Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Pretty Music Video Shows Off Sonoma And Mendocino Coast Sonoma-based singer-songwriter Garrett Pierce has a new album out next week on Crossbill Records called Dusk, and the first release, "Distant Thought," comes with this music video directed by Pierce featuring nature scenes
Arts & Entertainment SF Artist Slaptop Drops Dance-Worthy New Track, Music Video San Francisco's Slaptop, who had his first hit with the 2014 release of "Sunrise," has dropped a steady stream of songs and official remixes, for artists like Zhu and Bob Moses, since then.
SF News Two Tower Of Power Bandmates Hit By Oakland Amtrak Train On Way To Yoshi's Appearance Two musicians of the Oakland R&B group Tower of Power are recovering in the hospital after being struck by an Amtrak train in Jack London Square last night. According to the
Arts & Entertainment Legendary Fillmore Promoter Bill Graham Set For Film Treatment Bill Graham, a towering figure in San Francisco and rock history, is set to receive the music bio pic treatment courtesy of Fox. Deadline broke the news, reporting that writer Zach Dean and
Arts & Entertainment BottleRock 2017 Lineup Features Foo Fighters, Tom Petty; Tickets On Sale Wednesday If you think Maroon 5 and Gavin DeGraw are the bomb, then have a great time at BottleRock 2017! Okay, those acts don't do justice to the full breadth of the lineup: This
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink 22-Year-Old Opening EDM-Themed Bubble Tea Bar In The Richmond In a concept that sounds more like an improv sketch than an honest-to-god business plan, the Richmond District is, we gather, getting an EDM-themed tea bar which we are going to just go
Arts & Entertainment Scenes From The 'Oakland United' Ghost Ship Benefit Concert Featuring Hieroglyphics, Tune-Yards, Primus, And More Fans joined hands, heard from victims' loved ones, and swayed to emotionally resonant music at the Fox Theater last night in a powerful fundraiser concert presented by Another Planet Entertainment and Noise Pop
Arts & Entertainment The 10 Best New Year's Eve Shows You Can Still Make Plans To See by Adrian Spinelli Options for a New Year’s Eve: stay home and mope, go to a house party and make questionable decisions, or you can make a good decision (followed by subsequent
Arts & Entertainment Solange Joins Fantastic Negrito For Google-Sponsored Benefit Concert In Oakland On Friday Solange Knowles, sister to Queen Bey and royalty in her own right, will perform a trio of songs from her masterful album A Seat At The Table at an intimate performance in Oakland
SF News YouTube To Pay Huge Settlement In Songwriting Royalties Case YouTube today announced that it has agreed to a large settlement with a songwriting rights trade group, in what outsiders view as an attempt to play nice with the music industry. The New
Arts & Entertainment Rihanna Harmonizes With Bruno Mars And Justin Timberlake In DJ Earworm's Annual Mashup Of Pop What's that you say? You don't know what pop music is anymore since you don't have a radio and you mostly just listen to your Discovery playlist on Spotify? Still, you probably haven't
Arts & Entertainment Five Minutes With E-40, Plus Five Shows To Check Out This Week by Adrian Spinelli Five Minutes With E-40 Last Friday, E-40, the Bay Area’s benevolent king of hip-hop, didn’t just drop one album, he dropped two. The D-Boy Diary Book 1 and
Arts & Entertainment James Blake Performs Tonight At the Fox In Free Make-Up Show For Treasure Island Ticket Holders As winds swept the stage last night during a stormy Treasure Island Music Festival, James Blake, the understated British crooner whose soulful voice has made him a sensation, was one of several acts
Arts & Entertainment Puddles, Ponchos, And Rainbows: Soaked Scenes From The 10th Treasure Island Music Festival For all its 10 years, Treasure Island Music Festival has used the same logo image, designed by Jason Munn, of the event's island home as the bottom of an upside-down ship whose masts
Arts & Entertainment Looking Back On 10 Years Of The Treasure Island Music Festival (And Forward To This Weekend's Last Hurrah) As the 10th annual Treasure Island Music Festival approaches this weekend, the event's founding fathers from Another Planet Entertainment and Noise Pop find themselves caught between twin instincts to which longtime festival goers
Arts & Entertainment The 20 Best Hip-Hop Tracks About The Bay Area By Adrian Spinelli Bay Area hip-hop exists in a class unto itself. Not as commercial as our NY and LA counterparts, our independent nature and uncompromising hip-hop ethos emanate from every hyphy beat,
SF News Jane Kim Wants YouTube To Remove 'Anti Asian-American' Music Video Locked in a tight battle for state senate, Supervisor Jane Kim is now seeking headlines in a campaign against a two-year-old music video that she says is "anti Asian-American." In a press release
Arts & Entertainment Far From 'The Worst Song Of All Time,' Starship's 'We Built This City' Is Actually Kind Of Good “I don't think anybody can take all the credit... or all the blame ” GQ quoted Starship guitarist Craig Chaquico in their recent oral history of the Starship song "We Built This City," which
Arts & Entertainment Frank Ocean Teases Us With Visual Album <i>Endless</i> While Building Spiral Staircase Frustrated Frank Ocean fans, try to contain yourselves. The end to a long wait looks nearer than ever, with Ocean proving he has new music to share. Yes, the elusive artist has hurt
Arts & Entertainment Cake, Roseanne Cash, Mavis Staples Confirmed On Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2016 Teaser Lineup Our Outside Lands hangover still hasn’t even cleared up, but we’re already stoked for the next massive musical festival in Golden Gate Park. That, of course, is the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass
Arts & Entertainment [Update] Watch Outside Lands Sets Free Without Leaving Your Couch Via This Livestream Schedule [Update] It is on! The livestream is now underway on sfoutsidelands.com, on AOL, on Go90 (which also offers archived performances for on demand viewing) and on your mobile device via the Go90
Arts & Entertainment Armory Prepares To Open As Massive Music Venue With Festival Of Women DJs Big, imposing, and really like nothing else in the city, the San Francisco Armory is impossible to miss — and it's always fun to explain to out-of-towners that it's owned by BDSM pornographers Kink.
Arts & Entertainment Third Eye Blind Releases Confusingly Catchy Black Lives Matter Song Several years ago, I saw Third Eye Blind play a minorly tragic show in a smoky, carpeted casino basement in Reno. Please don't ask. If you had told me then — as the band's
Arts & Entertainment Scenes And Sounds From Flower Piano's Second Year In Golden Gate Park In additional to the usual sights and smells of the San Francisco Botanical Garden in Golden Gate Park, another element — music — filled the air again this month. Flower Piano, an event in its
Arts & Entertainment Video Premiere: 'Today Is The Day' By Oakland Band Steel Cranes There's a funny bit of trivia behind this new single and video from Oakland-based duo Steel Cranes. As vocalist and guitarist Tracy Shapiro tells it, she and the other half of this duo,
