The Psychedelic Furs

Saturday: The Horrors Update the '80s at Bimbo's

Chris TrewinThe Horrors at Bimbo's 365 Club​ The Horrors September 12, 2011 Bimbo's 365 Club Better than: The Horrors in 2005. The problem with watching bands on a Saturday night at Bimbo's 365 Club in North Beach is that a certain portion of the crowd is there by accident. Like drunk, middl ... More >>

The Undertones Blow Out The Amps At SF Popfest 2011

Romana MachadoThe Undertones​SF Popfest: The Undertones The Mantles Melted Toys The Smittens May 27th, 2011 @ Rickshaw Stop Better than: Sitting at home on a cold May night with your Raspberries mp3s and all the Debby Boone albums you can burn. Ricki Lee Jones was playing at Davies Hall, whic ... More >>

Saturday Night: Coheed and Cambria Perform Two Possibly Magical Sets at the Fox Theater

Romana MachadoClaudio Sanchez of Coheed and Cambria​Coheed and CambriaThe Second Stage Turbine Blade TourMay 7, 2011@ Fox Theater, OaklandBetter than: The next three fiftysomething chuckleheads you hear pronounce rock dead. The scene outside Oakland's Fox Theater last Saturday night was as old as ... More >>

The Psychedelic Furs Play Talk Talk Talk At Slim's

Romana MachadoRichard Butler of The Psychedelic Furs​ The Psychedelic Furs Talk Talk Talk May 3, 2011 @ Slim's Better than: Staying home and getting high to some old John Hughes movie. Daylight was still streaming through the windows by the time we cleared the slow-moving line in front of Slim' ... More >>

Last Night: The Horrors and the Kills at the Fillmore

The HorrorsThe Horrors, the KillsTuesday, May 19, 2009The FillmoreBetter than: Seeing the Psychedelic Furs in 2009. Walking into the Fillmore before either the Horrors or the Kills had set up on stage, two things were clear about the crowd: they were young, and they were very enthusiastic. You were ... More >>

Good Golly, Miss Molly!

Good Magazine Block Party, Psychedelic Furs, Os Mutantes -- ASD's Live Music Picks for Sunday, July 15

Oakland's rap jokesters Kirb & Chris bring ha ha's to Rickshaw

Radio Radio

Contemplating the airwaves, the NBA, and what it means to be Welsh at Dylan's

It's All Relative

Such smart performance

What Came Before

Music and dance older than Jim Crow

Shorties

EPs are usually ignored by reviewers. Here are a few recent releases worth taking note of.

House of Tudor

Rising up from the open mike scene, Neil Howard and the New Black deliver dark pop songs

A Bus Trip

Affirmative-action Adventures

Through the Cracks

There are some benefits of big-city gentrification. Jesse Malin's brilliant new record is one of them.

The Wrath of Gahan

With the release of his solo debut, the Depeche Mode frontman completes the ultimate rock 'n' roll star trek: Success, Overdose, Resurrection

Reviews

Pew's Anatomy

Murder at the Pink Tarantula

Carmel Sanger's death -- a walk-in shooting at a SOMA hair salon called the Pink Tarantula -- was professionally brutal. Her life was a wondrous combination of the drag queens and musicians and druggies and gays and bikers and lesbians and tattooists and

Recordings

Night Crawler