Arts & Entertainment Musicians: Submit Your Music To SFPL's Streaming Platform, Bay Beats; Plus, Upcoming Free Shows Bay Beats, SFPL's fairly new free streaming music platform, is having its annual open submissions right now through May 31. Plus, some upcoming shows at neighborhood libraries.
Arts & Entertainment That SF Library-Amoeba Music Free Streaming Music Platform for Bay Area Artists Launches Saturday The SF Public Library’s new streaming music platform for Bay Area bands and musicians launches Saturday, and they’re celebrating with a Saturday afternoon live music bash on the Fulton Street steps of the library’s Main Branch.
Arts & Entertainment Phono Del Sol Festival Returns To Potrero Hill This Weekend This Saturday in Potreo Del Sol park, the local music aficionados from the Bay Bridged and Tiny Telephone recording studio return with their third annual celebration of music, arts & crafts, food from
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 Best Local Bands To Watch In 2013 The Bay Area's musical roots run deep with everything from folk to jazz and hip hop to punk rock. Given the massive popularity of food blogs over music news in this town one
Arts & Entertainment Pitchfork Reviews: San Francisco's Garage Rock Scene Pitchfork, the simultaneously celebrated and maligned music reviews site that continues to serve as an musical divining rod for the bet-you-haven't-heard-of-it set, posted a comprehensive view of San Francisco's New Garage Rock this
Arts & Entertainment This Week in Le Rock: May 12 - 18 Now, onto what's happening in the city this week: Tuesday night, U.K.'s most-adored shit-talking Brit, Kate Nash, will be back in the city to perform at the Fillmore. We definitely think
Arts & Entertainment Blow My Sackbut The shows' themes are "1508," as in 500 year ago, which is when Heinrich Isaac composed. Heinrich was also Franco-Flemish. (And it's for guys like that that Belgium was invented.) He and Josquin
misc This Week in Le Rock: Feb 11 - 17 Friday, the local music scene takes us by storm with MiGGs over at Red Devil Lounge and Maldroid at Bottom of the Hill. Both bands are from Oakland, though technically Don Miggs just
misc This Week in Le Rock: Feb 4 - 10 Robyn graces the popscene stage on Thursday night in support of her new Rakamonie EP, that was released digitally on January 29th. The UK has already showed their love for Robyn and the
misc SFist Reviews... Minipop & Kate Nash As we waited we were treated to some awesome indie tracks by DJ Nako and DJ Aaron Axelson. If we only had a list of songs they played. This kept us sane for
misc This Week in Le Rock: January 14-20 Friday night, there's a tie between three different shows. You can head over to Slim's to see Melee, a strong favorite of our local radio station, Alice 97.3. Don't be late because
Arts & Entertainment This Week in Le Rock: December 17-23 Friday night you'll want to head over to Slim's to catch six bands: Perfect Machines, Fyre Away, High Like Five, the Paper Sons, Punch Face and Bob Hill Band. We're most excited about
Arts & Entertainment Where's Your Bet Landing? Live 105's team of experts have decided who the top five local bands are: MUD, Element 94, Cast of Thousands, Apside and Maldroid. Do you agree? What do you think of the top
Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City This week's show recommendations: Hurry up and head over to Amoeba at 6pm for a chance to see Okkervil River perform for free and then get a free, limited edition CD sampler when
Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City This week's show recommendations: Tonight Popscene presents the live world premiere of Blaqk Audio, the new collaboration between Davey Havok and Jade Puget of AFI. At Make-Out Room see a trio of local
misc Week Around the -ists Chicagoist is gearing up for this weekend's annual Air & Water Show along the lakefront. In what's becoming an annual tradition around there, staff member Todd McClamroch even got to fly with one
Arts & Entertainment Pirate Cat Radio Benefit Corporate radio still sucks! Strike a blow for independent community airwaves and stop by Pirate Cat Radio 87.9 FM's benefit concert this Friday at the Elbo Room. The beloved low-power radio station/
SF News Papercut's Jason Quever Papercuts open for Grizzly Bear at GAMH tonight show starts at 8 pm. Best show you've ever played and what made it great? The Independent: really nice sound people. Best venue in the
Arts & Entertainment Upper Playground's Andrew Revelli Name Andrew Revelli Introduce yourself in one sentence Retail legend Age and Occupation 29, Vice President, Upper Playground and FIFTY24SF Gallery
Arts & Entertainment SFist Wants the Airwaves The funny thing is we've done nothing but snark on Live 105 and Madden's been nothing but nice back and even drops in to comment every now and then. Truth is, it's #1
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: Christopher Appelgren Although Christopher is way too diplomatic to play favorites with Lookout’s current roster of artists, he does have a few tips to local artists, as well as other ideas about what to
Arts & Entertainment Gridskipping This is sort of like if the native Americans in Mission Bay had noted on their blog Ohlonist in 1776 that some crazy dude named Junipero Serra was having a party for his
