San Francisco

San Francisco, officially 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 808,977.[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, giving it a density of 17,323 people/mi² (6,688.4 people/km²). It is the most densely-settled large city (population greater than 200,000) in California and the second-most densely populated large city in the United States.[13] San Francisco is anchor to the 13th-largest metropolitan area in the country, containing 4.3 million, and is 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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San Francisco’s Thee Oh Sees are readying another set of barn burners for In The Red, which they’ve adorably named Warm Slime. Precedent track "I Was Denied" sounds more Bakersfield than SF–there’s some twang buried in all the guitar clamor–but it’s wide-eyed, loud-and-proud, in-the-garage debauchery all the same. The Slime splats on May 11...
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...
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...
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  (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...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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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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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