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MP3 of the Day: Woods

I went camping in the Santa Cruz mountains last weekend, and who knew a Brooklyn quartet could sound so perfect for evenings under a canopy of giant redwoods? I guess the group's name--Woods--was a small hint. These four New York dudes skew folksy pop with eerily effeminate vocals, flashes of Dinosa ... More >>

Last Night: Wavves at Rickshaw Stop

​Wavves Rickshaw Stop Sunday, Sept. 7th, 2009 By Noah Sanders So Much Better than: an 80-foot tall burning man. After last night's Wavves show at Rickshaw Stop, a new trifecta of criteria has arisen for the near-perfect show. One, the performance must fall on a holiday/on the final days of ... More >>

Track of the Day: The Art Museums

Jeff Manson​New York's Woodsist label has released vinyl from a number of eclectic psych- and folk-leaning acts. You can thank the indie label for records by the Fresh & Onlys, Meth Teeth, Real Estate, Thee Oh Sees, Woods, and Wavves, among other acts. Now Woodsist has added another San Franci ... More >>

Top 10 Onstage Gaffes of 2009

We'll admit there's more than a little schadenfreude going on in this list of the best onstage gaffes of 2009. But why else would Al Gore have invented YouTube if not to feed our obsessive need to see celebrities get taken down a peg? Here with, our favorite of the year's music-related missteps, cau ... More >>

Openers: Three Opening Act You Don't Want to Miss This Week

Best Coast​Coachella tour mayhem may be in the past, but we're set for another busy week of spring shows here in the city -- opening bands included. A few best bets are below:Wednesday: Best Coast The guitar pop of Best Coast sounds like its been blasted through the smog of a Los Angeles afterno ... More >>

Cheat Sheet for Cassettes to Care About in 2010

​Toro y Moi Chazwick Bundick's brand of chillwave is less grandiose than Washed Out and less distinguished than Neon Indian but makes better-suited cassette listening with more minimal dance grooves than nostalgia-evoking 80s chintz effects. You can even dance (grind?) to "You Hid" sober. ​N ... More >>

Woods returns to its indie-rock roots

​Toro y Moi Chazwick Bundick's brand of chillwave is less grandiose than Washed Out and less distinguished than Neon Indian but makes better-suited cassette listening with more minimal dance grooves than nostalgia-evoking 80s chintz effects. You can even dance (grind?) to "You Hid" sober. ​N ... More >>

Friday's Pick: Woods, Kurt Vile, The Art Museums, The Mantles at Slim's

Woods​There's been much conjecture on how to get your music heard in a time of eroding CD sales. Many bands are encouraged to embrace technology and gimmicky marketing schemes. There is also the Woods way. Since 2006, the Brooklyn indie-rock band has released an album every year on its own label, ... More >>

10 Things: Good Bands, Gay Pride, Free Market and The Life and Death of an Italian Cat

Portland's The Caps, performing at Summer Solstice Spectacle on Saturday​On this fine Pride weekend, let's step back and take a moment to appreciate all the superb events our foggy town has to offer without high costs or shitty attitudes. Where else in the world can you find citywide Michael Jacks ... More >>

All Shook Down: A cross-section of the festival schedule

Portland's The Caps, performing at Summer Solstice Spectacle on Saturday​On this fine Pride weekend, let's step back and take a moment to appreciate all the superb events our foggy town has to offer without high costs or shitty attitudes. Where else in the world can you find citywide Michael Jacks ... More >>

What's With All The Misspelled Names in Hip-Hop?: An Examination

Chali 2na​So Chali 2na's coming to Yoshi's tonight. Dude may be the most likeable member of Jurassic 5, with his booming voice and salaam-to-that-ass demeanor, but he's also the one whose name mounts the most nihilistic assault on orthographic sensibility (distant second: Mark 7even). Not that th ... More >>

The Week in Event Names: Three Genres We're Inventing Right Now

Courtesy owl-pictures.comYou like Owl City too? No way!​Is San Francisco's music scene busy and vibrant -- and important -- enough to sustain our crackpot attempts at taxonomic triangulation? Based on this week's concert calendar, there's reason to believe that the following completely made-up sub ... More >>

Wavves' addictive surf-punk makes it king of the beach

Courtesy owl-pictures.comYou like Owl City too? No way!​Is San Francisco's music scene busy and vibrant -- and important -- enough to sustain our crackpot attempts at taxonomic triangulation? Based on this week's concert calendar, there's reason to believe that the following completely made-up sub ... More >>

In Print: Classic Hip-Hop Albums Performed Live, Wavves' Surf-Punk, and Rappers in the Shadow of Hyphy

​The lineup for this year's Rock the Bells hip-hop festival has the likes of Snoop, Slick Rick, A Tribe Called Quest, Rakim and even the Wu-Tang Clan all performing classic hip-hop albums in their entirety. In our print edition this week, Tamara Palmer takes a look back at each album's considerabl ... More >>

Target Christmas Album: Best Coast/Wavves, Blackalicious, Jason Schwartzman et al. Hock Holiday Cheer

Don't they know it's Christmas? Seriously. Are they aware?​Now that it's December, the merchants of the world have declared open season on premature holiday festivities, turning life into the cultural equivalent of that house on your block that puts up Halloween decorations in August. Target (pron ... More >>

Nothing Else Matters: Noise Pop 2011 Lineup Includes How To Dress Well

Noise Pop has revealed the first wave of its festival lineup for 2011, not only coming out of the gate with Yo La Tengo, Ted Leo, Dan Deacon, Wavves, and Best Coast, but also playing a part in bringing the the lo-fi, R&B-minded How To Dress Well out to San Francisco for his first local appearanc ... More >>

Pitchfork's Best Albums List: What It Got Right, and What It Got Wrong (So Far), in 10 Sentences

​Some music website called Pitchfork is unveiling its list of the year's best albums this week. Since this site and its opinions are marginally important to the music world, and since the whole point of lists is to agree and/or disagree, here's our reaction -- in the form of 10 brief sentence ... More >>

Night Market, Royal Baths, Morrissey Tribute, Seaweed Sway, Cheese Books, and More

Royal Baths plays Amnesia this Saturday​San Francisco is obsessed with artisan food. Perhaps the SF Appeal said it best earlier this week with its simple statement; "Things San Franciscans Like: Food." Simple as that. This weekend is bloated with food-friendly events along with the expected (and c ... More >>

Saturday at Noise Pop: Best Coast Is Lazy, Wavves Is Crazy at the Regency Ballroom

Christopher VictorioBest Coast at the Regency Ballroom Saturday night.​Best CoastWavvesHunx & His PunxFebruary 26, 2011@ The Regency BallroomBetter than: Standing on Van Ness avenue in not-snow, holding a useless laminated card.We can sorta see why you'd think a Noise Pop Festival ba ... More >>

No Age, Grass Widow, and Rank/Xerox Bring the Ruckus at the Rickshaw

Joseph SchellNo Age at Rickshaw Stop Saturday. ​No AgeGrass WidowRank/XeroxCrazy Band February 26, 2011 @ Rickshaw Stop Better than: Standing still at Best Coast/Wavves. I have a thing for drummers who sing. There's something about it that triggers endorphins: this is a multitasking musician, bo ... More >>

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

Joseph SchellNo Age at Rickshaw Stop Saturday. ​No AgeGrass WidowRank/XeroxCrazy Band February 26, 2011 @ Rickshaw Stop Better than: Standing still at Best Coast/Wavves. I have a thing for drummers who sing. There's something about it that triggers endorphins: this is a multitasking musician, bo ... More >>

SXSW So Far: The Highlights and Lowlights of Two Days in Austin

The Dodos​Far more occurs in the maelstrom of South-By than bears retelling -- even in just two music-packed days. So in lieu of lengthiness, here's a drive-by roundup of the highlights and lowlights from our last two days in Austin. HighlightsSqueezing onto a tiny, cramped balcony at 1 a.m. ... More >>

Juke Hunt Finale: The Best Jukeboxes in San Francisco

You saw it coming...​Over the past few months, we've found treasures and trash in San Francisco bars: Old school jukeboxes with surprisingly sincere music picks, and sad little boxes we  urge you to skip. It's all come to this: The juke hunt winners distilled into a single list, the best offe ... More >>

Saturday: Mister Loveless Gets the "Nineties Children" Grinning at Bottom of the Hill

Mister Loveless at Bottom of the Hill on Saturday.​ Mister Loveless Saturday, July 24 @ Bottom of the Hill Better than: Getting your ass kicked around in any other setting. It's quite possible that every Mister Loveless review written has contained the same two words: "Joy Division." It's a ... More >>

Unknown Mortal Orchestra: Show Preview

Mister Loveless at Bottom of the Hill on Saturday.​ Mister Loveless Saturday, July 24 @ Bottom of the Hill Better than: Getting your ass kicked around in any other setting. It's quite possible that every Mister Loveless review written has contained the same two words: "Joy Division." It's a ... More >>

Live Review: Tennis Takes One Step Off the Beach at Bottom of the Hill

Tennis at Bottom of the Hill on Saturday night. ​ Tennis Miniature Tigers Devon Williams Dec. 10, 2011 Bottom of the Hill Better than: Watching a documentary on '60s music. "This is a new one, it's called 'Origins.'" Alaina Moore uttered this after the halfway point of Tennis' 14-song set a ... More >>