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    May 24, 2012

    The Cult's Ian Astbury Talks New Album, Kitchen Knives, and Fucked-Up Children

    Not too many bands have traced the kind of eclectic arc traveled by The Cult. Anchored by the British songwriting team of singer Ian Astbury and guitarist Billy Duffy for three decades, the group has traversed from its UK gothic-rock roots in the early 1980s through a rise to global fame with the ic ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 7, 2011

    Get Riptide Ripped with Susan SurfTone's Shore

    ​Listen to this while high: Susan SurfTone's Shore.​Behind the buzz: L.A.'s Susan & the Surftones were a tuneful part of the revived surf-rock scene of the '90s, when bands like Los Straightjackets, The Blue Hawaiians and Man or Astro Man? began to work the genre's buzzy instrumentals and go ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2011

    The Top 50 Songs To Get High To

    As you might imagine, combing back numbers of my Listen to This While High column and my own vast library for a reasonable stab at the Fifty Stoniest Songs Ever is a labor and hashish intensive experience. Preliminary fossickings unearthed these half-hundred favorites, many of which may seem unfamil ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 13, 2011

    Helpful Advice: How to Survive NOT Going to Coachella

    The time is almost upon us. This week, tens of thousands of beautiful indie kids will descend on a patch of desert in Indio, Calif., and bear witness to some of the finest music the modern world has to offer at the 13th annual Coachella Festival.​For those of you who didn't manage to get a ti ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 25, 2011

    Noise Pop: The Stone Foxes Tread Familiar Ground at the Independent

    Joseph SchellThe Stone Foxes at the Independent last night.​The Stone Foxes Voxhaul Broadcast Ferocious Few The Soft White Sixties February 24, 2011 @ The Independent Better than: Listening to 107.7 The Bone play the same hundred songs on loop. Noise Pop gave a tip of the feathered hat to the b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2010

    Pardon Jim Morrison, But Penalize Jimmy Page and Led Zeppelin

    Jim Morrison performing in Miami, March 1, 1969​At the time of his death in a Paris bathtub in the summer of 1971, James Douglas Morrison, singer and lyricist for epochal L.A. band The Doors, was looking at six months' hard labor in Florida. Among other offenses at a March, 1969 performance at Di ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 20, 2010

    Top 5 Most Excruciating Moments in Music Documentaries

    We've yet to see Joaquin Phoenix documenting his own nervous breakdown in new movie I'm Still Here, but critics have been largely disgusted by what's on view. With that in mind, here are five other moments in music documentaries that have left us feeling queasy and depressed.5. Jim Morrison Having H ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 2, 2010

    When You're Strange

    We've yet to see Joaquin Phoenix documenting his own nervous breakdown in new movie I'm Still Here, but critics have been largely disgusted by what's on view. With that in mind, here are five other moments in music documentaries that have left us feeling queasy and depressed.5. Jim Morrison Having H ... More >>

  • Film

    May 12, 2010

    Arthouse movie listings for May 12-18, 2010

    We've yet to see Joaquin Phoenix documenting his own nervous breakdown in new movie I'm Still Here, but critics have been largely disgusted by what's on view. With that in mind, here are five other moments in music documentaries that have left us feeling queasy and depressed.5. Jim Morrison Having H ... More >>

  • Film

    May 5, 2010

    Arthouse movie listings for May 5-11, 2010

    We've yet to see Joaquin Phoenix documenting his own nervous breakdown in new movie I'm Still Here, but critics have been largely disgusted by what's on view. With that in mind, here are five other moments in music documentaries that have left us feeling queasy and depressed.5. Jim Morrison Having H ... More >>

  • Film

    April 28, 2010

    Arthouse movie listings for April 28-May 4, 2010

    We've yet to see Joaquin Phoenix documenting his own nervous breakdown in new movie I'm Still Here, but critics have been largely disgusted by what's on view. With that in mind, here are five other moments in music documentaries that have left us feeling queasy and depressed.5. Jim Morrison Having H ... More >>

  • Film

    April 21, 2010

    Arthouse movie listings for April 21-27, 2010

    We've yet to see Joaquin Phoenix documenting his own nervous breakdown in new movie I'm Still Here, but critics have been largely disgusted by what's on view. With that in mind, here are five other moments in music documentaries that have left us feeling queasy and depressed.5. Jim Morrison Having H ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2010

    Rhea's Deli Serving Up Korean Taco Deliciousness

    Lolia S./YelpKorean tacos began appearing a few months ago.​The relentless patter of rain sloshing the street outside our living room window has subsided, if only for a few minutes. There is a hopeful brightness behind the clouds, but we're wasting no time. We're pulling on our boots. Our favo ... More >>

  • Culture

    January 6, 2010

    The Harvard Psychedelic Club: Altered states of America.

    Lolia S./YelpKorean tacos began appearing a few months ago.​The relentless patter of rain sloshing the street outside our living room window has subsided, if only for a few minutes. There is a hopeful brightness behind the clouds, but we're wasting no time. We're pulling on our boots. Our favo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2009

    What Song Should Be the Giants' Late-Inning Theme? Your Input Is Requested.

    ​Yesterday, the Chronicle's Henry Schulman penned a truly entertaining article about how former Journey frontman Steve Perry is peeved because the Dodgers play "Don't Stop Believin'" when the team needs a rally in the bottom of the ninth -- and Perry is a Giants fan. Any article in which Perry utt ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2008

    (Air) Guitar Heroes: A Look at the SF Finalists

    ​Yesterday, the Chronicle's Henry Schulman penned a truly entertaining article about how former Journey frontman Steve Perry is peeved because the Dodgers play "Don't Stop Believin'" when the team needs a rally in the bottom of the ninth -- and Perry is a Giants fan. Any article in which Perry utt ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 28, 2008

    Coachella, Mortified confessions, Ascended Master and the Golding Collection of Rock Art - Your Monday Morning Hangover

    ​Yesterday, the Chronicle's Henry Schulman penned a truly entertaining article about how former Journey frontman Steve Perry is peeved because the Dodgers play "Don't Stop Believin'" when the team needs a rally in the bottom of the ninth -- and Perry is a Giants fan. Any article in which Perry utt ... More >>

  • Film

    October 24, 2007

    Unknown Pleasures

    Joy Division portrait proves the exception to the rock biopic drool

  • Music

    July 25, 2007

    TV Eye

    The Summer of Love's dismissed boob tube connection

  • Blogs

    July 11, 2007

    Jim Morrison Died on Nightclub Shitter: New Book Reveals

    The Summer of Love's dismissed boob tube connection

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2007

    Hey, big spender! (Craigslist is ridiculous)

    The Summer of Love's dismissed boob tube connection

  • Blogs

    June 21, 2007

    Last Night: Sage Francis

    The Summer of Love's dismissed boob tube connection

  • Home Entertainment

    December 13, 2006

    Our top DVD picks for the week of December 12:

    The Summer of Love's dismissed boob tube connection

  • Film

    August 16, 2006

    Repertory Film Listings

    The Summer of Love's dismissed boob tube connection

  • Summer Guide

    June 28, 2006

    Get Inside!

    Your forecast of the summer's top movies

  • Music

    May 10, 2006

    Indie Dim Sum

    The Mission Creek Music & Arts Festival offers tasty treats from the underground

  • Film

    July 9, 2003

    Reefer Madness

    Indulging our appreciation of the weird, with the founder of S.F. Indiefest

  • News

    September 9, 1998

    Retouching Evil

    Using detailed instructions from Orson Welles, film editor and sound designer Walter Murch has remade "the best B-movie ever" -- Welles' Touch of Evil

  • Music

    April 16, 1997

    Night Crawler

    Using detailed instructions from Orson Welles, film editor and sound designer Walter Murch has remade "the best B-movie ever" -- Welles' Touch of Evil

  • Music

    December 11, 1996

    Samples

    Using detailed instructions from Orson Welles, film editor and sound designer Walter Murch has remade "the best B-movie ever" -- Welles' Touch of Evil

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