San Francisco

Shut Up Little Man!

(Oct 06, 2011) I’ve never been one for home-city pride, but if there’s one thing that San Francisco has over NY/LA/etc, it’s our never-endi...

Dirtybird

(Aug 15, 2011) Somewhere between house, techno, drum’n'bass + dubstep lies Dirtybird.  Since 2005 this San Francisco label run by Claude ...

Some Things in Life Should be Free

(Nov 16, 2010) Paris park with WiFi My computer and I recently visited Paris. The hotel Internet was barely usable, but it was a non-issue becaus...

Pop-Up Magazine: One Night Only

(Apr 19, 2010) For the third time, San Francisco will be launching another Pop-Up Magazine live event, which exists for one night only, in one p...

Nostalgia for someplace, sometime else

(Dec 09, 2009) Drunk white people everywhere love anthemic odes to New York — even those of us on the West Coast sick of hearing that every...

GIRLS did what we all kinda knew they were going to do and became famous

(Oct 21, 2009) Friends of mine GIRLS became one of the biggest indie bands in the world in the last few weeks. Everyone from Solange Knowles to P...