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Van Halen

  • Blogs

    April 24, 2012

    Screaming Females Talk Guitar Solos, Steve Albini, and What 'Punk' Means to Them

    Marissa Paternoster is the kind of singer and guitarist who makes a writer want to deploy all kinds of ridiculous language: "face-melting," "fire-breathing," "guitar-goddess," "shred-queen," etc. Paternoster, you see, is 5-foot-1, she fronts a fearsome power trio from New Jersey called Screaming Fem ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 9, 2012

    Van Halen's A Different Kind of Truth: A First Listen

    ​Van Halen is about one thing: revenge. Eddie brought in Sammy to get rid of Dave, flirted with Dave again to get rid of Sammy, brought in Gary Cherone to clear out the building, trained his own son to replace his most loyal member, and brought Dave back in for now. Don't be surprised if he cans h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2011

    Ke$ha's Top 10 Best Outfits Ever

    Ke$ha plays Oakland's Fox Theater tonight, and if it's anything like her show at the Warfield earlier this year, everyone is in for a massive, glittery, fantastically chaotic treat. Aside from everything else, we can't wait to see what she's wearing -- the fashion pages rip her apart with regularity ... More >>

  • News

    July 27, 2011

    SF Weekly Letters

    Ke$ha plays Oakland's Fox Theater tonight, and if it's anything like her show at the Warfield earlier this year, everyone is in for a massive, glittery, fantastically chaotic treat. Aside from everything else, we can't wait to see what she's wearing -- the fashion pages rip her apart with regularity ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 7, 2011

    Queercore Band Limp Wrist on Playing Live Again and Life as a Gay Punk

    Karoline Collins Limp Wrist​The song "I Love Hardcore Boys, I Love Boys Hardcore" is a given at most Limp Wrist shows. The brief, screamy hardcore anthem was written early in the band's career (late '90s) but it remains a mainstay, a memorable chant that crowds of sweaty punks cheer for. Not that ... More >>

  • Culture

    March 2, 2011

    March's Literary Events

    Karoline Collins Limp Wrist​The song "I Love Hardcore Boys, I Love Boys Hardcore" is a given at most Limp Wrist shows. The brief, screamy hardcore anthem was written early in the band's career (late '90s) but it remains a mainstay, a memorable chant that crowds of sweaty punks cheer for. Not that ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2010

    Guest Playlist: Come Out & Play SF

    This weekend marks the inaugural Bay Area iteration of New York's (and one time Amsterdam's) beloved Come Out & Play Festival, a weekend's worth of sportive mischief in and around the Panhandle and the Upper Haight. Full-contact location-based Scrabble? Check. Unusually polite ninja fighting? Ch ... More >>

  • Music

    July 28, 2010

    Scorpions say goodbye with one last power ballad

    This weekend marks the inaugural Bay Area iteration of New York's (and one time Amsterdam's) beloved Come Out & Play Festival, a weekend's worth of sportive mischief in and around the Panhandle and the Upper Haight. Full-contact location-based Scrabble? Check. Unusually polite ninja fighting? Ch ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 28, 2010

    Trashcan Sinatras Q&A: Paging Barry Gibb

    One of Scotland's finest musical exports, the Trashcan Sinatras, will play at Slim's on Tuesday, June 1. We asked the band a few pertinent questions. Barry Gibb, if you're reading this: Get in touch. -- Vicky Walker Izumi KamazawaTrashcan Sinatras bring the swing ​ SF Weekly: What are we draggin ... More >>

  • Music

    June 24, 2009

    Pay for Play

    Superstar session drummer and Dadaist marketing genius Josh Freese (Devo, A Perfect Circle, the Vandals) sells himself, his famous friends, and all-you-can-eat shrimp at Sizzler to promote his new album.

  • Music

    February 11, 2009

    Underwear Night at 440 Castro

    Superstar session drummer and Dadaist marketing genius Josh Freese (Devo, A Perfect Circle, the Vandals) sells himself, his famous friends, and all-you-can-eat shrimp at Sizzler to promote his new album.

  • Music

    August 20, 2008

    Catch a ride on the ridiculous: Yacht Rock hits S.F.

    Superstar session drummer and Dadaist marketing genius Josh Freese (Devo, A Perfect Circle, the Vandals) sells himself, his famous friends, and all-you-can-eat shrimp at Sizzler to promote his new album.

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2008

    (Air) Guitar Heroes: A Look at the SF Finalists

    Superstar session drummer and Dadaist marketing genius Josh Freese (Devo, A Perfect Circle, the Vandals) sells himself, his famous friends, and all-you-can-eat shrimp at Sizzler to promote his new album.

  • News

    January 9, 2008

    Readers Respond to Article on SF's New Seismic Standards, or Lack Thereof

    Superstar session drummer and Dadaist marketing genius Josh Freese (Devo, A Perfect Circle, the Vandals) sells himself, his famous friends, and all-you-can-eat shrimp at Sizzler to promote his new album.

  • Blogs

    September 24, 2007

    LastNight: Arcade Fire Ignites Indie-Rockalypse at Shoreline Amphitheatre, CA.

    Superstar session drummer and Dadaist marketing genius Josh Freese (Devo, A Perfect Circle, the Vandals) sells himself, his famous friends, and all-you-can-eat shrimp at Sizzler to promote his new album.

  • Listen Up

    March 15, 2006

    Band of Brothers

    Presenting the 27-year career of Stone Vengeance, the most ass-kickin' metal band ever to come out of Bayview-Hunters Point

  • News

    January 11, 2006

    Dieter Gone Wild

    Infiltrator tries to break into porn using the "German Method" and a pitch for pornographic bowling

  • Music

    June 8, 2005

    Bouncer

    Bringing your dog to a bar can be fun, but you never know who's going to wander up in search of heavy petting

  • News

    February 9, 2005

    Still They Ride

    A newly minted star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame offers an occasion to look back on the career of Journey. That's right, Journey.

  • News

    November 10, 2004

    Hot Dark Metal Revival

    Forget Black Sabbath. Don't even mention The Darkness. Dirty Power will lead the hard rock revolution to come.

  • Music

    January 7, 2004

    New Year's Repetitions

    Somehow it found me: Arnold Schwarzenegger's Total Body Workout. And work out I did.

  • Music Awards

    October 15, 2003

    SF Weekly Music Awards 2003

    Americana DJ/Selector/Turntablist Electronic/Electro Hard Rock/

    Metal Hip Hop/Rap Jazz Latin/

    International Lifestyle Music New Genre/Beyond Pop Punk Rock/Indie Rock Soul/Funk/ R&B

    If music be the brandy of the damned, then we're drunk off our asses

  • Music

    October 23, 2002

    Make Sure There Aren't Any Squares at My Funeral

    Punk hero Matty Luv passes on

  • Music

    December 20, 2000

    Pop Philosophy

    Riffage.com riffs its last, so the Great American Music Hall’s for sale. Again.

  • Music

    November 15, 2000

    Bad to The Bone

    With an unorthodox take on classic rock, The Bone has become the Bay Area's newest radio sensation

  • News

    October 4, 2000

    SF Weekly Wammies 2000

    Your choices of the top local bands

  • Music

    September 6, 2000

    Dealing With the Devil

    How two Van Halen fans became major label electronica stars and lived to tell about it. So far.

  • Music

    July 14, 1999

    Riff Raff

    How two Van Halen fans became major label electronica stars and lived to tell about it. So far.

  • News

    June 9, 1999

    Letters

    How two Van Halen fans became major label electronica stars and lived to tell about it. So far.

  • Music

    December 9, 1998

    Re-Kronikled

    How two Van Halen fans became major label electronica stars and lived to tell about it. So far.

  • Music

    October 14, 1998

    SF Weekly's Wammies '98

    How two Van Halen fans became major label electronica stars and lived to tell about it. So far.

  • Music

    July 29, 1998

    Sex Bomb

    Girls Against Boys proves that everything new is old again

  • Music

    November 26, 1997

    Hear This

    Girls Against Boys proves that everything new is old again

  • Music

    August 20, 1997

    Grope for Merit

    How the Melvins have perverted the indie process with Honky

  • Music

    April 2, 1997

    The House of Tudor

    How the Melvins have perverted the indie process with Honky

  • News

    March 6, 1996

    White Trash Nation

    The stereotype may be racist and classist, but that hasn't kept a generation from embracing the white trash aesthetic -- a disposable culture populated by trailer parks; junk cars; big hair and gaudy makeup; loud, angry music; and empty beer cans -- and i

  • Music

    April 12, 1995

    Let It Bleed

    Royal Trux crafts noisy anti-rock that stinks of death and decay

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