Tom Petty

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

Petty Fest Brings Out Boz Scaggs, Lucinda Williams, Chuck Prophet, and More at the Fillmore, 2/27/13

Petty Fest SF, with Boz Scaggs, Lucinda Williams, Nick Valensi, Har Mar Superstar, Butch Walker, Two Gallants, and (Many) More Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013 The Fillmore Better than: Singing along to classic rock radio. The concept behind last night's Petty Fest concert at the Fillmore was simple: Get ... More >>

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

The Strokes Go Donkey Kong With "One Way Trigger"

Before we play you the new Strokes single, "One Way Trigger," we feel like we should warm you up a little bit. We don't want to rush this. We want to get you in just the right mood. So, before we get to the main event, we're going to play you a little something that's in the same vein. This was the ... More >>

"Sound City": A Warm, Winning Tribute

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

The 5 Worst Appearances by Musicians in Sci-Fi and Fantasy Films

Apparently, someone behind the scenes at Game of Thrones has really bland taste in music. Now, in addition to Snow Patrol frontman Gary Lightbody making a cameo in Season 2, Coldplay drummer Will Champion is going to be joining the HBO show for Season 3 -- playing a drummer. (How creative!) The ... More >>

How Obama and Romney Are Presiding Over the Death of the Campaign Song

Last week in Charlotte, Bill Clinton stepped to a podium in front of his party's delegation and delivered a speech. Maybe you saw it? What I remember are words -- lots of words. Some of them wrapped around statistics, others glaring back at me like bumper stickers on chrome. Clinton's words flowed f ... More >>

Fourth of July: Five Excellent Pro-America Songs to Soundtrack Your Party Today

Happy Fourth, everybody! As we all know, patriotism in this fine land of ours often sounds frickin' terrible when presented in song form. But feeling happy to be American doesn't -- we repeat, doesn't -- have to involve Toby Keith. Or Keith Urban. Or, well, anyone named Keith actually. Here then, ar ... More >>

Live Review, 4/27/12: Miranda Lambert Is a No-B.S. American Great

Miranda LambertChris YoungJerrod NiemanFriday, April 27, 2012Shoreline AmpitheatreBetter than: Every other currently touring Nashville hitmaker, for reasons gone into below. The short version: Blake Shelton showed up. The Pistol Annies did five songs. Lambert's band actually rocked when it tried to ... More >>

Springsteen Says Rockers Are Thieves: Five Songs You May Not Know Were Stolen

​Last Thursday, Bruce Springsteen made the keynote speech at South By Southwest. He was funny, he was heartfelt, he was informative and -- dang, Boss! -- he was ridiculously honest. So honest in fact, that he picked up a guitar, played the opening riff from The Animals' "We Gotta Get Out of this P ... More >>

It’s the Only Thing That There’s Just Too Little Of

On the Hunt for the Best Jukebox in Bernal Heights

The Juke at Nap's 3​Bernal Heights is often unfairly lumped in with the Mission as a whole. While it is backed up against the Mission, Bernal has its own plentiful offerings -- Indian pizza, indoor street food, and lesbian bars with three-story patios, to name a few. So, in deference to the vi ... More >>

The Top 10 Best Big Concerts I Saw in 2010, with Gaga, Green Day, Sir Paul, Pavement, and LCD Soundsystem

It just didn't seem right to lump in Oracle Arena and HP Pavilion fare with the cozy goings-on at S.F. dens like Bottom of the Hill and even Great American Music Hall. So, in search of an even comparison, I'm breaking it up: Today, here are the best concerts I saw with more than 5,000 of my fellow h ... More >>

The Top Five Covers of Outside Lands 2010

Christopher VictorioAl Green's soul medley on Sunday had us wearing a stupid grin.​Of all the things we'll remember about this year's Outside Lands festival -- the sun breaking through the fog during Al Green's set, the gaudy costumes of Empire of the Sun, and the incessant oonce oonce from the He ... More >>

Sound and Vision: The year Outside Lands stumbled

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 >>

The Ghosts of Outside Lands Past

Now that this year's Outside Lands lineup has been released in full and stayed true to its lil-bit-hippie-lil-but-hip-hop roots and the folk vs. funk vibe, will you be forking over some coin when the tickets go on sale tomorrow? How do you think this year's lineup fares with those of previous years? ... More >>

Local Frequency: Q & A w/ Birds & Batteries

​Birds & Batteries is a band that can't be pigeonholed. The electro-country-pop-indie-you-name-it group finds inspiration from every genre, every sound; they're reluctant to single out a sound they won't play--except maybe heavy metal. If it's appropriate to bring in polka, polka there shall b ... More >>

The smell of fear, beer, and sausages at Gestalt

The buzz, the truth, and the Mannequin Men

Mastodon exposes its inner prog

Last Night: Blitzen Trapper at the Independent

Blitzen TrapperTuesday, Dec. 2, 2008The IndependentWords by Jennifer Maerz, photo by Chrissy LoaderBetter than: Seeing the Parson Red Heads alone.I recently read an interview with M.I.A. where she laughed off the fact that in the beginning, record labels had no idea where to place her music. Makes s ... More >>

Slow Food Rocks Interview: Lillie Belle Farms

Outside Lands, News & Booze, Rock Make Street Fest: Your Monday Morning Hangover

It's Over: Outside Lands Wrap-Up

Lollapalooza Lineup Kicks Coachella and SF Outside Lands Lineups in the Balls

Beck, Primus, Ben Harper Added to Outside Lands Lineup

Tom Petty, Radiohead, Jack Johnson, Five Stages, Golden Gate Park

Radiohead, Tom Petty, and Jack Johnson To Play Golden Gate Park's Outside Lands Festival Aug. 22-24

Chuck Y Cheese

CD Review: Turbonegro - Retox

Rock the Bells, The Expendables, New Monsoon -- ASD's Live Music Picks for Saturday, August 18

Flaccid nostalgia

The Deep Divide

A San Francisco pizza that's geared to the discerning hipster palate

Radio Radio

Contemplating the airwaves, the NBA, and what it means to be Welsh at Dylan's

Smells Like Indie Spirit

Music that made the world safe for the word "alternative" again.

Chuck Prophet

Age of Miracles

House of Tudor

Proto-punk European street music and neo-cabaret, Hasidic reinterpretations of Ice-T, and a shot at Paradise

Lucinda Williams

World Without Tears

Johnny Cash|Various Artists

At Madison Square Garden|American IV: The Man Comes Around|Dressed in Black|Kindred Spirits

Chuck Prophet

No Other Love (New West)

Johnny Cash; Merle Haggard

Cash: American III: Solitary Man (American) / Haggard: If I Could Only Fly (Anti/Epitaph)

Pop Philosophy

Great pop songs; pop dance clubs; song of the week

The House of Tudor

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