Bonnie Prince Billy

Robert Plant's free show in Golden Gate Park

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival Keeps Piling It On

Last Night: Silver Jews at the Fillmore

Bob Harp

New Doc on Big Sur (((folkYEAH!))) Fests

One of my favorite local(-ish, he's based in Monterrey) promoters is (((folkYEAH!))). Under that name, music fan Britt Govea has brought a host of freak folk, heavy drone, psych rock, and the like to the Fernwood and the Henry Miller Library in Big Sur -- as well as concerts in the Santa Cruz Mounta ... More >>

Beware of the real Will Oldham

One of my favorite local(-ish, he's based in Monterrey) promoters is (((folkYEAH!))). Under that name, music fan Britt Govea has brought a host of freak folk, heavy drone, psych rock, and the like to the Fernwood and the Henry Miller Library in Big Sur -- as well as concerts in the Santa Cruz Mounta ... More >>

The young and the accomplished: Nico Muhly

One of my favorite local(-ish, he's based in Monterrey) promoters is (((folkYEAH!))). Under that name, music fan Britt Govea has brought a host of freak folk, heavy drone, psych rock, and the like to the Fernwood and the Henry Miller Library in Big Sur -- as well as concerts in the Santa Cruz Mounta ... More >>

Philip Glass' Progeny

One of my favorite local(-ish, he's based in Monterrey) promoters is (((folkYEAH!))). Under that name, music fan Britt Govea has brought a host of freak folk, heavy drone, psych rock, and the like to the Fernwood and the Henry Miller Library in Big Sur -- as well as concerts in the Santa Cruz Mounta ... More >>

Sprang Time

One of my favorite local(-ish, he's based in Monterrey) promoters is (((folkYEAH!))). Under that name, music fan Britt Govea has brought a host of freak folk, heavy drone, psych rock, and the like to the Fernwood and the Henry Miller Library in Big Sur -- as well as concerts in the Santa Cruz Mounta ... More >>

Sketchfest stokes the musician-comedian love affair

One of my favorite local(-ish, he's based in Monterrey) promoters is (((folkYEAH!))). Under that name, music fan Britt Govea has brought a host of freak folk, heavy drone, psych rock, and the like to the Fernwood and the Henry Miller Library in Big Sur -- as well as concerts in the Santa Cruz Mounta ... More >>

Mark Lanegan Adds Grit and Gravitas to Soulsavers

One of my favorite local(-ish, he's based in Monterrey) promoters is (((folkYEAH!))). Under that name, music fan Britt Govea has brought a host of freak folk, heavy drone, psych rock, and the like to the Fernwood and the Henry Miller Library in Big Sur -- as well as concerts in the Santa Cruz Mounta ... More >>

Country Crossroads

The Avett Brothers keep their roots complex

Melodic grandstanding from our boisterous buddies in Muse

The Avett Brothers keep their roots complex

Pink Nasty

Mold the Gold (Self-released)

Floppy hats, Fernwood memories, and a big (((folkYEAH!))) to Big Sur

Mold the Gold (Self-released)

Old Soul in Stereo

Will Oldham opens up on new film, CD

Tortoise and Bonnie "Prince" Billy

The Brave and the Bold

Reps Etc.

The Brave and the Bold

Bohemian Rhapsody

If Brightblack weren't a trio of big, lovable hippies, it'd probably be huge by now

Industrial Strength

With his latest release as Tweaker, Chris Vrenna may finally outrun his Nine Inch Nails past

House Of Tudor

Tech-Mex, outlaw etiquette, people power and Pandora's Box

Riff Raff

Mark Kozelek, Genghis Blues, Raisha Simmons lives

Night & Day

Mark Kozelek, Genghis Blues, Raisha Simmons lives

Papa M

Mark Kozelek, Genghis Blues, Raisha Simmons lives

CD Review: Bonnie 'Prince' Billy's "The Wonder Show of the World""

​"No need to think," Will Oldham explains on "Go Folks, Go," from his new Bonnie 'Prince' Billy album, The Wonder Show of the World. "It will all be laid before us, and god will guide us to our graves, smiling, singing..." It's the kind of preachy line only Oldham and a few others can get away wit ... More >>

New Bonnie 'Prince' Billy Film From FolkYeah's Britt Govea

​Now this is a match made in heaven (aka Big Sur). Bonnie 'Prince' Billy helped indie music promoter Britt Govea, the guy behind (((FolkYeah))), start doing those amazing shows along the coast by agreeing to be one of his first bookings. Govea started setting up shows for Billy in Big Sur and has ... More >>

Watch New Bonnie 'Prince' Billy Movie By FolkYeah's Britt Govea

As promised, a new film short starring Bonnie 'Prince' Billy premiered online this week. The movie, Hombre Sencillo, was written and directed by Britt Govea, also known as the indie promoter (((FolkYeah))), which has produced some amazing shows in Big Sur, the Santa Cruz mountains, and more ... More >>

Little Wings Warms a Bitterly Cold Night at Amnesia

Little Wings at Amnesia ​Little Wings Prairie Dog January 6, 2011  @ Amnesia Better than: Heating socks up in the microwave for frozen toes It was aberrantly chilly last night. Too cold to go out really, to leave the safety and warmth of home, but for Kyle Field, also known as Little Wing ... More >>

Vagina Stereologues: Rachel Fannan on Her New Band, Only You, and Playing with "Three Vixen Warlords"

Only You, with Rachel Fannan in the red-striped shirt. Photo by Simon Weller.​ Not all women make vagina music. Not all women strum their guitars. Not all women are women. Vagina Stereologues is a new column that aims to find out which rules the women of the Bay Area music scene are breaking t ... More >>