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Best of the Bay 2025 Editors’ Pick: Dani Offline

No wonder she's been featured at Noise Pop—this nouveau hip-hop vibe merchant isn't faking a thing.
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Win a pair of tickets to Portola Night Show: Prospa

Deep EDM groove duo take over the Midway for Portola satellite show Fri/19—here's how to get in.
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After 28 albums, Sparks still can’t resist a flourish—thankfully

Synth pop duo's 'MAD!' enlists ennui haze, light banter, schoolkids' backpacks in its theater of ideas.
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Under the Stars: Superlative locals Umbrellas, Fake Fruit, Now take the SFMOMA roof

Plus: Upcoming gigs from Nirvana's favorite Shonen Knife, Devo and the B-52s, and The Saxophones' blue-lit beats.
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Abba Zabba to Kamasi Washington: 11 superior fall shows

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We got Portola Fest. We got Hardly Strictly. We got Autechre. We got Secret Emchy Society. Get in here!
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GLŌM FEST’s polyglot nocturnal liturgy draws dark artists from around the globe

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Deathrock, darkwave, goth purveyors fly from the bat cave as DNA Lounge transforms into a mausoleum of sound.
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Best of the Bay

VOTE NOW in the 2025 Best of the Bay Readers’ Poll!

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Our 51st installment of the Bay Area classic is 'new and improved' for 2025—and still full of local love.
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Under the Stars: Getting live in September with Sextile, KXSF’s seven-year bash, more

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Plus: Rochelle Jordan's swaggeringly perfect '90s soul comeback and Makaya McCraven at GAMH.
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Live Shots: Clipse return to SF after 15 years, still grindin’

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Virginia Beach hip-hop duo dug deep into the repertoire and performed off reunion album 'Let God Sort 'Em Out.'
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Win tickets to see Supergrass, BabyTron, Ash Island, Lagrimas…

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...SosMula, Calva Louise—score a pair of tickets and go see a concert at one of SF's top venues.
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Under the Stars: Noise Pop announces 2026 dates, plan accordingly

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Plus: Prince jams back into theaters, Nectax wields the breakbeat Ginsu, Gumby's Junk happily confounds, more music
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Win a pair of tickets to see Budos Band and A Deeplove

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We're teaming up with some of SF's best music venues to get you to some shows. Here's how to enter.
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Food & Drink

Good Taste: Cooking with vinyl at Side A

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A San Francisco restaurateur moonlights as a DJ on her own sound system.
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Under the Stars: Mae Powell’s doozy of a contact high

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Plus: Cindy Blackman Santana bangs the skins, a free Valkyries watch party with great tunes, new Kaytranada, more music
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Iridescent melodies and a violin’s metallic textures burnish sachi’s mirror

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Juicebumps bassist Shaina Pan's solo project is rooted in her classical background, applying unconventional twists.
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Under the Stars: Derya Yıldırım’s Anatolian exuberance blazed at The Chapel

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Plus: Teen breakouts Horsegirl's upcoming GAMH gig shows what they've learned, Z-Trip's golden hour summer steeze, more.
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Win a pair of tickets to see 3l3d3p, daine, Yächtley Crëw, and Leftover Salmon

Marke B. -
We're teaming up with some of SF's best music venues to get you to some shows. Here's how to enter.
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Watch: Who we loved (and what we ate) at Outside Lands 2025

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Our online reporters and food & drink crew were out in full force to capture the tasty musical spectacle.
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Music Review

Sun Ra Arkestra traversed magnificent orbits at SFJAZZ

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As Deadheads grasped for past glory across town, this 19-member orchestra kept blazing into the Afrofuture.
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