[Locals Only is a weekly feature where the Stranger Dance staff focus on the best and brightest of the San Francisco Bay Area music scene. Feel free to hit us up with any information on local bands, musicians, shows, and other music-related events and projects.]
This Saturday, June 20th, the 2009 Bicycle Music Festival will be [...]

San Francisco’s Geographer have quickly become darlings of critics and Bay Area fans alike. Their debut album, Innocent Ghosts, garnered accolades from the likes of SF Chronicle, Performer Magazine and SPIN, who included them in their list of three undiscovered bands you need to hear now.
You can catch Geographer live tomorrow night (4/23) at Cafe [...]

This month’s mixtape is Part Two of our “Best of the Bay Area” mix that we started last month (find Part One here). We had set out to make a single mix that encapsulated the local scene, but there’s just too much depth of talent in San Francisco to reduce down to an 80-minute primer. [...]

It’s finally here. Though the months of anticipation, Outside Lands-related posts and Radiohead worship have been fun here at the Stranger Dance, it’ll be nice to get this bitch done with, so we can have some fun. So, in the spirit of community, good citizenship and milking this high-traffic cow one last time, we present [...]

[Update: Looking for playlists for the 2009 festival? We've got you covered: Friday, Saturday & Sunday]
Here’s the second installment of three for our Outside Lands Festival preview. Today, we bring you songs by all of the artists appearing on Saturday of Outside Lands. You can find yesterday’s installments here: Friday lineup
With our fancy new media [...]

While the folks at APE Concerts haven’t announced the schedule for the Outside Lands Festival [Update: full schedule now available here], most of the bands involved have which night they’re playing on their respective sites. So we did a little investigative journalism to cobble together a schedule.
According to their site, Radiohead is scheduled to headline [...]

[Update: Outside Lands 2009 lineup announced.]
As we previously posted, we were already pretty excited about the upcoming Summer concerts. The lineup for the Outside Lands Festival in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park was announced today and I’m peeing in my pants. One word: incredible. 3-Day pass tickets go on sale this Sunday for $225. Single-day [...]