Sleater-Kinney

Before Parquet Courts Roar, Pang Says Goodbye at Rickshaw Stop, 6/7/13

By RAYMOND ROBLES Parquet Courts Cocktails Pang Friday, June 7, 2013 Rickshaw Stop Better than: Birthing pangs. What's it like to witness the death of a band? Its swan song seppuku Silvia Plath shotgun bow-out? Rad, actually, and the audience was inclined to agree. All four girls of Pang methodi ... More >>

The 50 Best Rolling Stone Special Issues Ever

A magazine that you sometimes see in the waiting rooms of tire stores, Rolling Stone remains tirelessly dedicated to reporting on its own place in the history of the teensy sliver of music that its publisher enjoys. To that end, the august rag is forever publishing important lists ranking the best m ... More >>

Screaming Females Talk Guitar Solos, Steve Albini, and What 'Punk' Means to Them

Marissa Paternoster is the kind of singer and guitarist who makes a writer want to deploy all kinds of ridiculous language: "face-melting," "fire-breathing," "guitar-goddess," "shred-queen," etc. Paternoster, you see, is 5-foot-1, she fronts a fearsome power trio from New Jersey called Screaming Fem ... More >>

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

IFC's Portlandia Is Coming to San Francisco with Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen

Any of you eco-conscious hippies, fem-lit-reading bookstore owners, and musician-politicians find that IFC's West Coast bohemia-skewering Portlandia doesn't hit close enough to your S.F. home? Since, you know it's technically about a city some 600 miles away? Well, consider yourselves lucky: Portla ... More >>

Forget Pedigree: Wild Flag Is a Great New Rock Band

In Print: Wild Flag Is More Than a 'Supergroup'

Wild Flag​Wild Flag: The concept of a "supergroup"-- wherein performers with cool and/or exciting pedigrees find themselves in something resembling a "band" -- dies hard. Imagine your favorite musicians playing together! Frequently, expectations exceed results -- a collection of individuals do ... More >>

Wild Flag's Self-Titled Debut: A First Listen

​ I don't know why I've been dreading this Wild Flag album exactly. Sleater-Kinney is one of my three favorite bands (the other two are Sonic Youth and the Dismemberment Plan, in case you're wondering), and as such I should trust Carrie Brownstein and Janet Weiss harder to carry a band that al ... More >>

SXSW So Far: The Highlights and Lowlights of Two Days in Austin

The Dodos​Far more occurs in the maelstrom of South-By than bears retelling -- even in just two music-packed days. So in lieu of lengthiness, here's a drive-by roundup of the highlights and lowlights from our last two days in Austin. HighlightsSqueezing onto a tiny, cramped balcony at 1 a.m. ... More >>

No Age, Grass Widow, and Rank/Xerox Bring the Ruckus at the Rickshaw

Joseph SchellNo Age at Rickshaw Stop Saturday. ​No AgeGrass WidowRank/XeroxCrazy Band February 26, 2011 @ Rickshaw Stop Better than: Standing still at Best Coast/Wavves. I have a thing for drummers who sing. There's something about it that triggers endorphins: this is a multitasking musician, bo ... More >>

SF Weekly Gets a Shout-Out on IFC's Hipster-Mocking New Show, Portlandia ('I Loved It!')

The Independent Film Channel has finally followed hipster-mocking to its logical conclusion: a television show based entirely around lampooning the death of Western civilization and a group that "did not yield a great literature, but it made good use of fonts." (Oh, you thought it was all about bla ... More >>

Wild Flag Rocks Our Faces Off, Covers the Stones and the VU at Bottom of the Hill

Wild Flag at Bottom of the Hill last night​Wild FlagGrass WidowRoyal BathsNovember 18, 2010@ Bottom of the HillBetter than: Performing in a toilet.Carrie Brownstein, you are way too fucking modest. "We're just up here learning how to be a band," she said, near the end of Wild Flag's fifth sho ... More >>

Live 105's Not So Silent Night: Smashing Pumpkins, My Chemical Romance, Phoenix, the Black Keys

​If the stink of dirty '90s flannel wasn't already wafting off this year in music, hell, it sure is now. Playing next month at Debaser Live 105's Not So Silent Night concert is none other than Smashing Pumpkins -- the four-person presentation of Billy Corgan's bald vanity that lives on, zombie-lik ... More >>

Grass Widow Comes Out of the Shadows With New Video

Screenshot of Grass Widow's "Shadow"​After rocking the All Shook Down Music Festival in North Beach on Sunday, Grass Widow planted another present in our laps. Today, their label, Kill Rock Stars, posted the trio's artsy, quirky video for "Shadow" on its blog. "Shadow" is so far the only song the ... More >>

Tropicália’s Swedish Stars

Tapes 'n Tapes

Walk It Off (XL)

Finest Dearest

Finest Dearest (Bloodtown)

Sketchfest stokes the musician-comedian love affair

The Thermals Back in SF at Slim's December 5

Aged Slits Still On Fire Tonight at the Indy

M.I.A. crams global jams into an intimate local venue

The Affair

Yes Yes to You (Absolutely Kosher)

Various Artists

The Sound the Hare Heard

The Hanukkah Songs

Wherein we find the coining of our new favorite word: "Jew-pergroup"

Into the Woods

How the riot grrrls of Sleater-Kinney punk'd Keith Moon and Jimi Hendrix

Yo, Adrian!

Bet the cartoonist's never heard that joke before

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Best New Zine

Kitchen Sink

Sleater-Kinney

One Beat (Kill Rock Stars)

Hear This

Miranda July

House Of Tudor

Tech-Mex, outlaw etiquette, people power and Pandora's Box

Spreading the Word

The Gossip's bluesy clatter moves from small-town whisper to big-time scream

House Of Tudor

Stinky's Peep Show Four-Year Anniversary; The Gossip; "Live From the 215"

Pop Philosophy

New East Bay Music Venues

The Go-Betweens

The Friends of Rachel Worth (Jetset)

Hear This

The Kirby Grips

Sleater-Kinney

All Hands on the Bad One
(Kill Rock Stars)

Heartbreak Hotel

Quasi

House of Tudor

Boys Will Be Boyz

Matt Wobensmith ditches gay punk for queer hip hop

Detachment

Words + Guitar (+ Beats + Skronk)

What mattered and what splattered in pop, 1997

Recordings

Suspicious Minds

Anti-depressants

Suspicious Minds

Letters

Love Sick

Sleater-Kinney's Call the Doctor painfully dissects physical and emotional boundaries

The Book of Lists

SF Weekly contributors salute the best (and worst) music of 1995

Night+Day