The Shins

Bottle Rock: The Black Keys and Flaming Lips Can't Break Through Distractions at Napa Valley's New Fest, 5/10/13

The Black Keys, the Flaming Lips, Andrew Bird, Alabama Shakes, the Dirty Projectors, Vintage Trouble and more Friday, May 10, 2013 Bottle Rock Napa Valley Better than: Bob's Hot Rods cover band, Craig Chaquico, or other music you'd typically hear at a winery. Ostensibly the four-day event that too ... More >>

Black Keys, Furthur, Kings of Leon to Headline BottleRock Festival in Napa

Since the Bay Area obviously doesn't have enough music festivals already, there's a new one coming -- to Napa, of all places. The inaugural BottleRock Napa Valley festival will run May 9 to 12 and has booked a huge slate of big-name pop-rock acts, including the Black Keys, Kings of Leon, Furthur, th ... More >>

The 5 Best Concerts in San Francisco This Week

Dum Dum Girls @ Fox Theater, Thursday, Dec, 6 Kristin "Dee Dee" Gundred's yelping on Grand Ole Party's stomping blues-punk already cemented her as an indie rock lifer (and worthy Beth Ditto successor). But with Dum Dum Girls, Gundred ushered back into the fold girl-group pop that would pave the way ... More >>

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

Live 105 Announces Two-Day Not So Silent Night With Jack White, the Killers, M83, More

Just when you thought the season of multiple-day megaconcerts had ended, here's Live 105 with its largest Not So Silent Night concert ever. The two-day minifestival will take place Dec. 7 and 8 at Oracle Arena, with headliners Jack White and the Shins on Friday and the Killers and M83 on Saturday. C ... More >>

Indie-Pop Ballet

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

The Top 10 Most Disappointing Albums of 2012 (So Far)

It's a little past the halfway point of 2012, but mid-July still seems like a good time to round up the albums that came out this year and simply failed to meet our expectations. Some of those expectations were admittedly (and deservedly) sky-high -- leading to decent records that still felt like a ... More >>

Best of Coachella Weekend One: Saturday, April 14

See also: *The Best Of Coachella: Day One *"What My Spirit Hood Means To Me": Coachella-Goers Explain *Coachella Preview 2012: Everything You Need to Know About the Performers*Radiohead, Weekend 1: No Alarms, No Surprises Radiohead certainly had the most pre-festival buzz for Saturday, but once we ... More >>

Alert: SXSW Coverage Ahead

"What I want from each and every one of you is a hard-target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse in that area." -- Tommy Lee Jones, The Fugitive You don't have to spend much time at South By Southwest to know that all of the above building ... More >>

Is This the Coachella 2012 Lineup?

Coachella 2012 is still more than four months away -- so naturally, it's time to start hyperventilating over rumored lineups for the first year the festival will stretch over two weekends. One "leaked" lineup appeared last week on StarzUncut, a celebrity gossip website with more than 58,000 Twitter ... More >>

Pirouetting After Midnight

Sizzle & Fizzle: Outside Lands Edition

5 Things to Like About the Outside Lands Festival Schedule

Outside Lands: Now without (hopefully) the painful decision-making!​ The schedule for this year's Outside Lands festival hit the web earlier today. But you can stop gritting your teeth and clutching the edge of that desk: Although many festival schedules are an exercise in painful decision-mak ... More >>

Nobunny: Show Preview

Broken Bells' pop partnership

New Doc Captures Devendra, Vetiver, Joanna Newsom Tour

The Family Jams - Trailer from kevin barker on Vimeo. When San Francisco soft rockers Vetiver hit the road in 2004 with Devendra Banhart and Joanna Newsom, Vetiver guitarist Kevin Barker decided to capture the trip on film. The result is a new documentary called The Family Jams, out later this spri ... More >>

Watch this: New Beachy Video from The Invisible Cities

​The Invisible Cities are a promising S.F. outfit with catchy indie-pop tunes that'd please fans of The Shins and The New Pornographers. Their new animated video for "Bulldozer" pretty much defines adorable. Basically, a toy bulldozer that enjoys Southern Comfort and Al Green heads out with some s ... More >>

Track of the Day: Broken Bells (Danger Mouse and James Mercer)

Mike MantinJames Mercer​What happens when you get a little Danger Mouse (Gnarls Barkley) in your James Mercer (The Shins)? Going by the sound of the first track to be released from this partnership, "The High Road," it sounds a little something like Beck, another indie/alt rock artist Danger Mouse ... More >>

What's Up With Adam Stephens? A New Solo Record (and Free Tix)

Dan Monick​Adam Stephens, the singing/guitar-playing half of Two Gallants, has been working on his solo debut recently. He's been recording down in Los Angeles with producer Joe Chiccarelli (My Morning Jacket, The Shins, White Stripes), with MMJ's Patrick Hallahan on drums, and a couple other nota ... More >>

The Dodos aim for pop simplicity

The Dodos 

Time to Die  (Frenchkiss)

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 Nor ... More >>

SF Weekly Music Awards Nominee: The Morning Benders

The Botticellis

Old Home Movies (Antenna Farm)

Live 105's summer concert lineup lacks luster this year

The Devil and Doctor Octagon: Kool Keith returns

Sketchfest stokes the musician-comedian love affair

The Thermals Back in SF at Slim's December 5

CD Review: The New Pornographers -- Challengers

Elliott Smith and Arcade Fire: RIAA Safe

The snorification of indie rock

Breaking the Seal

Of Montreal and the Shins explore issues of approval

Juices Flowing

It Was a Year Of ...

Well, lots of things, actually

Border crossing with Calexico

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

Mew

Mew and the Glass Handed Kites

Liars

Drum's Not Dead

Award Show Performers

SF Weekly Music Awards

Hear This

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

Group Hug 2004

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

Trend-Spotting

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

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.

Dirty Vegas

One

Coming Home

The Garden State is where Zach Braff's heart is

Best Next Big Thing

Rogue Wave

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?

Oh, Inverted World

A handful of sleepers to wake up the neighbors

Noise Pop Tip Sheet

Noise Pop Festival; Pound-SF club opening