Subject: The Shins

• Elliott Smith and Arcade Fire: RIAA Safe

  June 12, 2007

• CD Review: The New Pornographers -- Challengers

  August 29, 2007

• The Thermals Back in SF at Slim's December 5

  November 7, 2007

• R.E.M. and Modest Mouse Perform in Berkeley 5/31

  February 28, 2008

• Live 105's summer concert lineup lacks luster this year

  April 14, 2008

• SF Weekly Music Awards Nominee: The Morning Benders

  October 13, 2008

• The Botticellis

  April 16, 2008

• The Devil and Doctor Octagon: Kool Keith returns

  March 12, 2008

• Sketchfest stokes the musician-comedian love affair

  January 16, 2008

• The New Pornographers' Feel Good Rush

  Pleasure-centered pop singles

  September 12, 2007

• Bellavista: Back in Vue

  April 18, 2007

• The snorification of indie rock

  March 7, 2007

• Breaking the Seal

  Of Montreal and the Shins explore issues of approval

  January 31, 2007

• Juices Flowing

  December 27, 2006

• It Was a Year Of ...

  Well, lots of things, actually

  December 20, 2006

• Border crossing with Calexico

  December 6, 2006

• Bearly Legal

  October 25, 2006

• From symphonies to smoke machines: snapshots of three very different shows

  October 11, 2006

• Mew

  Mew and the Glass Handed Kites

  August 2, 2006

• Pretty Ponies

  Band of Horses makes a run for college rock

  March 22, 2006

• Liars

  Drum's Not Dead

  February 22, 2006

• A&R Q&A

  Never mind the guys in Wolf Parade, here's an interview with their A&R guy

  December 28, 2005

• Rogue Wave

  A grown-up indie-pop band emerges with a stunning sophomore album

  October 19, 2005

• Award Show Performers

  SF Weekly Music Awards

  October 19, 2005

• Private Parts

  Intelligent Design meets masturbation at the Lone Palm

  September 14, 2005

• Da Da

  Down at Da Corner, Bouncer gets her crunk on, coins term "muff muffle."

  May 18, 2005

• Twin Lesbian Duo From Canada!!!!

  Tegan and Sara's delectable pop makes lazy headline writers look stupid

  April 13, 2005

• Hear This

  Four of the city's best ring in 2005: Rogue Wave, Kelley Stoltz, the Lovemakers, and the Paradise Boys

  December 29, 2004

• Group Hug 2004

  It's been a shitty year on a number of levels. Here's a mix CD to cheer you up.

  December 22, 2004

• Trend-Spotting

  In a scandal-ridden election year, the year's top ten music stories were all about winning the popular vote.

  December 15, 2004

• Marrying the Mainstream

  White men learned to dance, and the emoting was as thick as the eyeliner on the year's best pop-rock records.

  December 15, 2004

• Dirty Vegas

  One

  December 1, 2004

• A Portrait of Hope

  On the eve of the A's big loss, we learn why the Oakland team is to baseball as indie rock is to mainstream music

  October 6, 2004

• Coming Home

  The Garden State is where Zach Braff's heart is

  August 4, 2004

• Ay dios!

  Boasting sharply written tunes and a fan in Morrissey, dios is converting the hordes with its indie rock

  June 23, 2004

• Best Next Big Thing

  Rogue Wave

  May 19, 2004

• Shin Music

  Their debut's genius stemmed from their frontman's high anxieties. Now that he's mellowed out, can the Shins follow it up?

  October 22, 2003

• Pinup Energy

  Sweet and sexy, the New Pornographers make pop that sticks

  June 4, 2003

• Oh, Inverted World

  A handful of sleepers to wake up the neighbors

  December 24, 2002

• She's Lost Control

  The shit hits the fans

  May 1, 2002

• Notes From the Underground

  The Cave-ins' indie rock debut sounds mighty familiar -- but in a good way

  January 30, 2002

• Noise Pop Tip Sheet

  Noise Pop Festival; Pound-SF club opening

  February 21, 2001

• New Dodos Record Due This Fall

  Big news from the Dodos camp this morning. The local indie pop act finished up work on its third full-length, Time To Die, which will come out September 15, while also expanding its membership by one. Time to Die was recorded in Seattle with famed producer Phil Ek, the man behind many of the big Northwest indie acts of the last decade, from Built to Spill to the Shins and Fleet Foxes. And while Ek helped steer the new Dodos disc, another musician, 21-year-old Keaton Snyder, augmented the drum 'n

  June 17, 2009

• The Intelligence

  November 14, 2007

• The Dodos 

  July 29, 2009

• The Dodos aim for pop simplicity

  September 9, 2009

• SF Weekly Music Awards 2007 Program

  October 17, 2007