Spoon (Band)

Indie on Top: Noise Pop Celebrates 20 Years of Independent Music

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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 >>

This Is Noise Pop: What Not to Miss at S.F.'s Signature Indie Music Fest

​ 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 >>

Saturday Night Fever Indie Division

How the hipster set learned to shake their skinny jeans.

Coachella in Photos: Jay-Z, She & Him, Perry Farrell, Boots Riley, More

We had our own little Coachella last week in SF, with shows by MGMT, Beach House, Faith No More, Charlotte Gainsbourg, the Dead Weather, Passion Pit, Spoon, and Atoms For Peace, among other Bay Area gigs. But photographer Christopher Victoria went to the actual Coachella down south and sent us the f ... More >>

Hole to Headline BFD 2010 (along with Deftones, Silversun Pickups, More)

photo by Stacy Schwartz for City Pages Courtney Love fills the Hole once more​Live 105 just announced its 2010 lineup for its big summer fest, BFD, and the band on the bill most folks will be talking about--for better or for worse--is Hole. Yup, Courtney Love and Co. will be one of the headliners ... More >>

Hot Chip's snuggly club tunes

photo by Stacy Schwartz for City Pages Courtney Love fills the Hole once more​Live 105 just announced its 2010 lineup for its big summer fest, BFD, and the band on the bill most folks will be talking about--for better or for worse--is Hole. Yup, Courtney Love and Co. will be one of the headliners ... More >>

Last Night: Spoon, Deerhunter, Micachu and the Shapes at the Fox

Christopher Victorio​​Spoon, Deerhunter, Micachu and the ShapesTuesday, April 13, 2010Fox TheaterBetter than: Seeing a show that you haven't been anticipating for months.When I first heard Spoon, I wondered why people thought the band was special. Its members are four white dudes from ... More >>

Code Organ Turns Web Pages Into Music

​The Internet has a sound, and it's not just a chorus of soft clicks and the pitter-patter of fingertips on keys. How do I know? Because of Code Organ. This latest advancement in online time-wasting technology translates Web sites into music: you paste a URL into into the page, press play, and Cod ... More >>

Concert preview: Spoon

​The Internet has a sound, and it's not just a chorus of soft clicks and the pitter-patter of fingertips on keys. How do I know? Because of Code Organ. This latest advancement in online time-wasting technology translates Web sites into music: you paste a URL into into the page, press play, and Cod ... More >>

It's Time to Stop Hating Hipsters

Photo from Look At This Fucking Hipster​It seems everyone on the Internet is currently either ragging on hipsters or arguing they don't exist. Even Joe Mande, the Williamsburg comedian whose hugely popular (and hilarious) Tumblr blog, Look At This Fucking Hipster was recently made into a book, got ... More >>

Coachella Brings Pavement, Jay-Z, Them Crooked Vultures, Thom Yorke, and Girls Together

PavementMarcus Roth © 1999​Pavement's first West Coast date of its 2010 reunion tour was announced today, as the Coachella lineup went live with the indie rock giants as Sunday's big headliner. The news will likely send the group's many geeked out fans into organizing the So Cal caravans for the ... More >>

Stream the New Spoon, Big Media's Favorite Indie Act

​Spoon fans, get ready to hear a lot more about Austin's big little indie band. The group is releasing its seventh album, Transference, next week, and the major news outlets are lining up to offer their support. NY Times ran a profile of the group in Sunday's paper, noting that Spoon started aroun ... More >>

Heavenly States on the Record

​Spoon fans, get ready to hear a lot more about Austin's big little indie band. The group is releasing its seventh album, Transference, next week, and the major news outlets are lining up to offer their support. NY Times ran a profile of the group in Sunday's paper, noting that Spoon started aroun ... More >>

SF Weekly Music Awards 2007 Program

​Spoon fans, get ready to hear a lot more about Austin's big little indie band. The group is releasing its seventh album, Transference, next week, and the major news outlets are lining up to offer their support. NY Times ran a profile of the group in Sunday's paper, noting that Spoon started aroun ... More >>

The Flying Nun

Former punker Alejandro Escovedo returns to the roots of rock