SF News Trouble at Technorati [] Friend of SFist Niall Kennedy managed to cause something of an uproar in the blogosphere this week. Trying to make a point about the tension between blogging and corporate public image by creating
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop: Robbers on High Street On Friday Noise Pop presented a matinee show with Ringside, Von Iva and Robbers on High Street at Cafe Du Nord. It's quite strange to head to a rock show at a time
Arts & Entertainment Bob Wills Is Still the King "I just hope whoever put the halftime together, they're getting their resume ready. Hey, this is a hip-hop weekend. Y'all think this is a NASCAR race? This ain't no NASCAR race." Now, we
Arts & Entertainment The Odd Couple Now you may be wondering why the Christian Coalition is taking such an interest in people downloading illegal Beck mash-ups or musical Buffy goodness, but the reason is fairly obvious in that one
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop: Amon Tobin A review by special show correspondent Ginevra. If you'd been listening on Friday night, you'd have heard the sounds of two drum kits, funky bass, plenty of moogs and DJ's to scramble the
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Earlimart Earlimart may be the nicest band ever to come from Los Angeles. In addition to meeting up with SFist after their crack-of- dawn sound check (10:30 am for you non-rockers), both Aaron
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop: Joanna Newsom You may not be aware of this, but did you know the Swedish-American Hall is actually a ski lodge? Or did we miss the weather report that it was going to snow this
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop: Earlimart Afternoon shows at the Bottom of the Hill, like Saturday's Earlimart Noise Pop show, are so excellent -- the buses are running, the sun is out, you don't have to worry the whole
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Christopher Appelgren Although Christopher is way too diplomatic to play favorites with Lookout’s current roster of artists, he does have a few tips to local artists, as well as other ideas about what to
Arts & Entertainment Noise Pop: Mission of Burma We headed out to the Noise Pop Mission of Burma show all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed at 9:00 p.m., standard concert time, only to turn up at Bimbo's and find out that
Arts & Entertainment Damn, It Feels Good To Be An SFist! Special thanks to Noisepop for their ongoing support of SFist’s coverage of the festival. SFist has a hard time making it to opening bands. General tardiness, and memories of suffering through openers
SF News SFist Rants: We Want to Drink More and Later Imagine one of those "from the past" montages like thay have on "Cold Case". Some early 90s dance music (maybe Rhythm is a Dancer) plays in the background as a thinner, younger, and
Arts & Entertainment Wanted: Skinny Hipsters. Heroin Habit Optional. So Dan Strachota, one of the music writers for the San Francisco Weekly, forwarded a note from Beau Bonneau casting to the SF Indie yahoo group mailing list. Looks like the Rent production
Arts & Entertainment Snap Crackle Noise Pop Hey, you in the ironic hand-knitted cardigan and your buddy with the horn-rimmed black glasses -- got Noise Pop? San Francisco's premier indie rock festival kicks off its 13th year tonight for a
Arts & Entertainment The Jewish/African Diaspora It's black history month and we're ashamed to admit that all we've done is buy James Baldwin stamps and curse Condoleezza Rice. So we were glad to receive a tip from a reader
Arts & Entertainment GRAMMY Report: Green Day's Still Blowin' Up We went through the pains of watching Sunday night's GRAMMY Awards telecast so you didn't have to. Ray Charles was unsurprisingly the top winner, but our Bay area homeboys in Green Day made
Arts & Entertainment SF IndieFest: The Devil and Daniel Johnston We should confess that, before seeing the Sundance award-winning documentary this Sunday for the second weekend of IndieFest, we didn't know very much about the eponymous singer-songwriter -- we liked that charmingly-naive "Speeding
SF News Your Commute: The Park Grill MUNI's bad enough -- people laden with bags moshing their way onto teeny-tiny trolley cars, a mother holding an infant and frantically clutching at your head and jacket sleeves as she attempts to
Arts & Entertainment Dance Review: Facing Mekka [] In restless anticipation we sat staring at the stage, waiting to see the dance performance acclaimed by so many. Yerba Buena Center for rhe Arts Theater was hosting the first of three performances
Arts & Entertainment Please Abandon Us As Well Our theory is this: American Idol is like sex, in that it's freakin sweet when it's going on, but a few minutes after it ends you've forgotten most of it. We know, it's
Arts & Entertainment The Dave Matthews Band is Newsom's Favorite We'd never lie to you, so let's just be upfront: this correspondent loathes the Dave Matthews Band. The insipid guitar solos, the faux-brohemian jam'n vibe -- why? why? Dear Lord, why? Frankly, we
Arts & Entertainment Gridskipping This is sort of like if the native Americans in Mission Bay had noted on their blog Ohlonist in 1776 that some crazy dude named Junipero Serra was having a party for his
Arts & Entertainment SFist Party Crash -- East Bay Rats' Fight Night If you don't know the legend of the East Bay Rats Motorcycle Club, think of it as having an aesthetic somewhere between Mad Max and Edward Gorey. Rather than tricked-out Harleys with glitter
SF News Pave Paradise, Put Up a Parking Garage Unlike previous campaigns, activists at the rally held last week stressed that they were not trying to oppose the parking garage (which would be hard to do since they're more than half-way done)
