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Spacey new Seventeen Evergreen video

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Check out the star-dusted new video for Seventeen Evergreen's "Burn the Fruit (Pegasus)," off the newly released full-length, Steady On, Scientist! Directed by Brian Ziffer, the space-inspired mini movie came from an interest in NASA's Voyager and the Golden Record. You may recall Seventeen Evergreen as part of this year's On the Rise elite class.

Blood Orange's "Champagne Coast" enters odd interiors

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We missed Blood Orange's appearance here a couple weeks ago (kicking selves). Now, he's rocking the "Champagne Coast" with his latest strange journey -- yeah, it continues and broadens the Weeknd's brilliant '80s flashback-meets-future R&B and features hot scantily, cleverly clad models dancing erotically. We do not mind this one bit.   

3 Kings of House come to Mighty

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This Sat/28, three actually legendary house music DJs and producers -- Li'l Louie Vega, David Morales, and Tony Humphries -- will combine to melt the floor at Mighty. Here's footage from them last month at Miami's Winter Music Conference. If you're a head like me, you start shouting in your cubicle right at 1:24.  

Neatest ever: nine-year-old Caine's cardboard Arcade comes to Exploratorium on Sat/21

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That pretty cool Caine's Arcade video basically ruled the Internet last week -- and can we just be happy that something not involving clumsy cats, Republican presidential candidates, or Twitter ignoramuses viralled its way into our national consciousness for once? Now you can have a chance to play the LA youngster's cardboard paradise-outsider art masterpiece IRL and meet its maker, as part of the Exploratorium's Open MAKE event. Full details after the jump.

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SF's Loquat releases new music video

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Longtime San Francisco indie pop act Loquat released a video for the song "Time Bending" off brand new album We Could Be Arsonists late last week. A bare bones look at a classic act, the video follows the band setting up in the studio and recording the song surrounded by smiling onlookers, welcoming them back into the fold. Read more »

Telegenic Band Check: Kacey Johansing

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On a perfect spring day, local SF musician Kacey Johansing played a sweet tune in Douglass Park, with the help of Andrew Maguire and the birds in the trees.

The shape is turning me on! See the Apple-rejected "Geometric Porn"

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In a world where iFart is an acceptable product, you would think that pretty little abstractions of bodily functions would pass muster. But multimedia visual artist Luciano Foglia encountered resistance in Appleland when he tried to make his "Geometric Porn" app available via iPhone -- it was rejected on the grounds of being "excessively objectionable or crude content." Check out this preview video of GP to see the shapes Apple deemed too hot for your phone screen. Read more »

Cosmic Japanese punk band Peelander-Z announces tour

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The weird and wonderful comic Japanese punk band Peelander-Z announced a tour on Brooklyn Vegan this week; and yes, those dates include a visit to the Bay Area. The futuristic cosmic space Teletubbies (who live in NYC) will be in SF on May 6 at the DNA Lounge. Read more »

Today in musical club kids: AB Soto's 'Honey Boo Boo'

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Forgive the blowed-out sound quality (much better here) but you know there was going to be some interference in the airwaves once LA butch queen AB Soto teamed up with fierce SF club celebuterrors Manicure Versace and Terry T for a boom-boom tribute to everyone's favorite Read more »

Look got took? Hi Fashion has your anthem

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The other day I saw this woman was walking down the street, spitting image of Rose from the Golden Girls. Excuse?! Lady, I know you didn't get the glimmer for those high-waisted purple pants all by yourself. Leave it to LA electro pop duo Hi Fashion to debut a video (featuring luks crafted entirely by the group itself) today that speaks to this exact situation. So that I don't have to. Because no one wants that mess. Read more »