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5 Celebrities Who've Communicated With Dead Musicians

Earlier this week, the lawsuit against AEG Live over Michael Jackson's premature passing rumbled past the point of weird and drove straight into crazy town. The culprit was AEG CEO Randy Phillips, who claimed that his friend Brenda Richie -- ex-wife of Lionel Richie -- had spoken to the spirit of Mi ... More >>

Smoked Out: Will Puffing Pot at Concerts Get You in Trouble?

The Who Barrel Through Quadrophenia at Oracle Arena, 2/1/13

The Who Vintage Trouble Friday, Feb. 1, 2013 Oracle Arena Fans of still active '60s-era rock acts are being faced with some stark choices when their heroes hit the road these days. Instead of "Is it worth shelling out the big bucks to see them?" the question has become "Is this my last chance to se ... More >>

Small Talk: How to Read the Latest Batch of Rock Tell-Alls

How Feedback Became the Coolest Sound in Rock

Kerrraaang! came the sound from behind my wall, in my older brother's bedroom. It was his first weekend home from college and he'd returned to our small Indiana town with new toys: a CD player and a copy of Nirvana's Nevermind. Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! The noise, which started when Kurt Cobain st ... More >>

Fall Arts: Assorted, Uncategorizable Awesomeness

Fear and Loathing in Tampa: A Guide to the Republican National Convention

Arthouse Movie Listings April 25-May 1, 2012

Spiritualized's Five Best Lyrics About Drugs

It's not entirely rare to find a music artist who is defined by a particular concept. However, there may not be one as rigidly and as hysterically defined as Jason Pierce. For the Spiritualized frontman, that concept is addiction. Of course, Pierce is largely responsible for this; his lyrics conjure ... More >>

49ers-Giants: The Biggest Games

It's hard to be nostalgic when you don't remember anything. It's also hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember anything. Vernon Davis, who made what is being dubbed "The Catch III," was several years shy of being born when Dwight Clark made "The Catch." But fans -- we remember. We remember every ... More >>

Six Signs of Metallica's Pervasive Influence on Pop Culture

​ See more of our Metallica Week coverage: Metallica Kicks off Its 30th Anniversary Week with Notable Guests, Rare Songs, and Lots of Talking Sad But True: How the Black Album Both Made and Ruined Metallica Can't Make It to Metallica's 30th Anniversary Concerts? Celebrate at These Shows In ... More >>

Five Things Pete Townshend Got Wrong About iTunes and the Online Music Industry

Phyllis KeatingPete Townshend​Last night, Who guitarist Pete Townshend made a rousing speech at a British radio festival, blasting Apple's iTunes store for its treatment of musicians "whose work it bleeds like a digital vampire." His speech even included a list of things Townshend believes App ... More >>

After The Voice, a New Respect for Christina Aguilera. Really.

We've not always been very kind to Christina Aguilera on this blog. Last time we mentioned her, we accused her of being "wasted out of [her] yodeling, gurning mind", for example. We may have also mentioned that, when Stripped came out, she looked more like Dee Snider from Twisted Sister than Dee Sni ... More >>

John Lennon's Untold Bay Area Connection

John Lennon would be 70 tomorrow, were he still alive. And today, on the eve of Lennon's would-be birthday, The Bay Citizen's Scott James broke the story of a heretofore untold connection that Lennon and Yoko Ono had with the Hong family in San Mateo, whose modest home they stayed several times duri ... More >>

Swimmin in Baked Beans

Wednesday's Pick: Bettye LaVette at Great American Music Hall

​Bettye LaVetteMiltonGreat American Music Hall7 p.m., $26Oftentimes, the problem with tribute albums is that they sound far too reverent of the original songs. If you're not going to do anything special with the tunes, why even bother covering them at all, since the originals are usually amazing t ... More >>

Bettye Reign O’er Me

Saturday Afternoon: Kid-rockers The Sippy Cups Dazzle Dolores Park

​The Sippy Cups @Dolores ParkJune 19, 2010 Better Than: Eating strawberry Pop Tarts while watching a Flaming Lips video It was like many Saturday afternoons in Dolores Park, aka "Hipster Hill": City types lounged in groups next to open containers and fixed-gear bikes. Laughing childr ... More >>

Deceased S.F. Rock Photographer Jim Marshall: A Great F**king Interview

Jim Marshall -- used with permission​San Francisco's Jim Marshall is a man who, literally, shot thousands of rock stars. And it wasn't a good thing -- it was a great thing. He caught Janis Joplin backstage with that little bottle of SoCo. He was the chief photographer at Woodstock. He shot Bill Ev ... More >>

San Francisco Star Photographer Jim Marshall Dies

​Few photographers become as legendary as the performers they capture, but Jim Marshall was a different breed of camera man. He was San Francisco's portal into a classic era of jazz and rock 'n' roll, his portraits of Jimmy Hendrix, Janis Joplin, the Rolling Stones, and, perhaps most famously, Joh ... More >>

Are You Ready for Some Football? No?

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

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Our critics weigh in on local theater

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Our critics weigh in on local theater

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Our critics weigh in on local theater

Friday Night: The Who's Tommy at the Victoria Theatre

The Who's TommyThe Victoria TheatreFriday, Oct. 16, 2009Better than:​ Pinball. I suck at pinball.On the way home after Ray of Light Theatre's production of the Who's Tommy, I asked the boyfriend what would have made for a better evening -- seeing the show we just saw, or lounging around at home li ... More >>

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10 Things to Do This Weekend for Under $10

Windsurf @ Amnesia on Friday​Not all summer music fests require sizable chunks of your paycheck. This weekend, two budget music shindigs blanket San Francisco, championing alternatives to both mainstream music and mainstream admission prices. San Francisco's Doomed and Homo a Go Go are just two of ... More >>

Bouncer’s Highly Accurate Bar Quiz

Richie's Rich

Psychos and sour grapes at the Casanova

The Time Bandits

Oasis reminds us that our past is present

What the Future Holds

The Broadway staging of Arcadia hints at what's in store for ACT audiences