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Robyn Hitchcock Talks About 1990's Eye and Returning to San Francisco

​In 1989, Robyn Hitchcock, England's esteemed man-of-psych-pop, holed up at Hyde Street Studios here in town and laid down a record touched with greatness. This Thursday he holes up at Slim's to play it straight through. Today, Hitchcock calls his spare, moody Eye "a skeletal predecessor of ... More >>

Blaze Away with Sea Lions' Joyously Stoned Debut Album

​Listen to this while high: Sea Lions' Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sea Lions But Were Afraid to Ask.​Behind the buzz: These D.I.Y. brats outta Oxnard with a nice line in spirited tunefulness impressive enough for the reliably tasteful people at Oakland's Slumberland Records ... More >>

John Vanderslice on Seeking Discomfort, Tripping on Acid, and Making Pure Art

John Vanderslice and Magik*Magik's Minna Choi​It's a rare artist who, upon realizing all great art is danger, seeks first to test the idea upon their own nerves. This Friday night at the Herbst Theater, S.F. indie rock powerhouse John Vanderslice will play his acclaimed new album White Wilde ... More >>

What Is Dad Rock, Exactly? One Dad's Opinion

billcosby.com​ In a segment from a season 1 episode of "The Cosby Show," the sitcom's namesake delightfully illustrates how pop music can function as a generational wedge. "I thought it had come down the hallway," Bill Cosby says in reference to the deafening music playing on daughter Sondra's ... More >>

Children's Artists Smile Way Too Fucking Much

Moey's Music Party​For me, seeing children's artists perform live is akin to watching footage of horrific sports injuries (like Shaun Livingston). I am tormented, yet equally transfixed. So behold "I Gotta Go Potty!" by Moey's Music Party. The song's video features a grown woman, Moey, wildly ... More >>

Destroyer, Nine Albums In, Remains A Singular Band, Plays Monday at Great American Music Hall

Ted BoisThe answer, my friend, is blowing in my hair​ In the past ten years or so, there's been a proliferation of "bands" that are essentially one person, and whoever accompanies him or her on an album/tour. Perhaps it's a way for performers to "distance" themselves from being pigeonholed by a ... More >>

A Seminar in Getting High to a Cassette Tape, Thanks To I Am the Dot's The Bridges EP

​Listen to this while high: The Bridges EP by I Am the Dot. Behind the buzz: I found this cassette release wedged in my mailbox some months after toking up to the artist's "We Have Not Arrived" MP3. Denver experimental soulster Zach Tipton's music has pleasantly brain mutative propensities alread ... More >>

How to Listen to Pink Floyd While Getting High (Hint: Don't Bother with 'Dark Side of the Moon')

​Hear this while high: Pink Floyd's Meddle. Why?: Pink Floyd is the canonical druggie rock band, and most beginning stoners need a little basic out-of-body orientation. That Floyd's early music is the platinum kush standard for progressive rock is doubted only by those farther along on this THC-s ... More >>

Listen To This While High: I Am The Dot's 'We Have Not Arrived'

​Listen to this while high:  "We Have Not Arrived," by I Am the Dot, courtesy of Knox Road.Behind the buzz: The one-man band of Denver's Zach Tipton, I Am the Dot drops another tuneful noise-pop EP every few months. This song is off his latest, a four-track cassette and digital release of the ... More >>

Saturday Afternoon: Kid-rockers The Sippy Cups Dazzle Dolores Park

​The Sippy Cups @Dolores ParkJune 19, 2010 Better Than: Eating strawberry Pop Tarts while watching a Flaming Lips video It was like many Saturday afternoons in Dolores Park, aka "Hipster Hill": City types lounged in groups next to open containers and fixed-gear bikes. Laughing childr ... More >>

Last Night: Trashcan Sinatras at Slim's

Last Night: Trashcan Sinatras and Mike Viola Tuesday, June 1, 2010 Slim's Better Than: The Cookie-Monster-on-Ativan noise at the DNA Lounge down the street. Action Jackson​ As we rounded the corner of 11th Street, we saw a huge tour bus with lots of people lingering outside. Good, I thought ... More >>

Digital Leather

Last Night: Trashcan Sinatras and Mike Viola Tuesday, June 1, 2010 Slim's Better Than: The Cookie-Monster-on-Ativan noise at the DNA Lounge down the street. Action Jackson​ As we rounded the corner of 11th Street, we saw a huge tour bus with lots of people lingering outside. Good, I thought ... More >>

A new postpunk festival highlights a genre's revival

Last Night: Trashcan Sinatras and Mike Viola Tuesday, June 1, 2010 Slim's Better Than: The Cookie-Monster-on-Ativan noise at the DNA Lounge down the street. Action Jackson​ As we rounded the corner of 11th Street, we saw a huge tour bus with lots of people lingering outside. Good, I thought ... More >>

The Outside Lands alternative: In the Pines

Last Night: Trashcan Sinatras and Mike Viola Tuesday, June 1, 2010 Slim's Better Than: The Cookie-Monster-on-Ativan noise at the DNA Lounge down the street. Action Jackson​ As we rounded the corner of 11th Street, we saw a huge tour bus with lots of people lingering outside. Good, I thought ... More >>

Ariel Pink craves a label to call home

Last Night: Trashcan Sinatras and Mike Viola Tuesday, June 1, 2010 Slim's Better Than: The Cookie-Monster-on-Ativan noise at the DNA Lounge down the street. Action Jackson​ As we rounded the corner of 11th Street, we saw a huge tour bus with lots of people lingering outside. Good, I thought ... More >>

MP3 of the Day: The Lava Children

What would it sound like if, instead of being shackled to a computer right now, you were sprawled out in a poppy field, your brain in a kite moving to a slight breeze above your body? Who really knows, right? But if I was gonna guess, I'd say Tulsa band The Lava Children come damn close to producing ... More >>

MP3 of the Day: Chumbawamba

What would it sound like if, instead of being shackled to a computer right now, you were sprawled out in a poppy field, your brain in a kite moving to a slight breeze above your body? Who really knows, right? But if I was gonna guess, I'd say Tulsa band The Lava Children come damn close to producing ... More >>

Fall Theater Events

What would it sound like if, instead of being shackled to a computer right now, you were sprawled out in a poppy field, your brain in a kite moving to a slight breeze above your body? Who really knows, right? But if I was gonna guess, I'd say Tulsa band The Lava Children come damn close to producing ... More >>

Bummer, Man

What would it sound like if, instead of being shackled to a computer right now, you were sprawled out in a poppy field, your brain in a kite moving to a slight breeze above your body? Who really knows, right? But if I was gonna guess, I'd say Tulsa band The Lava Children come damn close to producing ... More >>

Will Paris' Bike-Share Program Work in S.F.?

What would it sound like if, instead of being shackled to a computer right now, you were sprawled out in a poppy field, your brain in a kite moving to a slight breeze above your body? Who really knows, right? But if I was gonna guess, I'd say Tulsa band The Lava Children come damn close to producing ... More >>

The Soothing Uncompromising Experience

What would it sound like if, instead of being shackled to a computer right now, you were sprawled out in a poppy field, your brain in a kite moving to a slight breeze above your body? Who really knows, right? But if I was gonna guess, I'd say Tulsa band The Lava Children come damn close to producing ... More >>

Chef Daniel Serves Syd Barrett Raw at the Rock-It

What would it sound like if, instead of being shackled to a computer right now, you were sprawled out in a poppy field, your brain in a kite moving to a slight breeze above your body? Who really knows, right? But if I was gonna guess, I'd say Tulsa band The Lava Children come damn close to producing ... More >>

Chef Daniel Serves Syd Barrett Raw at the Rock-It

What would it sound like if, instead of being shackled to a computer right now, you were sprawled out in a poppy field, your brain in a kite moving to a slight breeze above your body? Who really knows, right? But if I was gonna guess, I'd say Tulsa band The Lava Children come damn close to producing ... More >>

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Pools Together Roots Music Enthusiasts

What would it sound like if, instead of being shackled to a computer right now, you were sprawled out in a poppy field, your brain in a kite moving to a slight breeze above your body? Who really knows, right? But if I was gonna guess, I'd say Tulsa band The Lava Children come damn close to producing ... More >>

Rich Unterberger brings rare rock flicks to the Haight

What would it sound like if, instead of being shackled to a computer right now, you were sprawled out in a poppy field, your brain in a kite moving to a slight breeze above your body? Who really knows, right? But if I was gonna guess, I'd say Tulsa band The Lava Children come damn close to producing ... More >>

Giant Skyflower Band

Blood of the Sunworm (Soft Abuse)

Outer Bongolia

Black Fiction's trippy tunes take listeners to unusual places

16 Brash Bitches

Black Fiction's trippy tunes take listeners to unusual places

Love Was Here and Now You're Gone

Arthur Lee 1945-2006

Piper at the Pearly Gates

Arthur Lee 1945-2006

Flowing bodily fluids and a surreal sort of evil

Arthur Lee 1945-2006

The Television Personalities

My Dark Places

Brian Glaze|The Cuts

Let's Go to the Sea|From Here on Out

Kelley Stoltz

Below the Branches

The Gris Gris

For the Season

Hear This

Neil Young, Arthur Lee, Coughs, White Mice, and Fountains of Wayne. Did you get all that?

Jennifer Gentle

Valende

Quirky as Folk

Devendra Banhart's mystical trip

Seale the Deal

Former Panther interviewed by former Panther

The Church

Forget Yourself

Hear This

The Legendary Pink Dots' mood-altering mix of psychedelic pop and trippy jams

Mazarin

A Tall-Tale Storyline (spinART)

Mellow

Another Mellow Spring (CyberOctave)

Riff Raff

Another Mellow Spring (CyberOctave)

When Rock 'n' Roll Forgets

S.F.'s Richie Unterberger writes about the greatest musicians you've never heard of

Quadraphonia

The Flaming Lips want you to play all four of their new CDs -- at the same time

Recordings

The Flaming Lips want you to play all four of their new CDs -- at the same time

Recordings

The Flaming Lips want you to play all four of their new CDs -- at the same time

Hear This

The Flaming Lips want you to play all four of their new CDs -- at the same time