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The 7 Most Iconic Bay Area Band Logos

By TAMARA PALMER and IAN S. PORT Having a great band logo is more than art; it's also part science, alchemy, and business smarts. To create something impactful is like capturing lightning in a bottle, and a successful effort results in an image fans will want to show off for years. A few local grea ... More >>

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

Furthur Cancels Bottle Rock Napa Valley Set After Bob Weir Collapses Onstage

Bay Area jam outfitFurthur just announced that it will cancel its set at next week's Bottle Rock Napa Valley music festival in the wake of frontman Bob Weir's onstage collapse. The band, which features Grateful Dead co-founders Weir and Phil Lesh, had been scheduled to headline the first night of Bo ... More >>

Bob Weir's Fancy New TRI Studios Is Holding a Contest For a Free Day of Recording

Earlier this year, we told you about Grateful Dead member Bob Weir's state-of-the-art recording facility in San Rafael, Tamalpais Research Institute (TRI). TRI is furnished with a Meyer Sound Constellation system, which allows the acoustic properties of the room to be altered with the touch of a but ... More >>

The Full-Length Jerry Garcia Doc Is Go

Jerry Garcia, the San Francisco-born guitarist of the Grateful Dead, will be the subject of a new feature-length documentary film released this spring, according to a report today in Deadline Hollywood. Spearheading the project are music documentary producer Malcom Leo (This Is Elvis, The Beach Boy ... More >>

San Francisco's Five Best Restaurants for Beer Geeks

hober/Flickr​SFoodie hates the term "gastropub." Hates it. But this city has more and more restaurants that technically qualify. Some are brewpubs where you can eat something more substantial than potato skins and greasy burgers. Some talk up their "beer program" (SFoodie sees that phrase and ... More >>

Outside Lands Brain-Burner: Fire on the Bayou by the Meters

​ Listen to this while high: Fire on the Bayou, by the Original Meters.Behind the buzz: Buried w-a-a-ay deep on the bill at this weekend's Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival are The Original Meters, the slickest karass of funketeers ever to lurch out of New Orleans. Groomed for superstardo ... More >>

Aaron Novik: Show Preview

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 >>

Make a Famous Musician -- Wayne Coyne! Bob Weir! -- Remind You To Vote

Russ Harrington (russharrington.com) for Harp MagazineGrace Potter gets intimate with democracy​So you're the kind of person who forgets to vote. And in such a democracy-happy burg as S.F., where voters are asked to weigh in frequently on such trivialities as the mix of recycled material in the to ... More >>

The Top Five Covers of Outside Lands 2010

Christopher VictorioAl Green's soul medley on Sunday had us wearing a stupid grin.​Of all the things we'll remember about this year's Outside Lands festival -- the sun breaking through the fog during Al Green's set, the gaudy costumes of Empire of the Sun, and the incessant oonce oonce from the He ... More >>

Monday's Pick: Jerry Garcia Tribute Night

​Jerry Garcia Tribute NightAT&T ParkPre-game tribute performance at home plate at 6:30; game at 7:15Even after his death, Jerry Garcia is still on a long, strange trip, which will make a stop at the Giants/Cubs game at AT&T Park tonight. Aligned with the 15th anniversary of his passing, Je ... More >>

Jerry Garcia Is Getting a Biopic

Jay Blakesberg​Finally: the late San Francisco native, Bernal Hill pot smoker, and guitar player for iconic psych/jam/folk/rock outfit the Grateful Dead (you've heard of them, right?) is getting his own biopic.The film, according to Variety, will focus on Garcia as a youngster -- the years before ... More >>

Google May Launch iTunes Rival, Rock Concert Injuries, Shred Guitar on Your iPhone

Bono, your ruined back totally ruined our week​Google may launch music store to battle with iTunes this fall. [CNET]U2 had to postpone tonight's show in Oakland due to Bono's back injury. Disappointed, the Chron assembles a list of famous rock injury moments. [SF Gate]Members of Oakland noise-psy ... More >>

It's Your Friday Morning News Quiz!

Is this elf even unionized?​Rock! Roll! Real estate! Are you ready for a news quiz? Well, here it is anyway. 1. What San Francisco rock musician unloaded his Pac Heights mansion for nearly $9 million? A. Mickey Hart, Grateful DeadB. Carlos SantanaC. Les Claypool, PrimusD. Kirk Hammet, MetallicaE. ... More >>

Saturday and Sunday: Slow Food Rocks

Grateful Day

Get Your Mits on Grateful Dead Collectibles

Sunday Photos: Haight Ashbury Street Fair

Deadheads For Obama Rally At Warfield Day Before Super Tuesday

BitTorrent, Comcast, EFF Antipathetic To FCC Regulation of P2P Traffic

Dave Matthews Band Voter Registration: So Begins Another Inane 'Rock the Vote' Season

The Dating Game

Death and the Dead surround 6/6/06

Some of My Best Friends Are Records

SF Weekly writers pick their favorite Bay Area records of all time

Oh, Pioneers

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

And You Thought They Sucked

These bands actually rule -- just like the Grateful Dead does

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, December 21, 2005

Magical Mystery Allure

In search of an ephemeral, glowing blue sphere in the music of Animal Collective

Best Free Bluegrass

Bouncer

The best new club in S.F., Madrone Lounge, is a -- gasp! -- collective art space

Yippie-Ki-Yay!

Getting back to what the Cow Palace was intended for: rodeo

Ferociously Stoned

Remember when psych rock thrived in S.F.? Of course you don't. You were high. But Comets on Fire will jar more than your memory.

Together at Last

Pizza combines with Indian food to form a more perfect union

Dirty Dancing

The dark side to every guy's secret dream job: stripper

House of Tudor

A Deadhead's Songcatchers and the best rock band in America

Pine Valley Cosmonauts

The Executioner's Last Songs Vol. 2 & 3

Various Artists

Welcome to the Newsroom

Monkey Business

The otherworldly chanting of Tibet's Gyuto Monks

House Of Tudor

"Cover to Cover"; Brian & Chris; "Haydn and the Gypsies"

Reel World

All the President's Men; The Grateful Dead Movie

Various Artists

Easy Tempo and Jet Society

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

Riff Raff

Night+Day

Drop the Ball, Already

Slap Shots

Samples

Meet the Dealers

The bud men of Haight Street

Slap Shots

The Electric Multimedia Psychedelic Time Trip

Haight-Ashbury pioneer and Oracle editor Allen Cohen resurrects the Summer of Love with a CD-ROM