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Free Entertainment: Richie's Rock Clips This Wed

One of our favorite local rock historians, Richie Unterberger, will once again be giving his secret stash of excellent rock clips a public screening this Wednesday, Feb. 11, at the Park Branch of the San Francisco Public Library (1833 Page Street) between 7 and 9 p.m. His theme this time: the 45th ... More >>

Saturday Night: Pop Party at the de Young and Sugar Shack at the Paradise Lounge

Hanna QuevedoWarhol Live Pop Party at the de YoungSugar Shack at the Paradise LoungeSaturday, Feb. 22, 2009Better than: A double feature of Superstar: The Life and Times of Andy Warhol and Grease.San Francisco is a city that doesn't easily let go of the past. From our flea markets and vintage stores ... More >>

The Art of Restraint, Warhol Live Pop Party and the Grilled Cheese Invitational: Your Monday Morning Hangover

Our weekend involved cheese, ropes and Andy Warhol. In that order:Saturday afternoon's Grilled Cheese Invitational at Dolores Park was well attended - all 500 tasting wristbands sold out in minutes, a good hour before the event began! Tamara Palmer  has the skinny at SFoodie.Saturday evening wa ... More >>

Live Through This: The de Young's Warhol exhibit

Our weekend involved cheese, ropes and Andy Warhol. In that order:Saturday afternoon's Grilled Cheese Invitational at Dolores Park was well attended - all 500 tasting wristbands sold out in minutes, a good hour before the event began! Tamara Palmer  has the skinny at SFoodie.Saturday evening wa ... More >>

Something Good Will Come to Yoshi's

Our weekend involved cheese, ropes and Andy Warhol. In that order:Saturday afternoon's Grilled Cheese Invitational at Dolores Park was well attended - all 500 tasting wristbands sold out in minutes, a good hour before the event began! Tamara Palmer  has the skinny at SFoodie.Saturday evening wa ... More >>

And the Band Played On

Our weekend involved cheese, ropes and Andy Warhol. In that order:Saturday afternoon's Grilled Cheese Invitational at Dolores Park was well attended - all 500 tasting wristbands sold out in minutes, a good hour before the event began! Tamara Palmer  has the skinny at SFoodie.Saturday evening wa ... More >>

Some Country for Old Men

Seniors Scorsese and the Stones are together again.

Old Wounds

Seniors Scorsese and the Stones are together again.

Free Will-owz

Seniors Scorsese and the Stones are together again.

Take Cover

Patti Smith offers a beacon of light in '07's slew of dismal tributes

Flaccid nostalgia

Patti Smith offers a beacon of light in '07's slew of dismal tributes

It's (Not) Only Rock 'n' Roll

Saxophonist Tim Ries knows how to jazz up the Rolling Stones. After all, he tours with the band.

Lizard Kings

Is Louis XIV just another hot-to-trot retro rock band, or something far more sinister?

Hear This

M. Ward brings his dusky folk to Du Nord; buzz-band Louis XIV hits the "popscene."

Vashti Bunyan

Just Another Diamond Day

The Cuts

The Cuts (Birdman)

Fab Film

Forty years ago, Al Maysles met the Beatles

Hear This

After 30 years, Swedish prog-rockers Träd Gräs och Stenar touch down in the States

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Aerosmith and Kiss tell off the Rolling Stones – sort of

Hear This

Seeking an experienced live band? The Blind Boys of Alabama boast 60+ years of show-stopping soul.

Continuous Peasant

Exile in Babyville

Pre- and Post-Stones

Here are some places to help you get up for and come down from the Rolling Stones' three Bay Area appearances (Nov. 8, 9, and 12)

Blowin' Smoke

Ted Demme and Denis Leary are a match made in effin' heaven

Trans Am

Red Line (Thrill Jockey)

Hear This

Eddie Moore Jazz Festival

Retro, Active

The music of yesteryear isn't just a stack of records for country-rock's Mover -- it's a way of life

Dog Bites

Sticks and Stones; or, A Rare Moment of Lucidity

House Of Tudor

Geno Delafose, Balfa Toujours, Sex 66, Cock Sparrer

Apocalypse Then

Altamont slammed the door on rock 'n' roll's dream of peace and love. An insider remembers.

Stage

Altamont slammed the door on rock 'n' roll's dream of peace and love. An insider remembers.

Riff Raff

Altamont slammed the door on rock 'n' roll's dream of peace and love. An insider remembers.

Slap Shots

Altamont slammed the door on rock 'n' roll's dream of peace and love. An insider remembers.

Letters

Altamont slammed the door on rock 'n' roll's dream of peace and love. An insider remembers.

Riff Raff

Altamont slammed the door on rock 'n' roll's dream of peace and love. An insider remembers.

Through the Past (Lightly)

Altamont slammed the door on rock 'n' roll's dream of peace and love. An insider remembers.

Reviews

Altamont slammed the door on rock 'n' roll's dream of peace and love. An insider remembers.

Letters

Altamont slammed the door on rock 'n' roll's dream of peace and love. An insider remembers.

Kill yourself if you listen to classic rock

Altamont slammed the door on rock 'n' roll's dream of peace and love. An insider remembers.

Doggy Bag: Today's Odds and Ends

Our favorite morsels from the food blogs and beyond. Um, my mother with a pair of scissors?: Food Gal plays Dr. Freud, offering up the foodie equivalent of a Rorschach test in a wide-pixel photo of glistening piquillo peppers. Queries Food Gal: What do these peppers look like to you? (She reckons t ... More >>

Freak Folk Supergroup (Cabic, Rice, Farmer Dave) Coming to the Independent

​Forget the Monsters of Folk. The real underground neo folk act to keep an ear on is Emerald Triangle. The group has a serious California soft rock pedigree: San Francisco's own Andy Cabic of Vetiver, together with Farmer Dave (Venice denizen who's played with tons of acts, most notably Beachwood ... More >>

Pirate Radio gets a tame U.S. release, but we still love rock 'n' roll

​Forget the Monsters of Folk. The real underground neo folk act to keep an ear on is Emerald Triangle. The group has a serious California soft rock pedigree: San Francisco's own Andy Cabic of Vetiver, together with Farmer Dave (Venice denizen who's played with tons of acts, most notably Beachwood ... More >>

A Really Big Shew

​Forget the Monsters of Folk. The real underground neo folk act to keep an ear on is Emerald Triangle. The group has a serious California soft rock pedigree: San Francisco's own Andy Cabic of Vetiver, together with Farmer Dave (Venice denizen who's played with tons of acts, most notably Beachwood ... More >>

Metal from the Middle East

​Acrassicauda, an Iraqi thrash metal band, just hosted Headbangers Ball to promote Only the Dead See the End of the War, their new EP about wartime in Iraq. Bullied out of Baghdad by bombs to their practice space, death threats for their style of music and being branded as Satan worshipers, the ba ... More >>

Openers: Get There Early For The Dead Trees

​Rock 'n' roll isn't as complicated as the hyphen-happy critical world makes it out to be. For all the differences alleged between, say, the blues-rock of The Rolling Stones and the alt-rock of Pavement, a prefix-less guitar band can show how similar those styles really are. The Dead Trees are jus ... More >>

Video of the Day: Green Day Cover the Stones on Jimmy Fallon

Local boys Green Day went on Jimmy Fallon last night and tore through a cover of the Stones' "Rip This Joint," punking the Exile on Main Street song up with manic pacing and Billie Joe's signature guyliner. Follow us @SFAllShookDown.

Can't Get Any Satisfaction: A Tour of the Most Grammatically Misguided Songs in Pop

​Today is National Grammar Day, which means until midnight you're legally obligated to put up with the prescriptivist fulminations of that one buy or girl in your office whose knickers get all bunched when you say "15 items or less" or "the reason is because." (Lucky for everyone in the world I wo ... More >>

On the Hunt for the Best Jukebox in Bernal Heights

The Juke at Nap's 3​Bernal Heights is often unfairly lumped in with the Mission as a whole. While it is backed up against the Mission, Bernal has its own plentiful offerings -- Indian pizza, indoor street food, and lesbian bars with three-story patios, to name a few. So, in deference to the vi ... More >>

Wine Clubs Are the Coffin Nails of Rock 'n' Roll

​ Remember the good old days, when wine clubs were exclusively the pastime of pretentious assholes/your parents? Those days are over: Rolling Stone magazine just announced its own scheme to sell bottles of fermented grape juice to baby boomers with nothing better to blow their pension checks ... More >>