This week's giveaway comes from The Finches, a local duo who play endearing folk pop. The songs are refreshingly gentle and Carolyn's voice rings with a true sincerity. See them Saturday afternoon at 2pm when they play a free in-store at Amoeba, or celebrate their CD release at Cafe Du Nord on Wednesday night with The Moore Brothers, Colossal Yes and The Mantles. We're giving away a copy of their brand new CD Human......

This is the time of year we feel deep sympathy for everyone working in retail, if solely for the neverending medley of Christmas music piped through so many of their workplaces in which we fear to tread. At this point, we would be more irritated if the hyper-sensitive car alarms in our neighborhood blared out "Jingle Bells" or "Deck the Halls" rather than the regular beep-uh-beep-uh-beep. To salve the retail ear wounds, might we......

SFist interviews Michael Taylor from the Court and Spark...

Once again the musical offerings in San Francisco are so plentiful and compelling that they force us into stressful choices. The upside is that no matter what you decide this week, you really can't go wrong. Let's get the first difficult choice out of the way by making you decide which giveaway to go after. Two amazing San Francisco acts are headlining shows on Friday night -- The Court and Spark celebrate the release of......