Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Joan Osbourne: She's famous (or just known for) her one-hit confection "One of Us," but her first effort was an overall amazing album. At least as far as the Liz Phairian ouvre
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight -- Dr. Bronner's Magic Soapbox: Ultra-pepperminty "all-purpose" soap -- the one with the the loony, small-font and text-heavy label -- and its titular creator get the biopic treatment from Sara Lamm. Screenings tonight
Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City Tonight catch brazen British siren Carina Round at Cafe Du Nord, who will be a hard act for headliner Cary Brothers to follow. On Friday, singer songwriter Rocky Votolato plays songs from his
Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City Our top 5 moments at Feist's Fillmore show on Tuesday, June 26th: 5. Hearing a cash register clang at the back of the venue in the middle of the set, and realizing that
Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City There are a bunch of great shows to see this week, but frankly the pickins are a little slim compared to the embarrassment of riches that we're used to here in SF. Tonight
misc When The Lights Go Down In The City Our friend Will who runs New & Used Records is celebrating a CD release this week for The Passionistas. God's Boat, produced by Kelley Stoltz, may sound lo-fi, but the band isn't afraid
Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City Last Thursday night we squeezed into 330 Ritch to see Spoon, one of our favorite bands of all time. We'd just helped celebrate former SFist Eve's birthday at Tempest Bar and picked up
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Hey, remember that interview that SFist Rain did with Mystery Science Theater 3000's Mike Nelson last week, about his new project, Rifftrax? Download an .mp3 of the MST3K folks and play it while
Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City The Mission Creek Music Festival is still going strong and shows continue through Sunday. Although MCMF's press folks hadn't ever heard of SFist ("Is this a radio station? We're only giving tickets to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight, Keats Spins Us Right Round, Baby! Put the needle on the racket tonight. OMG, Jonathon Keats has done it again! He's an artist known for improving the metric system, selling parts of his brain and even fifth dimension real
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews Thom Moran of Bon Savants Bon Savants are currently on tour and are stopping in SF tonight to play a sold-out show at Cafe Du Nord with Portland band Menomena, who were featured in SF Weekly and SFist
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop: Annuals We always stand in the back at Cafe du Nord because the excellent sound system always sounds best there, plus there's that really bright digital clock at the soundboard so you can check
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop: Jason Collett San Francisco grups were in full effect Friday night, as the hot demographic of 30-something indie-yuppies swept into the Cafe Du Nord Noise Pop event of the evening. For the record, it was
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop: Bing Ji Ling Bing Ji Ling is a San Francisco musician with the best pedigree we've come across: His dad was a musician who met and married his mother here in the '60's. ahhhhhh. This may
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop: Rogue Wave tickets! Listen to "Publish My Love" or watch the video. Enter to win two tickets to see Rogue Wave, Aqueduct, Octopus Project, Scrabbel @ Bimbo's on Thursday night. (Contest ends Thursday at 2pm. Winner will
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop: Feist tickets! Enter to win a pair of tickets. (Contest ends at 3pm today; winner will be notified via email.) Other Noise Pop music tonight: Noise Pop Happy Hour hosted by Fernet Branca & Jackpine
Arts & Entertainment Beyond Linkin Park Every Asian-American music listener has that list of Asian-American stars they whip out at a moment's notice: Mike Shinoda from Linkin Park, the half-Japanese violinist (of course he's a violinist) from Yellowcard, Karen
Arts & Entertainment The San Francisco Bicycle Coalition and SFist Want You To Fall In Love Cyclist-specific Dating Game will be played, prizes will be given (three dinners for two -- you can find your date at the event, or elsewhere), and Single Exposure's professional photographers will be manning
Arts & Entertainment SFist "Reviews": The Sun/Apollo Sunshine Mondays are a hard night for live music -- crowds are smaller, audiences are distracted, and folks can't really justify going out super early, or staying out super late. We're sorry to admit
Arts & Entertainment Wednesdays, the New Apocalypse Wednesday: Get all in the Wednesday SFist Reads mood with a cavalcade of options: Barbara Ehrenreich at Clean Well-Lighted (7:00), a Dr. Atomic discussion at City Lights (7 p.m.), Caroline Kennedy
Arts & Entertainment Concert Review: Diamond Nights Diamond Nights are like The Darkness, without the piercing falsetto, Freddie Mercury unitards and campy excess. The Brooklyn four piece brought the rock to Cafe Du Nord on Sunday night to a full
Arts & Entertainment Mission Creek Music & Arts Festival 2005 Photographer Rob Kunkle spent last week taking pictures of the acts at the Mission Creek Music Festival, which was held at multiple locations across The City last week. Pictured are The Gentlekin. Check
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Aqueduct Is being a rock star all it's cracked up to be? Am I a rock star? If you say so. What is your favorite Guns and Roses Song? Patience. But it's more of
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop: Robbers on High Street On Friday Noise Pop presented a matinee show with Ringside, Von Iva and Robbers on High Street at Cafe Du Nord. It's quite strange to head to a rock show at a time
Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City We reckon a good percentage of San Franciso music-lovers will be at Great American Music Hall this week, whether it's at one of the three sold out Arcade Fire shows or Saturday's sold
