SF News Free Fall Concert Series, Due South, at McLaren Park to Return for the Third Year, with Extra Shows The free outdoor concert series Due South is back at the end of July, organized by the San Francisco Parks Alliance and Noise Pop, so reserve your ticket to see all the local talent.
Arts & Entertainment Rare, Full Johnny Cash San Francisco Concert From 1968 Digitally Restored and Free Online An SF Johnny Cash concert from 1968, recorded just one week before the release of his landmark Folsom Prison album, has been digitally restored and released online by the son of famed Grateful Dead roadie “Bear” Stanley.
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Tonight: Mammoth Life Record Release We're never sure how to write about music, especially tunes and ditties we dig. In Stephen Sondheim's (brilliant) Finishing The Hat, the composer accuses all music writers (save for a couple of NYT
Arts & Entertainment Treasure Island Music Festival 2013 Lineup Announced The roster for this year's 2013 Treasure Island Music Festival was announced today. Included in this year's lineup are Beck and (as SFist already pointed out yesterday) Animal Collective, just to name a
Arts & Entertainment Do This Tonight: Thao & The Get Down Stay Down Free Show Locally-based talent Thao Nguyen and her band the Get Down Stay Down have an indie sound that NPR's All Songs considered called “insanely infectious [and] utterly charming," and SPIN describes as "offbeat, upbeat,
Arts & Entertainment Napster Founders Hosting Secret Show in SF Tonight With Snoop Dogg and The Killers? [UPDATE: Confirmed] Take this one with a dotcom bubble-sized grain of salt: various sources are reporting that Sean Parker and Shawn Fanning (yes, the same gentlemen who brought you the original Napster) are planning a
Arts & Entertainment Morrissey Coming To Oakland Former Smiths lead singer and avowed racist Morrissey will make a pitstop at the Fox Theater later this year. The (not so) sensitive crooner will appear with Kristeen Young at the Fox Theater
Arts & Entertainment Adele Cancels Tour Due to Illness British singer Adele, scheduled to perform at the Greek Theatre at U.C. Berkeley on Saturday, June 4, has canceled the North American leg of her tour. Citing laryngitis, Adele explains on her
Arts & Entertainment Behold Britney's Lackluster GMA Performance Britney Spear's much-ballyhooed San Francisco mini-concert, filmed at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium on Sunday, aired today on Good Morning America and landed with a resounding meh. " I've seen her use more energy when
SF News Britney Watch: Spears Performs While we wait for Britney to take the stage, local drag queens take the stage, with Heklina in the center, so that makes her the alpha-female, to ask the audience trivia questions about
Arts & Entertainment Tickets for Britney's San Francisco Concert Gobbled Up in Seconds Well, that was fast. Guess we won't be seeing Britney this Sunday at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium. After the damaged pop unicorn moved her concert from the Castro to the Civic Center, tickets
SF News Britney's Concert Now On Media Blackout: No WiFi, No Cell Service If you were planning to tweet from Britney's concert at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, you've got another thing coming. Although the facility has WiFi, it will not be open to the public, according
Arts & Entertainment Prince Performing Two Shows In Oakland Next Week Rumor has it that Prince will perform two Oakland shows later this month: Monday, Feb 21, and Wednesday, Feb 23. According to MoQuake, who scooped the story, "Tickets for the Oakland shows go
Arts & Entertainment '90s Return: Third Eye Blind and Tommy Hilfiger Give Free Union Square Show Thursday by Andrew Dalton Just in case anyone out there was having a hard time remembering the long-gone late-90's when our rap music was as light and WASP-y as our denim washes, then this
misc Photo du Jour 693 "Night Work" by Darwin Bell. (Also, that's Mr. Jake Shears of the Scissor Sisters wooing the crowd at Sunday's show at the Fox Theater in Oakland.)
SF News Man Falls to His Death at Saratoga Mountain Winery Concert During a concert featuring the Swell Season last night, a man plunged to his death at the Saratoga Mountain Winery, landing next to the lead singer. According to Mercury News, "At about 10
Arts & Entertainment Duncan Sheik Previews New Musical 'Whisper House' at Davies Famous for the relentlessly enthralling Spring Awakening -- a Tony Award-winning tragic tale of repressed and very horny teens, which starred a pre-Glee Lea Michele -- Duncan Sheik will "preview an orchestral arrangement
Arts & Entertainment Win a Pair of Festival Passes to Coachella! (Contest Closed) If you want to go to Coachella and for whatever reason haven't snatched some tickets, here's your chance. SFist is giving away one pair of Festival Passes to this year's event, taking place
Arts & Entertainment SF Music: Wednesday, Haiti Benefit Show at Elbo Room by Rachel Brodsky Surely nothing good can come of a natural disaster, i.e. the earthquake in Haiti. On the other hand, when devastating things happen to the world, the resulting musical collaborations
Arts & Entertainment SFist Hears: Grass Widow at the Knockout, Tuesday 12/29 by Taryn Harrington Grass Widow was just another band, another Myspace Top 8, until I read a recent article in Color Magazine with Shaybe Sartin from the Fresh & Onlys. He considered the
Arts & Entertainment SFist Hears: Live 105's Not So Silent Night @ Oracle Arena by Moses Namkung Intrigued by the opportunities to photograph Metric frontwoman Emily Haines and to finally see Vampire Weekend live, we headed out to Oracle Arena to experience Live 105's Not So Silent
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Lady Gaga at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, SF, 12/14 Though she performed at Mezzanine earlier this year, as well as 715 Harrison in 2008, pop art fans, neo-club kids, and creative types reacted like the second coming of Christ came to San
Arts & Entertainment SFist Hears: Paramore @ The Warfield by Moses Namkung Many of those in attendance at the Warfield weren't close to being legal which wasn't much surprise, considering the last time we cared about anything associated with the Warped Tour
Arts & Entertainment Lady Gaga Tickets On Sale This Saturday Hmm. We're not sure where most of you stand on Lady Gaga. Many of you claim to loathe her, some of you secretly love her. Why, it was just a few months ago
Arts & Entertainment "Secret" Weezer Show On Wednesday The band who sings that "Just Like Buddy Holly" song (we don't know the title, and we refuse to Google it) will perform a "secret show" on Wednesday night at The Regency. The
