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Five Amazing Grunge Artifacts That Time (and You) Forgot

​You stopped scrawling "World Domination" on the backs of school notebooks. You swapped your Pearl Jam Christmas singles for some Warp Records vinyl when you were graciously informed that this was the next big thing. You didn't recognize Kim Thayil in that recent photograph, what with his nav ... More >>

Hudson Mohawke: Show Preview

​You stopped scrawling "World Domination" on the backs of school notebooks. You swapped your Pearl Jam Christmas singles for some Warp Records vinyl when you were graciously informed that this was the next big thing. You didn't recognize Kim Thayil in that recent photograph, what with his nav ... More >>

R.I.P. Trish Keenan

Steve DrewKeenan performing with Broadcast​Trish Keenan, lead singer of the influential electronic-psych band Broadcast, passed away this morning from severe complications from pneumonia. She was 42. Several news outlets reported recently that the singer had contracted the H1N1 virus and had been ... More >>

Stream Brian Eno's Time-Warped New Album, Small Craft On a Milk Sea

​Small Craft On a Milk Sea, the 25th (!) solo album from oblique strategist and art-tronic music O.G. Brian Eno, isn't out until next week -- on Warp Records, in a partnering of great karmic appropriateness -- but you can stream it now courtesy of NPR's First Listen. At the aural equivalent of fi ... More >>

Friday's Pick: Eskmo with Dr. Strangeloop, Shlohmo, Teebs and Timeboy at Milk

Eskmo​Eskmo, Dr. Strangeloop, Shlohmo, Teebs, and Timeboy @Milk 8 p.m., $10They say that good things come to those who wait, and that's certainly true of local beatmaker Eskmo. Brendan Angelides started recording as Eskmo more than a decade ago, but he's just now putting t ... More >>

Odd Bird

Jamie Lidell's genre-wandering wings show no signs of being clipped on his latest album

Over the Weekend: Flying Lotus and Kode 9 at Mezzanine

Jesse RobeckFlying Lotus​Flying Lotus and Kode 9 Saturday, March 27, 2010 Mezzanine Better than: The other times I've been crammed like a sardine into a music venue. Before Saturday night's show, the last time I walked past such a long-stretching line (filled with such a wide array of concertgo ... More >>

Flying Lotus

Jesse RobeckFlying Lotus​Flying Lotus and Kode 9 Saturday, March 27, 2010 Mezzanine Better than: The other times I've been crammed like a sardine into a music venue. Before Saturday night's show, the last time I walked past such a long-stretching line (filled with such a wide array of concertgo ... More >>

Nosaj Thing and the abstract beat generation

Jesse RobeckFlying Lotus​Flying Lotus and Kode 9 Saturday, March 27, 2010 Mezzanine Better than: The other times I've been crammed like a sardine into a music venue. Before Saturday night's show, the last time I walked past such a long-stretching line (filled with such a wide array of concertgo ... More >>

Tim Exile

Jesse RobeckFlying Lotus​Flying Lotus and Kode 9 Saturday, March 27, 2010 Mezzanine Better than: The other times I've been crammed like a sardine into a music venue. Before Saturday night's show, the last time I walked past such a long-stretching line (filled with such a wide array of concertgo ... More >>

The New Mayer of Soul

Jesse RobeckFlying Lotus​Flying Lotus and Kode 9 Saturday, March 27, 2010 Mezzanine Better than: The other times I've been crammed like a sardine into a music venue. Before Saturday night's show, the last time I walked past such a long-stretching line (filled with such a wide array of concertgo ... More >>

Nightmares on Wax steers a pivotal road trip

Jesse RobeckFlying Lotus​Flying Lotus and Kode 9 Saturday, March 27, 2010 Mezzanine Better than: The other times I've been crammed like a sardine into a music venue. Before Saturday night's show, the last time I walked past such a long-stretching line (filled with such a wide array of concertgo ... More >>

Left-Field Flyer

Jesse RobeckFlying Lotus​Flying Lotus and Kode 9 Saturday, March 27, 2010 Mezzanine Better than: The other times I've been crammed like a sardine into a music venue. Before Saturday night's show, the last time I walked past such a long-stretching line (filled with such a wide array of concertgo ... More >>

SF Weekly Best Albums of 2007: Michael Leaverton Weighs In

Jesse RobeckFlying Lotus​Flying Lotus and Kode 9 Saturday, March 27, 2010 Mezzanine Better than: The other times I've been crammed like a sardine into a music venue. Before Saturday night's show, the last time I walked past such a long-stretching line (filled with such a wide array of concertgo ... More >>

Battles Back in San Francisco In November at Great American

Jesse RobeckFlying Lotus​Flying Lotus and Kode 9 Saturday, March 27, 2010 Mezzanine Better than: The other times I've been crammed like a sardine into a music venue. Before Saturday night's show, the last time I walked past such a long-stretching line (filled with such a wide array of concertgo ... More >>

Giving the Indies a Spin

Small outposts rule online MP3 sales

Dave Douglas soundtracks Fatty Arbuckle, Jen Leckman impersonates Stephin Merritt.

Small outposts rule online MP3 sales

The Week's Can't-Miss Performance

Antipop Consortium brings wee-hour surrealism to hip hop.

Beat Scientist

Experimental rapper Doseone is too weird for the hip hop faithful -- but indie rockers love him

Rethinking Techno

Emeryville's Emanate Records wants to be known -- but not necessarily famous -- for producing intelligent electronic dance music