Arts & Entertainment Play One Of 12 Hidden Pianos In The Botanical Garden This Week For 12 days, 12 pianos lie hidden in the San Francisco Botanical Garden in a sort of musical game of hide-and-seek. Or, maybe since you'll gather around the pianos once you find them,
Arts & Entertainment Local Singer Sony Holland Sings About Gentrification In 'Hasn't Been The Same Around Here' Much like local musician Kelly Niland did earlier this year with the LCD Soundsystem riff "Mission I Love You, But You're Bringing Me Down," local singer Sony Holland brings us this rockabilly-ish original
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: Pianist Stephen Hough An interview with pianist Stephen Hough and a review of Opera Parallele's US premiere of composer Tarik O'Regan's Heart of Darkness. British pianist Stephen Hough performs tonight a recital of Debussy and Chopin
Arts & Entertainment French Electro-Pop Outfit Yelle Comes To Mezzanine Tonight I can't recall the last time a French pop band gained as much traction in the U.S. as Yelle, the 15-year-old trio who made their first splash with the single "Je Veux
Arts & Entertainment Nine Noise Pop Festival Shows Not To Miss Noise Pop upped the ante for their 23rd annual festival with a new HQ at the Swedish American Hall and a sizable lineup of over 150 acts sprinkled around the Bay. If you
Arts & Entertainment 'Hung For The Holidays' Is The SF Xmas Album We've Been Waiting For The wonderful, local, sex-positive Rachel Lark is beloved for her bawdy jams, which have been heralded by folks like Margaret Cho and Dan Savage. And now she's brought us all some Christmas cheer
Arts & Entertainment SFJAZZ To Honor Joni Mitchell With Lifetime Achievement Award Joni Mitchell's folk, pop, and jazz have made her a music icon, and now she'll be recognized as such in San Francisco as part of a gala on May 8th at SFJAZZ. "The
Arts & Entertainment Swedish American Hall To Be Noise Pop's New HQ Noise Pop, the group that books shows at venues all over town including Rickshaw Stop, Bottom of the Hill, and The Fillmore, is taking over programming at the historic Swedish American Hall venue
Arts & Entertainment Video: DJ Earworm's United States Of Pop 2014 Has Dropped Formerly SF-based DJ and recent LA transplant DJ Earworm has just dropped his hotly anticipated, traditional annual tribute mashup to the year in pop, and it's a good one. As usual he uses
Arts & Entertainment Was Indie Band Pomplamoose's Tour Diary Sob Story Just Shilling For A Startup? The viral web is full of pleas for attention, affection and (usually monetary) support. So when SFist and other sites like TechCrunch took to the story of the NorCal indie recording artist Pomplamoose,
Arts & Entertainment Local Band's Candid Story Of Losing $11k On Tour Don't tell the NorCal bandmates of Pomplamoose that they've "made it." Sure, they've graced the cover of the Weekly and just got off a national tour, but as one half of the band's
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The A-to-Z Of Musical Genres This is really fun, you guys! Canadian musicians Andrew Huang and David Brown of Boy in a Band presented themselves with the challenge of naming and demonstrating 26 musical genres in alphabetical order.
Arts & Entertainment Uber and Spotify Partner So That You Can Stream Your Playlists In The Car Just the other day a friend and I were wondering why Uber and Spotify hadn't partnered yet so that you could stream your preferred playlist the minute you got in an Uber car.
Arts & Entertainment Karma, Chameleon? Culture Club Cancels SF, Oakland Appearances Planned For This Weekend "Culture Club Reunion Tour Is Coming To The Bay," we breathlessly told you in August. But, sadly, the band's scheduled appearances in SF on Sunday and in Oakland on Monday are not to
Arts & Entertainment The 20 Best Songs About Places In San Francisco Let's get this out of the way: You won't find Tony Bennett on this list, or the equally great Judy Garland and her bouncy anthem "San Francisco." You also won't find any of
SF News Racism Suit Filed Against Market Street Travelodge by Eric Wuestewald Prominent New Orleans funk guitarist Leo Nocentelli has filed a racial discrimination suit against the Market Street Travelodge hotel following a particularly nasty disagreement over credit cards and incidentals that
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Aretha Franklin Covers 'Rolling In The Deep' Put on your headphones, kids. The great Aretha Franklin has a new album coming out, and she's covered one of the great diva ballads of the last decade, Adelle's "Rolling In the Deep.
Arts & Entertainment Pretty Much Everybody Could Hear Beyoncé Last Night Both delight and curmudgeony complaint could be heard across the social webs last evening as Mr. and Mrs. Knowles' AT&T Park concert echoed across much of San Francisco. In the first
Arts & Entertainment Janis Joplin Forever Stamps To Debut At Outside Lands The United States Postal Service announced a month ago that it'd be putting out the fifth in its Music Icons series of commemorative stamps, featuring Janis Joplin. Given Joplin's historic connection to San
Arts & Entertainment A's Want George Michael To Make Coliseum Appearance The Oakland A's have a lot on their plate this season. Most notably, at least to non-Athletics fans, is their quest to get George Michael to make a cameo appearance at a game.
Arts & Entertainment Second Beyonce Show Added In S.F. Notice how I pruned Jay Z from the headline. I think you know exactly why. Beyonce and her husband, Jay-Z, announced plans to tour jointly this summer. It's going to be called the
Arts & Entertainment Morrissey Fans In San Jose Get Over-Zealous With The Hugging During the encore at last night's Morrissey show at San Jose's City National Civic, fans rushed the stage to try to hug the curmudgeonly singer, as they do. But these fans got way
Arts & Entertainment Video: Justin Vivian Bond Covers Bambi Lake's Vital 'Golden Age Of Hustlers' Broadway star and performer Justin Vivian Bond, who once called San Francisco home before moving to the top of the heap, has covered "The Golden Age Of Hustlers," Bambi Lake's ode to Polk
Arts & Entertainment Free Janelle Monáe Concert In Justin Herman Plaza Friday! Marc Benioff now stands as my favorite mega CEO in SF. Why? Because tomorrow, Friday, March 7th, he's celebrating Salesforce's 15th anniversary with a free concert in Justin Herman Plaza starring Janelle Monáe!
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop 2014: A Crash Course Now in its 22nd year as San Francisco's roving celebration of independent music and culture, the 2014 edition of the annual Noise Pop Festival kicks off tonight and runs through Sunday, March 2,
