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New Concert Venue Coming to the Embarcadero for America's Cup

Ah, the America's Cup. You think of sailboats, you think of tourists, you think of -- a massive new concert venue on the waterfront? Well start imagining, because concert giant Live Nation is teaming up with the sailboat racing organization on a new, temporary outdoor performance venue at Piers 27- ... More >>

Lady Gaga Announces Bay Area Stop of Born This Way Tour

Gaga is coming! Gaga is coming! Okay, so it's not until early 2013. But today, the freak-queen of gloss-pop, meatsuits, and gender-bending award show appearances announced a new North American leg of her Born This Way Ball World Tour, and it includes a stop -- for just one night -- here in the Bay ... More >>

Phoning Out: The Future of Buying Concert Tickets May Be in Your Pocket

Coldplay Is Here in S.F.: Shots From the Band's Tour Around the City

The members of Coldplay have been Twit Pic-ing their way around San Francisco since last Sunday, according to the band's Twitter. They're playing at the HP Pavilion tonight and tomorrow night, and last we checked on Ticketmaster, tickets aren't sold out yet. But if you really want to have an encou ... More >>

Z-Trip's Show This Saturday at the Warfield Is Canceled

Not this Saturday...​ Just got word from the publicity folks that this Saturday's show at the Warfield -- featuring Z-Trip, De La Soul, Nosaj Thing, and Daddy Kev -- has been canceled. Which is a bummer: we were excited enough about this lineup that we previewed it in this week's issue.

Tori Amos Will Play Oakland's Paramount Theatre in December

Flickr/WillRussell​This year, Tori Amos is taking it back to the old-school. She's writing the music for a 2012 production of the 19th Century fairy tale The Light Princess for London's Royal Theatre, and her forthcoming album Night of Hunters is said to be a modern-day song cycle inspired by ... More >>

A Brief Guide to 4/20 in San Francisco

It's like any other day, really​Like buying a gift for the rich person who has everything, celebrating 4/20 in San Francisco presents a bit of a conundrum -- of privilege. Tokers will seep out of the woodwork in many cities across the nation to ring in the weed-burners' day. Yet In San Francisco, ... More >>

Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax, Megadeth Announce Plans to Play Together. Once. In Indio.

​It's called the Big 4 Tour -- Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax, and Megadeth, together on one bill -- and finally, after seven shows in Europe, it's coming to the U.S. Only problem is the date and time -- and the fact that as of today's announcement, the long-awaited Big 4 Tour (sorry, make that " ... More >>

The Exotic Erotic Ball ditched the Cow Palace over ticket fraud

Ticketmaster Sends Swell Season Suicide Witnesses 'How Was The Show?' E-Mails

​You don't need to follow the comments on our post about the suicide at Thursday's Swell Season concert to guess that the many fans who witnessed the sudden death of another person might be a bit, well, distraught. (Quite distraught, in fact.) So it's perhaps also not surprising that fans who ... More >>

A List of Michael Jackson Commemoration Events in San Francisco Today

Lynn Goldsmith, provided by San Francisco Art Exchange​Some poor employee at mobile entertainment company Predicto Mobile was asked to come up with 10 text-friendly Michael Jackson songs to be complete asses/butcher classic lyrics honor the pop star's legacy on the one-year anniversary o ... More >>

Summer Bloodbath? The Concert Industry Had It Coming

Was seeing Petty's grin worth the price? Tell us in the comments section​Summer 2010 is turning out to be a bloodbath for the concert industry. As Billboard reports:Individual shows, legs of tours, or entire tours have been canceled or postponed by such artists as U2 (due to Bono's back surgery), ... More >>

10 Things To Do For Under $10: KISS Cover Love, Screaming Females, World Cupping

Screaming Females play tonight at Hemlock​There seems to be something cheap for everyone this lovely first weekend of June. Art openings, the ultimate underground foodie event, plenty of live music and D.J.s ready to vie for your attention -- and it's all for less than the cost of a quality six-pa ... More >>

Five Shitty Things About Concerts We Need Apps For

​Keep those phone chargers handy, people. With a patent application filed last week, Apple let on that it's creating an entire e-ticket system for the iPhone and iTunes. Concertgoers will be able to buy tickets through the iTunes store, store them on anything from an iMac to an iPhone, and scan th ... More >>

DOJ Approves Live Nation-Ticketmaster Merger

​On Monday, the David and Goliath of concert ticket promotion and sales -- Live Nation and Ticketmaster -- joined forces to become Live Nation Entertainment, a music industry behemoth that promises to force other music labels and promoters to rejigger their business plans to accommodate. The U.S. ... 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 >>

Nothin' Populist About Ticket Prices for Guy Fieri's San Jose Appearance

Broadway South of Raleigh, NC/FlickrFor $150, you'll probably be able to hit him with your underwear.​No dives on this tour. Although Guy Fieri is the Joe the Plumber of the food world, tickets to his Roadshow are urban-elites steep. The only Bay Area appearance for the Guy Fieri Roadshow, pro ... More >>

LiveNation/Ticketmaster Merger Raises Congressional Concerns

Pissed Off: Bruce Springsteen​ The proposed merger between concert venue conglomerate Live Nation and ticket hub mecca Ticketmaster (announced last February) has already resulted in catcalls from The Boss, Bruce Springsteen, who wrote an open letter to his fans after Ticket Master upsold tickets ... More >>

How the crash will reshape the music industry

New Bruce Springsteen Album Out Now, San Jo Concert Tix Go On Sale Monday

Danny Clinch Working On A Dream, the newest album by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, was officially released yesterday. No surprise: the critics are digging it. (Bruce could sing "The Alphabet Song" and Rolling Stone would give it five stars as long as Clarence Clemons played sax in the bac ... More >>

Smashing Pumpkins, ZZ Top, Death Cab For Cutie to Headline Bridge School Benefit 2008

Natasha Bedingfield Opens for New Kids in San Jose

Atmosphere, Brother Ali Will Not Play Download Festival

Last Night: Flight of the Conchords

Madonna' "Sticky & Sweet Tour" Visits Oakland's Oracle in Nov.

The Weekend Hitlist 4/25-4/27

George Michael Visits HP Pavilion in June

Zelda, Halo, BioShock get Symphony Orchestra Treatment at Video Games Live in SF

Deadheads For Obama Rally At Warfield Day Before Super Tuesday

The Boss Back in Town -- Bruce Springsteen April 2 at the HP Pavilion

SF Weekly Best Albums of 2007: Michael Leaverton Weighs In

Mars Volta New Year's Schedule Gets PB Wolf

Ticketmaster Chases Roboscalpers to SF

Band of Horses Fans Blow Past Mezzanine -- November 23rd Show Moved to The Fillmore

Bridge School's Vedder, Flea Sing-along Canceled

Mars Volta to Ring In Bill Graham Civic New Year with Tinnitus

Judge Slaps Injunction on Alleged Roboscalpers RMG Tech: Ticketmaster Sounds Stoked

Ticketmaster Sues Alleged Maker of Roboscalper

SF Gets More Boss: Bruce Springsteen Second Date Added

Ozzy Coming to Oakland With Rob Zombie in November

Interpol's Daniel Kessler talks about 'Our Love To Admire': the SF Weekly Q and A

Girls Gone Mild

If only the SuicideGirls' wildly popular soft-porn Web site translated into a decent stage show

Emo Money

Now that emo's a cash cow, one of the genre's founding bands has reunited to milk it

The Freeloaders' Handbook

If you ask, they will give. Really.

The Man Who

Pearl Jam manager Kelly Curtis is the guy behind the guys

A League of Its Own

The Justice League built its reputation by booking local hip hop acts -- now, in the face of an increasingly white-bread city, can the club survive?

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