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Outside Lands Festival 2012 Day 2 in pics (Metallica, Sigur Ros, The Kills, Tame Impala, Explosions in the Sky & more)

Metallica‘s headlining set on Saturday featured lots of the band’s classic material (“Master of Puppets,” “Ride the Lightning,” “Creeping Death”) paired with a fair amount of pyro and endless shout-outs to San Francisco…

John Vanderslice touring w/ Crooked Fingers, covered Bowie's 'Diamond Dogs' in San Francisco (dates & videos)

John Vanderslice at Mercury Lounge in 2010 (more by Amanda Hatfield) John Vanderslice and Crooked Fingers (the project of Archers of Loaf frontman Eric Bachmann) are teaming up for a co-headlining tour together this fall which hits the NYC area for shows at The Bell House on November 2 and Maxwell’s on November 4…

Outside Lands 2012 lineup (Metallica, Stevie Wonder, Neil Young, Jack White, Foo Fighters, Beck, Skrillex...)

“Another Planet Entertainment, Superfly Presents and Starr Hill presents, in a partnership with the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department, are proud to announce the lineup for the fifth annual Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival…

Treasure Island Music Fest 2011 -- day 1 in pics (Chromeo, DFA1979, Shabazz Palaces, YACHT, Cut Copy & more)

The Treasure Island Music Festival went down over two days on a small island in the San Francisco Bay, juggling two stages and acts that ranged from Death From Above 1979 to Cut Copy to St Vincent…

Wax Idols going on tour w/ Terry Malts (dates, MP3 & video)

DOWNLOAD: Wax Idols – “Dead Like You” (MP3) DOWNLOAD: Terry Malts – Distracted (MP3) Two of San Francisco’s newer, noisier pop bands, Wax Idols and Terry Malts, will be hitting the road together next month for a cross-country tour that has two stops in NYC: November 1 at Cake Shop and November 2 and Shea Stadium…

Sic Alps have a new lineup including Ty Segall (who is touring with & without them)

Ty Segall @ Death by Audio in 2010 (more by Andrew St. Clair) Noisy San Francisco rockers Sic Alps, who will release a 4 song 7″ via Drag City on August 23 (“Napa Asylum” came out on the label in January), have some upcoming shows this summer…

Outside Lands 2011 lineup

The Outside Lands Festival, which runs from 8/12 – 8/14 in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, released their 2011 lineup in April (and now it’s May, so consider this a catch up post)…

Wild Flag (the band with 2/3 of Sleater-Kinney in it) played shows, announced some East Coast dates

Those heading to Texas this March have SXSW 2011 to look forward to, but is Wild Flag making their way to NYC? The band made up of 2/3 of Sleater-Kinney (Brownstein & Weiss), Rebecca Cole (the Minders) and Mary Timony (Helium, Autoclave, Soft Power) will play the East Coast for a string of dates that (so far) include Philadelphia at Johnny Brenda’s on 3/6, but nothing closer…

more pics from Outside Lands (where fans crashed through a fence to get in) (videos of that too)

“You ready for some Grateful Dead action after this?” asked singer Julian Casablancas early in the Stokes set, referring to Furthur, the band led by the Dead’s Phil Lesh and Bob Weir, already in progress at the eastern edge of the polo field…

Bad Lieutenant cancel pre-Coachella San Francisco show

Bernard Sumner’s Bad Lieutenant hasn’t had a lot of luck when it comes to playing in the US. They cancelled their first scheduled trip here which included a NYC show at Webster Hall and slots opening for the Pixies in November of 2009…
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