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Beer of the Week: Magnolia Brewery Quadlibet for Tenderfeet

The bad news is that SF Beer Week has come and gone. The good news? You're probably a lot less hungover. Wait, we still have another week of Strong Beer Month? Ok, scratch that last thing we said about fewer hangovers. The good news is that there's still gobs of delicious beer to consume throughout ... More >>

Fall Arts: Classical Revolution Charts a New Course

New Year's Eve: 10 Bands Playing Live in S.F. Worth Spending Your Evening With

Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve is still an option for the night of Dec. 31, since the man himself has lived to rock another year. But if the glow of the television screen isn't gonna provide enough sonic warmth this year, there are thankfully plenty of options to hear and see music performed li ... More >>

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

The Year in Music Booze: Six Artist's Beverages That Made 2011 One Long Hangover

Rock 'n' roll culture died in 2011. It's got nothing to do with your opinion of Bon Iver, but everything to do with Rolling Stone. The former leading voice of modern music upheld its immaculate reputation this year... by starting an official wine club. It's filled with bottles branded with imagery f ... More >>

Meet Rock Med: the Guardian Angels of Concertgoers

Rock Med staff at the Sierra Nevada Music Festival 2003​They might be the greatest concert buffs of all time. This year, they plan to attend 700 concerts. Last month alone, they saw an astounding 60-odd shows, including Iron & Wine, Britney Spears, U2, Panic! At the Disco, and the Yellow Magi ... More >>

Saturday Night: Los Lobos Rings in Bill Graham's 80th Birthday at the Fillmore

Los Lobos and Jackie Greene, through a birthday ballon. Pics by Romana Machado​Bill Graham's 80th Birthday Party BenefitLos LobosJackie GreenePoor Man's WhiskeyJanuary 8, 2010@ The FillmoreAs much fun as: Two straws in a malted mushroom.Bill Graham was due to turn eighty the same day Elvis would'v ... More >>

This Week, the Everlasting Les Claypool Rings in 20 Years of Weird New Year's Eve Shows

Les Claypool and the Frog Brigade​Think back, grasshopper, project yourself back to the late '80s and the early '90s -- yes, a lifetime ago. Major labels and would-be majors signed tons of bands that could more or less bear the handle of "alternative rock." The discs by many of these bands can now ... More >>

Bill Graham's Sons Sue Over Lost Dylan, Aretha, and Stones Posters

Bill Graham​Legendary local concert promoter Bill Graham's sons are suing the man left in charge of his estate for allegedly selling valuable music memorabilia without informing them, the Chron reports.The suit concerns 100 sets of posters advertising shows by the Rolling Stones, Aretha Franklin, ... More >>

Supervisor Candidates Spill Love for Music Scene at Forum

District 8 Candidate Rafael Mandelman speaks on nightlife issues at Yoshi's​Last night, ten would-be S.F. supervisors gathered at Yoshi's on Fillmore to discuss how to keep this city's music scene thriving.Step back and think about that for a second. While the road to becoming a San Francisco City ... More >>

10 Bands To See at Outside Lands This Weekend

A stage at Outside Lands 2009​It may not be the greatest Outside Lands lineup ever, but this weekend's big-honkin' music (and wine and food!) festival packs a bicycle basket-full of bands we're stroked (heh, we mean stoked) to see. Here, in no particular order, are 10 of them, plus a few honorable ... More >>

New Albums: Jefferson Airplane Live in S.F., 1966-1968

Four new Jefferson Airplane live albums will be released later this year.​Few of the now-legendary San Francisco bands of the '60s stand out like Jefferson Airplane. There's the Grateful Dead, which got bigger and stayed good a lot longer than the Airplane did. But even in its "Dark Star" days, th ... More >>

The High Road

Growers who cashed in on illegal pot now welcome legalization and taxation.

Disappointing Outside Lands lineup selling lots of tickets

Christopher VictorioNo, he's not gonna be there this year​ Disappointed Outside Lands fan, we share your woe: The lineup this year -- at least concerning headliners -- just doesn't woo us like it has in years past. Not to slam the bands at the top of the bill. My Morning Jacket, Furthur, Al Green ... More >>

Last Night: Vincent Gallo, Sean Lennon, Bob Weir at Red Devil Lounge

​Vincent Gallo, Sean Lennon, Bob Weir, & The Ghost of a Saber Toothed TigerWednesday, Aug. 12, 2009Red Devil LoungeBetter than: Getting what you expected, every time. Going to a Vincent Gallo show is a bit like dropping money into one of those claw arcade games. You pay the fee and hope to gra ... More >>

Global Drum Project Snags World Music Grammy

Global Drum Project Former Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart didn't invent world music. But he was among the first to take it out of the hands of ethnomusicologists and into the clutches of pop culture. Eighteen years ago, Hart and tabla titan Zakir Hussain won the first World Music Grammy for ... More >>

Taste, Slow Food Rocks, The Ant Show and Zombies on the Sunday Streets: Your Tuesday Morning Hangover

Stanley Mouse Previews Grateful Dead Converse Collection at Shoe Biz

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

Apricot Jam Session

Jay-Z's New Title: Most Overrated Rapper Ever

For All You Jug Band Film Lovers in SF: All 2 of you

The Good Magazine Block Party

Everybody's a GOOD Samaritan these days: the music trend of worthy causes

Summer of Love

Get your funk on for free

The Golden Road

Pioneering freak-folkers Matt Valentine and Erika Elder

The Big Bang

Entering Comets on Fire's blazing parallel universes

Howling with Hagerty; Scottish indie-pop gets brawny

Indie stalwarts Minmae come to Thee Parkside; Swedish trio E.S.T. updates altrock for the jazz set

Best Classic Music Venues

Play Right

A festival of brand-new theater

Jazz Attack

Bop returns to the Fillmore

Jerry Garcia

All Good Things (Rhino)

Light It Up

Bill Graham's "Mama"

Rock Ninja!

The true story of a real ninja at a real club -- really

Drink It In

The brains behind the bar

Shop Till You Drop

Forget Kurt Cobain's Journals, and try Eminem's To-Do Lists instead

Heart of the City

A peculiar night on the seamy side of Sixth Street

Make Room for Art

How to protect arts spaces during an economic boom (protests won't do it)

Best Jann Wenner Memory Under Glass

Riff Raff

Morrissey Gets Colored Black on the Outside, Because Black Is How He Feels on the Inside

One-Hit Wanderer

Since moving to the Bay Area a decade ago, Alec Palao has diligently tracked the history of local bands before the Grateful Dead (yes, such bands existed)

Bluesman's Blues

Paul Pena,who's played with everyone from Jerry Garcia to B.B. King, is coming out of the musical shadows, thanks to the award-winning documentary Genghis Blues. He's also blind, and sick, and entirely tired of living.

Night + Day

The House of Tudor

Asphalt Field of Dreams

Located just blocks from downtown, the San Francisco Recreational Vehicle Park is home to tales of wonder and redemption. It will close in the fall.

Tripmasters

The Bay Area's chemical gentry

The Electric Clearlight Acid Mess

The bust of LSD bagman Waldron Vorhees, aka Captain Clearlight, opens a windowpane on the city -- and on the narco-cop nincompoops

Night Crawler