Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Jónsi at Amoeba, 4/17/2010 Jónsi, the lead man from Sigor Ros who's recently been traveling solo, played this little set at Amoeba records in SF on April 17th, just prior to hopping down to Coachella. Please enjoy.
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts 4/26 - 5/2 Yet another jam packed week of shows with local post-punk outfit Tempo No Tempo at Hemlock Tuesday, the previously profiled Mi Ami at Amnesia Thursday and former SF based dance favorites Lemonade at
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts 4/19 - 4/25 Plenty of post-Coachella options this week with the King Khan & The Shrines/Black Lips collaboration The Almighty Defenders at the Great American Music Hall Tuesday, the previously profiled Japandroids at The Independent
Arts & Entertainment Coachella 2010 Dispatch: Days 2 & 3 Were Better We got over our trauma of getting there and getting in, and started enjoying ourselves more by Day 2, when several of our favorite acts came on, including SF's own Girls and Faith
Arts & Entertainment Coachella a Holy Mess, But Passion Pit and Jay-Z Were Good Unlike in previous years when the enormous desert music fest felt relatively organized, if chaotic, Coachella 2010 feels like an overcrowded nightmare and it's not just because we're getting older. A lot of
Arts & Entertainment SFist Goes Deep, Deep, Deep Into Coachella Well folks, at least one of your trusty editors is venturing out into the SoCal desert this weekend to bring you back some news and a few photos of the wonder that is
Arts & Entertainment MGMT Unveils New Material at the Fillmore Just prior to their appearance at Coachella this weekend, hipster wunderkinds MGMT unveiled music from their second album, Congratulations, last night at the Fillmore. NBC Bay Area's Ben Russo draws comparisons to T.
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts 4/12 - 4/18 This might just be the most packed seven days of live shows of the year, with a plethora of Coachella must-see acts routing through San Francisco before and after their scheduled festival appearances.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Mayer Hawthorne's "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" Los Angeles-based jazz crooner Mayer Hawthorne, whose voice has quite a lot of Mel Tormé loveliness to it, plays his last U.S. date before Coachella and his European tour next week at
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts 4/5 - 4/11 Yet another packed week of live music with lo-fi punk outfit Dadfag at El Rio tonight, noisy local psychedelic trio Late Young at The Knockout Thursday and the previously profiled Thee Oh Sees
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts 3/29 - 4/4 Another stacked week of shows with Pitchfork darlings The Morning Benders at The Independent Tuesday (sadly sold out), rising locals Man/Miracle at the free epicsauce.com party at Milk Thursday and the
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts 3/22 - 3/28 An absolute bounty of show options this week with local favorite Mi Ami alongside High Places at Rickshaw Stop Wednesday, previously profiled Neon Indian at Mezzanine Friday and hop hop legend in the
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts 3/8 - 3/14 This week's jam packed concert roster includes punk legend Mike Watt at Bottom of the Hill Tuesday, local garage-rock favorites Thee Oh Sees and Ty Segall at El Rio Wednesday and a free
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts 3/1 - 3/7 While we are admittedly a bit exhausted after a long week of Noise Pop shows, there is still plenty to look forward to this week with electro-pop duo Phantogram at The Rickshaw Stop
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: Memory Tapes' Dayve Hawk While you really can't go wrong with just about any of the Noise Pop weekend options, we are particularly looking forward to catching Memory Tapes as Bottom of the Hill tomorrow night. The
Arts & Entertainment A Procrastinator's Guide to Noise Pop While the festival officially began last night with the previously discussed Deerhoof and Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band performance at The Fox Theater, today marks the start of the conflict-ridden portion of Noise
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: Deerhoof Drummer Greg Saunier The 18th annual Noise Pop Festival begins with a bang tonight, with local legends Deerhoof opening for the star-studded Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band at The Fox Theater. We had a chance to
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts 2/22 - 2/28 As per uje, this week's concert preview is being brought to you by Kevin Meenan of Epicsauce, providing detailed concert listings for the Bay Area every week. Follow them on Twitter. Noise Pop
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Yoko Ono & the Plastic Ono Band Say what you will about Yoko, she's an artist dammit and she's still making music and art. She comes to town along with son Sean Lennon and the Plastic Ono Band, next week,
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: L.A. Electronic Star Nosaj Thing by Kevin Meenan of Epicsauce As we discussed last Monday, Mighty lined up one of LA's rising electronic stars over the weekend, Nosaj Thing. We had a chance to catch up with the
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts 2/8 - 2/14 This week's concert preview is being brought to you by Kevin Meenan of Epicsauce, providing detailed concert listings for the Bay Area every week. Follow them on Twitter. There are a plethora of
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts 1/25 - 1/31 This week's concert preview is being brought to you by Kevin Meenan of Epicsauce, providing detailed concert listings for the Bay Area every week. Follow them on Twitter. This week gets off to
Arts & Entertainment <em>7x7</em> Scored Tickets to Brian Wilson Show, We Did Not On Saturday, former Beach Boy Brian Wilson performed an intimate concert at SF's Art Exchange to promote his new album, That Lucky Old Sun. As Allie Pape at 7x7 writes, "As was to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: Lymbyc Systym by Kevin Meenan of Epicsauce Prior to their show at Café du Nord a couple weeks back, we had a chance to catch up with sibling duo Lymbyc Systym's Jared Bell via phone,
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts 1/18 - 1/24 This week's concert preview is being brought to you by Kevin Meenan of Epicsauce, providing detailed concert listings for the Bay Area every week. Follow them on Twitter. Plenty of reasons to venture
