slayer' into forearms before returning to work." [Uptown Almanac]
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October 13, 2011
New Book Murder in the Front Row Tells the Story of Bay Area Thrash Metal in Pictures
Metallica, way back when. Everyone knows Metallica. But not everyone knows that Metallica was the product of a full-blown '80s thrash metal scene in the Bay Area -- a scene that fostered other notable local bands like Testament, Death Angel, and Exodus. These weren't the makeup-wearing pretty ... More >>
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October 18, 2011
Anthrax's Scott Ian on Making a Brilliant New Album and Possibly Bringing the Big Four Tour to S.F.
Anthrax, with Scott Ian at the far right. California may have been the epicenter of the emerging thrash-metal scene at the dawn of the 1980s, but the NYC headbangers of Anthrax unquestionably earned their place in the genre's history. As an East Coast counterpart and early ally of Metallica, ... More >>
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October 24, 2011
Sunday: Anthrax, Testament, and Death Angel Obliterate the Warfield with Help From Metallica's Kirk Hammett
Richard HaickAnthrax at the Warfield on Sunday. Anthrax Testament Death Angel Chimaira Oct. 23, 2011 The Warfield Better than: Listening to the new Loutallica album online. Bay Area thrash-metal fans still waiting for Metallica to bring the Big 4 Tour to their hometown got to enjoy a neck- ... More >>
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October 26, 2011
Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Last Week in S.F. Music
Richard HaickAnthrax at the Warfield on Sunday. Anthrax Testament Death Angel Chimaira Oct. 23, 2011 The Warfield Better than: Listening to the new Loutallica album online. Bay Area thrash-metal fans still waiting for Metallica to bring the Big 4 Tour to their hometown got to enjoy a neck- ... More >>
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December 7, 2011
Author Brian Lew on the Early Days of Metallica and the Bay Area Thrash Metal Scene
Brian Lew Cliff Burton playing live with Metallica for the first time at the Stone in San Francisco, 1983 See more of our Metallica Week coverage: Six Signs of Metallica's Pervasive Influence on Pop Culture Metallica Kicks off Its 30th Anniversary Week with Notable Guests, Rare Songs, and L ... More >>
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December 14, 2011
Assessing Metallica After 30 Years and Four Nights at the Fillmore
Brian Lew Cliff Burton playing live with Metallica for the first time at the Stone in San Francisco, 1983 See more of our Metallica Week coverage: Six Signs of Metallica's Pervasive Influence on Pop Culture Metallica Kicks off Its 30th Anniversary Week with Notable Guests, Rare Songs, and L ... More >>

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