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Easy, Noisy Living: Nor-Cal's Best Summer Music Festivals

Woodsist Festival Announces 2013 Lineup: White Fence, Foxygen, Fresh & Onlys, and More

Considering the setting and the bands, the annual Woodsist Festival at Henry Miller Memorial Library in Big Sur is one of the coolest and most un-festival-like festivals in Northern California. Organizers (((folkYeah!))) just released the lineup for this year's festival, as well as new dates, which ... More >>

S.F. Rockers the Mallard Break-Up, Announce Second Album

San Francisco rock quartet The Mallard are disbanding, according to bandleader, singer, and guitarist Greer McGettrick. After returning from its recent South by Southwest tour, McGettrick announced that the band -- which had slowly but steadily earned national attention on the strength of its dark, ... More >>

The Mallard Prepares for Takeoff

Top 9 Trends in Local Music From 2012

Local Punk Doug "Sluggo" Cawley on His Son Blixa's Leukemia and Tonight's Team Blixa Benefit at Bottom of the Hill

Bay Area punk musician Sluggo, aka Doug Cawley, has worn many hats over his more than 20 years on the local scene. Besides being the principle force behind over a decade of hilarious, cross-dressing trash punk with faux-geriatric reprobates The Grannies, the guitarist also played in '90s outfit Ain' ... More >>

Top 5 Awesomely Silly Dancing GIFs From the Outside Lands Festival

One thing crowds at San Francisco's Outside Lands festival do pretty well is get down. Despite the relentless wind, heavy fog, and numbing temperatures, we saw plenty of good moves last weekend -- and some ridiculously silly enthusiasm from certain crowd members. (It helped that Big Boi stuck to p ... More >>

The Best of Outside Lands: Saturday, Aug. 11

Norah Jones They may not all admit it, but everyone likes Norah Jones. And more universally than that, everyone gets down to Norah Jones. As we walk through Lindley Meadow on our way closer to the stage, we see couples of all kinds dancing, pecking, staring dreamily, or full-on making-out to the smo ... More >>

Live Review: Thee Oh Sees, Real Estate, and a Bunch of Cool Kids Relax in the Redwoods at the Woodsist Festival

Woodsist Festival Henry Miller Memorial Library, Big Sur Aug. 4-5, 2012 Better than: A "music festival." An hour south of Carmel along the serpentine path of Highway 1, there's a bend in the road and a fence, behind which lies a lawn of the size that'd fit behind a standard suburban house, and a ... More >>

Summer Guide: Choosing the Season's Best Music Festivals

Will the Buzzy, Blaring Royal Headache Help Australia Get the Rock Recognition it Deserves?

Australia's Royal Headache is set to simultaneously soothe and dizzy attendees at Bay Area appearances this weekend with its hook-laden, buzz-saw garage rock. The strength of the band's self-titled debut record has helped revive American interest in Australian music. But it's not the first time an A ... More >>

Phillip Glass and Joanna Newsom Plan Benefit Show to Help Henry Miller Library

In addition to being a living monument to American writer Henry Miller, Big Sir's Henry Miller Memorial Library hosts numerous events near and dear to the hearts of Bay Area cultural types. Later this summer, for example, the serene bibliothèque will once again be the site of the two-day Woodsist F ... More >>

Outside Lands 2012 Lineup: Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Stevie Wonder, Metallica, Skrillex, Jack White, Foo Fighters, and More

Outside Lands just released the lineup for 2012, its fifth year -- and it's a big one. Headliners include Neil Young and Crazy Horse, Stevie Wonder, Metallica, Skrillex, Jack White, Foo Fighters, Justice, Beck, Sigur Ros, and more. The festival takes place in Golden Gate Park Friday through Sunday, ... More >>

Better, Later, and on the Air: A Wish list for S.F. Music in 2012

Cassette-Only Labels Are Thriving, But Is It Just a Fad?

Scratch Acid Inflicts a Profanity-Howling, Fist-Throwing Mayhem Session on the Fillmore

Scratch Acid's David Yow at the Fillmore last night.​ Scratch Acid Thee Oh Sees Dec. 14th, 2011 The Fillmore Better than: The "Rowdy" Rodd Piper fight scene in John Carpenter's They Live. Last night, Scratch Acid's frontman, David Yow, took the stage at the Fillmore and immediately informed ... More >>

Mikal Cronin: 7 Reasons to Love This New S.F. Garage Rocker's Debut Album

Mikal Cronin's debut album is out today.​ Mikal Cronin isn't totally new -- he's been playing with Ty Segall and Moonhearts for years -- but he's new to living in San Francisco, and his debut album is very, very new: It's out today on Trouble in Mind. If you like garage-damaged guitar pop, we' ... More >>

Treasure Island 2011 Lineup: Death Cab, Empire of the Sun to Headline

​This year's Treasure Island music festival will be headlined by Empire of the Sun on October 15 and Death Cab for Cutie on October 16. As the headliners suggest, the first day will lean more heavily toward electronica, while the second will be more indie rock-ish. This year will be the festiv ... More >>

Spofity Is Here -- Now! (Really!)

via EngadgetIf you can listen to Thee Oh Sees on Spotify, how bad can it be?​ After years of waiting, something finally came*: Spotify, the Europe-based music subscription service Americans have been drooling over for a long while, is up and running the U.S. as of today. You can go to that lin ... More >>

The Eagle Tavern, Beloved Gay Bar and Live Venue, Will Reportedly Close This Month

Thee Oh Sees playing at Eagle Tavern as part of the Thursday Night Live series.​We've been hearing rumors about this for a while now, and last night, it looks like SFist confirmed them: the Eagle Tavern, iconic SOMA gay bar and the site of many great local rock shows as part of its Thursday Night ... More >>

Coming Soon: Screen a Garage Rock Documentary Featuring Thee Oh Sees and the Black Lips for Free

Have you heard this rumor that San Francisco music people have an obsession with garage-rock? We know, it's crazy. San Francisco garage rock? Here in a town where nobody actually has a garage? Why would anyone think those two things go together?We're not sure how they did it, but it seems the ... More >>

The Tenderloin's Best Jukebox? We Go on the Hunt at 21 Club, Hemlock Tavern, and Geary Club

Derrick LowThe pretty much amazing jukebox at Hemlock Tavern​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 concep ... More >>

Bay Music Links: New Young L Mixtape, S.F. Garage-Rockers Invade a Cruise Ship, and More

You might want to download this new Young L mixtape.​New releases from locals Papercuts, Lumerians, That Ghost and more. (We highly recommend Lumerians' trippy, drone-y Transmalinnia.)  [The Bay Bridged]Local rappers compete in a battle at the "Live Large Project" at Rockit Room  -- basi ... More >>

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

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

Royal Baths spin some captivating gloom

In Print: Robyn's Robot Obsession, the Gloomy Royal Baths, and the Sadies' Family Affair

​From SF Weekly's latest print music section:Robyn: While most of today's pop stars are eager to define their public personas, '90s two-hit wonder turned electropop princess Robyn likes to keep people guessing. When asked whether her frequent tongue-in-cheek cockiness is for real, for example ... More >>

Crunk's Not Dead, the Haberdash, Kelley Stoltz, Godwaffle Noise Pancakes and More

Jenna Riot plays El Rio this Friday​Let's get cultured, San Francisco. Put on your leopard-skin pill-box hat and paint the town red. But before you brave those cruel streets, check our list of cheap things to do this weekend for less than the cost of a quality whiskey sour. Here are ten things fo ... More >>

How to Succeed in Indie Music? Five Formulas For a Blog-Worthy Band

Maybe you won't admit it -- at least to your would-be fans -- but we all know it's the truth. No matter how stunning your lack of ambition may be, no matter how much you say you like sharing a one-bedroom with four guys and perfecting lattes for corporate assholes to pay the rent, you want that indi ... More >>

Naked Bike Ride, Sonny & The Sunsets, 'I Get What I Want And Always Get It Again!'

The Prids​Oh you lucky Bay Area dweller. There is a glut of good, cheap shows this weekend - with bands playing light and jangly pop, crunchy psychedelic noise, and nearly everything in between. Get out of your bar-closest-to-home funk and explore all the great local venues you don't patronize eno ... More >>

Five Real Venues That Would Rule in Rock Band

Just like Billie Joe Armstrong -- who says he "sucks" at playing Green Day's new Rock Band game -- we get pwned every time we try to tinker with fake plastic guitars or toy drum kits. But, watching this preview for the East Pay pop-punkers' name-brand video game, we kinda dug catching (albeit b ... More >>

Five Places We Wish Bands Could Play in SF

Photo at Magowan's Infinite Mirror Maze at Pier 39. Why don't bands play here?​We're blessed with great live music venues here in San Francisco, but sometimes, bars, ballrooms, clubs, and arenas get kinda monotonous. Here are five more exotic locations that would make awesome spaces to see a band, ... More >>

Openers: Three Opening Act You Don't Want to Miss This Week

Best Coast​Coachella tour mayhem may be in the past, but we're set for another busy week of spring shows here in the city -- opening bands included. A few best bets are below:Wednesday: Best Coast The guitar pop of Best Coast sounds like its been blasted through the smog of a Los Angeles afterno ... More >>

10 Things To Do This Weekend For Under $10

Sonny Smith unveils 100 Records...or something close to that number​If it was really going to stay sunny all day and night this weekend, we would recommend grabbing a picnic basket, a blanket, a boom box, and some buddies and doing a little urban camping until the sun and the moon switches places ... More >>

Sic Alps News: Free Beach Show and New Video (for Quasi)

Sic Alps​Sic Alps have been busy dudes these days. When they're not opening for Pavement in London and Yo La Tengo here, they're touring Europe for a good chunk of the next two months. So if the weather cooperates on Easter Sunday, you'd be smart to head down to the dunes at the end of Lincoln (at ... More >>

What To Do? Tuesday's Pick: Kelley Stoltz at the Hemlock

​Kelley Stoltz @ Hemlock Tavern At a recent Haiti benefit, Kelley Stoltz stole the show from Thee Oh Sees, Ty Segall, and the Sandwitches. That the latter are all raging rock bands, the best of their ilk in Northern California, and Stoltz is a guy with an acoustic guitar didn't matter -- he still ... More >>

Where Our Head Is At

Local Acts on the Big Festival Circuit: Who's Playing Where

www.joshuabrott.comBassnectar​One measure of musical success is being invited to one of the premiere music fests in the U.S. Among the most established and prestigious, of course, are Bonnaroo, Coachella, and All Tomorrow's Parties, the latter having the added cred of being curated by a different ... More >>

10 Things To Do This Weekend For Under $10

Peter Mel at Mavericks ​This is a big weekend if you're into surfing, pillow fighting, swapping spit (and/or records), and other cheap activities. Here's our to-do list. Thao With the Get Down Stay Down & The Thermals @ Sproul Plaza (Fri.)(We posted this one earlier in the week, but here's a r ... More >>

Owl Be There

Thee Oh Sees to Play Todd P's Mexico Music Fest

There's been a bit of a buzz about the music festival tastemaking New York promoter Todd P. has planned down in Monterrey, Mexico, right around SXSW. This week Pitchfork announced that south of the border showcase, called MtyMx All Ages Festival of Art and Music, is gonna happen, with local garage ... More >>

Nine Under the Radar Music Venues: Buses, Caves, Book Stores

John BensonThe Bus​San Francisco is bursting at the seams with live music nearly every night of the week. There are shows at slimy bars and at major music venues across town, concerts with fees through Ticketmaster and ones with wristbands presented at the door. And while that is all fine and good ... More >>

Haiti Concert Benefits Roundup Pt. 2: Oh Sees, DJs, and SILA

Bayonics​Bay Area musicians continue to contribute their rock 'n' roll, Afrofunk, and turntable skills to raise funds for the victims of the Haiti earthquake. Here's a couple new upcoming benefits to add to your calendar.San Francisco Hearts Haiti: A Haiti Relief Fundraiser w/ SILA, Kalbass Kreyol ... More >>

Track of the Day: The Art Museums

Jeff Manson​New York's Woodsist label has released vinyl from a number of eclectic psych- and folk-leaning acts. You can thank the indie label for records by the Fresh & Onlys, Meth Teeth, Real Estate, Thee Oh Sees, Woods, and Wavves, among other acts. Now Woodsist has added another San Franci ... More >>

The best of the Bay Area's "costume rock"

Satantic B-Movie w/ John Dwyer Soundtrack Screens Thurs.

 We recently blogged about stony punk John Dwyer getting in bed with the devil by providing the soundtrack to a Satanic b-movie. Well, that hellraising flick will have its San Francisco premiere this week. On Thursday night, Sept. 10, Fever Night aka Band of Satanic Outsiders will be shown at A ... More >>

10 Things to Do This Weekend for Under $10

Rob KarlicNobunny​We apologize in advance but this week the descriptions are gonna go fast. We're as short on time as we are on money.Drive-In Movie @ Secret Location !7th & Folsom (Friday)Mobile Movie is hosting another guerrilla drive-in adventure tonight. They're planning to show the Will F ... More >>