Today is the day where thousands of bespectacled music nerds (myself included) celebrate all things vinyl for National Record Store Day. More then just a music industry sales ploy, hundreds of artists have new special releases and re-releases just for the occasion. Featuring everyone from Bad Brains, Sonic Youth, Fleetwood

Start out your weekend with all-you-can-eat pancakes and cheap booze Friday night when a taste of LA comes to San Francisco. The famous art show will be in our city for a limited time only at the Artists Alley art gallery.  For just $5, you can check out the works

A venue that wants its shows to sound good as much as its paying customers do is mighty fine thing in my  “Why doesn’t this happen more often?” book. A venue that wants to throw a dance party and free beer hour while they’re at it is enough to make

Laura Weinbach, intrepid frontwoman of Foxtails Brigade, runs all over the Bay Area (and the country) busking and playing shows. Have you ever walked down the street in SF or Berkeley and all of a sudden seen the most adorable little pixie with a ridiculously powerful voice and classical guitar

Sometimes in the middle of the day you find yourself sitting in your cubicle watching YouTube videos of cute animals instead of working (or so I hear from people who have gainful employment) and wishing you had evening plans to look forward to. Here are a bevy of musical events

This sounds like it’s going to be a lot like the game “Music Choice Challenge” I made up when I was younger, in which I flipped through the cable music channels and challenged my friends to guess the name and/or title of the song before the info came up on

The Botticellis make you dance. Make you sing along. Make you laugh. Maybe even make you try a new water sport. All because of frontman Alexi Glickman’s dreamy surf pop, timeless voice, and winsome attitude. Love this guy. Love these answers (so much so that I added commentary in italics).

I’ve been spending my lunch in Trinity Cemetery hanging out with the ghosts of Alexander Hamilton and Robert Fulton. Alexander denies he ever had dreadlocks in his youth in the Caribbean, and Robert Fulton keeps trying to convince me to buy steam powered technology. I told him him I don’t