In anticipation of their upcoming headlining gig at the Great American Music Hall on August 19th, we sent local SF band Abbot Kinney our grueling questionnaire. Will they survive it? Will the answers surprise you? There’s only one way to find out. Read below: Name: Abbot Kinney Medium: Rock Music

The Melvins, who release the double album “A Walk With Love & Death” on July 7 via Ipecac Recordings, announce their most extensive North American tour to date, with dates stretching from July 5 to October 3. With “A Walk With Love & Death,” the trio of Buzz Osborne, Dale

Step into a world of adventure with the 2023 SF Wine Passport! There’s no better way to explore San Francisco than to literally drink it in. You get 2-for-1 glasses of wine at 23 of SF’s finest locally owned bars and restaurants for only $39.95! It honestly doesn’t get much better than that. And after the

Los Rakas is comprised of ridiculously gorgeous cousins Raka Rich & Raka Dun, pioneering Panamanians by way of the Bay Area on the frontier of a new Latin urban sound. Known for their fresh mix of hip-hop, plena, reggae and dancehall music with both Spanish and English lyricism, Los Rakas

For Mark Joseph, it’s about more than just the music. The local rocker has built up quite a following after years of performing and recording with several bands–he uses the podium this gives him in support of a variety of social justice causes. On Sunday night, January 15, Joseph’s band The

The Mother Hips wind down their weekend (with performances at the Great American Music Hall on 12/16 & 12/17) with an acoustic holiday matinee at Slim’s! This year marks The Mother Hips 23rd anniversary as a band, and their six-year celebration of their own rock festival, Hipic, held in Big

Richman formed the Modern Lovers, a proto-punk garage rock band from Boston. The band contained notable drummer David Robinson, who later joined Talking Heads and the Cars. But, that’s probably not where you’d recognize him first. It was a key part in the Farrelly Brothers’ 1998 film There’s Something About

  The version of Deerhoof you hear on The Magic is a most punch-drunk proposition. Everyone showed up in the mood to sing. Satomi, Greg, John and Ed dream up alchemies of punk, pop, glam, hair metal, doo-wop, hip hop, and R&B, late-night car rides, long days, attitude and spandex.

  Though Yuck has been a band for less than a decade, the London-based garage-pop outfit has already managed to cram what feels like a lifetime of Behind The Music-worthy experiences into their backstory. Recorded in London over the course of several months at the band’s own pace, Stranger Things