Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: "Black & Blue" by Miike Snow Miike Snow isn't a guy, but rather a Swedish band whose lead singer's name is Andrew. They've been darlings of the music criticism realm this year, with their song "Animal" landing on Spin's
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts 1/11 - 1/17 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. Your live music cornucopia this
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Vampire Weekend's "Contra" - Whole Album Preview! Hey, check it out! Articulate rock darlings Vampire Weekend have put up their whole sophomore album, "Contra," online for embedding and preview prior to next week's official release. Listen to all the jangly,
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts 1/4 - 1/10 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. Our hungover city's music scene
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts 12/21 - 12/27 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. Not going to lie to
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: The Rural Alberta Advantage This interview comes to us via Kevin Meenan of Epicsauce. As previously discussed, we are eagerly anticipating The Rural Alberta Advantage's return to San Francisco tomorrow night. We recently had the chance to
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: The FarmVille Theme, by Oakland Composer Steve Kirk FarmVille, for those unaware, is one of those time-sucking Facebook apps that drive us, personally, insane. But hey, we all need a little distraction sometimes, and it turns out the theme song to
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts 12/7 - 12/13 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. First the bad news --
SF News 40 Years Ago Today, the 60's Died at Altamont Today marks the 40th anniversary of Altamont, the infamous free concert thrown at the the Altamont Speedway, east of Livermore near the junction between 580 and I-5. The concert was billed as Woodstock
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: Morrissey @ The Paramount, Oakland Last night old Moz paid a visit to the Bay Area, and he didn't cancel the show or collapse on stage. That's the good news. Also for good news, he played a ton
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: "Can We Still Be Friends?" We can't get it out of our heads now that we mentioned it in conjunction with the Todd Rundgren show tonight at the Palace of Fine Arts. It's a good song, and it's
Arts & Entertainment SFist Interviews: Vic Chesnutt, Performing Tonight at the Great American by Kevin Meenan of Epicsauce 2009 has been quite the year for Vic Chesnutt. The prolific singer-songwriter released two albums (At the Cut and the Jonathan Richman produced Skitter on Take-Off), appeared on
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts 11/16 - 11/22 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. Too many choices are always
Arts & Entertainment The Week Ahead: Bay Area Concerts 10/19 - 10/25 This SFist weekly concert preview is brought to you by Kevin Meenan of Epicsauce. Rely on Epicsauce for concert listing updates, and follow them on Twitter. It remains a good time to be
misc Afternoon Palate Cleanser: "Let It Be," Russian-Style In this special video, a large Russian man bearing some resemblance to Newt Gingrich in a sailor costume gets up and sings the Beatles' "Let It Be" really badly. There is also a
misc Photo du Jour 469 "A Shared Laugh" by blarfiejandro. (Anyone know the names of these two? Or the name of their band? Or whatever? If so, let us know. Thanks.)
