Arts & Entertainment Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts by Moses Namkung Outside Lands has arrived. Remember last year? Substantial Muni fail, Radiohead's sound cutting out, Mr. Clothezoff, and other freshman-year festival growing pains... this year, we have a
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts by Moses Namkung This week, the Bay Area plays host to Third Eye Blind, Green Day and the Warped Tour -- quite the triumvirate of throwback California alternative rock. Just wondering, is anybody out
SF News Depeche Mode Cancels Tonight's Shoreline Show Due to Illness Times seem to be tough for aging rockstars scheduled to play in the Bay Area this summer. Depeche Mode has had to cancel tonight's show at Shoreline Amphitheatre because of doctor&
Arts & Entertainment Ang Lee Appears at Frameline Sneak Preview of <i>Taking Woodstock</i> Director Ang Lee, along with screenwriter/producer James Schamus and star Demetri Martin appeared last night at a preview of Taking Woodstock at Embarcadero Cinemas. The film is a gorgeously shot and executed
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts by Moses Namkung Did you miss out on buying tickets to the secret show for Sonic Youth at the Independent tonight? Never fear, they're available for... oh, wait... somebody's
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts by Moses Namkung The Mission Creek Music & Arts Festival, the two-week long extravaganza featuring an array of "local independent concert promoters, musicians, artists, filmmakers, dancers and multi-media performance artists&
Arts & Entertainment Live Musical Interlude: Blonde Redhead's "In Particular" The trio comprising twin brothers and a Japanese girl one of them once dated known as Blonde Redhead is playing their second and last show tonight at The Independent (get tickets here), and
Arts & Entertainment Mission Creek Music & Arts Festival, Tonight Through July 25 The 13th annual Mission Creek Music & Arts Festival starts tonight with an Opening show at the Knockout. The Fest will then be concentrated in Oakland tomorrow through Monday, and will continue it&
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts by Moses Namkung We'll be at Bottom of the Hill on Thursday to see headliners the Rural Alberta Advantage, the folksy Canadian band recently signed to Saddle Creek Records. The show
Arts & Entertainment Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts by Brian Wiedenmeier The week ahead in music is a quiet one, as if the Bay Area needed some time off to nurse it's collective post-Pride hangover. Quiet doesn'
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Music by Moses Namkung Brooklyn-based quartet Grizzly Bear has had the indie music community abuzz with rave reviews of their latest album, , which even cracked the Billboard Top 10 a couple weeks ago,
Arts & Entertainment Score Cheap Shoreline Lawn Tix, Including Depeche Mode, Today, Select Wednesdays If you're planning to purchase lawn tickets for any Shoreline Amphitheatre concerts this summer, be sure to get them via Live Nation on a select No Service Fee Wednesday, including today,
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead It's bits-and-pieces of '90s cult alterna-band week in San Francisco, with members of both Ween and Primus (Gene Ween and Les Claypool respectively) gracing the stages of
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts by Moses Namkung The Harmony Festival, coming up this weekend in Santa Rosa, will feature Michael Franti & Spearhead, India.Arie, Cake, ALO (Animal Liberation Orchestra), Balkan Beat Box and countless other musical
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts by Moses Namkung The last time we saw Jens Lekman, as his set ended he apologized that he had run out of time. The lights went on, he hopped down from the stage
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts by Moses Namkung Exciting week ahead, yes? Yes. Our favorites? We'll be catching St. Vincent on Wednesday, Jenny Lewis on Friday and the Thermals on Sunday! See you out there. * Monday,
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts by Moses Namkung Over at ipickmynose, Adrian Bischoff is consistently producing superb, original local music coverage including this garden tour today with local resident John Vanderslice; in it, the two discuss, among other
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts by Moses Namkung No, Radiohead's not coming back to SF anytime soon. Sorry. However, we just came across a mother lode. Maybe we're a few weeks or months late
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts by Moses Namkung The curse of Nelly's "Hot in Herre": since that summer in 2002 when the song came out, every time somebody says, "man, it's
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts by Moses Namkung Busy-ish week last week: Glass Candy, Dan Deacon, Vivian Girls... this week, we'll see Thao Nguyen on Thursday and Van the Man on Saturday (by the way,
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts by Moses Namkung The slogan of this week, music-wise, should be AM PM's: Too Much Good Stuff. Except it's actually good stuff, not like, nasty hot dogs, fake
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts by Moses Namkung Golden State Warrior Stephen Jackson is having his burfday partay on Friday at Mezzanine and you're invited... for $40. Snoop D O double G will be performing! Man.
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts by Moses Namkung Random music musings to start off the week: of all the days of the week, does Saturday have the best songs about it (Sam Cooke, Chicago, the Cure, Elton, Bowie)
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts by Moses Namkung Monday, again!? We don't like Mondays. Last week, we went to Cafe Du Nord, the Fillmore and the Independent. This week, pickings are slightly slimmer; word on the
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts by Moses Namkung What's going on this week in the world of Bay Area music? We'll be checking out Cut Copy and Matt & Kim on Thursday and the
