A reconfigured Grand Lake headlines “OMFG Oakland”
Grand Lake - "Concrete Blonde On Blonde"
"OMFG Oakland!," indeed. The 2009 Mission Creek Music Festival kicks off this weekend with a couple of Oakland shows, before heading back [...]
Buttercream Gang, The Globes, Don’t Tell Sophie, Moller @ Thee Parkside tonight
Tonight at Thee Parkside, an evening celebrating the jovial rock and electronic sounds of the Bay Area (The Buttercream Gang, Moller) and the Northwest (The Globes, Don't Tell Sophie) [...]
Ticket Giveaway Wednesday: Tall Men and Unclean Projectors
It's time for our weekly installment of Ticket Giveaway Wednesday. There are some great bands playing around the area - and you can see them for free!
Thursday, July [...]
Details emerge on Girls’ Album
Girls - "Hellhole Ratrace"
Congrats to SF's Girls, whose debut full length album, er, Album, will be released September 22nd on True Panther Sounds in conjunction with the venerable Matador [...]
Cursive returns to SF with Mama, I’m Swollen
Cursive - "Mama, I'm Swollen"
The boys of Cursive have made a comfortable name for themselves as a sophisticated and intelligent group of musicians and lyricists, a reputation that reaches [...]
Howlin’ Rain @ The Uptown
Howlin' Rain plays in their local downtown at the Uptown on Saturday (9pm, $10) with Radio Moscow and Matt Baldwin (PA). Fans of front-man Ethan Miller's Neo-Psyche band Comets [...]
Starfucker, Atole, White Cloud tonight
Portland's Starfucker are playing at our very own Bottom of the Hill tonight, June 23rd, as part of the band's West Coast tour promoting their newest release on Badman [...]
The Dodos announce Time to Die
The Dodos - "Fables" (from Pitchfork.tv)
Last week, The Dodos announced details surrounding their upcoming third album, including its ominous title, Time To Die. Word is that the band's [...]
Sex, air, and rock and roll at the Independent (Win Tix!)
Clear out some space in the living room and find some time when nobody's around, because you should probably already have started training for the Bay Area regionals in [...]
Sir Lord Von Raven – New video, debut LP out now
Via i guess i'm floating comes the first video from Sir Lord Von Raven's Please Throw Me Back In The Ocean, out now on HappyParts Recordings. Featuring Eric [...]
Tartufi – “Fleet Week”
Tartufi recently teamed with the Bank of Karma guys to make a video for "Fleet Week", one of the epic, intense tracks on the band's Southern debut Nest of [...]
