Arts & Entertainment 100+ Musicians To Cover Pixies 'Doolittle' Tuesday, 2/22 The '90s are certainly back. Notice all the flannel and Doc Martens floating around out there? What better way to further celebrate the recently bygone decade than with an epic re-imagining of a
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Mogwai's 'Mexican Grand Prix' As Daniel Levin Becker already pointed out, Scottish musicians Mogwai released a new album yesterday, Hardcore Will Never Die, But You Will, as well as a new video for their track "Mexican Grand
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
SF News Very Few Bay Area Folks Won Grammy Awards Last Night During last night's Grammy Awards - did you watch?! - a few winners "with strong Bay Area ties" took home trophies. Neil Young won best rock song for "Angry World"; Berkeley Repertory Theatre's
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: Local fave, Ash Reiter, is described as having "A voice like honey and whiskey and lyrics like well, honey and whiskey," performing "California soaked grooves and an arsenal of dance gems." Austin's
Arts & Entertainment Tomorrow Night: Set Your Goals Set To Turn DNA Lounge Into A Stage Diving Contest by Erick Pressman While San Francisco continues to wage war on all ages shows, a lot of youth-oriented bands and tours seem to pass on playing the city entirely and end up hitting
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight ART: Modern Eden Gallery and the SF SPCA present Menagerie, showcasing inspired work by San Francisco's established and emerging artists incorporating the SPCA's mission. During the month of February, 20% of the proceeds
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight PERFORMANCE: Beloved Bay Area bike dance group, Derailleurs, present Freak Bike Show, featuring live music by The Nerv and Thee Hobo Gobbelins, tunes by Dj 0.000001, aka Th’Mole, a performance by
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: The Rumble SF presents a Noise Pop warm-up show, featuring the sultry, trance-like sounds of eclectronic duo Blackbird Blackbird, the looped and layered lo-fi vibe of Phantom Kicks, and Letting Up Despite
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM: Watch Holly Golightly charm the pants off of New York City at the Castro's celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Breakfast at Tiffany's, the film that brings the classic Truman Capote novel
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FILM/MUSIC: IndieFest presents The Sight of Music, a shorts program showcasing a hybrid mix of live band performances, music videos, and music related shorts. Tonight's show features live sets by Jon Bernson
Arts & Entertainment Tonight Addendum: Bam!Bam! Burst Onto Bay Area Scene And Make First Friday In Oakland Worth Crossing The Bridge For by Erick Pressman (who resides in Oakland) Hey San Francisco, meet Bam!Bam!. This all-female, lo-fi, garagey, pop punk duo are the greatest band in the Bay Area that you haven’t heard
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight BENEFIT: The Bay Area Girls Rock Camp, in which girls aged 8 through 18 can go rock their butts off while bonding with other girls for a whole week, is having its 2nd
Arts & Entertainment SFist This Weekend: David Byrne, Cloris Leachman, Rooftop Concert, Coffee Crawl, Forage SF, and More! IndieFest opens (the Dude abides), and Sketchfest closes with back-to-back events at the Castro: True Stories 25th Anniversary with David Byrne, featuring a screening and tribute to the cool and quirky movie musical,
Arts & Entertainment This Week in Classical Music: Juho Pohjonen, Avner Dorman This week in Classical: Juho Pohjonen with SF Performances, Avner Dorman's Uriah with the SF Symphony, and accounting for the SF Opera For SF Performances's piano recital last night, Juho Pohjonen accepted at
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight FOOD: Celebrate Tet Holiday with Rice Paper Scissors, a pop-up Vietnamese cafe, featuring "small tables, even smaller stools, fresh Vietnamese condiments, Cambodian pop music, and delicious food." The menu includes Dungeness Crab Glass
Arts & Entertainment Sebadoh And Quasi Show The Current Boring Indie Bands How It’s Done At Great American 2/8/11 by Erick Pressman These days it’s rare to find an indie rock tour with one band worth watching on it. So when you have two, no-bullshit, ground-breaking bands like Sebadoh and Quasi
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Fleet Foxes' 'White Winter Hymnal' (and Concert Announcement) Indie darlings of 2009 Fleet Foxes have announced some tour dates, and their much anticipated second album Helplessness Blues arrives on May 3rd. (Hear the lovely pre-released title track below, via Soundcloud.) They'll
Arts & Entertainment IndieFest 2011 Kicks Off Tonight The 13th Annual IndieFest film and music festival starts tonight with a couple of stellar opening night films, including Kaboom, "a sort of Clueless on acid where late-period John Waters meets Bret Easton
Arts & Entertainment Big Time for Lil B Lil B, self-proclaimed Based God and front man for The Pack, is practically a cyborg, or a pop-culture entity that exists both in the flesh and inside the computer. His feverish borderline-manic devotion
Arts & Entertainment Captain Beefheart Symposium When Captain Beefheart died late last year, the rock and roll canon lost one of its few true innovators. Born Don Vliet in 1941, Captain Beefheart's music married early rock primitivism and Delta
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: JD Samson, of Le Tigre and the art/performance collective Men fame, will be spinning a special DJ set in celebration of the release of Men's debut album, Talk About Body, on
Arts & Entertainment Save KUSF Alert: Rally At City Hall, 1 P.M. Today The Save KUSF folks are organizing a rally to take place in front of City Hall today from 1 to 4 p.m. The Board of Supervisors will be voting on the cause's
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight BENEFIT: Kentucky Fried Woman will perform at Hotties 4 H0m0 Health Care, tonight's benefit for Lyon-Martin Health Clinic, which is trying to raise $250k in order to stay open. Also on the bill
Arts & Entertainment SFist Attends: Barn Owl Uses Atmospheric Doom Metal Brutality To Swoop In At KUSF's Defense by Erick Pressman Back in December, there was a bit of a panic attack moment that was had. It turned out that on the same night Wild 94.9 threw their epic Wild
