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Stanford has "Beatles on the Brain" Despite Lack of Hallucinogens

MP3 of the Day: Rosewood Thieves

Photo Exhibit Features the Beatles in India

Beatles fans should head over to the San Francisco Art Exhange before the end of the month to check out photographer Paul Saltzman's exhibit of the band on their historic Indian sojourn 40 years ago. Titled "The Beatles in India: Creativity and Inner Peace," the show presents the only visual docume ... More >>

Rock Fish

Flying Kamikazes matches fine sushi with an AOR soundtrack

Turning Japanese

At this tiny spot, tasty skewered treats are served with a vintage soundtrack.

Who's Your Daddy?

At this tiny spot, tasty skewered treats are served with a vintage soundtrack.

Young @ Heart

At this tiny spot, tasty skewered treats are served with a vintage soundtrack.

Rich Unterberger brings rare rock flicks to the Haight

At this tiny spot, tasty skewered treats are served with a vintage soundtrack.

'Across the Universe': Help!

Run for your life if you can, little girl: Julie Taymor's '60s-set musical is a bust

Broken West

I Can't Go On, I'll Go On (Merge)

The Dating Game

Death and the Dead surround 6/6/06

Oh, Pioneers

Behold - the forgotten history of the Beau Brummels, the true originators of the San Francisco sound of the '60s

Paul McCartney

Chaos & Creation in the Backyard

Excepter

Throne

Accentuate the Negativ

Fathers hide your intellectual property: The Bay Area's original culture jammers are back

Hear This

The Meat Purveyors drag bluegrass through the gutter; the Owls one-up the Beatles

Fab Film

Forty years ago, Al Maysles met the Beatles

The Beatles

Let It Be... Naked

Continuous Peasant

Exile in Babyville

Pop Philosophy

All things must pass.

Mellow

Another Mellow Spring (CyberOctave)

The Mix

Night Tripping

Los Shakers; Various Artists

Los Shakers: ¡Por Favor! (Ace/Big Beat); Various Artists: Jovem Guarda -- 21 Grandes Sucessos (Columbia-Brasil)

Psychotic Reaction

With a mind-boggling debut album, the Lowdown proves how to love pop music -- to death

The Frogs

Racially Yours (Four Alarm)

Yours for a Song

A Night of Serious Drinking rewrites the rules of the old-fashioned rock combo

Review

Velvet Crush's Free Expression

The Dawning of A Hard Day's Night

Velvet Crush's Free Expression

Bubble Burst

Velvet Crush's Free Expression

Night+Day

Velvet Crush's Free Expression

Let's Get Groovy

Velvet Crush's Free Expression

Mania

Velvet Crush's Free Expression

Games Beatles fans play: The Fab Four’s amusement oeuvre

Velvet Crush's Free Expression

Pirate Radio gets a tame U.S. release, but we still love rock 'n' roll

Velvet Crush's Free Expression

Noise Pop Preview: Q&A w/ A B & The Sea

Helena Price​Guitarists Joe Spargur and Koley O'Brien of the new indie-pop quintet A B & The Sea moved out to San Francisco from Winneconne, Wisconsin at the end of 2008. They came at the suggestion of the Morning Benders to take a serious stab at the music business. It seems to be paying off. ... More >>

What To Do? Thursday's Pick: The Sandwitches

​The Sandwitches @ Rickshaw Stop If the Replacements were ghoulish teenage girls raised on a strict diet of Chuck Berry outtakes, the Sandwitches would be their biggest fans. Moaning and howling out harmonized orders to go "Back to the Sea" or "Mary Me," lead vocalists and guitar players Heidi Al ... More >>

Q & A w/ OK Go

​In what will be the most memorable rock video of the year, OK Go's "This Too Shall Pass," begins with a red toy truck being pushed into a line of dominoes that sets off an elaborate Rube Goldberg-like chain reaction of mayhem and pop magic. Pianos fall, TVs are smashed and the lead singer, Damian ... More >>

Come Together: Paul McCartney's Return to SF

​My mom is way cooler than I am. Back when she lived in Atlanta, Georgia, and had a southern accent still intact, she was a music journalist whose homemade chocolate chip cookies gave her an automatic "in" backstage at Elvis Costello and Bruce Springsteen concerts. At 57, she continues to tell me ... More >>

Saturday Night: Paul McCartney at AT&T Park

Christopher Victorio​Paul McCartney July 10, 2010@AT&T Park Better than: Any live performance of Beatles songs by anyone alive. In between "woooos," "yeeee-hawws," "yay-yeahs," other assorted exclamatory noises, and turns gleefully thrusting his guitar or bass skyward, an energized Paul McCa ... More >>

Organ Donor

Christopher Victorio​Paul McCartney July 10, 2010@AT&T Park Better than: Any live performance of Beatles songs by anyone alive. In between "woooos," "yeeee-hawws," "yay-yeahs," other assorted exclamatory noises, and turns gleefully thrusting his guitar or bass skyward, an energized Paul McCa ... More >>

The Beatles on iTunes: If It Happens, Should We Care?

From one Apple to another?​If the Wall Street Journal, Reuters, and the New York Times are correct, Apple will announce a deal tomorrow to sell the Beatles' music through the iTunes store. What would such a deal mean? Should we even care? A few thoughts below:- How big a deal is this? If you're St ... More >>

Official: The Beatles Now on iTunes (Yawn)

​So, as expected, Apple's big announcement today is that the Beatles' music is now available on the iTunes store. The band's albums are sold whole (regular albums are $12.99; the double-length White Album is $19.99) or by individual songs, which sell for $1.29. Also for sale now are three "bo ... More >>

Top 5 Reasons You Should Buy Beatles Albums, Not Beatles Songs

So now you can download Beatles tracks one-at-a-time on the iTunes store for $1.29. But just because you can do something doesn't mean you should, and that's doubly true for the Beatles' music. While some parts of the band's catalog are entirely cherry-pickable, much of the Beatles' work -- especial ... More >>

Welcome to the Music Industry, 2011: Records Don't Sell, Touring Can Make Bank, and Major Labels Are (Mostly) Useless

​For whatever reason, today seems to be the day that the music industry reminds us that it's still in total upheaval. Soundscan tells us that relatively few people actually bought music in 2010, unless they were fans of Eminem and Katy Perry. Dave Matthews spent the last 10 years collecting $500 ... More >>

Get High and Cruise Down McLemore Avenue -- Booker T. & the MGs' Take on Abbey Road

​ This Week: Cruise down McLemore Avenue with Booker T. & the MGs​Behind the buzz: Loosened from Stax Records' leaky grip by the recent avalanche of Beatles-related reissues is this 1970 reconfiguration of Abbey Road. As leader of the house band for the Memphis soul giant, Booker T. Jones wa ... More >>

The Absolute, No-Debate Worst Song Any Beatle Ever Recorded

Young McCartney always dreamed of the day he would become a real boy. ​Last week, our colleagues in Broward County and Los Angeles shared their lists of the five worst-ever Beatles songs. While amusing, both omitted what objective science tells us are, in fact, the honest-to-God stinkiest fab flop ... More >>

Long Live the Triptych: Five Great Series of Three Rock Songs

In visual art, it's called a triptych -- a piece divided into three connected sections or panels. The individual panels could, in theory, stand on their own, but each adds meaning and significance to the other two, creating a single work that is more than the sum of its parts. We don't have a name ... More >>

Jigsaw Seen: Show Preview

In visual art, it's called a triptych -- a piece divided into three connected sections or panels. The individual panels could, in theory, stand on their own, but each adds meaning and significance to the other two, creating a single work that is more than the sum of its parts. We don't have a name ... More >>

Rich Beatles Fans Will Pay Buttloads of Cash For Questionable Memorabilia

Later this month, an amplifier used by George Harrison when he was recording Revolver and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band with the rest of The Beatles is going under the hammer in London. And it's expected to sell for somewhere between $80,000 and $110,000. We wouldn't be that surprised i ... More >>