You know, Peter Shih , whose face is plastered all over for SOMA today , who wrote that now-infamous (and now-removed ) post complaining how parking in a big city is difficult and homeless people are poor and, ugh , fog? Yeah well Rebecca Bortman...
brand new song as part of her series of 7-inch singles, it's all feeling a bit gloriously '90s. The new track, "Are You Mine?" is a dreamy, romantic lullaby with Deal's signature rasp seeped right through it. It prompted us to go back and dig around...
Best Coast Bleached The Fillmore Thursday, August 15, 2013 Better than: Revisiting a Len record "I'm not going to fucking do pushups. You do pushups. I'm not going to play that song either, I'm not doing what you want so you're fucked... Naw, we'...
After more than 20 years at influential local rap and R&B; station KMEL , DJ and morning show host Jesus "Chuy" Gomez was fired yesterday -- and local fans are furious. KTVU reports that KMEL's program director confirmed Thursday night that Gomez ...
Some tough calls to make for the High Five this go-around, people. But in the interest of journalistic objectivity (or something like that), we've tempered the past week's biggest music news with some truly obscure (and at times downright peculiar) g...
Rich Medina has spent the past 20 years of his career educating crowds with more than just a simple spin of a record. His 2005 album Connecting the Dots featured a mixture of spoken word, soul, and jazz. And as one of the masterminds behind long-r...
This weekend might not have anything fancy like Outside Lands attached to it, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't find some reason to go out and enjoy the nightlife. If you don't have a good excuse, then allow us to provide you with five good ones in...
Carla Bozulich 's eclectic and storied career has taken her around the world. She finds collaborative performances and inspiration inevitably waiting in each city, so she hasn't lived in one place for longer than about a month in eight years. Her wor...
In Utero turns 20 this Sept. 13. To celebrate this milestone, a 70-track (70!) deluxe reissue -- featuring two versions of the record, as well as tons of demos, unreleased tracks, live recordings, B-sides and even songs from the rehearsal room -- wi...
In the North Berkeley home where the members of Wild Moth live, the bedrooms look more like studios. Screen-printing equipment peeks out of a nook, and there's music gear everywhere. Sitting in the house wearing black and gray clothing, three member...
Nostalgia for the 1980s plays out in different ways for Bay Area pop artists Part Time and Sam Flax. Part Time seeks the smoothness of the era's gated drum machines, Casio keyboards, and instrumental isolation, like Sade or Wang Chung. Flax, on th...
Following in the footsteps of fellow Portland hessians Red Fang and Witch Mountain, Lord Dying is the latest in a string of top-notch bands to emerge from the fertile Pacific Northwest scene. What it lacks in Red Fang's indelible hooks and tandem ...
It's been nearly seven years since Oakland producer and rapper Jeffrey Logan, better known as Jel , released his last album -- but you can't accuse the guy of being lazy. This co-founder of Anticon Records has been waving the Bay Area indie hip-hop...
Sizzle There are no cynics at music festivals when Paul McCartney unfurls Beatles classics like "Hey Jude," "Daytripper," and "Helter Skelter." There are only fans. Macca's headlining set Friday reconnected thousands with the most important r...
Scan the big names of the Outside Lands lineup this year, and you could be forgiven for thinking you'd been transported back to 2003, or deposited in an MTV Buzz Bin circa 1993. (Hell, two of the three main-stage closers were doing their thing back ...
Terry Malts Our ears are still ringing from Outside Lands -- was it just us, or were Foals suuuper-loud? -- but damn if the new single from S.F. pop-punk menaces Terry Malts isn't a great reason to brave the volume again. It's like these guys ...
King Tuff at Brick and Mortar on Saturday. By CODY B. NABOURS King Tuff The Men Twin Peaks Brick and Mortar Music Hall Saturday, Aug. 10, 2013 Better than: Spending the day with the beautiful people. On Saturday, around 65,000 people swarmed ...
The Outside Lands masses on Sunday By DANIEL LEVIN BECKER The high point of A-Trak 's late-afternoon set Sunday at Outside Lands came at the very end, when, after exactly fifty minutes of 3/4-throttle party collage and stutterstep turntablism,...
Galaxy Radio // Audio Discotech Soft Opening // Harlot presents Gene Farris & DJ Pierre Knockout // Audio Discotech // Harlot Saturday, Aug. 11, 2013 it wasn't supposed to be a long night out, but somehow it became one. We started at the Knoc...
FOALS at Outside Lands on Sunday Foals Why don't Foals get more love? Why are they not Radiohead, or at least Interpol, or at least the Police, or at least Phish? Why would ASD fearless leader Ian Port scoff (graciously, always graciously) when ...
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