Warped Tour

With Cassadee Pope, The Voice Has Anointed a True Star

As it's done all season, The Voice dragged out its results show to a degree that was at best arduous and at worst excruciating. So, after two hours of performances from bus-loads of people -- including Rihanna (who had actual clothes on, miraculously), Smokey Robinson, Kelly Clarkson, The Killers, P ... More >>

Remembering Tony Sly: Bands, Fans, and Friends Mourn No Use For a Name Singer's Passing

Outpourings of grief and gratitude flooded the Internet yesterday after news broke that No Use For A Name frontman and underground Bay Area hero, Tony Sly, had passed away suddenly at the age of 41. As a key member of the pop-punk scene since the heyday of the 1990s, Sly had been a long-respected an ... More >>

Top 10 Signs of Punk Rock's Life and Death at the Warped Tour

Yes, the Warped Tour still exists. Maybe you think it's largely for kids with dyed-black hair, studded belts, shredded Vans, and a taste for anthemic three-chord mall-rock. And maybe you're right. But has the Warped Tour really gotten soft? We weren't sure, so we took a reading of the festival's pun ... More >>

Stepdad: Show Preview

Summer Guide: Choosing the Season's Best Music Festivals

Taylor Momsen's The Pretty Reckless: The 7 Types of People Who Will Go See Them in San Francisco Tonight

​Tonight, ever-controversial rock 'n' rollers The Pretty Reckless are playing Bottom of the Hill. Say what you will about this quartet and its 18-year-old singer, Taylor Momsen -- they attract an audience way more diverse than most. In case you head down to Bottom of the Hill for the former Gossip ... More >>

The Melvins' Old Van Is for Sale, But Here Are Five Tour Vehicles We'd Much Prefer

​Remember when you were 12 years old and you'd draw the logos of your favorite bands all over your school books? Well, one time, Kurt Cobain did that to The Melvins' van, leaving behind a little portrait of Kiss (plus logo) which remains to this day on the side of that piece-of-shit '72 Dodge Spor ... More >>

Meet Your New Favorite Band (to Intensely Dislike): Black Veil Brides

Calibree PhotographyBlack Veil Brides at the Warped Tour​ At first we thought that was KISS strutting up at us from our slideshow of this weekend's Warped Tour at Shoreline Amphitheatre. But no -- monstrous black-and-white makeup aside, those guys are way too skinny to be in KISS. Turns out ... More >>

How To Buy a T-Shirt Without Angering the Merch Guy

Buying band merchandise is not a complicated matter. Neither is there any need for it to be a slow endeavor. But talk to merch people the world over and you'll hear the same thing repeatedly: Merch is a really nice job -- except for all the stupid idiots you have to deal with. Here's how to avoid be ... More >>

Helpful Advice: How to Survive NOT Going to Coachella

The time is almost upon us. This week, tens of thousands of beautiful indie kids will descend on a patch of desert in Indio, Calif., and bear witness to some of the finest music the modern world has to offer at the 13th annual Coachella Festival.​For those of you who didn't manage to get a ti ... More >>

Something Corporate Brings A Warfield Crowd Back to High School

Kayla Robbins​Something CorporateAugust 24, 2010@ The WarfieldBetter than (but not quite): Listening to Something Corporate on your Walkman after a high school break-up and wishing you finally had your license so you could drive by your ex's house. Or at least so you could go buy a healing Coke sl ... More >>

Warped Tour Announces SF Date

J. PettinatoNewsom's Favorite Band? Dance Gavin Dance Now in its 15th year, America's longest-running alternative music festival, the Vans Warped Tour, hits Piers 30 and 32 in San Francisco June 27. Among the scheduled bands: NOFX, Punk Rock Karaoke, Shooter Jennings, Streetlight Manifesto, The Ata ... More >>

Flipper Announces Two New Albums, Prepares to Tour

200Pockets.comFlipper, circa 2009 When last we heard from seminal Ess Eff punk icons Flipper, the band had reunited and was preparing to hit the road on the Warped Tour, in support of two new albums: a studio release called Love, and a live recording entitled Fight.(Apparently, there's nothing more ... More >>

Flipper Joins Warped Tour, Records with Krist Novoselic

Classic San Francisco punks Flipper will show the young 'uns how it was done, Bay Area style, when the old school act drops a "Sex Bomb" on the Warped Tour this summer. The band has been added to the first three dates of the touring punk bash, and they've added Rachel Thoele on bass for those show ... More >>

Top Ten Hip-Hop Albums Of 2008

By Dan Leroy A couple of weeks ago, an expert on the Harry Potter series told an audience of high school kids how lucky they were to have this Big Shared Experience--these seven books and 41,000 words in common. What does Harry Potter have to do with hip-hop in 2008? In an age when many year-end ... More >>

Pretty in Pink

Me First and the Gimme Gimmes

Have Another Ball! (Fat Wreck Chords)

Survival of the fittest for the summer’s big music events

Saturday: Vans Warped Tour

Live 105's summer concert lineup lacks luster this year

The Slav Trade

Karaoke Opportunities: Punk Rock Singalong at Minna Gallery 12/6

Gimme Indie Rock!

Local promoters take a big risk to give S.F. a music fest that will restore the city's cool cred

Rock the Bells, The Expendables, New Monsoon -- ASD's Live Music Picks for Saturday, August 18

Striking the same old chords: the bane of the punk documentary

Causing tension with the Buzzcocks; The Cops bring on the fuzz

Summer Listings

Time for Sharing

Hardcore metal and the shows that make it great

Bang Thy Head Carefully

A survival guide for the summer's more vigorous music festivals

Trend-Spotting

In a scandal-ridden election year, the year's top ten music stories were all about winning the popular vote.

Method Rocking

Juliette Lewis and Minnie Driver have started bands. Come on, you know you're curious.

Special Delivery

How Story of the Year went from delivering pizzas to dishing out the rock

Fire Starters

Now that Oakland's Matches are finding success, will they leave behind the homegrown scene they helped found?

Emo Money

Now that emo's a cash cow, one of the genre's founding bands has reunited to milk it

Music Highlights

From Mahler to Morrissey, the Bay Area has it all this summer.

New Found Glory

Catalyst (Drive-Thru)

Various Artists

Rock Against Bush Vol. 1

Finding Emo

Intergalactic star wars? Epic dueling guitars? Why would anyone call Coheed & Cambria emo?

Blitzkrieg Pop

Punk has crossed over from underground filth to mainstream fluff, and Vendetta Red suggests that its music is the bridge

Buzz Clip

San Diego's the Locust serves up "power-violence" with a wink and a smile

House of Tudor

Party like it's 1984, and the swamp rock-turned-street punk of Throw Rag

Music

House Of Tudor

Silke Tudor sings the praises of punk rock karaoke, swoons over the Faint, and revels in girlhood

Check Your Head

If it's loud, lewd, or crude, it's bound to be on Reality Check

Sweet Adeline

A determinedly small Oakland label proves that punk is still a viable sound

The House of Tudor

Riff Raff

Night + Day

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