misc Bagel Radio Could Use A Hand Ordinarily at this time Ted's gearing up for South by Southwest, where he would be grinning from ear to ear, seeing the bands you'll be listening to next year, tracking down people for
Arts & Entertainment Radiohead, Tom Petty, Jack Johnson, and You What with all of the media attention this summertime concert has received as of late, you would assume Miley Cyrus (the Madeleine Elster/Judy Barton narrative of our time) was booked to "sing"
Arts & Entertainment This Week in Le Rock: Mar 3 - 9 Wednesday night is when things get real exciting. Division Day, who released their debut album, Beartrap Island on Eenie Meenie Records (Scissors for Lefty, Wallpaper, Great Northern) at the end of last year
Arts & Entertainment Contest: Nicole Atkins @ Independent Last time, we gave away a copy of her debut release, "Neptune City," but this time, one lucky winner will win a spot (with a +1) on Atkin's guest list for Monday night's
Arts & Entertainment Getting to Know: Wallpaper Full given name: Eric Frederic Hometown: Pinole, CA MAC or PC? MAC for music makin. PC for email checkin. Favorite post-show meal: Mexican food/champagne/taking off sunglasses Pre-show rituals: Mexican food/champange/
misc It's The Asian-Am Film Fest! Ooooh!!! You know we love the Asian-American Film Festival! We love the feature films by the young ambitious Asian-American directors, we love , we love the KQED-ready documentaries about identity and history, we love
Arts & Entertainment This Week in Le Rock: Feb 27 - Mar 2 Let's start with tonight: Minipop, from San Francisco, will be headlining at Bottom of the Hill starting at 8:30pm. They'll be playing with Trophy Fire, Two Sheds and West Indian Girl. Last
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
Arts & Entertainment This Week in Le Rock: Feb 18 - 24 Thursday, popscene brings another great act to San Francisco, The Sessions. Hailing from Vancouver, these guys remind us of the Killers, the Bravery, and These Electric Lives. Friday, BAGeL RADIO presents San Francisco's
misc Contest: Grand Ole Party @ Bottom of the Hill Grand Ole Party, Sugar and Gold and The Chop Bottom of the Hill (1233 17th Street, San Francisco, CA 94107) Doors: 7:30pm/Show: 8:00pm $10 GET TICKETS
misc Getting to Know: The Papersons Raised By Robots, The Aimless Never Miss, and The Papersons Café du Nord (2174 Market St, San Francisco, CA 94114) Tuesday, February 12th, 2008 Doors: 8:30pm Show: 9:30pm GET TICKETS, $8
Arts & Entertainment New Tunes Tuesday #19 Each Tuesday we will feature new music that should (or whatever) be on your radar. Other CD's being released today: 1. Nancy LaMott - Ask Me Again 2. Morrissey - Greatest Hits* 3.
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
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight Lucas (1986), Say Anything (1989), My Bloody Valentine (1981): The first film has socially-retarded Corey Haim falling head over heels in love with a sensitive football player, Charlie Sheen, or something like that;
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews Jamie Bernstein The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, an orchestra near and dear to Bernstein's heart for over 40 years, will play a tribute to him this Saturday, 2/9, at the SF Conservatory of Music (8
misc New Tunes Tuesday #18 Each Tuesday we will feature new music that should (or whatever) be on your radar. Usually during acoustic sets, songs start sounding very similar and at times they become a continuous never-ending song.
misc New Tunes Tuesday #17 Each Tuesday we will feature new music that should (or whatever) be on your radar. 2. Shelby Lynne - Just A Little Lovin': If you are looking for some music to accompany your
misc This Week in Le Rock: Jan 28 - Feb 3 Barton Carroll (seen above) will be headlining, on Tuesday, at Hotel Utah. Carroll's new CD, The Lost One, comes out the same day. His genuine, story-telling folk songs creates the perfect North Carolina
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink $20,000 Coffee at Blue Bottle Cafe In addition to finding such high-end breakfast items as "pancetta souffle ($9.50), porcini flan ($11), egg and potato torte with warm bread ($5.50) and morel poached eggs ($8)" on Blue Bottle
misc Bay Area Bands Head to Coachella 2008 We instantly checked to see who was "headlining" the event and the six biggest names are: Jack Johnson, the Verve, Raconteurs, Portishead, Kraftwerk, Death Cab for Cutie, Roger Waters, Love and Rockets and
misc The Castanets' Raymond Raposa We rarely like the sound bytes that publicists put out to describe their acts. We were, however, somewhat smitten with what the Castanets; PR teams said about their newest album: Castanets' In ‘The
misc This Week in Le Rock: January 21 - 27 Wednesday, there is the sold-out Ingrid Michaelson show that had to be moved from Cafe du Nord to Slim's because apparently everyone is into "librarian chic" right now. Though it's sold-out, you can
misc Lenny Kravitz's Show is Cancelled The Lenny Kravitz performance originally scheduled for Saturday, January 19th has been postponed due to illness. Rescheduled show information forthcoming. Patrons are encouraged to hold-on to their tickets. Refunds available at place of
Arts & Entertainment Happy Birthday, Pooch! You'll want to see other, um, microphones, too, when the provocative Angela Gheorghiu, who we were so smitten with in La Rondine, comes back for more Puccini via La Boheme. It seems that
