San Francisco

The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city in California and the 12th most populous city in the United States, with a 2008 estimated population of 808,976.[9] The only consolidated city-county in California,[11] it encompasses a land area of 46.7 square miles (121 km2)[12] on the northern end of the San Francisco Peninsula, making it the second-most densely populated large city (greater than 200,000 population) in the United States.[13] San Francisco is also the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the larger San Francisco Bay Area, a region of 7.4 million people.[14]

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The Soft Pack- Extinction
The Soft Pack- Extinction 6/10 San Francisco band The Soft Pack (formerly The Muslims) present us with Extinction - an early singles and EPs collection of releases prior to their name change. It serves as a great introduction to the kind of garagey-rock and roll that they play, and chronicles their sound in the formative stages of the band. That sound starts off a-howlin’ on opener...
DOWNLOAD: The Fresh & Onlys - Dude's Got A Tender Heart
San Francisco’s The Fresh & Onlys always sound like they’re emanating from a graveyard radio, Spectorian girl group and garage rock ghosts absorbed in from the ether. That’s not to say they sound morbid, just totally of another time. The two-part "Dude’s Got A Tender Heart" comes from Grey-Eyed Girls, their second LP out now through the always killing it...
Band of the Week: Silk Flowers
Any band that is hand picked by a member of No Age to release an album on his label is gonna get more then its fare share of a look. Silk Flowers is just such a band. Signed to Dean Spurnt’s Post Present Medium label, the band recently came to my attention thanks to Spurnt’s pushing of the group. True he calls them "probably the weirdest band I know" and they definitely...
EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: The Drones - She Had An Abortion That She Made Me Pay For (Live) + Nail It Down (Live)
  (Photo: Tony Mott) The Drones’ singer Gareth Liddiard has always sounded surly on record, but live it’s like he’s fully transformed into a spit-gargling rock pirate, the kind of guy who savors singing a song called, "She Had An Abortion That She Made Me Pay For." We know, we know, but what fun is there in mincing words. These versions of the aforementioned...
NEW DOWNLOAD: Daniel Johnston - I Had Lost My Mind
(Photo: Tim Broddin) Daniel Johnston is known mainly for two things: having Kurt Cobain as a famous fan, and having spent a good portion of his life dealing with schizophrenia. His immense catalog of songs — tender, honest, direct and weird, often all at once — somehow gets short shrift. Take “I Had Lost My Mind,” a brief, wildly catchy tune from Is and Always Was (...
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DOWNLOAD: Grooms - Acid King Of Hell (Guitar Feelings)
There’s nothing overtly psychedelic or doomy about Grooms’ "Acid King Of Hell (Guitar Feelings)," but the parenthetical bears some insight, since it’s on their loud-quiet-loud amp exorcisms that this one really gets lifted. More squalid shredding can be found on Rejoicer, the Brooklyn threesome’s new album for Death By Audio, and on their current tour out to the...
Shake, Rattle & Roll
My First Earthquake Genre: Indie / Electro / Rock From: San Francisco, California, United States New rave, new wave, new disco from frisco? Who gives a stuff when it sounds this good? San Francisco’s My First Earthquake serve up massive helpings of brain hugging, romper room electro pop that...
How Now So Cow?
It was a total High Fidelity moment. I was hanging out at Academy Records Annex, getting my fingers dirty flipping through used records something came over the speakers that instantly made me prick up my ears. Low-fi pop, a bit shambly, but in the best way and every song was super-catchy and there was a clever wit going on too. They had by by the third song and I went up and asked what was...
GIRLS - Buzzworthy??? Or Not???
Who: Girls Location: San Francisco, CA elbo.ws Ranking: #38 Thoughts: With all the hype swirling around Northern California’s all guy group Girls, I was a little tentative going into my first listen of their debut record aptly titled Album. I thought it would be more of the same lo-fi that’s been pouring out of every corner of the U.S. this year, but like Nodzzz before them Girls...
No Assembly Required
Assemble Head In Sunburst Sound Genre: Other From: San Francisco, California, United States It’s been a busy day in the life of the Devil so tonights post is a reprint of the AHISS self penned bio. You can call me lazy but it’s either that or miss out on a post for one night so I hope you’ll forgive me....
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Singles Collection Volume 1
Band name: WOODEN SHJIPS Label: Holy Mountain Teaser: Richard S Jones has his brain melted by the psychedelic charm of Wooden Shjips on this, their first collection of rare releases. Beware all ye who enter here… Pull quote 2: it rumbles like a flight of attack aircrafts, with guitars trading feedback for napalm… First para: When Wooden Ships...
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  • Penalties, Brel et Moi, and Kevin Keegan and Alan Curbishley resign

    PARSLEY'S COMMLOCK Travel News : Penalties When I got to the First Capital Connect ticket office there was nobody serving. The one member of staff had left his position to go and tell another (who...

  • Demo kitchen with iLiKETRAiNS

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  • Joe Gideon & The Shark - Civilisation

    Joe Gideon & The Shark - Civilisation from Bronzerat Records on Vimeo. Awesome video from Joe Gideon & The Shark. Sharp white suits, Mark E Smith style monologues and NoMeansNo heavy...

  • Volcano Choir - Unmap

    What we know about Justin Vernon: he’s a fantastic songwriter with a soulful voice, which has slowly but surely found widespread acclaim with Bon Iver. We also found out from the Blood Bank EP...

  • Delia's Gig Guide: 19 November

    Sunday 18th November Monkey Chews – Friend Of The Bride, Looker, Jon byrne, Marcus Mumford Cargo – Wire doo dah – Jackie-o motherfkkkccer5, polly shang kuan band

  • Magazine at the Forum

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  • In Pictures: Steve Gullick retrospective

    Legendary rock photographer Steve Gullick has a retrospective at Manchester’s KRAAK Gallery running from March 12th til March 27th, featuring shots taken for NME and Melody Maker as well as his...

  • In Pictures: Tune-Yards, Trash Kit and Think about Life

    To accompany the review of tUnE-yArDs’ Monday gig at Cargo, a few tasty shots of Think about Life, Trash Kit and New England native Merrill Garbus aka tUnE-yArDs. Read the review of the night...

  • In Pictures: Worst Record Covers of the Year

    We have collected some truly heinous examples of recent album covers, from Empire of the Sun’s Star Wars travesty to the banal evil that is Razorlight’s Slipway Fire. Discretionary...

  • In Pictures: Best record covers 2009

    Album art in this gallery was selected based on several simple traits: strong concept, fine graphics including creative typography and general lushness. The first three of ‘The Best Record...

  • In Pictures: Placebo

    Placebo pictures: just in - some photos of Placebo and Brian Molko from last week’s gig at the Glasgow SECC. Also check out the review here

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  • the Dirty Dishes - In the Clouds EP

    Ahhhh. I love this. When Jenny Tuite of the Dirty Dishes emailed us at Artrocker.com, there was no extended press drivel or desperate pleadings for promotion, just a simple "Hey there!...

  • Cutting Some Shapes

    Not Squares From: Belfast, Northern Ireland On debut single ‘Asylum’ (Richter Collective) Irish punktronic (we really do love inventing these meaningless genres !) trio Not Squares...

  • Turning Japanese

    The Japanese War Effort From: Scotland, United Kingdom The Japanese War Effort is a one man band, based in Edinburgh. Martin Moog (surely an adopted name otherwise baby he was born to moog...

  • Mondrian, Cakes, Pastries and Mille-Feuille

    There’s a tiny town to the north-east of Paris called Peronne. It’s in the Somme, so it rains a lot, and both the buildings and surrounding countryside are deeply gashed with marks from...

  • Wu Lyf (Finally) and The Great BBC 6Music Sham

    I knew something didn’t add up. The BBC 6Music kerfuffle drags on and on – with more and more music fans, politicians and BBC bigwigs all competing to see who can yelp their opinions...

  • Sleeping With The NME

    Yes Giantess Boston, Massachusetts, United States The current incarnation of the NME may be a pale shadow of itself and struggling with it’s identity, not knowing whether to...

  • EXCLUSIVE NEW DOWNLOAD: Egyptian Hip Hop - Round Pot (This is Horseflesh's Rad Pitt Reincarnation)

    According to This is Horseflesh (the nom de guerre of Egyptian Hip Hop drummer Alex Pierce) this fantastic ‘reincarnation’ of the band’s own "Rad Pitt" was written to...

  • Bromheads: Dedicated mp3

    Bromheads are continuing their free monthly download singles with a genius reworking of ‘Dedicated to the One I Love’, a song made famous by the Shirelles.  Unsubtle mix tape...

  • Japanese Voyeurs new single, track giveaway

    If Wyldman’s recent live review has picqued your interest in Japanese Voyeurs, then you might be interested in their free download track ‘Dumb’.  They’re biffing it out...

  • Sissy And The Blisters, and The Folly Of Rock And Roll Adoration

    Forming a rock ‘n’ roll band is one of the more deceptive and fickle actions a group of young men (and it’s almost always young men) can take. It seems so easy: get a self-...
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