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Arthouse Movie Listings January 9-15, 2013

JEFF the Brotherhood Churns Out Dumb Fun at Bottom of the Hill, 10/11/12

By NATE WAGGONER JEFF the Brotherhood Diarrhea Planet Colleen Green Thursday, Oct. 11, 2012 Bottom of the Hill Better than: Wayne's World 2... and maybe the original Wayne's World as well. A JEFF the Brotherhood show at Bottom of the Hill offers the kind of transcendent, joyfully dumb and bizarre ... More >>

Live Review, 7/14/12: The U.S. Air Guitar Championships Bring an Invisible Axe Battle to the Independent

See also: * US Air Guitar Championships: Witness the Madness of People Rawking on Thin Air Last Night: US Air Guitar Championships Regional Qualifier July 14, 2012 The Independent Better than: Air bassoon. This summer, like so many summers before it, brings an aura of excitement to ambitious com ... More >>

Ant-1 on Growing Up in the Local DJ Scene and Krazy Kids Radio

As a member of Krazy Kids Radio and the Ri$ky Bizne$$ Crew, local DJ Ant-1 is known for playing a broad variety of music, including '90s hip-hop and even the burgeoning trap music genre. Originally from Daly City, home to DJs like Shortkut and DJ Chicken Skratch, Ant-1 began his career in 1996 after ... More >>

Lost in the Night: ESG Goes Out With a Bang at Mezzanine

No Way back Presents ESG Mezzanine Saturday, March 3 "It's perfect, they play it all perfect. Now everyone'll get to go and say they saw them and you can file it away and tell people 'I was there, maaaan.'" This was the warning given to me by a friend when I told him I was headed to ESG's farewell ... More >>

Arthouse Movie Listings June 8-14

No Way back Presents ESG Mezzanine Saturday, March 3 "It's perfect, they play it all perfect. Now everyone'll get to go and say they saw them and you can file it away and tell people 'I was there, maaaan.'" This was the warning given to me by a friend when I told him I was headed to ESG's farewell ... More >>

Arthouse Movie Listings June 1-7

No Way back Presents ESG Mezzanine Saturday, March 3 "It's perfect, they play it all perfect. Now everyone'll get to go and say they saw them and you can file it away and tell people 'I was there, maaaan.'" This was the warning given to me by a friend when I told him I was headed to ESG's farewell ... More >>

Six Extremely Weird Cover Songs, Featuring Bill Shatner, Dolly Parton, and ... Pat Boone?

Between Miley Cyrus covering Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and now Ben Folds covering "Sleazy" by (our guilty pleasure du jour) Ke$ha, we felt it was only appropriate this week, that we compile some other unexpected covers. Here are six of the weirdest we can think of. 6. Sonic Youth do ... More >>

Hunx and His Punx' New Video for "Bad Boy" Is Shitty-Awesome

And it gets better.​Yes, we used the word awesome in a headline. But this here new clip for "Bad Boy" is pretty awesome ... in a shitty, Desperate Living kind of way. We spoke with Hunx's Seth Bogart the day after he and the band filmed this vid, and while his original comments didn't make ou ... More >>

A Trip to the Gay Bar with Hunx and His Punx's Seth Bogart

Alex PenneyBogart: This is what his not-having-sex phase looks like.​In a text message, Seth Bogart, the Hunx in Hunx and His Punx, offered us a choice of venue for our interview: His warehouse in the Bayview, "or we could meet at a bar (preferably gay and sleazy)." Naturally, we chose the ba ... More >>

'My Big Fat Greek Wedding' Cited at Scholarly Conference

Who knew this was the stuff of academic pondering? ​At a faculty colloquium, you can expect to overhear the featured speakers drop a few highfalutin quotes originally uttered by revered academic luminaries.It was ever thus at a recent San Francisco gathering of Saybrook University, a school best k ... More >>