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John Hodgman Explains the Beauty of the Internet

John Hodgman knows everything but not everybody. He'll make up for that at this week's SF Sketchfest. There, Hodgman -- the celebrated author, expert, Tumblr, fabulist, pretend-judge, deranged millionaire, computer-imitating pitchman, and life-giving fount of nerd resplendence -- will talk up his n ... More >>

Listen to This While High: They Might Be Giants' 'Album Raises New and Troubling Questions'

​ Listen to this while high: Album Raises New and Troubling Questions by They Might Be Giants ​ Behind the buzz: Here is a collection of notable sweepings, left-offs and rejiggerings of classic old stuff thrown out for Yuletide trade. On this followup to last summer's Join Us studio album ... More >>

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

​ Listen to this while high: Album Raises New and Troubling Questions by They Might Be Giants ​ Behind the buzz: Here is a collection of notable sweepings, left-offs and rejiggerings of classic old stuff thrown out for Yuletide trade. On this followup to last summer's Join Us studio album ... More >>

Live Review: They Might Be Giants Improve Flood By Playing It Backwards

Matt SmithThey Might Be Giants at the Fillmore​They Might Be GiantsJonathan CoultonNov. 13, 2011The Fillmore"We know you had your choice of ossified alternative rock bands, so thank you for flying with us!" hollered John Flansburgh, the gregarious, guitar-playing half of Brooklyn's They Might ... More >>

Blow Gage with Ralph Carney's Serious Jass Project's Seriously

​Listen to this while high: Ralph Carney's Serious Jass Project's Seriously. ​ Behind the buzz: The subject line of the publicist's email mentioned something about Tom Waits' saxophonist, but the magic name of Ralph Carney dispelled any incipient attack of the whatevs. I mean, we're not talking ... More >>

Nine They Might Be Giants Songs That Should Be Heard by People Who Think They Don't Like They Might Be Giants

​With the release last week of Join Us, their first album for grown-ups in four years, They Might Be Giants has managed something that few pop musicians ever pull off: still creating music of the type and caliber of what made them famous full decades after their start. The record has been hera ... More >>

Dan Deacon on Big Ideas, Being Intrigued By Weirdos, and What He's Doing with Francis Ford Coppola

​Dan Deacon can drop some knowledge. The enterprising electronica composer -- who drops his clusterfucking soundscapes at this week's Noise Pop Festival -- recently gave a reporter a very coherent verbal essay on the state of the music biz and the nature of pop music. An academic's experimentalis ... More >>

They Might Be Giants, Street Food Fest, Rock Make, Booty Bassment and More

They Might Be Giants play Stern Grove for free this Sunday​Celebrate San Francisco this weekend. We have awesome bands, awesome fests and awesome non-summer summers. Check out our list of top ten things to do for less than a cocktail costs at some fancy-pants L.A. club. Locals only: Alamo Square ... More >>

10 Things To Do This Weekend For Under $10

Mayyors by Andrew Scott (via Fecal Face)There's so much to do this weekend, now that all the crap things you had to do are done. On this week's list, we have art in a van, gallery shows in retail outlets (with beer), bass music in the basement, the art of turntablism, and tunes to blow out the tubes ... More >>

Openers: Get There Early For The Myonics

​The Bay Area has the psychedelic side of rock well-covered. From the acid-soaked experiments of 1960s San Francisco ballrooms to the PBR-sloshing sweat happenings of today's garages, we have the druggy, disjointed sound down. Bands like The Myonics, a five-piece East Bay outfit that's opening Fri ... More >>

El Vez Is King

​The Bay Area has the psychedelic side of rock well-covered. From the acid-soaked experiments of 1960s San Francisco ballrooms to the PBR-sloshing sweat happenings of today's garages, we have the druggy, disjointed sound down. Bands like The Myonics, a five-piece East Bay outfit that's opening Fri ... More >>

Hesher battles, Anti-Feminism, and Village People singalongs: gifts that keep on giving

​The Bay Area has the psychedelic side of rock well-covered. From the acid-soaked experiments of 1960s San Francisco ballrooms to the PBR-sloshing sweat happenings of today's garages, we have the druggy, disjointed sound down. Bands like The Myonics, a five-piece East Bay outfit that's opening Fri ... More >>

About a Son Lets Kurt Cobain Talk for Himself

​The Bay Area has the psychedelic side of rock well-covered. From the acid-soaked experiments of 1960s San Francisco ballrooms to the PBR-sloshing sweat happenings of today's garages, we have the druggy, disjointed sound down. Bands like The Myonics, a five-piece East Bay outfit that's opening Fri ... More >>

Gwen Stefani and Sean Kingston in Bay

​The Bay Area has the psychedelic side of rock well-covered. From the acid-soaked experiments of 1960s San Francisco ballrooms to the PBR-sloshing sweat happenings of today's garages, we have the druggy, disjointed sound down. Bands like The Myonics, a five-piece East Bay outfit that's opening Fri ... More >>

Weekend Guide: What to do tonight!

​The Bay Area has the psychedelic side of rock well-covered. From the acid-soaked experiments of 1960s San Francisco ballrooms to the PBR-sloshing sweat happenings of today's garages, we have the druggy, disjointed sound down. Bands like The Myonics, a five-piece East Bay outfit that's opening Fri ... More >>

Whirlwind Heat

Types of Wood

Off your Gourd and into the StereoLab: A little bit country and a little bit rock 'n' electro

Types of Wood

The Hanukkah Songs

Wherein we find the coining of our new favorite word: "Jew-pergroup"

Various Artists

Dimension Mix

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Dimension Mix

Striking 6

An engaging piece of musical theater gives up halfway through

They Are Giants

It's been a long time coming, but They Might Be Giants are finally calling the shots

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

It's been a long time coming, but They Might Be Giants are finally calling the shots

Hear This

KMFDM stands for "Kein Mitleid Für Die Mehrheit". What a bummer.

Geek Chic

Stanford Junior MC Lars Horris may not unseat Eminem, but, with luck, he might be the next "Weird Al"

Reps Etc.

Stanford Junior MC Lars Horris may not unseat Eminem, but, with luck, he might be the next "Weird Al"

Reps Etc.

Stanford Junior MC Lars Horris may not unseat Eminem, but, with luck, he might be the next "Weird Al"

Reps Etc.

Stanford Junior MC Lars Horris may not unseat Eminem, but, with luck, he might be the next "Weird Al"

Reps Etc.

Stanford Junior MC Lars Horris may not unseat Eminem, but, with luck, he might be the next "Weird Al"

They Might Be Authors

Kiddie books meet rock

Reps Etc.

Kiddie books meet rock

Reps Etc.

Kiddie books meet rock

Reps Etc.

Kiddie books meet rock

Kiss Me, Sons of God

Gigantic nearly deifies They Might Be Giants -- and why not?

Squeezebox Celebration

Give the accordion a hand

Fact or Friction

Here Are the Facts You Requested drags indie rock into the realm of performance art -- and soul music

Reps Etc.

Here Are the Facts You Requested drags indie rock into the realm of performance art -- and soul music

Toy Boy

Attaboy of the Yumfactory is one seriously off-center toy designer

The Apples in Stereo

Velocity of Sound (SpinART)

Reps Etc.

Film Events at Smaller Venues

Gone to See the River Man

Nick Drake has a skin too few

Live Wires

The subversive charms of Warm Wires' clever, strange, catchy rock

Emergency Plan

The Dismemberment Plan takes its cabaret-punk back underground

Reviews

The Dismemberment Plan takes its cabaret-punk back underground

The House of Tudor

The Dismemberment Plan takes its cabaret-punk back underground

Take This Tradition and Shove It

Experimentalist Eugene Chadbourne reworks country and jazz, sticks it to the KKK, makes guitars out of rakes and toasters -- and dreams of working with Willie Nelson

Fly in the Ointment

Improv meets vaudeville with Spanish Fly

Recordings

Improv meets vaudeville with Spanish Fly