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The Flamin' Groovies' Cyril Jordan on How the Movie Clueless Got Him Back into Music

By KEVIN L. JONES Talking to Cyril Jordan is like chatting with a VH1 documentary on rock 'n' roll: he tells a lot of stories, and many of them make you say "Holy shit!" For a music journalist, he's a dream; every other sentence is a pull-quote. It's like interviewing Keith Richards if he didn't ha ... More >>

Watch: E-40 and Too $hort Pretend They're Insensitive Men in 'Dump Truck'

On "Dump Truck," the first single from E-40 and Too $hort's long-awaited collaborative double-album The History Channel (which drops on Nov. 6), the two longtime friends are joined by the youngsters in Travis Porter, which is not an individual but a group from Atlanta that's popular for making music ... 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 >>

"Searching for Sugar Man": Interrogating Celebrity Culture

'Brain Freeze' Is Why Lil Debbie Shouldn't Quit Her Day Job

Lil Debbie, the exiled stylist and sidekick from Kreayshawn's White Girl Mob, has busted out on her own -- sorta. She's paired up with Riff Raff, a cornrowed dude from Los Angeles who first popped up on the second season of the Jamie Foxx-produced VH1 reality series From G's to Gents, for a song and ... More >>

Lupe Fiasco: Hip-Hop's Greatest Whiner

It's time for the hallowed halls of hip-hop history to start giving Lupe Fiasco his due respect. Not, you understand, as a purveyor of conscientious rap music bursting with positive-leaning messages; nor for the Chicago-based rapper's ground-breaking work as a foremost collector of limited edition J ... More >>

"Beats, Rhymes, and Life": Michael Rapaport's "Love Letter" to A Tribe Called Quest

Street Food's Answer to Behind the Music

​Behind the Cart Where: Secret location When: Fri., May 20, 7:30-10:30 p.m. Cost: $55; purchase via Eventbrite The rundown: Michael "GrilledCheezGuy" Davidson has conceived a street-food vendor's answer to VH1's Behind the Music documentary series, a dinner featuring bites from informal ... More >>

Born Frank Feranna

"Take Me Home Tonight": Coke-Fueled '80s Nostalgia

Watch Tamaryn's Trippy Video for "Love Fade"

Many on the Internet -- including us -- have been making positive noises about San Francisco-via-Brooklyn band Tamaryn for a while now (at least, a while in web time). Today, the duo releases its debut album, The Waves, on the Mexican Summer label. The album is loaded with enough ethereal syn ... More >>

Reality TV Contestant Jamal Trulove Found Guilty of Murder

Jamal Trulove, who enjoyed a brief bout of celebrity as an unsuccessful contestant on the VH1 reality TV show I Love New York 2 in 2007, was found guilty of first-degree murder in San Francisco Superior Court this afternoon.Jamal Trulove, a.k.a. 'Milliown'​Trulove, known on the show as "Milliown," ... More >>

'I Love New York 2' Reality TV Contestant On Trial For Murder in San Francisco

Character, Ralph Waldo Emerson observed, publishes itself evermore. So should America's reality TV fans have known, when Jamal Trulove started trouble and got booted from the first episode of I Love New York 2 in 2007, that he would wind up on trial for murder in San Francisco?'Milliown' is now tuss ... More >>

Artists and tech geeks debated the future of the industry at SF MusicTech

Last Night: Chali 2na, Gift of Gab, & Mr. Lif at the Independent

​Chali 2na, Gift of Gab, & Mr. Lif, hosted by Lyrics Born November 7, 2009 The Independent Better Than: This year's VH1 Hip-Hop Honors Indie hip-hop icons still pack them in up in the Bay Area. On Saturday night, the Independent was dominated by indie artists who have spent more than 15 ... More >>

The 10 Most Annoying Reality TV Stars

(Jon and Kate Plus 8 makes 10. . . but only Kate makes our list) It's not an easy feat to be considered one of the most annoying stars of reality television when the bulk of the competition is fierce, loud, obnoxious and willing to do just about anything in front of the cameras. Like the fat that c ... More >>

Metallica's Hetfield Hospitalized, Spinal Tap Rolls On

Metallica.comTime to Turn the Page? Metallica's James Hetfield New Music Express has reported that that Metallica's James Hetfield was hospitalized for "a stomach bug and dehydration," forcing a cancellation of a March 8 Stockholm show .This latest health-related incident parallels a similar incid ... More >>

Hey, Beer Man: S.F. Writer Manages to Land Greatest Job in the World

Kim Kardashian's Ass, Jessica Sierra's Sextape - The Best and Worst of Sex in 2007

Our top DVD picks scheduled for release this week:

Our top DVD picks scheduled for release this week

Royal Flush

Sonic Boom burrows into the inner E.A.R.

Cultural caches:Battling wits with Lady Sov's "nemesis"

Charting Hits

A year on the Public Enemy roller coaster

Net Gains

Get to know your overnight indie rock sensations

Department of What the Fuck?

Beef, it's what's for dinner: Hip hop feuds we'd like to see

Ragged Doll

A forgotten punk makes a Killer comeback

The Jester Speaks the Truth

We know you get your news from comedians. Now here's one of the best.

Fearless Flying

Come Fly With Me Nude is as much about farce as it is about art

Bouncer

How to respond to a highly expensive, utterly dead night at the Levende Lounge? Go back!

Dog Bites

The labor-intensive Mojito is reaping grim effects on bar efficiency – and patron patience

Me Talk Pretty

In conversation with comedian Patton Oswalt and the original pianist for John Kerry's Electras

Gabba Gabba Henh

The Ramones bopped toward history and an unhappy end

Examiner De-Fanged

"We'll analyze without prejudgment ... and reject ideologues of whatever stripe."

Prick

Don't hate me because I'm corporate

House of Tudor

Death, drugs, and rock 'n' roll: The ultimate Behind the Music has finally arrived on the silver screen

Fear Factor

But just think, no one hates TV more than Trent Lott

Hear This

Nina Hagen is the original disco diva

Metal Meltdown

Marky Mark becomes a rock star, but he doesn't get to enjoy it

Heavy Mental

The Fucking Champs aren't your typical metal band -- but they rock like one

Night & Day

Riff Raff

The House of Tudor

1998: The Year in Lists

The Man Who Came to Dinner

House of Tudor

Night + Day

Recordings

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