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Goldenvoice Announces First City Festival in Monterey With Modest Mouse, Passion Pit, MGMT, Beach House, More

Every year seems to bring more entrants to the Northern California music festival scene. The latest is First City, a two-day festival this Aug. 24-25 at the Monterey fairgrounds that will bring out big, indie-leaning names like Modest Mouse, Passion Pit, MGMT, Beach House, Toro y Moi, and Neko Case ... More >>

Hey Local Musicians, Converse Wants to Give You Free Recording Studio Time

If you're new to the Converse Rubber Tracks situation, let us sum it up for you: Later this month, a shoe company is going to give local musicians studio time. For free. It's already happened in New York, L.A., Austin, and Toronto. Now Converse is bringing the odd mix of branding and philanthropy ( ... More >>

South-By Superlatives: The Weirdest, Best, and Most Profane of SXSW 2013

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

Intermission: Noise Pop Turns Down the Volume

Toro y Moi Thaws Out: Chaz Bundick puts a New Fire Under His Cool Electronic Funk

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

SF Party Push The Feeling Celebrates 1 Year Tonight with YACHT

Well, that went by fast. A year ago, a couple dudes behind DJ/promotion outfit Epicsauce started Push the Feeling, a low-key party at the gritty, unheralded Lower Haight club Underground S.F. The monthly aimed to showcase some of the new dance and electronic music burbling up from outside of the reg ... More >>

Noise Pop Adds Starfucker, Ramona Falls, and More to 2013 Lineup

After last week's announcement of the first batch of artists for the 2013 festival, Noise Pop is back already with more additions. New acts include Starfucker, the Thermals, and Califone, plus a few locals you might've heard of.

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

Noise Pop 2013 Early Lineup: Amon Tobin, Toro Y Moi, Thao Nguyen, and More

There's a chill in the air and the skies are intermittently cloudy, so it must be getting close to time for the Noise Pop festival, right? Well, yes: Today, organizers announced the first installment of the lineup for the festival's 2013 edition. The big names so far are Amon Tobin, Toro Y Moi, Rogu ... More >>

Treasure Island 2012: The xx, M83, and Public Enemy Compete With Gorgeous Views and Weather

Treasure Island Music Festival Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 13 and 14, 2012 Treasure Island, San Francisco Better than: Getting an October sunburn anywhere else this weekend. It was around sunset on Sunday evening when Best Coast's Bethany Cosentino sang what everyone at Treasure Island Music Festiva ... More >>

Toro Y Moi's Chaz Bundick Will Be Rocking the Lower Haight Tonight as Les Sins

It'll soon be Friday night, and aside from the whole list of great parties to hit this weekend, there's another worth putting on your radar: Over at the Lower Haight's underloved Underground SF, Chaz Bundick, chief freak behind chillwave titans Toro Y Moi, will be headlining the low-key monthly Push ... More >>

Treasure Island 2012 Lineup: The XX, Girl Talk, M83, Best Coast, Gossip, Public Enemy, and More

Whoa! The lineup for the 2012 Treasure Island Music Festival was just announced! Performers include The XX, Girl Talk, M83, Best Coast, The Presets, Gossip, Grimes, Ty Segall, Matthew Dear, Youth Lagoon, Public Enemy, Toro Y Moi, and more. The festival takes place this October 13 and 14. Check out t ... More >>

Live Review, 3/3/12: Cloud Nothings Grow Up at Bottom of the Hill

Cloud Nothings Saturday, March 3, 2012 Bottom of the Hill Better than: The high school graduation test. Four songs into a fevered, triumphant set at Bottom of the Hill on Saturday, Cloud Nothings' Dylan Baldi stopped playing and said hello: "I'm glad we're playing an all-ages show, because that me ... More >>

Memory Tapes's Dayve Hawk on Pop Music, Fatherhood, and Being the "Weird Kid"

Memory Tapes' Dayve Hawk​ A couple summers ago -- 2009, to be exact -- several bedroom musicians arrived at approximately the same sound. Their music seemed as though it was recorded on melted cassingles. The critical watchwords were "dayglo", "spectral", and "nostalgic", though lovers and hat ... More >>

After "Portlandia", Washed Out Trades Sampling for Songwriting

In Print: Washed Out Trades Sampling for Songwriting, and More

Washed Out's Ernest Greene​After Portlandia, Washed Out trades sampling for songwriting: Washed Out might be the most perfect band name ever conceived: It captures the gist of Ernest Greene's music in two simple words. Bright, explosive hues could have easily ruled his synth-driven pop, but he ... More >>

Outside Lands 2011: Phish, Muse, Arcade Fire, Black Keys, Deadmau5, and More

Three days of this for 2011!​As promised, Outside Lands' avatar Ranger Dave announced the lineup this morning for the festivals fourth incarnation, to be held August 12-14, 2011. Your headliners: Phish, Muse, and Arcade Fire. Also playing: the Black Keys, Deadmau5, MGMT, Girl Talk, Decemberists, a ... More >>

Toro Y Moi Calls It an Early Night at Great American Music Hall

​Toro Y Moi March 25, 2011 @ Great American Music HallBetter than: Walking through the Tenderloin in hail. Toro Y Moi may seem like another foreign language moniker for another East Coast college grad's bland "chillwave" solo project, but after a consistently entertaining performance at Great Am ... More >>

Easy Fame in the Pitchfork Era: Be Young, Find a Trend, Get a Drum Machine

Dirty Beaches: This could be you!​Did you want to play at SXSW, but perhaps felt you weren't ready? Are you comfortable with stylish gloss instead of creative substance? Do you know how to work a drum machine?Well, good news kids: You don't need to work much at making music anymore -- at ... More >>

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 >>

Friday Night: L.A. Fave Low End Theory Comes to S.F., Gives the City Exactly What it Needs

​Low End Theory S.F., with Daedelus, Baths, Gaslamp Killer and moreJanuary 21, 2011@ 103 Harriet Better than: Suffering through a pack of smelly trustafarians to hear some heavy bass. Let me waste no time getting to the point: Low End Theory SF is everything I've wanted a hip-hop/dubst ... More >>

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Ghostface Killah's Fear of God, and the Thermals' Temporary Chill

Ghostface​From SF Weekly's print music section:Ghostface Killah: This might be a common belief, but Ghostface is an uncommon man. For starters, he's intensely observant. In the rap game, his strength of recall is Proustian. His skill in breaking a verse's picture into jagged crystals is Joycean. M ... More >>

Hear Shlohmo Remix Toro Y Moi Before Toro Y Moi's Friday Show

"Shlohmo makes me sleepy"​And thus does S.F./L.A. beatmaker Shlohmo take on the spacey chillwave sensibilities of Toro Y Moi. Here he remixes "Fax Shadow" into a brooding, dribbling, echoey soundscape. It's for your ears, after the jump.

Is Chillwave the Sound of Summer 2010?

Washed Out wonders if he's your summer fave.​It may be hard for us S.F. residents to tell, but summer is here, and that means it's time to bust out our brightest, shiniest, dreamiest, and, uh, summeriest music to help make these months (more like weeks in our case) that much more memorable. Of cou ... More >>

How to Succeed in Indie Music? Five Formulas For a Blog-Worthy Band

Maybe you won't admit it -- at least to your would-be fans -- but we all know it's the truth. No matter how stunning your lack of ambition may be, no matter how much you say you like sharing a one-bedroom with four guys and perfecting lattes for corporate assholes to pay the rent, you want that indi ... More >>

Best Albums of 2010: We Roundup the Lists

Jason NocitoBeach House tops many critics' Best of 2010 lists​Music publications love to compile their personal (though not always eclectic) tastes into easily digestible lists of loves, hates, bests, and worsts, and that's largely because music fans love reading them. While some tastemakers wait ... More >>

Dream On

Cheat Sheet for Cassettes to Care About in 2010

​Toro y Moi Chazwick Bundick's brand of chillwave is less grandiose than Washed Out and less distinguished than Neon Indian but makes better-suited cassette listening with more minimal dance grooves than nostalgia-evoking 80s chintz effects. You can even dance (grind?) to "You Hid" sober. ​N ... More >>

Behind the Beat with DJ Dials (Change the Beat, Soundpieces)

​Never let it be said that Noah Bennet Cunnigham is lazy. His hustle knows no bounds. He DJs, designs airport art installations, produces tracks, and manages our premiere glitch-hop outfit, Lazer Sword. As DJ Dials, he explores the depths of futuristic booty tunes and next-level bass music with ed ... More >>

More San Francisco Parties @ SXSW

The Fresh & Onlys on the night they kicked the cat outta the band​If you're headed down to Austin in March for the big music industry party SXSW, there are a bunch of locals hosting great acts throughout that week. We told you about our big bash on Friday, March 19 with Superchunk, the xx, the ... More >>