Here are the top 20 Popscene shows of 2007, as voted by the fans of Popscene: 1. Amy Winehouse/The Klaxons, April 26 2. LCD Soundsystem, June 8 3. The Pipettes, June 12 4. The Horrors, June 19 5. Maximo Park/M.I.A, July 26 6. Spoon, May 24 7. Blonde Redhead/Shiny Toy Guns, December 31 8. Junior Senior/The Switches, August 2 9. Shout Out Louds/Vampire Weekend, July 18 10. Hot Hot Heat, Sept 13 Next year,......

Aaron Axelsen has been a major force in promoting local independent music with San Francisco's indie-dance party, Popscene and his Sunday night radio show on Live 105. (You can listen from 7-10pm. Check out what he plays, here.) We wanted to feature his top ten albums of the year to find out what he thinks rocked 2007. Here's the list: Aaron Axelsen, Live 105 Music Director's, Top 10 Albums of 2007 1. Great Northern......

We've got two contests this week, one to celebrate over a decade of experimentation and the other to to support some stalwart locals. Giveaway #1! On Monday and Tuesday, Blonde Redhead make their gorgeous art rock at Bimbo's with openers Annuals. Annuals weave intricate melodies with ambitious sounds while still giving you hooks to hold onto (and remind us a little of the wonderful Aloha in the meantime.) One winner will get a pair of......

Something's been puzzling us lately. How is it that a Santa Monica-based radio station is sponsoring live shows in San Francisco? OK, technically it's not KCRW-FM the station, it's their Web site KCRW.com, where you can listen their broadcast online from anyplace. But still, it seems a little invasive. We feel violated. Why aren't these shows being sponsored by one of our local stations, or by SFist? As soon as we sell enough SFist......