Slim’s

11 Nov 2021

The ‘Birds Aren’t Real Protest’ Was a Perfect Taste of San Francisco’s Weirdness

By Michal Habdank-Kolaczkowski The years of COVID have created so much lasting change in our city and had so many immutable effects on everyone: workers on the front-line; folks waiting in the soup-line; even comedians had to learn how to “work the room” online. We watched the disappearance and still

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13 Aug 2020

Slim’s to be Replaced by ‘YOLO’ Nightclub Douchefest

For over 30 years Slim’s hosted live music from every genre in San Francisco.  Punk, rock, R&B, to blues, jazz, folk, and rap performers played this SOMA institution.  It shut forever in March.  And now, perhaps as a sign of the times, Slim’s was bought by San Jose club owners

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08 Oct 2024

The November 2024 BAS Voter Guide

A Big Change to This Year’s Voter Guide We’ve been doing voter guides for a really long time. I’m pretty sure we put our first one out in like 2010 or something. And I know that thousands of you rely on our voter guides to help you make decision. But

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22 Jan 2020

We wanna send you and a friend to see The Melvins!

The Melvins were formed in Montesano, Washington in 1983 by Buzz Osborne, Matt Lukin and Mike Dillard. Lukin and Dillard left the band and drummer Dale Crover stepped in shortly thereafter. Osborne and Crover have been the Melvins’ mainstays throughout their 30 + year metamorphosis. To date the band has

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11 Sep 2019

We wanna send you and a friend to see Blackalicious!

Blackalicious is an American hip-hop duo from Sacramento, California, made up of rapper Gift of Gab and DJ/producer Chief Xcel. They are noted for Gift of Gab’s often tongue-twisting, multisyllabic, complex rhymes. The duo have released four full-length albums. Thursday, September 19, 2019 | Slim’s | Tickets can be purchased

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19 Dec 2018

We wanna send you and a friend to see Hot Snakes on NYE!

Hot Snakes streamlined Jehu’s complex compositions and emerged as bona fide downstroke warlords. They made 3 studio albums of high-velocity, slash-your-face, piss-punk: 2000’s Automatic Midnight, 2002’s Suicide Invoice and 2004’s Audit in Progress. Now, after a 14-year hiatus from the studio, Hot Snakes have kicked down the door back into our lives

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20 Sep 2018

Favorite SF Homeless Man Killed in Hit & Run

Update: The Examiner reports that the suspect in the hit and run, Allan Quiton, was drunk when he killed Modesto. Make sure to read to the bottom to find out about the memorial for Modesto There’s a good chance Modesto Figuerido was sleeping on the sidewalk in SoMa before you even

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07 Aug 2018

We wanna send you to see American Aquarium!

American Aquarium – Featuring a new band lineup that includes Shane Boeker on lead guitar, drummer Joey Bybee, bassist Ben Hussey, and Adam Kurtz on pedal steel and electric guitar, as well as a reinvigorated frontman in BJ Barham, Things Change is American Aquarium’s first release on a label after selling thousands

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14 May 2018

We wanna send you plus one to see Calexico!

The ninth studio album from Calexico, The Thread That Keeps Us, is a timely snapshot of the Arizona-bred band: a family portrait capturing their stylistic variety and unpredictability while still finding solace in limitless creativity. In bringing the album to life, vocalist/guitarist Joey Burns and drummer John Convertino found a

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