Allman Brothers

Jello Biafra on Playing "Big Corporate Festivals" and Making a Punk-Southern Rock Hybrid

Bay Area punk-rock pioneer Jello Biafra has embarked in numerous high-profile collaborations in the decades since the mid-1980s dissolution of the legendary Dead Kennedys. While he has teamed with the likes of Ministry's Al Jourgensen in the industrial-punk project Lard and tracked classic albums wi ... More >>

Let's All Laugh at How Terrible These St. Louis Cardinals Fan Songs Are

[Editor's note: SF Weekly's sister paper in St. Louis recently put together a list of eight rather hilariously unflattering fan-made tributes to the St. Louis Cardinals. Obviously, they originally meant it with some affection. But given that our beloved Giants are currently battling the Cards for th ... More >>

Number 38: Broken Record's Crawfish Grits

SFoodie's countdown of our favorite 50 things to eat and drink, 2012 edition ​On New Year's Eve of 1973, the Allman Brothers put on a legendary, marathon show at the Cow Palace. Nearly four decades later, up Geneva at The Broken Record, Georgian Shane LaValley creates something just as unapologe ... More >>

Q&A: How Howlin' Rain Survived a Four-Year Hiatus, Worked with Rick Rubin, and Finished The Russian Wilds

Howlin' Rain​ By DAVE GIL DE RUBIO When Howlin' Rain's Ethan Miller answers the door of the Brooklyn flat he's borrowing from a friend, the disheveled hair and wildly scraggly beard he's sporting gives him the look of a modern-day Rip Van Winkle. In many ways, the analogy fits, given that it' ... More >>

Make a Famous Musician -- Wayne Coyne! Bob Weir! -- Remind You To Vote

Russ Harrington (russharrington.com) for Harp MagazineGrace Potter gets intimate with democracy​So you're the kind of person who forgets to vote. And in such a democracy-happy burg as S.F., where voters are asked to weigh in frequently on such trivialities as the mix of recycled material in the to ... More >>

Track of the Day: Citay

​I got an early copy of the new Citay record (Dream Get Together, out Jan. 26) and played it for my road-tripping crew last weekend. They couldn't get over that killer Allman Brothers sound bandleader Ezra Feinberg helps conjure from his guitars, although this release pulls from myriad rock master ... More >>

Last Night: The Allman Brothers Band at the Fox

The Allman Brothers Band at the Fox Theater Tuesday, May 12, 2009 By Wade Grubbs Better than: Any other jam band. Last night I saw a great Allman Bros. tribute band at the Fox - they were called The Allman Brothers Band. Just kidding! Well, sort of kidding. But the bulk of the group's two sets ... More >>

The Dead Plan Live Show for May

Attention Deadheads: the show will go on. After a five-year hiatus, the remaining members of the Grateful Dead (Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart) will hit the road with keyboardist Jeff Chimenti and Allman Brothers Band/Gov't Mule guitarist Warren Haynes this spring. The band, ca ... More >>

Kings of Leon

Only by the Night (RCA)

Dark Meat drags underground rock below the Mason-Dixon Line

How to Tell Your Hippies from Your Heshers from the Black Keys

Rick Rubin Digs Howlin Rain's Distorted View of the '70s

Dave Matthews Band Voter Registration: So Begins Another Inane 'Rock the Vote' Season

Rock the Bells, The Expendables, New Monsoon -- ASD's Live Music Picks for Saturday, August 18

Pot's for pussies

The Band

Live at Watkins Glen (Capitol)

The Big Bang

Entering Comets on Fire's blazing parallel universes

Pearls and Brass

The Indian Tower

Dead Like Me

Attempting to survive 11 straight hours of the Grateful Dead

Boogie-rock freakoids Green Milk From the Planet Orange and No Doctors, and the megarock of OG grunge masters Mudhoney

Parchman Farm

Mining San Francisco's psych-rock past to forge a bright new future

Award Show Guide

Americana/Folk/Country DJ/Turntablist Electro/Electronic/Experimental Hard Rock Hip Hop Indie Rock/Noise Pop Jazz Soul/R&B World Music Music Video

Sunburned Hand of the Man

Rare Wood

My Morning Jacket

It Still Moves

One Nation, Under Funk

DJ Motion Potion's populist approach to spreading the funk has got dance-floor denizens hot, bothered, and coming back for more

Dave Gleason's Wasted Days

Dave Gleason's Wasted Days (Well Worn)

Holiday Highlights 2001

Holiday Event Lisitngs

Bad to The Bone

With an unorthodox take on classic rock, The Bone has become the Bay Area's newest radio sensation

Listen to the Movie

Almost Famous rings in your ears -- and heart -- long after it's over

A Fan's Notes

After Jerry Maguire, Cameron Crowe comes of age...finally

Reviews

Fake It to the Limit

For 10 years, Lewis Peter Morgan impersonated Randy Meisner, an obscure former bass guitar player for the Eagles rock group. Morgan smooth-talked his way into a borrowed lifestyle of guitars, girls, and casinos. He could have checked out of the deception

Letters

Apocrypha

Reviews

The Fall of Love

Chet Helms and his Avalon Ballroom were the heart and soul of the Summer of Love. Thirty years of stupid business moves later, love is all that's left.

Letters

Calling It Rape

Two decades after the nightmare with a bronzed boatman on the Salmon River, I still hadn't forgiven myself for not fighting back. But there was no time like the present.

Paper Trails