Arts & Entertainment When The Lights Go Down In The City On to this week's show recommendations: Tonight see Built Like Alaska at Bottom of the Hill with Audio Out Send and The Parish. At Cafe Du Nord, hear Earlimart featuring the String Dream
Arts & Entertainment Amy Winehouse Cancels US Tour We are saddened yet not surprised to report that Amy Winehouse has canceled her US tour. Bah! So those of you -- those of us, that is -- who planned on seeing her
Arts & Entertainment Interview: Kevin Robinson Photo by Joey Bellville Best Show ever and what made it great? The last one we played - because it WAS great. Every show trumps the one before it. Best venue? Tie between
Arts & Entertainment It's In the Vault Wolfgang's Vault is one of those online stores where you can order your vintage rock t-shirts and other cool stuff. 'Cause you know, nothing says cool like wearing tees for bands you've never
Arts & Entertainment Concert Review: Imogen Heap The first time we saw Imogen Heap was at the rodeo on Austin, Texas, about eight years ago when she was touring on her first album I Megaphone (we'd fished the record out
SF News Insert Clever Feature Title Here Needless to say, we do have some Pelosi & Pals news today as the Washington Post has a big feature on some anti-lobbying bill she's been working on for awhile that could see
Arts & Entertainment It's Gonna Bring You Down.... Huh! Given lead singer W. Axl Rose's notorious, errr, let's call it "unreliability," when it comes to concert appearances, though, make sure you save your receipt. The site we found this info on cautions
Arts & Entertainment Kathy Griffin: Dishing and Swishing Last Friday night, Kathy Griffin, star of the Bravo reality show "My Life on the D-List" and heir apparent to the Sandra Bernhard/Joan Rivers style of snark and dish comedy -- without
SF News Aidin Vaziri Over The Balcony! We've always wanted to be mischaracterized in a bullying fashion by the Chron's Pink Pages writer Aidin Vaziri! So Vaziri, on the SFGate's Culture Blog, pokes some gentle fun at us for posting
Arts & Entertainment Free We Are Scientists! You might already know that their debut album, With Love & Squalor, will drive you to do strange, angular dances to the stop-start rhythms, alarm clock guitars and addictive melodies. The 'Scientists may
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews the Yeah Yeah Yeahs at the Warfield We wish we had seen them earlier. Not that they didn't put on a good show or the music wasn't great, it's just that what we saw wasn't the raucous, fevered band we
Arts & Entertainment It is Obvious That we Yvesdrop in Social Spheres That are Widely Different Guy: “Hey, watch for a parking spot for me, will ya?” Other guy, under his breath: “There’s some weird planetary s**t going on right now, man.” -- From Ginevra / Outside Artists'
Arts & Entertainment Getting Schooled in Punk Rock What do Billy Idol, The Clash, The Ramones, Lynrd Skynrd, Queen and the Everly Brothers have in common? Rock fundamentals you say? That too, but we’re referring to the epic (yes epic)
Arts & Entertainment Prog Rock's Not Just For Boys Anymore We'll confess -- every now and then, we listen to 107.7 The Bone, (usually when Live 105 goes through one of its fifteen minutes of Sublime programming jaunts) -- where, save for
Arts & Entertainment Concert Review: The Dead Are Alive? Phil Lesh and Friends December 17, 18 and 19, 2004 The Warfield Theater San Francisco, CA Being a music snob of the first order, I was more than a little nervous when my
misc The Essefficist Fills More Recycling Containers Than You Can Imagine Once again, the Essefficist is back, a day late and at least a dollar short. We could go on all night about what a piece of junk this column is -- she may
