Minimal Wave Ft // An Underground The Lab // An Underground Saturday, July 27, 2013 It was midnight, and the Lab's's white walls flickered with the appearance of a television tuned to a William Gibson reference. The party was the first portion ...
Jay Z and Justin Timberlake at Candlestick Park on Friday. All photos by Gil Riego Jr. Jay-Z and Justin Timberlake Friday, July 26, 2013 Candlestick Park Better than: The (actually very fun) Uber ride I shared with four middle-aged drunk ladi...
"I didn't expect so much hipster bullshit." Really? This particular sentiment, which I overheard on the first day of the Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago, typifies the response expressed by skeptics of Pitchfork, the website that organizes the f...
That's what happens sometimes -- artists reach a certain level, get called a legend one too many times, and they start taking their audience for granted. They know people are going to continue to show up to see them regardless of what they do, or wha...
Public Release , which began with him sending and distributing mix CDs to close friends but soon evolved into a label proper. In 2009, he put out the first official release from Public Release Records, with a picture disc of edits from Beats in Space...
We're not sure who decided that the end of July was going to be the time for parties, but if we did, we'd buy them some kind of thank you beverage. Whatever the reason, this Friday bringsthe promise of a weekend spent luxuriating in the escapist embr...
still waiting to be King because his mother is trying to beat Queen Victoria's longest-reigning-Queen record. By the time we get through his reign and Prince William's reign, that baby is going to be about 75. Still, since our regular TV schedul...
In 2012, Duke Dumont stepped out from behind the mixing console with two For Club Play EPs, and he's been in the spotlight ever since. Known for emotionally charged remixes, Dumont compiles disco, tech-house, and U.K. garage influences into harm...
Anyone who says they don't get excited by the idea of seeing Justin Timberlake and Jay-Z on the same stage is lying -- Jay-Z is a straight-up superstar, and the days of Timberlake being merely a guilty pleasure are long gone. Side by side, they'...
Some believe the blues can be properly realized only by people who have experienced some serious shit. By that criterion, Candye Kane is a totally authentic blues artist. At various points, the San Diego-based vocalist has been a teenage mom, a dr...
In 1993, when life in S.F. was still cheap, Red Meat was born from the remains of local outfits the Movie Stars and Genuine Diamelles. Long before "Americana" was a useful marketing term, Red Meat played hard-edged, unadulterated honky-tonk countr...
Listening to Run the Jewels , I keep seeing my 12-year-old self at the piano, crying. Let me explain. One hundred and fifty years ago there was a French dude named Charles-Louis Hanon, who came up with a leviathan collection of painstaking keybo...
Sizzle We couldn't be cynical about seeing Counting Crows at America's Cup Pavilion. Not when the band opened with "Mr. Jones," or when singer Adam Duritz -- who is either legit crazy or a total diva -- obviously gave the show his all. Seeing...
The window of time when music can deeply affect someone's life is usually pretty short. Most people will forever cherish songs that reached them somewhere between their freshman year of high school and their junior year of whatever came after, in th...
East Bay pop-punk outfit Emily's Army is a band of teenagers. But Emily's Army is kinda famous -- way more famous than the teenage pop-punk band you played in -- because their drummer, 18-year-old Joey Armstrong, is Billie Joe Armstrong's kid. How ...
Johnny Winter is on his tour bus, fumbling with a cell phone and trying to find a place to sit with good reception. In a few minutes he'll be onstage again, playing with the same passion and fury he displayed when he was a young man. Meanwhile, he's...
Evangelista Thomas Carnacki Quartet Saturday, July 20, 2013 The Night Light, Oakland Better than: Conversations in bars about television shows. On Saturday at the upstart Oakland club the Night Light, a crowd scuffled up a narrow staircase and en...
Papa at Bottom of the Hill on Saturday. All photos courtesy Tom Holmes. Papa Wardell Wet Dreams Dry Magic Bottom of the Hill Saturday, July 20, 2013 Better than: Papa Roach, obviously. To understand L.A.-based pop-rock outfit Papa , it pays...
Goth Prom // Lights Down Low presents Cajmere The Lab // Mighty Friday, July 21, 2013 At least one strain of gothic '80s revivalism is alive and well in San Francisco. I began Friday in the center of that world, at a "goth prom" held by Decade...
There are only a handful of places in the world where you could go to a rock concert every night for a month and see something that's at least pretty good. Warren Teagarden wants to prove that San Francisco is one of those places. So this September...
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