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    January 17, 2012

    Saturday: Sonny Smith Debuts New Live Show 'Sees All Knows All' at the Lost Church

    Sonny Smith Alexi Glickman Jan. 14, 2012 The Lost Church Better than: That paranoid monologue that finally convinces the man to lock you up forever. Between issuing unadorned pop-rock with his band, Sonny & the Sunsets, assigning himself sprawling art projects, and putting out low-key comic books, ... More >>

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    January 5, 2012

    Sonny Smith's 'Sees All Knows All' Project: Live Storytelling, With a Band

    It often seems that San Francisco's Sonny Smith is on a quest to leave his creative mark on as many different mediums as possible. Best known as the leader of Fat Possum-signed rock band Sonny and the Sunsets, Smith is also a writer, visual artist, and sometime creator of comic books. Two years ago, ... More >>

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    August 1, 2011

    Friday: The Fresh & Onlys and Woods Bring the Noise at the Independent

    The Fresh & Onlys at the Independent on Friday.​ The Fresh & Onlys Woods The Mantles July 29, 2011 @ The Independent Better than: Anything on 30-year-old MTV. Shortly after 9 p.m. on Friday, the line outside the ticket window at the Independent stretched beyond the venue's second exit door, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2011

    City Limits Records Offers Local Sounds Live and on Record Tonight

    ​ Local music bloggers Peter Arko (Ears of the Beholder) and Robert Khoury (See The Leaves) had an idea: Put out a series of compilations of the best bands from various cities. Naturally, they started with home -- San Francisco -- for the first release on City Limits Records. The comp, which y ... More >>

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    June 1, 2011

    City Limits Records Releases a Mix Perfect for San Francisco

    Yet another ode to the city by the bay, this time courtesy of City Limits Records, dropped yesterday. Featuring tracks by such S.F. kids as Young Prisms, Tim Cohen, Magic Bullets, Melted Toys, and Maus Haus, among others, City Limits Presents: San Francisco, the (mostly) breezy mix is the perfect lo ... More >>

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    March 18, 2011

    SXSW So Far: The Highlights and Lowlights of Two Days in Austin

    The Dodos​Far more occurs in the maelstrom of South-By than bears retelling -- even in just two music-packed days. So in lieu of lengthiness, here's a drive-by roundup of the highlights and lowlights from our last two days in Austin. HighlightsSqueezing onto a tiny, cramped balcony at 1 a.m. ... More >>

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    February 21, 2011

    Fresh & Onlys Announce Secret Walls EP, Deliver Lush New Song, 'Do You Believe in Destiny?'

    The Fresh & Onlys​Never ones to let you go too long without a new release, today S.F. garage-psych wizards the Fresh & Onlys announced a new EP, Secret Walls, which is out on the Sacred Bones label April 26. This follows swiftly behind Play It Strange, the band's deservedly acclaimed full- ... More >>

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    February 3, 2011

    Exray's Jon Bernson: Any Musician Who Can Survive in SF is a Magician

    Exray's reppin' SFO.​Jon Bernson puts it pretty plainly (and enthusiastically) when discussing the emerging lo-fi scene in the Mission: "There's a real collaborative spirit!" In case you haven't heard, a new crop of bands in the neighborhood is getting weird. One of them is Bernson's Exray's, a ... More >>

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    January 26, 2011

    Fay Th

    Exray's reppin' SFO.​Jon Bernson puts it pretty plainly (and enthusiastically) when discussing the emerging lo-fi scene in the Mission: "There's a real collaborative spirit!" In case you haven't heard, a new crop of bands in the neighborhood is getting weird. One of them is Bernson's Exray's, a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2011

    Check Out A Sample From the Latest Installment of Sonny Smith's 100 Records Project

    ​Last year, local songwriter/cool guy Sonny Smith started an art project you may have heard a thing or two about: He invented 100 fake bands, wrote 100 different singles from each one (with an A side and B side!), and made art for those 100 singles. Yeah, the guy's ambitious.But then, Smith and a ... More >>

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    December 28, 2010

    My Top 10 Tracks of 2010, Apparently a Good Year in S.F. Rock

    All hail the Fresh & Onlys, local proprietors of one of my favorite songs of 2010.​No, this isn't some not-so-sly effort at hometown boosterism. Three of my favorite songs from this year just happen to come from artists who nominally call S.F. home. Seriously. Anyway, some of the others on her ... More >>

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    August 19, 2010

    Tim Cohen, S.F. Musicians Featured in New Art Show

    Tim Cohen​There's long been an interesting overlap between the worlds of music and visual art. Countless rock bands (see, for starters, the 'Stones) assembled in art school, and many musicians, after their recording lives settle down, hit the gallery circuit. So it perhaps didn't take a wild ... More >>

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    August 11, 2010

    The Fresh & Onlys Announce New Album, 'Play It Strange,' Out Oct. 12

    ​San Francisco psych-pop outfit the Fresh & Onlys today announced that its third album, Play it Strange, will come out on the In The Red label October 12. Unlike previous F&O albums, Play It Strange was recorded outside the band's home-side recording space, at San Francisco's Louder Studio ... More >>

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    July 8, 2010

    McCartney's Set List, Amazing Rock Posters, and How To Do the Moonwalk

    Jason MunnPoster artist Jason Munn will present works at Flatstock in Golden Gate Park on Saturday​Paul McCartney's set list for Saturday should be heavy on Beatles songs. [SF Gate]New video from Birds & Batteries: Concept much cooler than the result. [The Bay Bridged]Eye-grabbing works by som ... More >>

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    April 21, 2010

    Last Night: King Khan (Shrines) vs. King Khan (Almighty Defenders)

    King Khan in his King Khan & BBQ Show guise​King Khan, the tall, brown, and pot-bellied leader of various garage rock 'n' soul acts, was in the curious position of performing three times, in three different acts, in San Francisco over the last week. On Thursday, he headlined Bimbo's with his b ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 1, 2010

    'In a Cloud' Captures SF's Best Folk Pop Freaks. We Q&A its Mastermind.

    ​Man, San Francisco is so strong on the indie music front these days. And that's not just empty cheerleading. Our pop bands (Girls, The Dodos) are getting prime festival slots and lots of press love, while experimental psych-garage act Sic Alps has been asked by industry heavies (Sonic Youth and Y ... More >>

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    February 17, 2010

    Where Our Head Is At

    ​Man, San Francisco is so strong on the indie music front these days. And that's not just empty cheerleading. Our pop bands (Girls, The Dodos) are getting prime festival slots and lots of press love, while experimental psych-garage act Sic Alps has been asked by industry heavies (Sonic Youth and Y ... More >>

  • Music

    December 30, 2009

    Let's Get Killed's Top Albums of 2009

    ​Man, San Francisco is so strong on the indie music front these days. And that's not just empty cheerleading. Our pop bands (Girls, The Dodos) are getting prime festival slots and lots of press love, while experimental psych-garage act Sic Alps has been asked by industry heavies (Sonic Youth and Y ... More >>

  • Music

    October 14, 2009

    Music Awards Program Guide

    ​Man, San Francisco is so strong on the indie music front these days. And that's not just empty cheerleading. Our pop bands (Girls, The Dodos) are getting prime festival slots and lots of press love, while experimental psych-garage act Sic Alps has been asked by industry heavies (Sonic Youth and Y ... More >>

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    September 30, 2009

    Tim Cohen's possessed psych

    ​Man, San Francisco is so strong on the indie music front these days. And that's not just empty cheerleading. Our pop bands (Girls, The Dodos) are getting prime festival slots and lots of press love, while experimental psych-garage act Sic Alps has been asked by industry heavies (Sonic Youth and Y ... More >>

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    May 20, 2009

    Prolific psych pop from the Fresh & Onlys

    ​Man, San Francisco is so strong on the indie music front these days. And that's not just empty cheerleading. Our pop bands (Girls, The Dodos) are getting prime festival slots and lots of press love, while experimental psych-garage act Sic Alps has been asked by industry heavies (Sonic Youth and Y ... More >>

  • Music

    November 19, 2008

    The legend of Rodriguez crosses decades and continents

    ​Man, San Francisco is so strong on the indie music front these days. And that's not just empty cheerleading. Our pop bands (Girls, The Dodos) are getting prime festival slots and lots of press love, while experimental psych-garage act Sic Alps has been asked by industry heavies (Sonic Youth and Y ... More >>

  • Music

    September 10, 2008

    New local music making the grade

    ​Man, San Francisco is so strong on the indie music front these days. And that's not just empty cheerleading. Our pop bands (Girls, The Dodos) are getting prime festival slots and lots of press love, while experimental psych-garage act Sic Alps has been asked by industry heavies (Sonic Youth and Y ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 2, 2008

    Notable Locals: The Fresh & Onlys

    ​Man, San Francisco is so strong on the indie music front these days. And that's not just empty cheerleading. Our pop bands (Girls, The Dodos) are getting prime festival slots and lots of press love, while experimental psych-garage act Sic Alps has been asked by industry heavies (Sonic Youth and Y ... More >>

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    August 23, 2006

    Outer Bongolia

    Black Fiction's trippy tunes take listeners to unusual places

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