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Last Night: The Murder City Devils at Great American Music Hall

The Murder City DevilsSunday, Feb. 15, 2009Great American Music HallBetter than: The Murder City Devils shows around the turn of the '00s -- where certain members were so smashed the sets didn't finish as much as they fantastically imploded. There's one thing you're pretty much guaranteed to hear ev ... More >>

The Murder City Devils’ respite from resting in peace

The Murder City DevilsSunday, Feb. 15, 2009Great American Music HallBetter than: The Murder City Devils shows around the turn of the '00s -- where certain members were so smashed the sets didn't finish as much as they fantastically imploded. There's one thing you're pretty much guaranteed to hear ev ... More >>

Animated punks: Jay Howell's new online variety show

The Murder City DevilsSunday, Feb. 15, 2009Great American Music HallBetter than: The Murder City Devils shows around the turn of the '00s -- where certain members were so smashed the sets didn't finish as much as they fantastically imploded. There's one thing you're pretty much guaranteed to hear ev ... More >>

We Try Harder to Abide

The Murder City DevilsSunday, Feb. 15, 2009Great American Music HallBetter than: The Murder City Devils shows around the turn of the '00s -- where certain members were so smashed the sets didn't finish as much as they fantastically imploded. There's one thing you're pretty much guaranteed to hear ev ... More >>

The Melvins continue to moon the music industry

The Murder City DevilsSunday, Feb. 15, 2009Great American Music HallBetter than: The Murder City Devils shows around the turn of the '00s -- where certain members were so smashed the sets didn't finish as much as they fantastically imploded. There's one thing you're pretty much guaranteed to hear ev ... More >>

After years of drone and addiction, Earth hears the light

The Murder City DevilsSunday, Feb. 15, 2009Great American Music HallBetter than: The Murder City Devils shows around the turn of the '00s -- where certain members were so smashed the sets didn't finish as much as they fantastically imploded. There's one thing you're pretty much guaranteed to hear ev ... More >>

The Melvins melt your noggin this New Year's Eve

The Murder City DevilsSunday, Feb. 15, 2009Great American Music HallBetter than: The Murder City Devils shows around the turn of the '00s -- where certain members were so smashed the sets didn't finish as much as they fantastically imploded. There's one thing you're pretty much guaranteed to hear ev ... More >>

Hostile Crawlcore

The Murder City DevilsSunday, Feb. 15, 2009Great American Music HallBetter than: The Murder City Devils shows around the turn of the '00s -- where certain members were so smashed the sets didn't finish as much as they fantastically imploded. There's one thing you're pretty much guaranteed to hear ev ... More >>

Sonic Youth and the Melvins

Album revivalists score with the indie geeks for the Don't Look Back tour series

Hesher's Pet

Isis holds metal to smarty-pants standards

Porn's seductive metal terrorism

Isis holds metal to smarty-pants standards

Downtuned Apocalypse

The Melvins prove getting Senile ain't so bad

Winning the Drone Wars

Boris rises above the din

Parlez-Vous Faux Français?

Boris rises above the din

Corrupted

El Mundo Frio (HG Fact)

It's a big fucking deal all over again

El Mundo Frio (HG Fact)

Jello Biafra With the Melvins

Sieg Howdy!

Hear This

Mark Mallman packs two days worth of energy into an hour's worth of rock; Alternative Tentacles turns 25 in style

William Hung

Inspiration

Sounding Out the New Year

S.F.'s musicians resolve to be as eclectic as S.F. musicians ought

Hear This

Ipecac Records' fourth annual New Year's Eve Binge and Purge Fest celebrates the label's almost perverse diversity

Love Plus One

Or five ways to make existing groups that much more super

True is stranger than fiction

The loser now will be later to win

Concentrick

Lucid Dreaming (Emperor Jones)

House Of Tudor

Documenting DeviantRhythms, Dead Low Tide's Devil-ish charm, and the elusive Jesse Sykes

Darling Clementine

Everyday people every night on Clement Street

House Of Tudor

Hammertoes; Jucifer; Duncan Wilder Johnson; Jump Up! Records Showcase; Einstürzende Neubauten; Who Wants to Shag to Be a Millionaire

Various Artists

Gimme Indie Rock
(K-Tel International)

Smells Like Leif Garrett

The Melvins are (still) willing to provoke and confuse

Riff Raff

The Melvins are (still) willing to provoke and confuse

Reviews

The Melvins are (still) willing to provoke and confuse

Grope for Merit

How the Melvins have perverted the indie process with Honky

Recordings

How the Melvins have perverted the indie process with Honky

Recordings

How the Melvins have perverted the indie process with Honky

Recordings

How the Melvins have perverted the indie process with Honky

Suspicious Minds

How the Melvins have perverted the indie process with Honky

Recordings

How the Melvins have perverted the indie process with Honky

Recordings

How the Melvins have perverted the indie process with Honky

The Stick-Up Artist

Man's Ruin: The Posters and Art of Frank Kozik

Down/Melvins

Man's Ruin: The Posters and Art of Frank Kozik

What What-ers?

Man's Ruin: The Posters and Art of Frank Kozik

High on Fire polishes its metal weaponry

Man's Ruin: The Posters and Art of Frank Kozik

Red Fang: Show Preview

Man's Ruin: The Posters and Art of Frank Kozik

Why Is The Melvins' King Buzzo So Bummed About the World Series?

Most of us would be stoked to be watching the World Series in person -- right?Right. Which is why this photograph of the Melvins' Roger "Buzz" Osborne (aka King Buzzo) is so perplexing: One bummed Buzzo​

S.F. Experimental Outfit Barn Owl Spreads Its Wings, Plays the Independent Tonight

Barn Owl​Thanks to both the national media and the local one, most of us know about the more-than-worthy garage-rock, shoegaze, indie-pop, and electronic sounds emanating from the S.F. scene. But far less appreciated are the aquifers of creativity stirring beneath us in the Bay Area's experimental ... More >>

On the Hunt for the Best Jukebox in the Haight

The juke at Aub Zam Zam​The heyday of authentic jukeboxes is long over. With many bars installing those nasty touchscreen digital Internet boxes, the old school record-flipping kind of jukebox is a dying breed. And this is in the town that originated the concept of jukeboxes back in 1889. So what ... More >>

The Rapture's Luke Jenner on Living in San Francisco, Being the "Black Sheep" of Sub Pop, and Learning to Be Positive

​ Touring on In the Grace of Your Love, the first album by his rhythmically aggressive, now gospel-influenced NYC-based band the Rapture in five years, singer/guitarist Luke Jenner took a moment to look at what he has accomplished to date. Turns out he's still a little sad he's never been able ... More >>