The Rolling Stones

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

Top 8 Ways Going To a Rolling Stones Concert Is Like Living in San Francisco

The Rolling Stones are in the Bay Area this week, biding time between their show at the Oracle Arena and Wednesday's at HP Pavilion. Since Sunday's disappointing performance is still fresh in our minds, we thought we'd compare it to a similar, highly desired, pricey status symbol for Bay Area reside ... More >>

The Rolling Stones Overcharge For Imperfection at Oracle Arena, 5/5/13

The Rolling Stones Sunday, May 5, 2013 Oracle Arena, Oakland Better than: Bands that don't bother building an aura in the first place. The World's Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Band is fallible. In theory, the Rolling Stones may be perfect. But onstage in Oakland last night, they were not. On the secon ... More >>

A Letter to the Rolling Stones Regarding Their Absurdly Expensive New Tour

Dear Rolling Stones, As we're sure you're aware, a little ripple of joy went through crowds of music fans the world over recently when you announced you were about to tour again. We were a little perturbed to find out that Mick Jagger has started dancing in front of a mirror in preparation, but tha ... More >>

We Are The Rolling Stones, and We Are Here For Your Every Last Dollar

How much will you pay to say you've seen the Rolling Stones? In 30 years, when Mick Jagger and Keith Richards are either dead and buried, or are liquid-preserved human heads running a cybernetic body, how badly will you want to tell your (grand-) kids that yes, you saw the real Rolling Stones live? ... More >>

The Rolling Stones Announce Two Bay Area Concerts in May

Just as we were expecting, the Rolling Stones this morning announced a U.S. leg of their ongoing 50 and Counting Tour for this spring. And just as expected, it includes two dates in the Bay Area next month. See also: Here Is the Billboard That Proves the Rolling Stones Are Playing San Francisco Th ... More >>

Here Is the Billboard That Proves the Rolling Stones Are Playing San Francisco This Year

So the Rolling Stones have been making a rather large, um, bang on Twitter all week about some big announcement coming tomorrow, April 3. Yes, it is almost certainly going to be U.S. tour dates for this spring -- a continuation of the band's 50th Anniversary shows of last year. And yes, it's almost ... More >>

The Rolling Stones' "Doom and Gloom": Pretty Good For Zombie Rock

The Rolling Stones, rock 'n' roll's version of a senile third-world dictator who just won't hand over power to the younger generation, have released a new song. "Doom and Gloom" is the first new Stones material in seven years, and premiered only hours ago on Radio 2 in the U.K. It's the first new si ... More >>

Wood Shoppe: Show Preview

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 on. So w ... 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 >>

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 >>

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.

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 >>

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 >>

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

A Really Big Shew

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 >>

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 >>

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

Something Good Will Come to Yoshi's

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 >>

And the Band Played On

Rolling Stones in '68

Some Country for Old Men

Seniors Scorsese and the Stones are together again.

Old Wounds

Flaccid nostalgia

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

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

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)

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

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.

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