A must-listen for fans of punk-rock or post-punk!

Premiere: John Travoltage's New Single, "Heist," is Rife With Guitars and Unbridled Energy
If the name is any indication, John Travoltage is a punk-rock band from San Francisco with a sense of humor and a no-fucks attitude. Formed in 2014, the quartet, known for making gritty, guitar-heavy tracks a la Green Day infused with a slight post-punk/pop flavoring in the vein of New Found Glory o
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Like rum? You're in luck. We're giving away tickets to the California Rum Festival! Enter to win here:

Enter to win tickets to the California Rum Festival on August 26th! - SF Weekly
Enter below to win two tickets to the California Rum Festival on Friday, August 26th from 5-9 p.m. at SOMARTS Cultural Center San Francisco. For more details about the event, click here.
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Like PARTYNEXTDOOR? Then Listen to Oakland Singer ymtk's New Album, All The Right Places - SF Weekly
When it comes to hip-hop music in the Bay Area, hyphy and mob music definitely dominate the scene. But in the last year or so, a number of up-and-coming talents — mainly out of Oakland and Berkeley — have been switching up the formula, introducing laidback flows, melodic singing, ambient beats, and…
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Shepard Fairey has installed two murals of civil rights legends to coincide with his show, "American Civics" at the San Francisco Art Exchange.

Shepard Fairey Schools Us in Civics - SF Weekly
“I’m a huge Diet Coke drinker,” Shepard Fairey says. “I’ve been switching over to Fresca, but they don’t have it everywhere.” He and three assistants are about an hour away from finishing Voting Rights, a mural of Fannie Lee Chaney, the mother of activist James Chaney, whom the Ku Klux Klan murdered...
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Facing an endless stream of bad press, SFPD considers hiring a publicist to promote positivity.

SFPD Mulls a Publicist for Image Control - SF Weekly
The San Francisco Police Department has been doing a lot of good deeds. Summer internships, backpack giveaways, barbecue cook-offs. Those kinds of things. But these feel-good stories aren’t getting the kind of traction the department wants, and…
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Depressed? Perhaps You Should Be Going To More Concerts - SF Weekly
If you’ve been feeling blue lately, it might be because you haven’t been attending enough concerts or festivals lately. According to a new study from Victoria’s Deakin University in Australia, people who regularly attend live music events are happier than those who don’t. Out of the study’s 1,000 pa...
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Check it out while you can, as this Donald Trump statue likely won’t be up very long.

NSFW: Guerrilla Art Group INDECLINE Installs Naked Trump Statue in the Castro - SF Weekly
This morning at 8:30 a.m., a group of artist-activists called INDECLINE installed a life-size statue of a naked Donald Trump at Jane Warner Plaza, and in four other cities across the country. As depicted, Trump has his trademark scowl, a pot belly, hands that look almost like a typical adult male ho...
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We decided to revive a tradition on our food blog, the SFoodie 92, for this week's cover story. Here are 92 places that best represent the city’s culinary breadth and overall vibe.

SF Weekly's 92 Cheap Eats That Define This City - SF Weekly
Quince, Benu, Spruce — we’re sure you’re wonderful. Saison and Atelier Crenn, same goes for you. But the thing is, we’ve never eaten with you before. Because we’re broke. We have roommates and student loans, and we’re already stealing HBO GO from a friend-of-a-friend just to tread water here. With a...
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A MUST LISTEN for fans of experimental music!

Get Trippy Sans Drugs Through Marielle V. Jakobson's New Album, Star Core - SF Weekly
Last Saturday night at The Lab, roughly 50 people tripped — on music. Around 10:30 p.m., after a number of failed attempts at setting up the projector, a petite, flaxen-haired woman by the name of Marielle V. Jakobsons took the stage, along with backing bassist Chuck Johnson. Conversations among aud...
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They might not be your cup of tea, but they're certainly appealing to the youngins

Teenage Dream: Us The Duo Has Won The Hearts Of The Underage Set - SF Weekly
You probably don’t know who Us The Duo is, but your kids certainly do. In just under four years, the soft-pop act, consisting of married couple Michael and Carissa Alvarado, has released three studio albums, garnering millions of YouTube views and more than 1 million monthly listeners on Spotify — n...
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To help you plan next week...

Top Five Parties This Week Plus Notable Local Records - SF Weekly
One interesting side effect of the unprecedented speed of life in our information age is that society’s nostalgia cycles have been compressed substantially. It used to be that what came 20-25 years before was fun, hip, and cool (in an ironic way) again; now, it’s more like 10 years and change. Enter...
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August 17 at 6:15pm
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Did you know that San Francisco now has its very own Piano Pound?

Sing Us a Song: SF Man Gets Drunk, Creates Piano Pound - SF Weekly
A couple of years ago, someone dragged a piano up Bernal Hill and the entire city was better off for it. Last year, some creative minds set up a bunch of pianos in the botanical garden to make people’s lives better. And the city even has a guy who rides around with a piano attached to his bicycle. …
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Today in food news, 1760 adds new summer cocktails, Nepalese restaurant Newa is now open in the Tenderloin, and more.

Tuesday Eight: Nightbird Opens Thursday, Lord Stanley Is Bon Appetit's No. 3 - SF Weekly
Plus the Tenderloin gets a new Nepalese restaurant, a look at the rise of rooftop farming in Oakland, and an orangutan who knows how to mix drinks. The Owls Are What They Seem: Nightbird Opens Thursday Eater reports that after “years and years of construction delays,” Kim Alter’s long-awaited Nigh...
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Our dreams of getting from SF to LA in 30 minutes are fading fast...

SF-LA Hyperloop Dreams Fading - SF Weekly
You’ll get from L.A. to San Francisco in 30 minutes, they said. It’s cheaper and faster than high-speed rail, they said. It won’t crash and it will run on solar power, they said. The buzz started in May that a Hyperloop transportation service would be coming to California someday after two companies...
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It's hard to be mushy in a dark electronic-pop song

Premiere: Dangermaker's New Single "I Won't Let You Down" Is A Love Song, But It's Definitely Not Mushy
Dark-pop quartet Dangermaker aren't known for crafting love songs. Formed in 2008, the San Francisco band has released three EPs and one full-length album, all...
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Slipknot, Marilyn Manson and Of Mice and Men at Concord Pavilion August 13

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Got plans Sunday night? Now you do: Go do some naughty coloring at Strut with the brilliant Nathan Rapport.

Go Color In a Bag of Dicks! (With This Totally NSFW Coloring Book)
Sometimes, after a bad breakup, you just have to have sex with as many people as possible until you stop feeling like shit about yourself....
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Check out the first story in our new column, The Pessimist, about ‪#‎LilYachty‬'s show last night at Regency Ballroom. And don't worry, you didn't miss anything.

The Pessimist: Experiencing "1 Night" With Lil Yachty
Eighteen-year-old rapper Lil Yachty has been making headlines for the last seven months, starting with his modeling stunt at Kanye West's Yeezy Season 3 fashion...
sfweekly.com|By Jessie Schiewe