The Cure (Band)

Killing Joke Starts a Frenzy at the Fillmore, 5/3/13

Killing Joke Friday, May 3, 2013 The Fillmore Better than: Seeing New Order, the Cure, or any other British post-punk contemporaries of Killing Joke still in operation. In terms of sheer breadth of influence, few bands from the post-punk era can approach the reach of Killing Joke. The brooding, a ... More >>

Live 105's BFD: Jane's Addiction, Fun., and Garbage Get the Sun-Drenched Masses Moving

Live 105's BFD, with Jane's Addiction, Garbage, Cake, fun., Neon Trees, and more Saturday, June 2, 2012 Shoreline Amphitheater Better than: Listening to Live 105 for 12 consecutive hours. True to its name, Live 105's BFD was a big fucking deal yet again this year. We're talking more than three doz ... More >>

See The Tower of Pork and Other Delights at Chris Cosentino's Los Angeles Eatery PIGG

While Southern California's Umami Burger opened its first Bay Area location in San Francisco in 2011 and has signed a lease on a second spot in Oakland, it has also developed a new and broader concept called Umamicatessen, which debuted in downtown Los Angeles in March. The showpiece of the Umami Re ... More >>

Honor Roll Crew Singer 1 O.A.K. on His Debut Solo Album, Studio Mischief, and Covering Wham!

"We'll be taking a lot of shots tonight!" 1 O.A.K. is about to head out and celebrate his brother's 21st birthday by hitting up a few local bars -- but the Oakland-based singer and producer has good reason to indulge in some reveling with his debut solo album, Special Request, having dropped last we ... More >>

Digitalism Excites a Sold-Out Mezzanine Crowd

Take us into the light​ Digitalism Data Romance Anna Lunoe Wednesday, Dec. 14th, 2011 Mezzanine Better than: Sitting in a plastic rocket and pretending to go to the moon. While a typical midweek party at Mezzanine might see the opening DJs playing an indulgent set to a small group of friend ... More >>

10 Actually Good Songs on Metallica's Despised Load and Reload Albums

It's not that bad. Really.​ As we celebrate Metallica's 30th Anniversary, it's time to reexamine a popular mindset among critics and fans of the most enduringly popular band in metal history: Many believe that that all four of Metallica's 1980s albums were unimpeachable classics, and that afte ... More >>

Vex Your Mind with Vex Ruffin's Crash Course EP

​ Listen to this while high: Vex Ruffin's Crash Course EPBehind the buzz: Vex Ruffin is the next whiz kid out of L.A.'s celebrated Stones Throw Records, signed after an unsolicited demo and now being touted as a split of the considerable difference between Ruff Ryders and The Cure. Such flacker ... More >>

Amazing Local Video Alert: Jascha Hoffman's Dreamily Illustrated "Some Hungry Guy"

Stills from the "Some Hungry Guy" video.​ Experimental animation is always ripe territory for a music video, as S.F. indie-pop songwriter Jascha Hoffman demonstrates with his new clip for "Some Hungry Guy." The video, directed by Benjamin Ahr Harrison, uses art from the Winsor McCay's century- ... More >>

All Shook Down: Crystal Castles, Mistah F.A.B., and Maus Haus Rile up the Regency

Joseph SchellCrystal Castles at the All Shook Down Music Fest​ SF Weekly's All Shook Down Fest featuring Crystal Castles, Mistah F.A.B., Maus Haus, and more August 6, 2011 Regency Ballroom [See Part I of our ASD Fest roundup, featuring Battlehooch, Richie Cunning, and Con Brio] Better than: Y ... More >>

All Shook Down Isn't Your Average Music Fest

In Print: Kreayshawn, Lil B, and the New Generation of Bay Area Hip-Hop; Our All Shook Down Fest; and More

From SF Weekly's latest print issue: ​Insurgent Hip-Hop: Adam Giacomini remembers the very first time he heard Kreayshawn's "Gucci Gucci." Giacomini, known to listeners of Bay Area radio station KMEL as DJ Amen, was eating lunch one day this spring with a local hip-hop manager at Original Buf ... More >>

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

Bela Lugosi's Not Dead: SF's Darkwave Scene Is Still Going Strong (and Weird)

A typical crowd at the Dancing Ghosts darkwave party.​If you like Britney Spears, Lady Gaga, or Kanye West, you probably shouldn't go to the Dancing Ghosts party at the Cat Club tomorrow night. If you normally wear lots of bright colors when you're out on the town, or if you like to spend tim ... More >>

Mick Jagger Forms Supergroup "Super Heavy," We're Super Embarrassed

​ Mick Jagger threw his name into the running for what may become the biggest supergroup of 2011, joining Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics, Damien Marley, Joss Stone, and A.R. Rahman, composer of the Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack, for what promises to be an eclectic (and hopefully not too terr ... More >>

The Top Ten Hip-Hop Drinking Anthems

​Hip-hop's reliance on marijuana as a creative conduit and lifestyle accessory is well documented. But beyond the genre's top tokers, there's also a bubbling batch of rappers who've rhymed about not so much getting a little tipsy as daily dalliances with the dark world of being black-out drunk ... More >>

Janice Whaley Reimagines the Smiths Catalog A Cappella

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 >>

"Take Me Home Tonight": Coke-Fueled '80s Nostalgia

Noise Pop: Film School Makes Itself Known at Cafe du Nord

Apex Manor​Film School Apex Manor Gregory and the Hawk Melted Toys @ Cafe du Nord Thursday, February 24, 2011 Better than: A rainy night at the beach. I tumbled down the stairs to Cafe du Nord last night to find the stage being cleared, rather unceremoniously, of various music-making devices. I ... More >>

Sunday Night: The Black Crowes Begin Their Last Stand at the Fillmore

Calibree PhotographyThe Black Crowes at the Fillmore last night.​The Black Crowes December 12, 2010 @ The Fillmore Better than: That thing Martin Scorsese lugged a camera to. To an Appalachian hillbilly transplant shivering through his first winter in the Bay Area, hearing that durable Southern ... More >>

SantaCon, Noise Pop Holiday Shop, Midnite Snaxxx, Menorah Lighting, Violent Anime, and More

Chrissy PiperTim Kerr plays Needles Pens this Friday​Can you feel it? The holidays are coming. Well, the oily latke meals of Chanukah are already in full swing, and Christmas decorations began to sparkle throughout the city last week. Want a fine way to celebrate this chilly first weekend of Decem ... More >>

Phantom Kicks, the Actors, and Sunbeam Rd. at Rickshaw Stop

The Actors. All photos by Romana Machado​Phantom Kicks  The Actors Sunbeam Rd. December 1, 2010 @ Rickshaw Stop Better than: I expected. Wednesday night live music has traditionally so little to commend itself that acts thank people just for showing up -- even if it's raining barrels, and ... More >>

Guided By Voices' Robert Pollard Gets Straight Up Avuncular on the Warfield's Ass

Pollard with smoke and beverage in hand.​Guided by VoicesTimes New VikingOctober 5, 2010@ the WarfieldBetter than: 1,039 smoothed out slappy hours  For the record, Robert Pollard still has hops. The Guided by Voices frontman and creative "Hot Freak" in fact has most of the move ... More >>

Wild Nothing: Show Preview

The Crazies Will Destroy You -- Spiritually, Sexually, and While Singing About Carnitas

​The exemplary Texas post-rock band This Will Destroy You is playing tonight at the Great American Music Hall. Meanwhile, the raucous, carousing and altogether less pigeonholeable San Francisco band The Crazies Will Destroy You is playing tonight at the Red Devil Lounge, headlining a benefit for m ... More >>

In the Rough

Pavement's Promise

Why Malkmus and Co. still need their seminal band

The Honor Roll Crew is the West Coast's Wu-Tang Clan

The Honor Roll Crew's Top Dancers, Players & Pleasures

​Headed up by Trackademicks, The Honor Roll Crew is a creative collective of eight Bay Area-based MCs, singers, producers and DJs. They bring a fresh approach to hip-hop, as exemplified by critically acclaimed late-'09 releases by Track ("Enjoy What You Do") and Spank Pops (Beautiful Noise).  ... More >>

SF's Veil Veil Vanish Celebrate CD Release at Popscene

​If your band traffics in '80s-indebted post-punk, it doesn't get much better than receiving a thumbs up from goth's godfather. That's what happened when local quintet Veil Veil Vanish contributed a cover of "The Upstairs Room" to the 2008 Cure tribute record Perfect As Cats. "We chose 'The Upstai ... More >>

Arthouse movie listings for December 30, 2009-January 5, 2010

The Lady Organist and the Tramp

Last Night: Weezer's 'Secret Show' at the Regency

Joseph Schell ​WeezerWednesday, Oct. 21, 2009The RegencyBetter than: Seeing an arena rock band in an arena.Just to be clear, there was a lot of screaming going on at the Regency last night for Weezer's free "secret" show. Fans screamed when the line they were standing in outside the venue--a line ... More >>

Hey DJ! Friday Q&A: Nathan Rapport

DJ and promoter Nathan Rapport's ears have been spoiled. He lived in Detroit long enough to enjoy the riches of techno's epicenter, and now when he hits a gay club, the dude does not want to hear ten million variations on the Kylie remix. Back in the Motor City he threw queer parties called SASS wit ... More >>

Zen and the Art of Nose Maintenance

Web Extra — Bonus Best Of

Lady Sovereign

Jigsaw (Midget/ EMI)

Return of the Art Bitches

Emo the Musical

Finally, mopey hipsters have their own musical

Boys don't cry, except when it's with the Cure

Love Like Fire

An Ocean in the Air (Black Ludella)

Finntroll; Download Festival; Bill Callahan; Black Crowes; the Go-Gos

Doing It Her Way

Immigrant Songs

The Skyflakes -- and the piNoisepop Festival -- put Filipino-American indie music on the map

Elemental Pee

Short and fast and complicated and not cuddlecore

Tears R Us

Middlebrow formula dilutes The Cure

Night+Day