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Green Day's New Album ¡Uno! Is Streaming in Full, If You Don't Mind Dealing With Nokia

And today, the exciting first installment of our riveting three-part series, What Will Green Day Do Next? After the shouty, stadium rock success of American Idiot and 21st Century Breakdown, after touring Broadway and Billie Joe becoming a mentor on The Voice, what will be the East Bay pop-punk trio ... More >>

Concert Fans: Nob Hill Residents Would Like to See Less of You

Over the last few years, concert promotion giant Live Nation has hosted an increasing number of concerts at San Francisco's Nob Hill Masonic Center. The seated, 3,500-capacity venue doesn't usually hold crazy rock shows (unless you think Weezer is crazy), but Al Green, Yanni, and Roxette are all sch ... More >>

Saturday: Devo Invokes Sid Vicious and Incites a Mosh Pit at the Fillmore

Devo Jan. 14, 2012 The Fillmore Better than: Bands that try to cash in on '80s nostalgia without keeping up their chops. Watching concerts from bands that were popular in the '80s can be really depressing -- or, in the case of Devo, incredibly energizing. Since its formation in 1973, the band has ... More >>

Friday: Foster the People Makes a Case for Itself as the Next Maroon 5 at the Fillmore

Foster the People at the Fillmore​ Foster the People Cults Oct. 14, 2011 The Fillmore Better than: Seeing Maroon 5 in concert (and they're not bad) There was a gigantic "Woo!" from the crowd at the mere sight of Mark Foster walking across the stage while instruments were being set up. In a f ... More >>

The Best Bay Area Concert Photos of 2010

Given the dizzying array of musical acts that tramp through San Francisco every year, and the number of those shows our hard-working photographers attend, it was no easy feat to round up their best shots. What follows is a sampling of some of the most exciting, interesting live music photos All Shoo ... More >>

Ten Albums We Dug That Didn't Get Their Due in 2010

A proposition: Finding gems of underdogs far down in the CD pile is way more fun than picking the best of anything. Look around at most Top 10 Albums lists this year, and you'll likely be bored by the (admittedly warranted) sameness. Glaze over at our Top 10 soon (there will be some surprises!) but ... More >>

The Chatroulette Show at the Make-Out Room: Laughs, Music and Masturbation

John Staedler hooks a fan.​The Chatroulette Show July 22, 2010@The Make-Out Room Better than: Pretty much any other use of Chatroulette. (Unless you really just like looking at genitalia.)Penises, boobs, cocks, phone sex ladies, tits, schlongs, vaginas, pubes, porn ads, and more penises. Bored-lo ... More >>

Behind the Beat with DJ Dials (Change the Beat, Soundpieces)

​Never let it be said that Noah Bennet Cunnigham is lazy. His hustle knows no bounds. He DJs, designs airport art installations, produces tracks, and manages our premiere glitch-hop outfit, Lazer Sword. As DJ Dials, he explores the depths of futuristic booty tunes and next-level bass music with ed ... More >>

Baroness gets the blues

Pickups Amnesia: Verizon Droid Launch at Bimbo's 365 Club

View more photos in "Silversun Pickups & Metric @ Verizon Droid Launch."Indie rock music met tech at last Friday's Verizon Droid Launch at Bimbo's 365 Club in San Francisco, where Canadian Band Metric and Silverlake band Silversun Pickups played to celebrate the launch of Verizon Droid, an iPhon ... More >>

Pay for Play

Superstar session drummer and Dadaist marketing genius Josh Freese (Devo, A Perfect Circle, the Vandals) sells himself, his famous friends, and all-you-can-eat shrimp at Sizzler to promote his new album.

Last Night: Black Lips at the Great American

Band Advice

How to get all the blow jobs and cash you can handle, in eight easy steps

Jimi Eat World Saxophone Quartet

Why it makes perfect sense to find a jazz troupe playing Hendrix

Northern California Dreamin'

The Phoenix theater is the best clubhouse a local music scene could ever have

A Fanclub's Notes

Once hyped as a supergroup, Teenage Fanclub may have to settle for midlevel stardom, and that may be just fine

Stop and Smell the Marketing

Modern marketing at a party for the Wallflowers, where Jakob Dylan proves he's a nice guy

Fire Starters

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

Shops and Gifts

Hear This

Aerosmith and Kiss tell off the Rolling Stones – sort of

Strange Days

Alex Proyas' latest should become a cult hit, but it's not the slam-dunk it oughta be

Laugh, or We Kill the Lobster

Ben Westhoff gets inside the odd mix of cerebral and naughty humor that's taken S.F. comedy troupe Killing My Lobster to the edge of national fame

Desaparecidos

Read Music/Speak Spanish (Saddle Creek)

It's a Wonderful Life

Jim Greer fights the shrinking music scene and an indifferent industry with a smile and a song

Riff Raff

Audra, Oprah -- Oprah, Audra, Strange Bedfellows, Free Ink

Riff Raff

Casting a Wide Net, What, No Journey?, Oh, Wait -- Here's Journey

The Golden Spike

Actor and rock video director Spike Jonze's Being John Malkovich is an odd masterpiece. So why is Jonze scared of his own shadow?

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