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London Warehouse Fire Badly Burns Indie Labels

via yfrog​The London riots began with a fatal police shooting, but the latest casualty may be independent record labels. Protesters burned down a CD and vinyl stock warehouse in North London last night that was owned by Sony DADC and used by the PIAS Group, a marketing and distribution firm t ... More >>

Wooden Shjips Make a Visual Drone for "Black Smoke Rise" Video

​ The music made by S.F. outfit Wooden Shjips could be simplified as fuzzy, blown-out riffs repeated into psychedelic infinity. Even though the band's upcoming album, West, contains some of its most accessible psych-rock to date, it still finds the members working in a style reliant upon the p ... More >>

Drone-Metal Duo Barn Owl Talks Desert Motifs, Meditative Sounds, and Performing in Cathedrals

Barn Owl​ San Francisco's Barn Owl makes densely layered guitar music that is equal parts heavy and beautiful. Guitarists Jon Porras and Evan K. Caminiti arrived at their textured sound six years ago while students at SF State, munching vegan tofu burritos and taking in music by rock god Neil ... More >>

Hear Wooden Shjips' Blazing, Blown-Out New Song, 'Lazy Bones'

The cover art for West. Look familiar?​ Here it is, the first new song from West, the upcoming album by long-running but too-little-discussed S.F. psych outfit Wooden Shjips. The song is called "Lazy Bones," and it is anything but lazy. Rather, it's like one big trippy sprint, with deep vocals ... More >>

Wooden Shjips Sign to Thrill Jockey for "West," Continue Trend of S.F. Bands on Chicago Labels

​ Having already carried out a vital inquiry into whether we San Franciscans are too obsessed with our brilliant little garage/psych/vintage rock scene (answer: yes, but deservedly so) let us now ponder this: What's with all the S.F. bands on Chicago labels?We ask specifically because of today's n ... More >>

Mi Ami Learns to Love the Sampler. This Is a Good Thing.

Mi Ami as a two-piece​Following the departure of bassist Jacob Long, the evolution of Mi Ami's sound has been an ongoing process. The once three-piece S.F. noise-rock outfit used to blowout eardrums with huge, distorted bass. But now a two-man crew, the band decided to embrace more of an electron ... More >>

S.F. Experimental Outfit Barn Owl Spreads Its Wings, Plays the Independent Tonight

Barn Owl​Thanks to both the national media and the local one, most of us know about the more-than-worthy garage-rock, shoegaze, indie-pop, and electronic sounds emanating from the S.F. scene. But far less appreciated are the aquifers of creativity stirring beneath us in the Bay Area's experimental ... More >>

Tonight: Free Lichens In-Store at Aquarius Records

Eat your heart out, mustachioed local bartenders​If you're taking a pre-happy hour totter through the Mission this evening after work, you should probably stop in to visit darling indie-esoterica purveyors Aquarius Records and catch a free in-store set from Lichens, the otherworldly drone project ... More >>

Clubs preview: Javelin

Eat your heart out, mustachioed local bartenders​If you're taking a pre-happy hour totter through the Mission this evening after work, you should probably stop in to visit darling indie-esoterica purveyors Aquarius Records and catch a free in-store set from Lichens, the otherworldly drone project ... More >>

Track of the Day: Mi Ami

​At the end of last year, Thrill Jockey released--and then promptly sold out of--a new Mi Ami 12" called "Cut Men." The record featured the original track on the A side, and its flip side is a dub version of the same song. The label's now offering the "Cut Men" single for free, as a taste of what ... More >>

10 Things to Do This Weekend For Under $10

Ashley HarrellSantacon, 2008​Talking about how goddamn cold is in in San Francisco is free, but that got old on Tuesday. Now it's Friday and you need other ideas for how to entertain yourself and your buddies on the cheap. Here's our list of recommendations below. Mi Ami w/ Inca Ore, Jozef Van W ... More >>

What To Do? Wednesday: Javelin and Lucky Dragons

​Javelin and Lucky Dragons @ the Knockout Tom Van Buskirk and George Langford are big on recycling. As Javelin, the Rhode Island cousins make jumpy electronic pop that mines old sounds for new ones. Limited to 500 copies, their debut 12-inch on Thrill Jockey features unique art screen-printed by ... More >>

But Is It Art?

​Javelin and Lucky Dragons @ the Knockout Tom Van Buskirk and George Langford are big on recycling. As Javelin, the Rhode Island cousins make jumpy electronic pop that mines old sounds for new ones. Limited to 500 copies, their debut 12-inch on Thrill Jockey features unique art screen-printed by ... More >>

Cheap Weekend: 10 Things to Do for Under $10

Ash Reiter plays ATA on FridayEvery work week should last only four days, max. It's already Friday, friends, and time for a roundup of the best cheap ways to spend your time until the Man chains you back to your paycheck Monday morning. Inglourious Basterds at YBCA (Friday) Tonight Yerba Buena scree ... More >>

SF Weekly Best Albums of 2007: Michael Leaverton Weighs In

Ash Reiter plays ATA on FridayEvery work week should last only four days, max. It's already Friday, friends, and time for a roundup of the best cheap ways to spend your time until the Man chains you back to your paycheck Monday morning. Inglourious Basterds at YBCA (Friday) Tonight Yerba Buena scree ... More >>

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