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Great Scott

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Celestial Septet

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Who Shot the Serif?

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SF Weekly Letters

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Wilco loves you

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Outside Lands Post-Script

EKAphotographyVinyl Vamp: Zap Mama​ Fickle weather and last-minute headliner replacements aside, Outside Lands was a success, by most yard sticks. Here's what folks are saying about the three-day extravaganza, which drew more than 100,000 people to Golden Gate Park: Local reaction: The Chron ... More >>

Math Jazz

EKAphotographyVinyl Vamp: Zap Mama​ Fickle weather and last-minute headliner replacements aside, Outside Lands was a success, by most yard sticks. Here's what folks are saying about the three-day extravaganza, which drew more than 100,000 people to Golden Gate Park: Local reaction: The Chron ... More >>

Hear This

EKAphotographyVinyl Vamp: Zap Mama​ Fickle weather and last-minute headliner replacements aside, Outside Lands was a success, by most yard sticks. Here's what folks are saying about the three-day extravaganza, which drew more than 100,000 people to Golden Gate Park: Local reaction: The Chron ... More >>

Lucero’s full of sass and Stax

EKAphotographyVinyl Vamp: Zap Mama​ Fickle weather and last-minute headliner replacements aside, Outside Lands was a success, by most yard sticks. Here's what folks are saying about the three-day extravaganza, which drew more than 100,000 people to Golden Gate Park: Local reaction: The Chron ... More >>

New Doc Captures Devendra, Vetiver, Joanna Newsom Tour

The Family Jams - Trailer from kevin barker on Vimeo. When San Francisco soft rockers Vetiver hit the road in 2004 with Devendra Banhart and Joanna Newsom, Vetiver guitarist Kevin Barker decided to capture the trip on film. The result is a new documentary called The Family Jams, out later this spri ... More >>

todayokay Talks Star Wars, Record Deals and Sexual Chocolate

​ When I met with band todayokay at Dolores Park Café, it was hard at first to picture the laid-back bunch producing the enormous sounds on display on their EP, All This Weaponry. Even the band's seemingly benign name doesn't quite fit with the affrontive album title. But as its members each chim ... More >>

Friday Night: Pavement at the Greek Theatre, Berkeley

Gretchen RobinetteStephen Malkmus of Pavement​Pavement Quasi June 25, 2010 @Greek Theatre, Berkeley Better than: Pavement's hometown show in Stockton the previous night. The night after its gushy homecoming in Stockton, reunited indie-rock band Pavement summoned its energy, reached deep into its ... More >>

Sound and Vision: The year Outside Lands stumbled

Gretchen RobinetteStephen Malkmus of Pavement​Pavement Quasi June 25, 2010 @Greek Theatre, Berkeley Better than: Pavement's hometown show in Stockton the previous night. The night after its gushy homecoming in Stockton, reunited indie-rock band Pavement summoned its energy, reached deep into its ... More >>

Exclusive: NastyNasty's 'Lazer Soul' DJ Mini-Mix

Luba RonissNastyNasty​Jasper Reeder is San Francisco lazer-bass aficionado NastyNasty, a vital asset to our city's increasingly vibrant electronic music landscape. He contributes his speaker-wobbling tracks to a handful of labels, including local institution Frite Nite, and can be seen regularly r ... More >>

The Nels Cline Singers: Show Preview

Luba RonissNastyNasty​Jasper Reeder is San Francisco lazer-bass aficionado NastyNasty, a vital asset to our city's increasingly vibrant electronic music landscape. He contributes his speaker-wobbling tracks to a handful of labels, including local institution Frite Nite, and can be seen regularly r ... More >>

Cults Play a Short, Sweet Set at the Independent

Cults at the Independent last night.​ Cults Magic Kids April 14, 2011 @ The Independent Better than: Joining the punchline. It was short but sweet. Like most, I went in to the Cults show at the Independent last night knowing a mere three songs by the headlining band: "Most Wanted "(aka that ... More >>

13 Reasons We're Glad We Missed Coachella (Photos)

What a lovely weekend in S.F.: Open tables at all the Mission's best bars, easy access to prime brunch locales, and short pizza delivery times. Was everyone gone for Coachella? Probably -- but we're glad we weren't, and not just because it was really easy to snag fresh pitchers at Zeitgeist. Here's ... More >>

What Is Dad Rock, Exactly? One Dad's Opinion

billcosby.com​ In a segment from a season 1 episode of "The Cosby Show," the sitcom's namesake delightfully illustrates how pop music can function as a generational wedge. "I thought it had come down the hallway," Bill Cosby says in reference to the deafening music playing on daughter Sondra's ... More >>

My Morning Jacket: Comfortable, If Not Cool

billcosby.com​ In a segment from a season 1 episode of "The Cosby Show," the sitcom's namesake delightfully illustrates how pop music can function as a generational wedge. "I thought it had come down the hallway," Bill Cosby says in reference to the deafening music playing on daughter Sondra's ... More >>

Jeff Tweedy Covers (and Mocks) the Black Eyed Peas; Wilco Drops New "Born Alone" Video

"This has been very challenging": Tweedy covering the Black Eyed Peas​Check it: New Wilco album (The Whole Love, out Sept. 27) means new Wilco video (for "Born Alone"), means new Wilco tour (alas, no Bay Area dates yet.) But the best of today's Wilco developments is a video captured of Jeff ... More >>

Wilco's The Whole Love: A First Listen

​ Wilco is a band that makes me hate indie rock fans. Not just because Jeff Tweedy wrote songs just fine before producer/sonic mastermind Jim O'Rourke came along, but because the fickle little bitches ran scurrying immediately after the band started guitar soloing -- sorry, "dad-rocking" -- ag ... More >>

Swoon: Wilco Is Playing Three Bay Area Shows Early Next Year

Christopher VictorioWilco playing the Greek Theatre in Berkeley, June 27, 2009​ A proposition: The best part about Wilco putting out a new album is that it means the band will be touring behind it. Yes? No? Maybe? Whatever you think of The Whole Love, Wilco's latest album (and oh damn if you ... More >>

The Wizard of Wilco: A Conversation with Guitarist Nels Cline

Christopher VictorioWilco playing the Greek Theatre in Berkeley, June 27, 2009​ A proposition: The best part about Wilco putting out a new album is that it means the band will be touring behind it. Yes? No? Maybe? Whatever you think of The Whole Love, Wilco's latest album (and oh damn if you ... More >>

Wilco's Nels Cline on Working with Jeff Tweedy and His Reputation for Weird Sounds

From SF Weekly's latest print music section: That's Nels in the red shirt.​The Wizard of Wilco: Nels Cline is extremely lucky, and he knows it. Widely regarded as one of the world's finest living guitarists, Cline came up playing styles of music whose audience is sadly shrinking: jazz, improv ... More >>

Live Review, 1/29/12: Wilco Airs a Gorgeous Melancholy at the Warfield

Joseph SchellWilco at the Warfield last night.​ Wilco White Denim Jan. 29, 2012 The Warfield Better than: Being sad in less beautiful ways. Nine songs into Wilco's performance last night at the Warfield, Jeff Tweedy stopped to check on his audience: "This has been kind of a morbid show so f ... More >>

Get a Free Tour of the Fox Theater and Celebrate Its Third Anniversary This Friday

Josh MillerThe Fox turns three years old this Friday.​ It's kind of a big week for Oakland's Fox Theater: Tonight, Wilco plays its last in a series of three Bay Area concerts -- which, if it's anything like Sunday's show at the Warfield, should be incredible. Then, on Friday, there's a big pa ... More >>

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

Josh MillerThe Fox turns three years old this Friday.​ It's kind of a big week for Oakland's Fox Theater: Tonight, Wilco plays its last in a series of three Bay Area concerts -- which, if it's anything like Sunday's show at the Warfield, should be incredible. Then, on Friday, there's a big pa ... More >>