Bob Dylan

"Smugglers' Songs": A Glimpse down the Road to Freedom

Six Children of Music Legends Whose Own Music Doesn't Suck

You may have heard this week that Paul McCartney's son, James, wants to get together with the children of John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr and be a Beatles: Next Generation band. Truthfully, that might be one of the saddest and most desperate concepts for a musical project we've ever he ... More >>

Aaron Novik: Show Preview

You may have heard this week that Paul McCartney's son, James, wants to get together with the children of John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr and be a Beatles: Next Generation band. Truthfully, that might be one of the saddest and most desperate concepts for a musical project we've ever he ... More >>

Can't Get Any Satisfaction: A Tour of the Most Grammatically Misguided Songs in Pop

​Today is National Grammar Day, which means until midnight you're legally obligated to put up with the prescriptivist fulminations of that one buy or girl in your office whose knickers get all bunched when you say "15 items or less" or "the reason is because." (Lucky for everyone in the world I wo ... More >>

The 2011 Grammys, A Timeline: Lady Gaga's Boob Armor, Who Is Lady Antebellum, and What the Hell is Cee-Lo Wearing?

In which we sit through three and a half hours of Grammys twaddle, so you don't have to: 8:01 p.m.: Show opens with an Aretha Franklin montage. Okay... 8:03 p.m.: Christina Aguilera, Jennifer Hudson, Florence Welch, Yolanda Adams, and Martina McBride perform "Natural Woman" together, then take i ... More >>

Very Nice Folks

In which we sit through three and a half hours of Grammys twaddle, so you don't have to: 8:01 p.m.: Show opens with an Aretha Franklin montage. Okay... 8:03 p.m.: Christina Aguilera, Jennifer Hudson, Florence Welch, Yolanda Adams, and Martina McBride perform "Natural Woman" together, then take i ... More >>

Herbal Melodies

Choice moments in the surprising history of medical marijuana and music

Memorial For Legendary Photographer Jim Marshall Monday

Jim Marshall, giving the Johnny Cash salute​Hanging in the living room of Jim Marshall's Castro flat is a photograph of Obama standing in the White House, pointing to a picture of John Coltrane on the wall. Marshall took that Coltrane photo more than 40 years ago in San Francisco Chronicle columni ... More >>

The Ferocious Few Get Off the Streets

​Drawn together by a shared loved of rock, soul, and country's most dynamic voices (James Brown, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan), The Ferocious Few decided to take its stripped-down bluesy rock to the streets. Literally. "Our very first show was on the corner of O'Farrell and Powell," says singer-guitaris ... More >>

Stylish Ladies

​Drawn together by a shared loved of rock, soul, and country's most dynamic voices (James Brown, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan), The Ferocious Few decided to take its stripped-down bluesy rock to the streets. Literally. "Our very first show was on the corner of O'Farrell and Powell," says singer-guitaris ... More >>

November Book Events: Howard Junker, Joshua Clover, Lierre Keith, and William S. Burroughs

​Drawn together by a shared loved of rock, soul, and country's most dynamic voices (James Brown, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan), The Ferocious Few decided to take its stripped-down bluesy rock to the streets. Literally. "Our very first show was on the corner of O'Farrell and Powell," says singer-guitaris ... More >>

Kill yourself if you listen to classic rock

​Drawn together by a shared loved of rock, soul, and country's most dynamic voices (James Brown, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan), The Ferocious Few decided to take its stripped-down bluesy rock to the streets. Literally. "Our very first show was on the corner of O'Farrell and Powell," says singer-guitaris ... More >>

Dream of Life

​Drawn together by a shared loved of rock, soul, and country's most dynamic voices (James Brown, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan), The Ferocious Few decided to take its stripped-down bluesy rock to the streets. Literally. "Our very first show was on the corner of O'Farrell and Powell," says singer-guitaris ... More >>

Patti Smith: Dream of Life

​Drawn together by a shared loved of rock, soul, and country's most dynamic voices (James Brown, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan), The Ferocious Few decided to take its stripped-down bluesy rock to the streets. Literally. "Our very first show was on the corner of O'Farrell and Powell," says singer-guitaris ... More >>

LastNight: Death Cab for Cutie at the Fillmore

​Drawn together by a shared loved of rock, soul, and country's most dynamic voices (James Brown, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan), The Ferocious Few decided to take its stripped-down bluesy rock to the streets. Literally. "Our very first show was on the corner of O'Farrell and Powell," says singer-guitaris ... More >>

Cat Power Under the Covers: A Listening Party with Jukebox Muses

​Drawn together by a shared loved of rock, soul, and country's most dynamic voices (James Brown, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan), The Ferocious Few decided to take its stripped-down bluesy rock to the streets. Literally. "Our very first show was on the corner of O'Farrell and Powell," says singer-guitaris ... More >>

Your Friday Morning Pre-Party: Sharon Jones, Hunter S. Thompson, Bob Dylan

​Drawn together by a shared loved of rock, soul, and country's most dynamic voices (James Brown, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan), The Ferocious Few decided to take its stripped-down bluesy rock to the streets. Literally. "Our very first show was on the corner of O'Farrell and Powell," says singer-guitaris ... More >>

Your Friday Morning Pre-Party: Sharon Jones, Hunter S. Thompson, Bob Dylan

​Drawn together by a shared loved of rock, soul, and country's most dynamic voices (James Brown, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan), The Ferocious Few decided to take its stripped-down bluesy rock to the streets. Literally. "Our very first show was on the corner of O'Farrell and Powell," says singer-guitaris ... More >>

Your Friday Morning Pre-Party: Sharon Jones, Hunter S. Thompson, Bob Dylan

​Drawn together by a shared loved of rock, soul, and country's most dynamic voices (James Brown, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan), The Ferocious Few decided to take its stripped-down bluesy rock to the streets. Literally. "Our very first show was on the corner of O'Farrell and Powell," says singer-guitaris ... More >>

Good Folks

​Drawn together by a shared loved of rock, soul, and country's most dynamic voices (James Brown, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan), The Ferocious Few decided to take its stripped-down bluesy rock to the streets. Literally. "Our very first show was on the corner of O'Farrell and Powell," says singer-guitaris ... More >>

The Bird and the Bee, Sonic Youth, Aaron Ross -- ASD's Live Music Picks for Thursday, July 19

​Drawn together by a shared loved of rock, soul, and country's most dynamic voices (James Brown, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan), The Ferocious Few decided to take its stripped-down bluesy rock to the streets. Literally. "Our very first show was on the corner of O'Farrell and Powell," says singer-guitaris ... More >>

Weed Killer

​Drawn together by a shared loved of rock, soul, and country's most dynamic voices (James Brown, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan), The Ferocious Few decided to take its stripped-down bluesy rock to the streets. Literally. "Our very first show was on the corner of O'Farrell and Powell," says singer-guitaris ... More >>

Oh, Pioneers

Behold - the forgotten history of the Beau Brummels, the true originators of the San Francisco sound of the '60s

Street Theater

The Tenderloin gets even weirder

Best Country/Americana Band

The Tenderloin gets even weirder

The Big One

An ambitious play performed with a live soundtrack -- what's not to love?

Walk On

The Walkmen are not a part of that New York retro rock thing. Seriously.

OK Then

The Walkmen are not a part of that New York retro rock thing. Seriously.

Consequence

Take 'Em to the Cleaners

Letters to the Editor

Week of Wednesday, June 23, 2004

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Week of Wednesday, June 23, 2004

Frightening Times

Good thing our country's not like that

Hear This

After 30 years, Swedish prog-rockers Träd Gräs och Stenar touch down in the States

War, What Is It Good For?

Absolutely nothing -- unless you're Clear Channel Communications

The Train Play

Too much metaphysics and not enough drama, but music and humor save it from an ugly wreck

Hank Dogs

Half Smile (spinART)

Pop Philosophy

All things must pass.

Outside the Game

Greil Marcus struggles to link a president and a king

House Of Tudor

The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack

Hear This

Bill Frisell

Gimme a Sarong Any Day

The Hurricane

Not Dead Yet

The Hurricane

Riff Raff

The Hurricane

Tom Waits' Variations

Forever cryptic, a musical drifter finds solace in Liberace, Rodney Dangerfield, and one-armed pianists

Reviews

Forever cryptic, a musical drifter finds solace in Liberace, Rodney Dangerfield, and one-armed pianists

Reviews

Forever cryptic, a musical drifter finds solace in Liberace, Rodney Dangerfield, and one-armed pianists

Recordings

Forever cryptic, a musical drifter finds solace in Liberace, Rodney Dangerfield, and one-armed pianists

Suspicious Minds

Forever cryptic, a musical drifter finds solace in Liberace, Rodney Dangerfield, and one-armed pianists

SFO3 1996

Forever cryptic, a musical drifter finds solace in Liberace, Rodney Dangerfield, and one-armed pianists

The Professor of Punk

From the book Lipstick Traces to his new The Dustbin of History, Eat Bay critic Greil Marcus has revealed the secret history of pop culture