Each Tuesday we will feature new music that should (or whatever) be on your radar. Standouts: (There are no major standouts this week) Please Let Us Know What You Think About: 1. Amy Winehouse - Frank: Winehouse doesn't have much luck - her last single, "Rehab," was so deliciously repetitive that it apparently drove her into exhaustion rehab. Will her next single be "Fuck Me Pumps" or "Amy Amy Amy"? We hope that nothing gets......

It smelled like someone spilled a pitcher of Sangria inside Cafe du Nord Friday night, when we stopped by to check out the North Carolina band Annuals for Noise Pop. We always find the crowd so interesting at Cafe du Nord, with the pool players chatting amiably in the back, the lively bar, and there's always that smattering of smartly-dressed people on dates, but who look like they aren't really into indie rock. We always......

It's time for SFist Answers......

Tower Records is officially donezo as it's closing up it's stores in the area. That's the bad news. The good news is that all of this means EVERYTHING MUST GO! THESE PRICES ARE INSANE!!!! Which is another way of saying they're having a liquidation sale. ...

SFist loves all things local, especially our bands. In between releasing the new album, and touring in support of it, Film School’s Krayg Burton answered SFist’s questions. We were especially thrilled with his choice of best taco (La Taqueria) because not only is it our favorite as well, but it also gives us a legit (semi) reason to name drop. So guess who SFist saw there on Saturday night? David Cross! Fresh out of......

Here in the labs, we're not above passing along a bit of Corporate Advertising as if it were genuine tech news. So we'll tell you that Apple is running a Billion Songs Countdown promotion for its iTunes Music Store. Every 100,000th song downloaded gets a free iPod nano and a gift certificate, and the recipient of the billionth download gets an iMac, a $10,000 gift certificate to the iTMS, and ten (10) 60GB iPods.......

As we settled into our seats for the world premiere of documentary It's My Country Too, there was a generalized hubbub as a tall man wearing black and carrying a guitar case strode down the aisle. We heard his escort say, "It's so weird that no one's recognizing you!" Turns out that man is Pakistani-American rock star Salman Ahmed, the narrator of the documentary It's My Country Too. Ahmed is the lead guitarist for the band Junoon, which has been called the U2 of Pakistan. We think this makes Ahmed Bono (scroll down to read Bono's letter to Ahmed), since the Edge doesn't seem to take too many positions on global politics. It's My Country Too follows Ahmed as he travels America trying to see how 9/11 politics have affected the Pakistani-American community. After the jump: Muslim comedians, Muslim lawyers, and the founders of the website Muslims for Bush (who are Salman Ahmed's aunt, uncle, and cousin). Picture of Salman Ahmed from the BBC website...

The first time we saw U2 it was 1984 at the Spectrum in Philadelphia. Obviously, that was a long time ago: pre-Apple commercials, pre-hanging out with politicians, pre-heavy-handed attempts at irony, pre-blues co-opting, pre-rock n’ roll Messiah complex. Hell, it was even before Bono leapt into the crowd at Wembley at Live Aid. It was and still is the best show we’ve ever seen. We loved U2. We bought everything they sold, put posters up......

Our fondness for tribute bands has been well documented in the past, so we're pretty psyched to have tickets to giveaway to the Chronic Town and Zoo Station show at the Last Day Saloon this Saturday at 9 p.m. REM tribute band Chronic Town and U2 cover band Zoo Station have gotten some attention lately, so expect the show to be packed. Enter to win now for a ticket for you and your guest......

Spring is a time for love. The flowers bloom, the sun shines, and the little creatures copulate. Today brings us not one, but two reports from New York about the Gavster's ex, Kim-Kim. First, from the Post, which we'll just quote because, well, they're evil and they require registration now: Court TV's Kimberly Guilfoyle — who moved here in January after filing for divorce from her workaholic husband, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom —......

It's never too late to let us know what you're listening to, local politicos! You may remember that we posted just last week something gently mocking our mayor's middle-of-the-road musical tastes, and that we'd also asked all the San Francisco supervisors what they were listening to on their portable music devices. But only Chris Daly had responded at the time we went to press! (in case you were wondering: the Replacements, the Boss, U2, and mainstream hiphop when blogging, among others). Is no one else running our city tragically hip enough to sport the white earbuds? Well, fret no more! And we should have expected no less from the man who reps Amoeba Records' district -- we got a very nice note from everyone's favorite Greenie, Ross Mirkarimi! Check out what Ross is listening to, after the jump....

The Reverend Cecil Williams of Glide Memorial Church gave a sermon at the late morning service commemorating the good works of Pope John Paul II. Part way through, his wife handed him a note. After finishing his sermon, he asked "the young man in the back to come forward." Well, the young man in question is everyone's favorite third world economic development spokesman, iPod shill and occassional rock 'n roll frontman Bono of U2,......

A funny little thing happened to the movie Blackball: before it premiered at SF Indie Fest, it became National Lampoon’s Blackball. Turns out that somewhere between the movie being indie enough to appear at an indie fest and its showing at said indie fest, it got swooped up by the National Lampoon people, the very same people behind Van Wilder. Of course, this movie shows just how wide the definition of "indie" is in......

This week offers up many new releases that we know you've all been waiting for with great anticipation. Well friends, the wait is over. Exhale and read on. In the we're-so-sick-of-that-song, we're-shocked-the-album's-not-out-already category, we have Gwen Stefani's Love, Angel, Music, Baby and U2's How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb. Fantasia's Free Yourself is the debut album from this year's "American Idol" winner. You can pick it up with a copy of last year's "AI" winner......

[Ed. Note: All you have to do is talk to us. We're needy. Thanks for the new content, Mary-Lynn!] Yesterday afternoon, Apple introduced a special edition iPod - we figured Steve Jobs might have iPod news hiding up his sleeve. The black and red U2 Special Edition comes with a poster and a $50 iTunes coupon you can use in the iTunes Music Store to buy U2's "The Complete U2" digital boxed set. Did we......

Jef Raskin digs on OS X....

Three thumbs up!! TiVo's gotten approval to allow subscribers to email recorded shows. Various entities in the television industry objected, as usual - you know, blah blah blah, proprietary rights, blah blah blah, piracy hurts everyone, blah blah, corporate profits down, etc. The FCC, though, found there were enough privacy protections already encoded in TiVo programming that it was unlikely that anyone would be able to, say, mass-mail copies of Amish in the City in violation of the UPN's copyrights....