misc Interview: Laura Veirs The best fans are.... Pre-teen girls from Texas Best venue to play Guinguette pirate in Paris. it's an old pirate ship that sways while you play. Favorite song to play these days A
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Photo from Thunderheist CLUB: Those zany and offensive Vice Magazine kids are back in town this evening to pour vodka down your throat, shove blow up your nose, and have you up until
Arts & Entertainment Jazz At Pearl's: NOT Closing When we last reported on the fate of North Beach's Jazz at Pearl's, blues chanteuse Kim Nally's bee-bop joint, it was shuttering its doors. for good. Again. Now, according to Tablehopper, whose words
misc DJ Times' America's Best DJ Nominee List Missing A Few DJs According to ASD, loads of local, talented, but predictable faves--such as DJs Theo, Gabriel & Dresden, Kaskade, DJ Shadow, Mark Farina, DJ Qbert, DJ Behrouz, Bassnectar, Claude VonStroke, Miguel Migs, Garth--were all nominated
Arts & Entertainment Contest: Grand Ole Party @ Fillmore This isn't the first time that you've been able to check this band out for free. Back in February, we gave away free tickets plus a prize pack when they were on their
Arts & Entertainment This Week in Le Rock: April 28 - May 4 Oregon natives, Oh Darling, played the Red Devil Lounge at the beginning of April but this Thursday they'll be rocking Hotel Utah. The best part: The Kin will be opening. We've touted The
SF News Free Goldfrapp Tickets Even though we really want them, we'd feel guilty taking them for ourselves. And since no one seems to be biting, All Shook Down is giving away free pairs of tickets for tonight's
SF News The Polygamist Mothers Mashup Over at Laughing Squid--who, by the way, was barred from taking a picture of Google's stupid, squishy, all-white booth over at Web 2.0 today; please, anyone attending Web 2.0, take as
Arts & Entertainment Birds of Avalon's Craig Tilley The best fans are…. Smart and rabid. Best venue to play… The Vera in Groningen, Netherlands and Hemlock in San Francisco. Lamest crowd request… Can you dedicate a song to _______ Favorite song to
Arts & Entertainment This Week in Le Rock: April 21 - 27 If Tuesday wasn't enough, five incredible shows will be playing on Wednesday night: Midnight Juggernauts at Mezzanine (which is totally free!), Death Cab for Cutie at Fillmore, Caribou with Fuck Buttons at Independent,
Arts & Entertainment Metallica to Rock Mountain View This Saturday This one goes out to all you Gen-Xers out there. The Internet-loathing band Metallica will be at Rasputin this weekend for "Record Store Day." (Also: what?) All Shook Down claims that: Wristbands will
Arts & Entertainment This Week in Le Rock: April 14 - 20 Take the jump to win Rilo Kiley tickets and to see the full music listings...
misc SFist Inverview: Dan Hunter of PlayRadioPlay! As the vocal warm-ups continued, we tried to have a decent conversation but the band members of Treaty of Paris, The Spill Canvas and Yellowcard were definitely having a party without us. Finally
Arts & Entertainment This Week in Le Rock: April 7 - 13 Tonight, MAE and The Honorary Title will be performing at Slim's. Phillyist, gave MAE a very good review, even though the last time we had seen them, they unfortunately sucked. They've hired some
Arts & Entertainment Contest: PlayRadioPlay! & Yellowcard @ GAMH Sunday night, PlayRadioPlay! will be supporting The Spill Canvas and Yellowcard at Great American Music Hall. We've got a spot (with a +1) on the guest list for you. All you have to
Arts & Entertainment This Week in Le Rock: March 31 - April 6 Oh Darling, an indie-pop band from Oregon, will be on their Spring Tour this week hanging out in the Bay Area. On Tuesday at noon, they will perform at San Jose State and
Arts & Entertainment It's Been 17 Years George Michael will be bringing his smash 25 LIVE tour to North American Arenas in the summer of 2008, including a local show at the HP Pavilion in San Jose on June 19th,
misc Pete Hartlaub 'Shares the Pain,' Writes Ode to <em>High Fidelity</em> 1. "A truly great breakup song should be filled with so much rage that the subject could include it as Exhibit A in his or her restraining order." Hartlaub cites "You Oughta Know"
Arts & Entertainment This Week in Le Rock: Mar 17 - 23 Boredoms, from Osaka, Japan, will be playing a very special show at the Fillmore on Tuesday night. They will be performing "In the Round" – one of only four dates that the band will
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews... Wallpaper Wallpaper has brought back the 90's and in the best possible way. We imagined the crowd to be in a head-bopping frenzy but, in the short thirty minute set, Rickshaw Stop became a
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight MUSIC: As we already mentioned, Why? is performing this evening along with Dose One, Cryptacize, DJ Odd Nosdam, DJ Jel. *THEATER: Eve Ensler's Obie Award-winning play the Vagina Monologues -- featuring such monologues
misc Yoni Wolf of Why? SFist has been a fan of Why? since we first saw them at Bottom of the Hill a few years back. We recently came across a cover they did of the Cure’s
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop 2008: Tales from the Merch Booth Tuesday: Our first Noise Pop night was on Opening Night at the Rickshaw Stop, which was available to badge-holders, staff, and volunteers. We got there right when the doors opened and went straight
