Wayne Kramer

Forget Pedigree: Wild Flag Is a Great New Rock Band

In Print: Wild Flag Is More Than a 'Supergroup'

Wild Flag​Wild Flag: The concept of a "supergroup"-- wherein performers with cool and/or exciting pedigrees find themselves in something resembling a "band" -- dies hard. Imagine your favorite musicians playing together! Frequently, expectations exceed results -- a collection of individuals do ... More >>

Spending High Time with MC5 -- A Guided, Stoned Tour through Motor City Mayhem

​Listen to this while high: High Time by MC5. Behind the buzz: Our recent visit to the Detroit retro-rock showroom sends us straight to the Cadillac of crunk rock, the Motor City Five. Elektra Records' overweening lust for a piece of the huge Midwestern rock LP market led to its short-lived assoc ... More >>

Get High on Motor City: Here's Detroit Rock 'N' Roll and the Fat Buds To Go with It

​Hear this while high: Part 2 of Julian Cope's excessive and entirely essential Detroit rock sampler. (Click for free download.) Behind the buzz: This second massive installment of vintage Motor City psychosis provides the Yang-like get-down-everybody's-gonna-leave-their-seat to last week's tum ... More >>

Tom Morello and Boots Riley rage as one in Street Sweeper

Last Night: Tom Morello, Steve Earle, Wayne Kramer, Sammy Hagar, Boots Riley, Corey Taylor, Joe Satriani and Damian Kulash

Tom Morello, Steve Earle, Wayne Kramer, Sammy Hagar, Boots Riley (The Coup), Corey Taylor (Slipknot), Joe Satriani, and Damian Kulash (OK Go) Thursday, March  26, 2009Slim'sBetter than: Playing Guitar Hero.It was midway through the Tom Morello hootenanny when Rage's shredding machine grinned at ... More >>

Crossing Over: Borderline Offensive

Citizen's arrest for Wayne Kramer's tasteless immigrant drama.

Special Guests Announced For Tom Morello's Slim's Show

EKAphotographySomebody's Watching You: Tom Morello Back in the pre-Obama days, Tom Morello was like, the only guitar god with a conscience. While Slash and Jack White were doing bumps off of stripper tits, Morello was playing demonstrations outside the Democratic National Convention (with Rage Agai ... More >>

Summer Grows Up

The season of big budget bangs uses its brain

Citay Houses Ezra Feinberg's Little Kingdom of Chamber Metal

So Rich, So Pretty

Mickey Avalon scores with hipsters, hustlers, and MySpace suits

Sorry Raters

Raucous doc catches moral watchdogs with their pants down

Scared Stiff

Wayne Kramer's latest casts a Paul over the proceedings

Going Mental

Mindhunters is truly stupid fun

Psyched-Out Cinema

Frank Perry's existential melodramas

Reps Etc.

Reps Etc.

Lucky in Love

The Cooler, somewhat unbelievably, asks us to swallow a Las Vegas fairy tale

The Firm

The curiously compelling rock cocks of Cynthia Plaster Caster

House of Tudor

Pressed fairies, effete torch singers, and highly techy pop acts

House Of Tudor

Bebel Gilberto; Phantom Chords; Dadafest; Go-Nuts

Hip Pocket

In Austin, Texas, it's a neck-and-neck race between art and commerce at South by Southwest

Night + Day

The Book of Lists

SF Weekly contributors salute the best (and worst) music of 1995

Recordings