The new sticker design from SubliminalSF

Last week, Morrissey canceled the remaining dates of his current U.S. tour, including two San Francisco shows at the Warfield and Regency Ballrom, due to medical issues including bleeding ulcer, Barrett's esophagus, and double pneumonia.

These are the fifth and sixth consecutive Bay Area shows Morrissey has canceled in the last three years, having not played the region since December 2009. Fans, judging by the comment sections on our posts, are either utterly hopeless, furious, or both. So they should like the new stickers from local merch-maker SubliminalSF, which offer a simple, straight-ahead message to the former Smiths singer:

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* Dear Morrissey, Will You Ever Actually Make it to San Francisco?
* Top 10 Morrissey Song Titles That Describe Your Anguish About His Canceled Show

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Joe Ely, who will be reunited with a long-lost guitar tonight.

Onstage at Slim's tonight, Texas country-rock legend Joe Ely will be reunited with an old friend: A custom guitar that was stolen while he was on tour in San Francisco 27 years ago.

The story is as bizarre as they come: Ely's custom axe -- made by Austin guitarsmith Ted Newman-Jones to resemble a pool table, with felt-colored paint and pool-ball inlays -- disappeared from an equipment truck, along with all the band's gear, while Ely was on tour in San Francisco in 1986.

Years went by, and Ely figured he'd never get it back -- especially after mysterious calls from someone who claimed to have the guitar broke off. Then-mayor Dianne Feinstein even sent Ely a letter apologizing for the theft of his guitar and the band's equipment.

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Main Attrakionz's Mondre M.A.N. and Squadda B have always been pretty clear that the "cloud rap" tag is fine, but they have no desire to be pigeonholed as such. The young Oakland rappers' frequent use of the cloud motif is just one aesthetic element of many that they use intermittently -- and one they're tweaking with today's new Cloud City EP.

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* Main Attrakionz Move Beyond Cloud Rap
* Rappers Antwon and Main Attrakionz Headline a Punk Show at 924 Gilman

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Billie Joe's "I'm sorry" moment.

You know how every VH1 Behind the Music episode has a part where, after hitting rock bottom and going to rehab, the artist/band has to reappear, mend their public image, and get back onstage again?

That's what Green Day is living through right now.

After blowing up at the iHeartRadio Festival last fall, entering rehab, and derailing the publicity tour for his Oakland band's three new albums, Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong has re-emerged, sober and contrite, and with stories about how bad his substance problems were. They're detailed in a cover story in this week's Rolling Stone, where Armstrong says, "I couldn't predict where I was going to end up at the end of the night... I'd wake up in a strange house on a couch. I wouldn't remember how. It was a complete blackout."

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* Sorry, Billie Joe, But Your Onstage Freak-Out Was Not Punk

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Kronos Quartet, with David Harrington second from right.

For the last four decades, San Francisco's Kronos Quartet has been confounding the expectations of the classical music world by redefining the role of the traditional string quartet. Group leader/violinist David Harrington and his compadres -- John Sherba, violins; Hank Dutt, viola; and Jeffrey Zeigler, cello -- have explored classical, jazz, new music, folk, world music, and rock. Along the way, they've won a Grammy Best Chamber Music Performance for their recording of Allan Berg's "Lyric Suite" and become one of the world's most influential modern string quartets.

Kronos will be concluding its three-year residency at the Yerba Buena Center with two performances at the Center's Lam Research Theater on Thursday, Feb. 21, and Friday, Feb. 22. The program focuses on composers who live and work in San Francisco, and will include the world premiere of Pamela Z's "And the Movement of The Tongue;" Nathanial Stookey's "String Quartet No. 3, The Mezzanine," and the West Coast premiere of Dan Becker's "Carrying the Past." David Harrington took time out from a rehearsal for the upcoming concert to share his thoughts about the show.

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Rad art, bro.

Meet Snowboarder, the left-field, secret side project just unveiled by Jason Kick of S.F. synth-shredders Maus Haus. It's loud, buzzy, and carefree -- like Maus Haus -- but it's far more hectic: Imagine the Fresh & Onlys on a bender in a German industrial club at 10 a.m. on a snowy Sunday morning.

Kick, Michael Stasis, and David Nichols have been working on the project for what looks like a few years now, hinting at it with bizarre montage videos for "Warp Zone" and "Going Up The Mountain" back in late 2010. It must have been a hard secret to keep, because the record they finally emerged with boasts seven songs of punchy hooks, brazen energy, and pure fun. And like your bro bombing through freshies, Snowboarder is absolutely all over the place, carving up every genre it gets its mittens on.

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"This is the quietest it's ever been in here": Travis Hayes Busse inside Thee Parkside

The new poster boy for the Scion car company is someone you've probably seen at a local show. Travis Hayes Busse helps book bands at S.F. club Thee Parkside as well as at the Noise Pop and Treasure Island music festivals, and he's the subject of both a new 30-second TV commercial for Scion and a three-minute mini-documentary about his life in the local music scene. The ad shows Busse doing his thing in various clubs around the city, while the documentary goes more in-depth, giving the subject a chance to explain how he came to work in music for a living. Unsurprisingly, both clips heavily feature Busse's white Scion tC. The major detail they don't go into is where he manages to park it in San Francisco. But check out some views of the city that any local music fan ought to find familiar:

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Leibowitz in his apartment.

On February 1, 2003, Ted Leibowitz started Bagel Radio, an indie rock station streaming online from a laptop. Ten years later, he's still at it -- and still broadcasting from an aged MacBook in his Glen Park apartment.

He's broadcasting right now, in fact, hosting the 10th Anniversary edition of his show 480 Minutes, which he streams live every Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. And tonight (Feb. 1), Leibowitz will celebrate with a party at Bottom of the Hill, featuring local bands Mister Loveless, Churches, and Birdmonster.

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Let's give credit to organizers of tonight's meeting of the Root at Amnesia. They certainly know the two words in the English language most likely to bring out local musicians: "free" and "beer."

But complimentary suds aren't the only reason to drop by tonight: This meeting is the first of a new nonprofit group that plans to build a new community center for San Francisco musicians. Although the plan is still in its infancy, organizers hope the facility will include rehearsal and hang-out space, resources for advice on performing and recording, and even subsidized housing in the middle of the city.

"There's a lot of hubs for techies and there's all these meetups for techies," says Jocelyn Kane, one of the founders of the Root and executive director of the San Francisco Entertainment Commission. "There isn't a hub for music -- there is no space for musicians."

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Kreayshawn performs at 1015 on January 4.

Kreayshawn experienced the highs and lows of the music business in 2012. Her single "Gucci Gucci" sold more than a half a million copies and was certified Gold by the RIAA, but her debut album Somethin' 'Bout Kreay was declared a consummate failure after selling fewer than 4,000 copies in the first week.

This rollercoaster ride has left Kreay Kreay a bit up in the air when it comes to live shows and touring. Her show this Friday at 1015 Folsom, for example, is free with RSVP. This seems a bit strange for an artist who once sold out Slim's. So why the free show? Here are five reasons we just came up with.

See Also:
- Kreayshawn's Somethin 'Bout Kreay: A First Listen
- Top 5 Reasons Why Kreayshawn's Somethin 'Bout Kreay Isn't The Worst Album of 2012
- Kreayshawn's "Go Hard": The Oakland-Bred Rapper Tries on Mallrat Pop

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