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  Make a Mixtape, Win Free Outside Lands Passes

  is completely sold-out -- you won't see any tickets for sale at the festival this weekend -- but that doesn't mean getting in is impossible. You just have to get lucky. The SF Mixtape Society , an informal group that gathers quarterly to exchange an...

  @ All Shook Down by Ian S. Port on August 6, 2013 @ 1:17 pm

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  The 8 Best Bay Area Punk and Hardcore 7-Inches So Far This Year

  CAGED ANIMAL? S/T? (Warthog Speak)? The latest hardcore project of Ovens leader and solo artist Tony Molina, Caged Animal's debut kicks off with a cameo from Bay Area rapper Antwon. The other tracks are startlingly brief, burly, and formulaic hardco...

  @ All Shook Down by Sam Lefebvre on August 6, 2013 @ 10:52 am

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  Shuggie Otis Gets Lost in Time at Stern Grove, 8/4/13

  Shuggie Otis The Relatives Stern Grove Festival Sunday, Aug. 4, 2013 Better than: Shuggie Otis is an 18th century monarch onstage at San Francisco's Stern Grove festival, surrounded by your usual free Sunday concert crowd: blissed-out young cou...

  @ All Shook Down by Ian S. Port on August 5, 2013 @ 4:15 pm

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  Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2013 Lineup: Your First Clues and Answers Are Here

  organizers have begun announcing the lineup for this year's free, three-day festival in Golden Gate Park. But as is usually the case, you can't find the performers' names all on a big poster just yet. The lineup is being announced through a series of...

  @ All Shook Down by Ian S. Port on August 5, 2013 @ 1:03 pm

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  Backstage at the Fillmore San Francisco: A Virtual Tour

  Fillmore booker Michael Bailey in the venue's Poster Room. All photos by Mike Koozmin The Fillmore , a tan-colored cube at Geary and Fillmore streets in San Francisco, is one of the country's most iconic live music venues. The room helped incubat...

  @ All Shook Down by Ian S. Port on August 2, 2013 @ 5:51 pm

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  The High Five: Great New Songs from Of Montreal, NONONO, and More

  Summer is not quite over, but don't tell the artists from this week's selection. It seems as though we've already receded into some wintry tones here -- speculations, dark melodies, and peculiar, guarded lyrics. There are a couple hangers-on (Figaro ...

  @ All Shook Down by Byard Duncan on August 2, 2013 @ 10:48 am

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  Drake, 2 Chainz, and Big Sean Worship at the Altar of Stupidity on "All Me"

  on Muni seem to be getting more abusive, more cocksure, and more idiotic? We have. We've given this a lot of thought actually, and we've concluded that, while all the old reasons (parents, schools, an urban environment) are still relevant, some ne...

  @ All Shook Down by Rae Alexandra on August 2, 2013 @ 10:15 am

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  Chicago Producer and DJ Jordan Fields on Three Decades of House Music and His Dozen Aliases

  Jordan Fields has gone through three decades of technological and cultural change in the club scene. Teaching himself to DJ in '83 on cheap record players with no pitch controls, he could only make edits with a well-timed push of the pause button. A...

  @ All Shook Down by Christina Li on August 1, 2013 @ 10:46 am

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  The Top Five Parties in San Francisco This Weekend

  It's nowhere near Halloween, but for some reason the city is suddenly full of parties leaning towards the darker side of nightlife. And while previous weeks have bordered on campy goth revival, this time around it's all about the cutting-edge of cont...

  @ All Shook Down by Derek Opperman on August 1, 2013 @ 10:10 am

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  Deerpeople Bring Deep Textures and Gleaming Afros to Cafe Du Nord, 7/30/13

  Deerpeople Dig the Kid We Will Be Lions Tuesday, July 30, 2013 Cafe du Nord Sounds like : Tripping out to an octopus's benthic coral maze in the shade. Brennan, Derek, Jordan, Julian, Kendall, and particularly Alex welcomed everyone to their mercha...

  @ All Shook Down by Raymond Robles on July 31, 2013 @ 12:37 pm

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  It's Jerry Garcia Week in the Bay Area. Here's a Guide to the Many Celebrations

  The Grateful Dead are one of San Francisco's most enduring cultural legacies. The outfit rose to prominence as the house band for Ken Kesey's LSD-fueled "acid tests," where its extended psychedelic rock jams helped launch the counterculture of the 19...

  @ All Shook Down by Devin Holt on July 31, 2013 @ 10:29 am

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  5 Musicians Who Are Also Accomplished Artists

  Before My Chemical Romance frontman Gerard Way became world famous and inspired millions of teens to put on too much eyeliner, he worked at the Cartoon Network and was an aspiring animator. Way has been releasing comic books -- the award-winning U...

  @ All Shook Down by Rae Alexandra on July 31, 2013 @ 10:07 am

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  Sun Ra Arkestra: Show Preview

  It's been 15 years since the Sun Ra Arkestra last played San Francisco, and saxophonist Marshall Allen, the group's bandleader, isn't exactly sure how the group's upcoming performance will go. He's held rehearsals with core members of the Arkestra...

  by Gary Moskowitz on July 31, 2013

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  Sebadoh: Show Preview

  When Lou Barlow exited Dinosaur Jr. and formed Sebadoh in 1989, it was impossible to know or predict just how important his new lo-fi project would become. The influence of albums like III , Smash Your Head on the Punk Rock , and Bakesale on i...

  by Rae Alexandra on July 31, 2013

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  Trapped in the Closet: Sing-A-Long Preview

  Among this early millennium's pop culture oddities, there is basically nothing as confounding, notorious, and weirdly delightful as the R. Kelly song cycle Trapped in the Closet . A now-33-chapter drama of cheating, counter-cheating, and counter-...

  by Ian S. Port on July 31, 2013

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

  Sizzle ? Jay Z and Justin Timberlake delivered a show at Candlestick Park that pretty much lived up to their "Legends of Summer" billing. Justin is a spirited performer, but sometimes seemed like he was playing to the judges on a reality sh...

  by Staff, SF Weekly on July 31, 2013

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  Rap Game Elementary School: The Space Migration Tour's Rising Stars Want Your Lunch Money

  Personalities rarely change. You're born, you fight your innate nature for a handful of decades, then you give in, and then you die. That's why kids have so much fun, because they haven't yet realized that their purpose on Earth is to suppress their...

  by Will K. Butler on July 31, 2013

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  Mr. Fillmore: The man behind the curtain of S.F.'s most iconic concert venue

  Michael Bailey has one of the coolest jobs in the San Francisco music business. He books the Fillmore, the legendary club at Fillmore and Geary that cradled the city's revolutionary '60s acid rock scene, and that was recently named the No. 2 "big ro...

  by Ian S. Port on July 31, 2013

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  The S.F Symphony Performs The Matrix Soundtrack Live, 7/27/13

  The Matrix live. Photos by the author. The Matrix Live with the San Francisco Symphony July 27, 2013 Davies Symphony Hall Better than: Watching pretty much any movie the Wachowskis have made since. As an inveterate, semi-professional music ...

  @ All Shook Down by Dave Pehling on July 30, 2013 @ 12:12 pm

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  El-P and Killer Mike on the Importance of Arrogance and Disrespecting Royals

  We like to attach simplistic stories to our music, molding artists and albums into forms that are easy to discuss and in turn accept or reject. But music isn't as simple as that. Even El-P and Killer Mike -- who set out to simply make quality raps on...

  @ All Shook Down by Will Butler on July 30, 2013 @ 9:47 am