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Bob Dylan Croaks the Blues at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, 10/18/12

Bob Dylan and His Band Mark Knopfler Thursday, Oct. 18, 2012 Bill Graham Civic Auditorium Better than: Cutting deep scratches in your CD copy of Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits, and then trying to enjoy it. Maybe the best part of seeing Bob Dylan in 2012 is getting to say you've seen Bob Dylan. At 71, ... More >>

Bob Dylan's Senile Sublime

Top Five Concerts To See in San Francisco This Week

First Aid Kit @ The Fillmore, Wednesday, Oct. 17 If First Aid Kit's music is proof, Stockholm must be much closer to the American South than any maps have had us believe. In "Emmylou," off January's The Lion's Roar, Swedish sisters Johanna and Klara Söderberg pay perfect homage to a bevy of America ... More >>

Bob Dylan's Tempest: A First Listen

Bob Dylan is 71. Always-strong critical showings from such septuagenarian contemporaries as Leonard Cohen, Paul Simon, and Tom Zé still don't even come close to his towering impact. After all, they weren't presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He's probably the only musician in America ... More >>

The Top 10 Worst Music Biopics

A couple of weeks ago, you may recall we did a list of the Top Ten Music Biopics. The biopic debate raged again today, however, after we saw images of Andre 3000 dressed up as Jimi Hendrix, in the midst of making a movie. We're pretty sure Andre is going to do wonders in the role, but that doesn't m ... More >>

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

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 >>

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 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

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

Why? Covers Bob Dylan

Cross It Out

Bob Dylan Wins Pulitzer Prize

Walk Hard: The first biopic to address bad tripping with the Beatles and slicing your sibling in half

Various

I'm Not There (Columbia)

Like a Complete Unknown

One of Us Must Know

The elusive Bob Dylan, masterfully considered, in I'm Not There

CD Review: Bob Dylan -- Dylan

Talk to Me, Twin Peaks, No End in Sight: DVDish

Chuck Y Cheese

Q&A With Greil Marcus

Bob Dylan

Modern Times (Columbia)

Clay's the Thing

New releases available this week

Bob Dylan

No Direction Home: The Soundtrack

Shops and Gifts

Continuous Peasant

Exile in Babyville

War on War Songs

Iraq and roll don't go together well when rockers protest

Bob Dylan

Live 1975: The Rolling Thunder Revue

Look Ahead

D.A. Pennebaker doesn't make history, but he's captured so much of it

Various Artists

The Best of Broadside 1962-1988: Anthems of the American Underground From the Pages of Broadside Magazine (Smithsonian Folkways)

Riff Raff

Transmission Theater, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Mark Hummel

Stage

Not Dead Yet

By Michael Scott Moore

Night + Day

Forever Young

Riff Raff

Riff Raff

Riff Raff

"Dealing Real"

Recordings