Arts & Entertainment A Tribe Called Quest Issues Apology For Outside Lands No-Show, Blames Grief Over Phife Dawg Many a Gen Xer and Tribe Called Quest fan likely bought tickets to Outside Lands 2017 expecting that Tribe was going to be a major highlight of the weekend. The group, having just
Arts & Entertainment Guns N' Roses Hit AT&T Park Tonight, And There Are Still Tickets Arriving tonight in our very own "Paradise City" in the coldest month of the summer, the recently reunited Guns N' Roses are set to rock AT&T Park tonight, probably sometime after
Arts & Entertainment Video: Muppets Band Dr. Teeth & The Electric Mayhem Killed It At Outside Lands A major highlight for many of us at this year's Outside Lands fest in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park was a chance to see, live on stage, the Muppets' famed house band Dr.
Arts & Entertainment Video: Phish's Trey Anastasio, In Town For Three Shows, Jams With Chinatown Street Musicians Phish-heads all know this already, but Phish is back in town!! They're playing three back-to-back shows at Bill Graham tonight, tomorrow, and Wednesday, and the hardcore fans will of course be going to
Arts & Entertainment Video Premiere: 'Today Is The Day' By Oakland Band Steel Cranes There's a funny bit of trivia behind this new single and video from Oakland-based duo Steel Cranes. As vocalist and guitarist Tracy Shapiro tells it, she and the other half of this duo,
Arts & Entertainment Lech Wierzynski Of Bay Area Band The California Honeydrops, On Tour With Bonnie Raitt, Misses Playing In BART Stations The California Honeydrops are a good-time band with an unmistakably Californian style, despite drawing on influences like Delta blues, gospel, and Motown. While frontman and trumpet player Lech Wierzynski sings and plays trumpet,
Arts & Entertainment Graham Nash: Crosby, Stills & Nash Will Never Perform Together Again Classic rock supergroup Crosby, Stills & Nash, a.k.a. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, are fully and completely broken up forevermore, as Graham Nash tells Billboard in a new interview. The reason:
Arts & Entertainment St. Lucia's Jean-Philip Grobler Talks 'Trop-Pop,' And Why The 80's Are Still Inspiring St. Lucia is the name of the band and musical enterprise started by South African-born singer-songwriter Jean-Philip Grobler. Along with wife Patti Beranek and live band members Ross Clark, Nick Paul, and Dustin
Arts & Entertainment French Electro-Pop Outfit Yelle Comes To Mezzanine Tonight I can't recall the last time a French pop band gained as much traction in the U.S. as Yelle, the 15-year-old trio who made their first splash with the single "Je Veux
Arts & Entertainment Band That Cried Poverty After Tour Makes Cool Stevie Wonder-Herbie Hancock Mashup When local band Pomplamoose publicized what appeared to be just a sincere plea to fans to continue their support following an alleged $11K loss on tour, many people responded to the struggle of
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: OK Go's Latest Amazing Video Feat, 'The Writing's On the Wall' For those not living under YouTube-free rocks the last half-decade, you should know that OK Go specializes in the type of music video that goes crazy viral because of its sheer awesomeness and
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: MGMT Is Being Weird Again Not satisfied to be America's indie-pop darlings, MGMT has been pushing boundaries and alienating some fans in the process with their second and third albums but no one can say they're not keeping
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Before Your Very Eyes...' By Atoms For Peace Thom Yorke and the Atoms for Peace crew are on tour, and will be headlining tomorrow night at the Treasure Island Music Fest. After their Hollywood Bowl show Thursday night, Yorke tweeted out
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Pupusa' By Hi Fashion Prepare to be amazed. Hi Fashion is a duo out of L.A. consisting of Jen DM and Rick Gradone. Legend has it they met in a gay bar in New York when
Arts & Entertainment Nile Rodgers And Chic Replace D'Angelo At Outside Lands Citing a "crippling illness," D'Angelo has backed out of the Friday lineup at Outside Lands, and he'll be replaced by Chic featuring famed disco guitarist and producer Nile Rodgers whom young readers will
Arts & Entertainment East Bay Teenage Girls Crying, Puking Over One Direction's Mall Appearance Teen boy band One Direction played Oakland's Oracle Arena last night, and by all accounts they were OMG so awesome and Harry's hair looked amazing and every tween and teenage girl in the
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Brighter Than Gold' By The Cat Empire There are a ton of Aussies in San Francisco, and they all should be pleased to know that Melbourne-based band The Cat Empire is playing The Fillmore tonight. The genre-mixing group are on
Arts & Entertainment Band To Watch: Warm Soda Debuts 'Busy Lizzy' Video Warm Soda, one of our local bands to watch in 2013, has a new album out on local garage rock superstart John Dwyer's own Castle Face Records. Brooklyn Vegan called the debut record
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Take Me Back' by In the Valley Below In the Valley Below is a duo based in Echo Park, in L.A., and consists of Angela Gail and Jeffrey Jacob. We like this dreamy tune, "Take Me Back," which reminds us
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Nunca' by Trails And Ways Oakland indie quartet Trails & Ways was featured this week among the SF Bay Guardian's 'Bands on the Rise,' and we've got to say we love them so far. They were much
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The New Postal Service Track Yes, friends, many have hoped against hope for the last decade that it would happen, and it has. The Postal Service has reunited. Death Cab's Ben Gibbard and collaborator Jimmy Tamborello, a.k.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Wait' by M83 This new video, the third in a trilogy of videos for the band M83, from their album Hurry Up, We're Dreaming, by French art directors Fleur & Manu, just dropped today. It's sort
SF News Market Street Travelodge Falls Under Racism Controversy The Travelodge on Market Street stands accused of racism against a few noted patrons, who are black, after a skirmish over credit cards and incidentals resulted in some pretty astounding behavior from the
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Mumford & Sons' 'I Will Wait' In honor of the fact that British folk rockers Mumford & Sons just became the first band since the Beatles to have so many concurrent Hot 100 singles at one time (they have
