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Top Six Christmas Songs That Don't Actually Suck

That's right, folks. It's the rarest of things -- a Christmas song that doesn't make you want to vomit, or jam sharp pencils into your ear-holes. Finding one of these gems is like stumbling across a white tiger in your backyard -- you can't believe it's there, you know it's not supposed to be there, ... More >>

R.I.P. R.E.M., Masters of a Beautiful, Eclectic Rock 'n' Roll

Farewell, then.​ In case you still needed to know the difference between R.E.M. and U2, R.E.M. just broke up and U2 dies only when Bono is put in the ground. Whatever today's (honestly shocking) announcement means about R.E.M.'s 31-year-career, well, what did anything ever mean with this ban ... More >>

The Best of SF Weekly June Concert Photography

You know it's going to be a good month of concerts when the lineup starts with U2 and ends with Rihanna. Whether small or large, sweet and soulful or eardrum-piercing, you can be sure that SF Weekly was at the concert. Here are the best of the Bay Area June concerts in photos. Christopher Victorio ... More >>

Please, Ban Video at Concerts -- It Will Improve the Experience

Jane's Addiction at Google I/O: Look familiar?​ So Apple may be developing a technology that automatically turns off an iPhone's video camera when it's shooting a concert. The idea, reporters have surmised, would be to protect copyright holders (artists and show promoters) by limiting the free ... More >>

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

Traffic-Trapped U2 Fans Might Sue for Missing Oakland Concert

Christopher VictorioTraffic was so bad even Bono gave up and walked inside.​ The traffic jam exploding out of the Overstock.com Coliseum Tuesday night for the massive U2 concert was so bad that some people didn't make it inside -- at all. We told you. We weren't just being complainy music wr ... More >>

Six Reasons Everyone Drove to Tuesday's U2 Concert and Caused a Huge Traffic Jam

You don't get traffic jams the size of the one on I-880 Tuesday night for just any reason -- not even when one of the world's biggest rock bands is playing a sold-out show at Overstock.com Coliseum. The mess was so bad that some fans who missed the show are now reportedly pondering a lawsuit. Enou ... More >>

U2's Giant Spider Show Pops a Noisy, Well-Attended Squat in Oakland

Christopher VictorioU2 in Oakland last night.​ U2 Lenny Kravitz Moonalice June 7, 2011 @ O.co Coliseum [The venue formerly known as the Oakland Coliseum] Better than: Watching a U2 concert DVD with the volume really high while standing outside with 70,000 other people. (But actually, that's e ... More >>

Five Things Even We Can't Hate About U2

That which we abhor.​U2 is playing in Oakland tonight, and we're reasonably confident that of the roughly 20,000 people who will be attending, we are dreading it the most. Yes, we loathe the pompous rock wannabes of U2. We tend to spit at the very mention of Bono. Shown pictures of his wraparo ... More >>

Top Five Reasons to Hate Bono (Other Than That Stupid Spider-Man Musical)

It was impossible to know, back when Rattle and Hum or The Joshua Tree came out, what Bono would one day turn into. He's been making it incredibly difficult to like him for about 15 years now, but -- woomp, there it is -- he just found a way to put a cherry on top of all that annoying behavior: He a ... More >>

Reba McEntire & Ronnie Dunn: Today's Country Is Yesterday's Coldplay

On occasion, All Shook Down gives a listen to the music that is to real America what brine is to a cucumber. This is one of those occasions. Reba McEntire, "If I Were a Boy" Since Americans only got around to segregating their mongrel pop music into discrete categories like "Race" and "H ... More >>

Einsturzende Neubauten: Show Preview

Giants Playoff Tickets Go On Sale

​While the San Francisco Giants' inclusion in the baseball postseason won't be determined prior to what promises to be an agonizing, dozen-game stretch, fans can purchase playoff tickets in just under 40 minutes. Of course, that may be agonizing in its own way. That's because tickets are only sell ... More >>

Ten Places We're Tired of Seeing Bands Pose For Photos

Social Studies, A Day To Remember​Rarely are bands' press photos shot on a stage, at a bar, in front of a microphone, or at a stuffy wedding reception. Though these places would seem the most logical place to plaster on a smile -- given that,  you know, that's where musicians play -- the most ... More >>

U2 Reschedules Oakland Concert to 2011

"See you in 2011, Oakland"​You may resume breathing, disappointed Bay Area U2 fans: Bono and company are coming back. But not until next year. As you no doubt remember, U2 had to cancel last month's Oakland show due to the sunglassed singer's emergency back surgery. Tour promoter Live Nation annou ... More >>

Google May Launch iTunes Rival, Rock Concert Injuries, Shred Guitar on Your iPhone

Bono, your ruined back totally ruined our week​Google may launch music store to battle with iTunes this fall. [CNET]U2 had to postpone tonight's show in Oakland due to Bono's back injury. Disappointed, the Chron assembles a list of famous rock injury moments. [SF Gate]Members of Oakland noise-psy ... 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 >>

Sunday Boozy Sunday

In its search for lasting love, rock lost its libido

Coldplay

Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends (Capitol)

Sonic Outlaws

Top 5 Music Turkeys of 2007: Britney Spears, Amy Winehouse ...

Bloc Party

A Weekend in the City Vice Records

Laurie Anderson goes for the jugular

The Hard Sellout

Bruce Brugmann, Frank Chu, Super Balls, U2, and folk-playing surfers

Our top DVD picks for the week of November 15

Third Third I

The S.F. International South Asian Film Festival has the depth of an older series

Accentuate the Negativ

Fathers hide your intellectual property: The Bay Area's original culture jammers are back

Songs of Freedom

Perhaps the candidates running in the 2004 election could use some help selecting their campaign music

Walk On

The Walkmen are not a part of that New York retro rock thing. Seriously.

BeatBox

"Real People" is a breath of fresh air at the Oxygen Bar; Ghostface Killah proves he's Wu Tang's No. One.

Best Irish Pub

The Plough and Stars

Best Reagan-Era Road Trip Tapes

Community Thrift

Snow Patrol

Final Straw

The Appleseed Cast

Two Conversations

Radiohead

Hail to the Thief

The Monster Mash-up

2 Many DJ's is never enough

A New Tune

After September 11, some new songs just don't sound the same

Dead Set on Deconstruction

On what may or may not be its farewell tour, Negativland makes the most of an age of uncertainty

Thievery Corporation

The sample-minded artists of Detritus.net celebrate the fine art of cultural reappropriation

Six Degrees of Peter Criss

Night Crawler

Letters

Racket

Recordings

Riff Raff

Savage Love

Mondo 1995 (Part II)

Mondo 2000 nailed the emerging cybersexcomputerdrug zeitgeist with its first issue in 1989, making media mavens out of its founders, Queen Mu and R.U. Sirius. But the trippy, fractious family that was Mondo began to implode in 1993, torn asunder bu inter