Bob Dylan

Listen Whitey!: Music Historian Pat Thomas Explores the Sounds of Black Power

By J POET Most people know that songs like "We Shall Overcome," "Blowin' in the Wind," and "We Shall Not Be Moved" were important parts of the soundtrack of the Civil Rights and Anti-War movements of the '60s. The Black Power movement also used music to inspire and motivate people. Longtime Bay Are ... More >>

David Lindley: Show Preview

By J POET Most people know that songs like "We Shall Overcome," "Blowin' in the Wind," and "We Shall Not Be Moved" were important parts of the soundtrack of the Civil Rights and Anti-War movements of the '60s. The Black Power movement also used music to inspire and motivate people. Longtime Bay Are ... More >>

Learning to Deal With the Great Music Deluge

Are we suffocating from too much music?​ Two years ago, Broken Social Scene's Charles Spearin released The Happiness Project, an experimental album that brought together concepts associated with field recordings, sociology, jazz, and phonetics. If you think that sounds pretentious, you're righ ... More >>

Great Moments in Craigslist: Southern Guy Is So Amped to Be Your Roommate

Excited Southern boy wants to live with you​UPDATE: Well, fuck. Looks like either this son of the South is looking to move to San Francisco and Boston, or this ad is a fake. Reader Robbinthehood points out the exact same ad was posted in Boston. We wanted to believe in you, excitable bro. We so fu ... More >>

S.F. Supervisor John Avalos Is Spinning Records at the Knockout Tonight

DJ Progressive Sweep?​In case you had any doubt that the S.F. mayoral campaign is in full, uh, swing: A certain progressive supervisor and mayoral candidate whose name may or may not be in the above headline will be on the decks for the Knockout's Oldies Night tonight ...

Bright Eyes Recruits Rich Liberals for Revolution at the Fox Theater

Bright Eyes at the Fox Theater last night. Pics by Ian, more after the jump.​Bright EyesApril 12, 2011@ The Fox Theater, OaklandBetter than: Whatever shit Mike Huckabee listens to.If Bob Dylan sang the universal in such exquisite poetry that it became personal, Conor Oberst shouts the pe ... More >>

Turns Out Songbirds Can't Fly: Joan Baez Falls Out of A Treehouse

Sleeping in trees is nice (yes, we've tried it!); falling out of them is not. Joan Baez discovered that songbirds can't fly earlier this week, when she fell 20 feet out of a treehouse at her Woodside (Peninsula) home, according to the San Jose Mercury News.

The Five Weirdest Movie Performances By Rock Musicians

Putting rock musicians in movies has been a catchpenny ploy since about fifteen minutes after rock music began to hit nationwide in the mid-1950s. The crusty-nosed brats buying all the records were, after all, the very same unruly vermin clogging American drive-ins every weekend. At first, acts were ... More >>

Bob Dylan Rocks the Blues, Plays the Classics at the Fox Theater

​Bob DylanThe Dough Rollers @ The Fox Theater, Oakland August 24, 2010 Better than: Anyone had a right to expect. You never really know what you might get into with a Bob Dylan show. The "Poet Laureate of Rock 'n' Roll," as he was introduced at the Fox Theater last night, often ... More >>

"Kisses": Fairy tale meets real life for runaway Irish kids

​Bob DylanThe Dough Rollers @ The Fox Theater, Oakland August 24, 2010 Better than: Anyone had a right to expect. You never really know what you might get into with a Bob Dylan show. The "Poet Laureate of Rock 'n' Roll," as he was introduced at the Fox Theater last night, often ... More >>

Bob Dylan, Yes, Bob Dylan, Hits the Fox Theater August 24 (Bob Dylan!)

​King Bob. Master Dylan. Folk genius. Fake. Whatever you wanna call him, Bob Dylan shares a plane of influence and regard with few other living musicians. But you know that. Last time we checked in with Dylan's live show, he could still throw down a stinging guitar solo, too. So what if his voice ... More >>

Thursday's Pick: Eilen Jewell at Hotel Utah

​Eilen Jewellwith Sallie Ford and the Sound OutsideHotel Utah9 p.m., $8-$10When Bob Dylan released his controversial 1970 album, Self Portrait, writer Greil Marcus griped that he'd "buy an album of Dylan breathing heavily ... but not an album of Dylan breathing softly." Americana fans may have bee ... More >>

Rock Jewell-ry

​Eilen Jewellwith Sallie Ford and the Sound OutsideHotel Utah9 p.m., $8-$10When Bob Dylan released his controversial 1970 album, Self Portrait, writer Greil Marcus griped that he'd "buy an album of Dylan breathing heavily ... but not an album of Dylan breathing softly." Americana fans may have bee ... More >>

Track of the Day: Dylan, Meet Ronson

What do Amy Winehouse and Bob Dylan have in common, aside from the fact that both sound pretty sauced, even when they're sober? They've also both been the subjects of Mark Ronson remixes. The superstar DJ/producer put a little funk in Dylan's trunk on this track, "Most Likely You'll Go Away (I'll Go ... More >>

1960s Folk Rock Screening at Page St. Library

What do Amy Winehouse and Bob Dylan have in common, aside from the fact that both sound pretty sauced, even when they're sober? They've also both been the subjects of Mark Ronson remixes. The superstar DJ/producer put a little funk in Dylan's trunk on this track, "Most Likely You'll Go Away (I'll Go ... More >>

Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Rhetoric

What do Amy Winehouse and Bob Dylan have in common, aside from the fact that both sound pretty sauced, even when they're sober? They've also both been the subjects of Mark Ronson remixes. The superstar DJ/producer put a little funk in Dylan's trunk on this track, "Most Likely You'll Go Away (I'll Go ... More >>

Why? Covers Bob Dylan

What do Amy Winehouse and Bob Dylan have in common, aside from the fact that both sound pretty sauced, even when they're sober? They've also both been the subjects of Mark Ronson remixes. The superstar DJ/producer put a little funk in Dylan's trunk on this track, "Most Likely You'll Go Away (I'll Go ... More >>

Cross It Out

What do Amy Winehouse and Bob Dylan have in common, aside from the fact that both sound pretty sauced, even when they're sober? They've also both been the subjects of Mark Ronson remixes. The superstar DJ/producer put a little funk in Dylan's trunk on this track, "Most Likely You'll Go Away (I'll Go ... More >>

Bob Dylan Wins Pulitzer Prize

What do Amy Winehouse and Bob Dylan have in common, aside from the fact that both sound pretty sauced, even when they're sober? They've also both been the subjects of Mark Ronson remixes. The superstar DJ/producer put a little funk in Dylan's trunk on this track, "Most Likely You'll Go Away (I'll Go ... More >>

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