The Sex Pistols

Penelope Houston: S.F.'s Market Street Avenger

Pop Etc: Could the Morning Benders Have Chosen a Worse New Name?

Our sympathies to the members of the Morning Benders, who recently chose -- but were basically forced -- to change their band name. In a note posted to their old website over the weekend, the members explained that since "bender" is a widely used derogatory slang term for "homosexual" in the U.K. an ... More >>

"W.E.": Madonna Fetishizes Subject at Story's Cost

Our sympathies to the members of the Morning Benders, who recently chose -- but were basically forced -- to change their band name. In a note posted to their old website over the weekend, the members explained that since "bender" is a widely used derogatory slang term for "homosexual" in the U.K. an ... More >>

The Nuns' Jennifer Miro: An Appreciation By Jack Boulware

By JACK BOULWARE [Editor's note: Jack Boulware is the co-author, with Silke Tudor, of Gimme Something Better: The Profound, Progressive, and Occasionally Pointless History of Bay Area Punk from Dead Kennedys to Green Day.] If we're talking the birth of Bay Area punk, there are as many points of vi ... More >>

R.I.P. Jennifer 'Miro' Anderson, Singer of S.F. Punk Pioneers the Nuns

See also: *The Nuns' Jennifer Miro: An Appreciation By Gimme Something Better Author Jack Boulware Jennifer Anderson, a musician, writer, and model whose doll-like looks and seductive voice helped make a name for pioneering San Francisco punk band the Nuns, died last month in New York City of comp ... More >>

IFC's Portlandia Is Coming to San Francisco with Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen

Any of you eco-conscious hippies, fem-lit-reading bookstore owners, and musician-politicians find that IFC's West Coast bohemia-skewering Portlandia doesn't hit close enough to your S.F. home? Since, you know it's technically about a city some 600 miles away? Well, consider yourselves lucky: Portla ... 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 to get ... More >>

R.I.P. R.E.M., Masters of a Beautiful, Eclectic Rock 'n' Roll

Farewell, then.​ In case you still needed to know the difference between R.E.M. and U2, R.E.M. just broke up and U2 dies only when Bono is put in the ground. Whatever today's (honestly shocking) announcement means about R.E.M.'s 31-year-career, well, what did anything ever mean with this ban ... More >>

Juke Hunt Finale: The Best Jukeboxes in San Francisco

You saw it coming...​Over the past few months, we've found treasures and trash in San Francisco bars: Old school jukeboxes with surprisingly sincere music picks, and sad little boxes we  urge you to skip. It's all come to this: The juke hunt winners distilled into a single list, the best offe ... 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 >>

Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and lows from this week in S.F. music

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 >>

Wild Flag Rocks Our Faces Off, Covers the Stones and the VU at Bottom of the Hill

Wild Flag at Bottom of the Hill last night​Wild FlagGrass WidowRoyal BathsNovember 18, 2010@ Bottom of the HillBetter than: Performing in a toilet.Carrie Brownstein, you are way too fucking modest. "We're just up here learning how to be a band," she said, near the end of Wild Flag's fifth sho ... More >>

Stream of Unconscioussness

Wild Flag at Bottom of the Hill last night​Wild FlagGrass WidowRoyal BathsNovember 18, 2010@ Bottom of the HillBetter than: Performing in a toilet.Carrie Brownstein, you are way too fucking modest. "We're just up here learning how to be a band," she said, near the end of Wild Flag's fifth sho ... More >>

Behind the Beat w/ Tristes Tropiques (Autobahn, Radioactivity)

​Josh Widmann should be a household name in San Francisco. Over the past three years, he's been working a strange, inventive production style as Tristes Tropiques, making frequent radio appearances and hosting numerous club nights around town.  This Sunday, May 9 he launches the brand new cl ... More >>

Throbbing Gristle's local homecoming

​Josh Widmann should be a household name in San Francisco. Over the past three years, he's been working a strange, inventive production style as Tristes Tropiques, making frequent radio appearances and hosting numerous club nights around town.  This Sunday, May 9 he launches the brand new cl ... More >>

Noise Nerds Unite

Qui arms David Yow with new weapons of crowd confrontation

Opening your eyes and ears

Qui arms David Yow with new weapons of crowd confrontation

Gabba Gabba Henh

The Ramones bopped toward history and an unhappy end

House of Tudor

If you think that poo isn't sexy, you haven't heard Kitten on the Keys sing about hers.

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

If you think that poo isn't sexy, you haven't heard Kitten on the Keys sing about hers.

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

If you think that poo isn't sexy, you haven't heard Kitten on the Keys sing about hers.

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

If you think that poo isn't sexy, you haven't heard Kitten on the Keys sing about hers.

Kings of the Stone Age

A quarter-century ago, the Weirdos jump-started West Coast punk. Now they're back.

"Crappy Records"

Zagat's new "music guide" is absurd, but its "format" offers a "nice way" to review "lame albums."

House of Tudor

Comic Neil Hamburger tells lame, awkward anti-jokes. What's so funny about that?

Northern State

Dying in Stereo

Punk on Wheels

A 10-mile, two-hour bike trip that memorializes the local spots punks loved

House of Tudor

Black Ice's frosty grindcore, a Sadie Hawkins Costume and Dance Party, and revolutionary punks from China

John Peel

FABRICLIVE. 07

Hear This

Legendary DJ Afrika Bambaataa brings his b-boy esoterica to town

The Residents

Demons Dance Alone

The Residents' Petting Zoo (Cryptic/East Side Digital)

Reps Etc.

Demons Dance Alone

The Residents' Petting Zoo (Cryptic/East Side Digital)

The Jesus and MaryChain/Oasis

21 Singles 1984-1998 (Rhino)/Heathen Chemistry (Epic)

House Of Tudor

A sexy film fest, a Croatian lute fest, and a festering punk band

House Of Tudor

Rocky Horror Picture Show; Unauthorized Fab Mab Reunion Show; Ideas in Animation; Slow Poisoners

House Of Tudor

Geno Delafose, Balfa Toujours, Sex 66, Cock Sparrer

The Clash

Sandinista!

House Of Tudor

Magnetic Fields, Citizen Fish, Ana D., and eX-Girl

Night + Day

Magnetic Fields, Citizen Fish, Ana D., and eX-Girl

Hear This

Magnetic Fields, Citizen Fish, Ana D., and eX-Girl

Night + Day

Magnetic Fields, Citizen Fish, Ana D., and eX-Girl

The House of Tudor

Magnetic Fields, Citizen Fish, Ana D., and eX-Girl

The House of Tudor

Magnetic Fields, Citizen Fish, Ana D., and eX-Girl

Quiet, Please -- We're Rocking

The American Analog Set, and how quiet may be the last place for rock to go

Night+Day

The American Analog Set, and how quiet may be the last place for rock to go

Recordings

The American Analog Set, and how quiet may be the last place for rock to go

Samples

The American Analog Set, and how quiet may be the last place for rock to go

Night Crawler

The American Analog Set, and how quiet may be the last place for rock to go

Books

The American Analog Set, and how quiet may be the last place for rock to go

Revolting Cocks

The Sex Revolts: Gender, Rebellion and Rock 'n' Roll by Simon Reynolds and Joy Press