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 Elton John, Sam Smith, And St. Vincent Top Outside Lands 2015 Lineup Outside Lands 2015 Lineup Announcement from Funny Or Die San Francisco's foggy though wonderful, and wonderfully bougie August music festival in Golden Gate Park just dropped this year's lineup, along with an accompanying
Arts & Entertainment Aretha Franklin To Play Oracle Arena In August In her first Bay Area concert date in over 30 years, great diva Aretha Franklin has just booked a show for August 10 at Oakland's Oracle Arena. Goldenvoice just announced the show with
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Jose Gonzalez's 'Leaf Off/The Cave' Singer-songwriter Jose Gonzalez has got a new album coming out February 17th called Vestiges & Claws, and the first video, for the single "Leaf Off/The Cave" is now out. The video starts
Arts & Entertainment Billy Joel To Play AT&T Park In September The Piano Man himself, Billy Joel, is set to play his first show in San Francisco proper in 40 years on Saturday, September 5, as Another Planet Entertainment announces today, and he'll be
Arts & Entertainment The SFist To-Do List: 10 Cool Things To Check Out This Week See and be seen at these select San Francisco shows, parties, and events. You know, because you can't read the Internet all the time. TUESDAY, JANUARY 13 READING: Esteemed SF journal ZYZZYVA, who
Arts & Entertainment Avett Brothers, No Doubt, and Robert Plant Top BottleRock 2015 Lineup They might be a bit overshadowed today by the Coachella lineup announcement, but Napa's little music festival that could, BottleRock, made its own announcement today. In keeping with the 2013 and 2014 lineups,
Arts & Entertainment Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Starts Tomorrow, And Here's What You Should See Friday marks the start of the 14th annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival, the beloved, home-grown, roots-music-and-everything-else fest generously underwritten in perpetuity by late SF billionaire Warren Hellman. Things kick off in Hellman Hollow
Arts & Entertainment Here's The Lineup For Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2014 After weeks of teaser medleys on the Hardly Strictly site, in which they revealed this year's artists ten at a time, the full lineup for everyone's favorite free music festival that isn't in
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Square One' by Jay Brannan To cleanse your news-weary palates today, please enjoy this great new song by singer-songwriter Jay Brannan, whom some you may recognize from the film Shortbus, in which he got naked and also sang
Arts & Entertainment 2014 Treasure Island Music Festival Lineup Includes Outkast, Washed Out, Massive Attack Here's the preliminary 2014 Treasure Island Music Festival lineup, according to Ticketmaster, which appears to have thrown a (now dead) page up a little ahead of the official announcement by Another Planet Entertainment.
Arts & Entertainment BottleRock Napa Valley Announces 2014 Lineup Including OutKast, Spin Doctors, And A Slew Of '90s Acts As we mentioned the other week, in spite of the bankruptcy of its inaugural-year organizers and tensions with the city of Napa, BottleRock Napa Valley is proceeding with a second year, and the
Arts & Entertainment David Crosby Averts Heart Attack With Emergency Surgery, Postpones Concert Dates Beloved folk rocker David Crosby, 72, underwent emergency heart surgery Friday to correct a blocked artery, and though he's expected to make a full recovery he has had to postpone tour dates he
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 Paul McCartney May Play Candlestick Before It Gets Demolished In some off-hand remarks that may or may not have been totally sincere, Sir Paul McCartney told Mayor Ed Lee that he'd be interested in performing the last concert at Candlestick Park before
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 BottleRock Is Coming Next Week, But Not All of Napa Is Too Happy We first told you about BottleRock Napa Valley back in February, and we're guessing some of you are going. It's basically a Coachella for the older set, with the demographic expected to skew
Arts & Entertainment Jay-Z and Justin Timberlake Announce Double Bill at Candlestick in July Jay-Z and JT are on tour together this summer for what they're calling the Legends of Summer Tour, and they've made the chilly choice to arrive at our very own Candlestick Park on
Arts & Entertainment Morrissey Reschedules Davies Appearance for February We know some of you were getting girlfriend-in-a-coma-level bereft the other week when you heard that Morrissey had cancelled yet another SF concert date, his second cancellation in under a year. Well, good
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'All You' by The Cataracs The Cataracs are a white-boy hip-hop outfit that came out of Berkeley High School featuring two guys with hyphenated names, and nicknames: David “Campa” Benjamin Singer-Vine and Niles “Cyrano” Hollowell-Dhar. They live in
Arts & Entertainment Video: 'Only the Horses' by Scissor Sisters Scissor Sisters has never enjoyed the huge success here in the States as they have in the UK, but the American band does have a big gay following, and they've done Coachella and
Arts & Entertainment 'Portlandia' Goes On Tour, Comes To S.F.'s Mezzanine December 30 Oh yes. The brilliant Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein, stars and co-creators of IFC's hit Portlandia, are coming to town as part of a quick, six-liberal-city tour called Portlandia: The Tour. They'll be
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: 'Stop Forwarding That Crap to Me' by Weird Al Yankovic We're pretty sure this is a Weird Al original tune (correct us if we're wrong -- we know you will!) and it's kind of funny, with lyrics like "I don't need tons of
Arts & Entertainment Late Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Bon Iver's 'Calgary' Video, Feat. an <em>ANTM</em> Contestant So check it out. This is the official video from one of the first releases off Bon Iver's new album, Bon Iver, and it's called 'Calgary.' The video features one-time America's Next
Arts & Entertainment The Devil Makes Three Bring Drug-Fueled Honkey Tonk Americana Hard-On 'Do Wrong Right,' Play At Slim's 4/28 by Erick Pressman Upon first listen, one would think the notorious folk/bluegrass/Americana outfit Devil Makes Three hailed from West Virginia, deep in the backwoods where everything from moonshine to high grade
