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Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Last Week in S.F. Music

Furthur Cancels Bottle Rock Napa Valley Set After Bob Weir Collapses Onstage

Bay Area jam outfitFurthur just announced that it will cancel its set at next week's Bottle Rock Napa Valley music festival in the wake of frontman Bob Weir's onstage collapse. The band, which features Grateful Dead co-founders Weir and Phil Lesh, had been scheduled to headline the first night of Bo ... More >>

Grateful Dead Fans Rejoice: Phil Lesh Expands Terrapin Crossroads

Back in March, former Grateful Dead bassist Phil Lesh opened a picturesque restaurant and bar called Terrapin Crossroads in San Rafael. Since then, it's come to be known as a home for Lesh and friends (and, um, Phil Lesh & Friends) to play live whenever the whim strikes. In two weeks, the complex, n ... More >>

Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Last Week in S.F. Music

Bob Weir's Fancy New TRI Studios Is Holding a Contest For a Free Day of Recording

Earlier this year, we told you about Grateful Dead member Bob Weir's state-of-the-art recording facility in San Rafael, Tamalpais Research Institute (TRI). TRI is furnished with a Meyer Sound Constellation system, which allows the acoustic properties of the room to be altered with the touch of a but ... More >>

Jerry Garcia 70th Birthday Tribute Includes Huge Guest Roster, Will Be Streamed Online

The Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia would have turned 70 this Aug. 1, 2012, and to celebrate, fellow Dead member Bob Weir and a ton of other musicians are throwing Move Me Brightly, a Garcia tribute show that will be live-streamed from Weir's own TRI Studios in San Rafael. The list of musical guests f ... More >>

The Top 20 Greatest San Francisco Musicians, Nos. 5-1

See also: * The Top 20 Greatest San Francisco Musicians: Honorable Mentions * The Top 20 Greatest San Francisco Musicians, Nos. 20-16 * The Top 20 Greatest San Francisco Musicians, Nos. 15-11 * The Top 20 Greatest San Francisco Musicians, Nos. 10-6 Here it is: After a week-long countdown, we br ... More >>

The Top 20 Greatest San Francisco Musicians: The Complete List

See also: * The Top 20 Greatest San Francisco Musicians: Honorable Mentions Here they are -- the 20 greatest San Francisco musicians ever: 20. Cameron Paul Lists of pioneering American DJs often mention the usual suspects in New York and Chicago, but go back to the '70s and '80s and you'll find ... More >>

Watch: Bob Weir Performs with Members of the National in San Rafael

Former Grateful Dead frontman Bob Weir threw quite a party at his new TRI Studios in San Rafael this weekend: Weir invited a bunch of East Coast musicians, including three members of the National, out for a special in-studio jam called the Bridge Session that was broadcast live over the web. The tw ... More >>

Live Review, 1/25/12: Bob Weir Reunites with RatDog at Tamalpais Research Institute

Bob Weir and RatDog last night in Marin. All photos by Ashley Jordan Gordon.​ RatDog Jan. 25, 2012 Tamalpais Research Institute Better than: The Internet sensations of today. Grateful Dead founding member Bob Weir put the finishing touches on his live HD webcasting venue and studio, San Rafa ... More >>

New Year's Eve: 10 Bands Playing Live in S.F. Worth Spending Your Evening With

Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve is still an option for the night of Dec. 31, since the man himself has lived to rock another year. But if the glow of the television screen isn't gonna provide enough sonic warmth this year, there are thankfully plenty of options to hear and see music performed li ... More >>

The Franchise Episode Six Recap: Searching for Answers

SD Dirk/Flickr​In conception, The Franchise is not a very complicated show -- it tells human interests stories in the context of the Giants season with a healthy dose of insider access. It's built for a large audience, and as such is at its best when it's largely positive. The Giants need to be go ... More >>

New Year's Eve 2011: 10 Ways To Celebrate in S.F.

Calibree PhotographyThey think you should make those NYE plans early​No one will fault you on New Years Eve for being too glitzy, too loud, or too boozy. It's the one time of the year we're pretty much required to celebrate to excess -- there's even a mandatory beverage (champagne) and sexual acti ... 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 >>

10 Bands To See at Outside Lands This Weekend

A stage at Outside Lands 2009​It may not be the greatest Outside Lands lineup ever, but this weekend's big-honkin' music (and wine and food!) festival packs a bicycle basket-full of bands we're stroked (heh, we mean stoked) to see. Here, in no particular order, are 10 of them, plus a few honorable ... More >>

Sound and Vision: The year Outside Lands stumbled

Kazoo Record Attempt at Tonight's Jerry Garcia-Themed Giants Game

Jerry Garcia says: 'Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.' So root for the Giants.​Sorry folks, the Jerry Garcia bobblehead is no longer available. But fans can keep on truckin' with a Guinness Record attempt for largest kazoo ensemble during tonight's festivities hon ... More >>

Monday's Pick: Jerry Garcia Tribute Night

​Jerry Garcia Tribute NightAT&T ParkPre-game tribute performance at home plate at 6:30; game at 7:15Even after his death, Jerry Garcia is still on a long, strange trip, which will make a stop at the Giants/Cubs game at AT&T Park tonight. Aligned with the 15th anniversary of his passing, Je ... More >>

Disappointing Outside Lands lineup selling lots of tickets

Christopher VictorioNo, he's not gonna be there this year​ Disappointed Outside Lands fan, we share your woe: The lineup this year -- at least concerning headliners -- just doesn't woo us like it has in years past. Not to slam the bands at the top of the bill. My Morning Jacket, Furthur, Al Green ... More >>

Outside Lands lineup leaked in both Rolling Stone and Spin

Phoenix at Outside Lands: It's Leak-omania​This is almost too neat to be an accident. The Outside Lands 2010 lineup was supposed to be a secret until tomorrow, but both Spin and Rolling Stone broke the two-day festival's headliners in issues that dropped last week.SFist has the full run-down on th ... More >>

Last Night: Vincent Gallo, Sean Lennon, Bob Weir at Red Devil Lounge

​Vincent Gallo, Sean Lennon, Bob Weir, & The Ghost of a Saber Toothed TigerWednesday, Aug. 12, 2009Red Devil LoungeBetter than: Getting what you expected, every time. Going to a Vincent Gallo show is a bit like dropping money into one of those claw arcade games. You pay the fee and hope to gra ... 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 >>

Several Mountain Winery Shows Relocated, Rescheduled

Bob Weir's cutoffs not going to Grateful Dead archive

Deadheads For Obama Rally At Warfield Day Before Super Tuesday

Apricot Jam Session

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

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Pools Together Roots Music Enthusiasts

For All You Jug Band Film Lovers in SF: All 2 of you

Get your funk on for free

Dead Like Me

Attempting to survive 11 straight hours of the Grateful Dead

Party Train

Janis, the Dead, the Band, and others take the happiest trip of their lives

Ghost Story

A new Christmas Carol chorus

SF Weekly Music Awards 2003

Americana DJ/Selector/Turntablist Electronic/Electro Hard Rock/

Metal Hip Hop/Rap Jazz Latin/

International Lifestyle Music New Genre/Beyond Pop Punk Rock/Indie Rock Soul/Funk/ R&B

If music be the brandy of the damned, then we're drunk off our asses

Shop Till You Drop

Forget Kurt Cobain's Journals, and try Eminem's To-Do Lists instead

SF Weekly Music Awards 2002

A galaxy-spanning journey through space and sound!

Dog Bites

Dead, But Not Dead Enough; A Click Down Memory Lane

Riff Raff

Transmission Theater, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, Mark Hummel

Apocalypse Then

Altamont slammed the door on rock 'n' roll's dream of peace and love. An insider remembers.

Dog Bites

Cut the Deck

Riff Raff

Return of the Prodigious Son

Jazz guitarist Charlie Hunter revisits the Bay Area, energized and uncorrupted by the bustle of New York City

Hard Travelin'

Ramblin' Jack Elliott has a few more stories to tell

Slap Shots

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