Sunset Strip

Kanye West Thinks He's God -- Here Are Four Other Musicians Who They Are, Too

We all know that story about how mad people got when John Lennon said the Beatles were "more popular than Jesus." There was uproar! There were banners! There were protests! But these days, musicians have the audacity to compare themselves to actual Gods and no one bats an eyelid. Let's take a look a ... More >>

Jello Biafra on Playing "Big Corporate Festivals" and Making a Punk-Southern Rock Hybrid

Bay Area punk-rock pioneer Jello Biafra has embarked in numerous high-profile collaborations in the decades since the mid-1980s dissolution of the legendary Dead Kennedys. While he has teamed with the likes of Ministry's Al Jourgensen in the industrial-punk project Lard and tracked classic albums wi ... More >>

Here's Johnny!

Live Review, 6/3/12: Van Halen Finger-Taps Its Way to Glory at Oracle Arena

Van Halen Kool and the Gang Sunday, June 3, 2012 Oracle Arena Better than: Any of the still-touring Sunset Strip hair-farmers from the 1980s that Van Halen inspired. There aren't too many '70s-era hard-rock bands that can inspire the kind of unabashed hedonism -- a "bring me the skull of Sammy Hag ... More >>

"Famous Food" on VH1: Guilty pleasure

​As we watched a real New Jersey housewife fight with a fictional New Jersey Big Pussy, we realized celeb-reality has officially taken over food TV. VH1's "Famous Food" is the latest food show to pop up on a previously non-food channel, a trend the Los Angeles Times wrote about recently. Th ... More >>

The Five Dumbest Songs About Weed (To Blame For Prop 19's Failure)

​There might be no excuses in rock 'n' roll, but politics, as we've heard this week, is made of little else. Pundits and the wonkocracy hint that Prop. 19's failure, like every other Election Day disaster, was due to the hordes of scared-shitless elderly voters driven to the polls last Tuesday by ... More >>

Bicycle Music Fest, Renegade Craft Fair, Meeting in the Ladies Room, and 400 Blows

Judgment Day plays Saturday at the Bicycle Music Festival​Stringed heavy metal acts operated by bicycle power, teenage dance parties, and legendary country-folk ingénues in the park -- San Francisco has it all this weekend for less than the cost of a few pounds of organic summer fruit. Here's our ... More >>

Drugs

Tuesday's Pick: T Cooper at City Lights Books

​T CooperCity Lights Booksfree, 7:30 p.m.T Cooper is interested in history as written by the losers. Not losers in the Greenberg-esque, misanthropic-shitbag sense, but those who've been on the ass-end of history's atrocities. Cooper edited the 2007 anthology The Fictional History of the United Sta ... More >>

Winter's Tale

Art House

Mötley Crüe stages a Mötley Crüe Broadway musical.

California Sunshine

The golden state of Skygreen Leopards' cosmic roots-pop

Deep Doo-Doo

A modern-day Bonnie and Clyde are after your money again

Special Delivery

How Story of the Year went from delivering pizzas to dishing out the rock

Courtney Love

America's Sweetheart

Untitled

In his first column, Garrett Kamps ponders the big questions

Worth a Detour

Zax Tavern

Sophisticated Boom Boom

S.F.'s Famous Burlesque Orchestra provides a safe haven for punks, gorillas, and other odd characters

Porn to Sell

Product placement comes to adult videos...hey, watch where you put that thing!

Freeks and Geeks

Thanks to their cool world-music electronica and some major help from the Internet, the Supreme Beings of Leisure may become the first rock stars born on the Web.

Going to a Go-Go

The GO

Inside Flynt

Larry Flynt's outing of powerful Republican hypocrites has the GOP fearing political ruin before the Y2K elections. An inside look at what makes Flynt's investigative team tick.

Night & Day

Unextended Play

Putting the compact back in compact disc

Reviews

Slap Shots

The House of Tudor