Bonnie Raitt

Beautifully Wicked: Caitlin Rose Makes Heartache Sound Lovely

Top 10 Songs From This Year's Oscar-Nominated Movies That Don't Suck

By CORY SKLAR It's Oscar season again, which means close to nothing to music nerds. Most of the time, of course, the Oscars bring very little to the table in terms of great music. Sure, they have their Best Original Song and Best Score categories. And sure, sometimes Three 6 Mafia, Trent Reznor, or ... More >>

The Grammys: A Timeline of Madness and Misery

The 54th Annual Grammy Awards happened yesterday. Which we're sure you know already. If you missed it, however, you may have missed some of the weirdest details. So here, for your convenience, is a timeline of events. Get comfortable, 'cause this thing was a three-and-a-half-hour carnival of absurdi ... 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 >>

String Theory

Last Night: John Prine at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass

Chrissy Loader​John PrineHardly Strictly Bluegrass, Golden Gate ParkFriday, Oct. 2, 2009Better than: Listening to John Prine indoors, minus a box of cold beers and the scent of funnel cakes around you. Golden Gate Park has played host to numerous music events over the summer, from the gigantic Out ... More >>

Just As Long As Alice Doesn't Show Up in a Tube Top

Fruit forward: Lynch's upcoming CD.​It promises to be a multi-dimensional Boomer blowout when a founding member of Berkeley's Delicious Revolution goes all blues rocker. On Wednesday, October 7, at the Great American Music Hall, wine import maverick and a hobbyist musician/tunesmith Kermit Lyn ... More >>

Men Will Be Boys

With Step Brothers, Ferrell, Reilly, McKay, & Co. still don't wanna grow up. And thank God for that.

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

John Lee Hooker

Hooker (Shout! Factory)

Behind the Muzak

What do you mean you didn't keep score while watching the Grammys? We did.

The Dog Bites Audition: Les Misérables

Two young theater bunnies behind us discuss existentialism versus spiritualism

Next Best Thing

If you weren't at this landmark blues concert, Lightning in a Bottle will do

Cesaria Evora

Voz d'Amor

I Want to Ride My Bicycle

Leave the car at home and get to work on two wheels

Boogie for a New Millennium

Zakiya Hooker preserves the legacy of her father, blues legend John Lee Hooker, plans her own musical career -- and tries to keep tradition from suffocating both

We Are the Concert

Big huge music/activism fest

GIFTS

DVDs | Music DVDs | CDs | Books

Holiday Highlights 2001

Holiday Event Lisitngs

Hear This

British neo-traditionalist bridges the folk music gap

It's a Wonderful Life

Jim Greer fights the shrinking music scene and an indifferent industry with a smile and a song

Night Crawler

At the Cotillion

Back Door Memories

Tom Mazzolini speaks proudly of his San Francisco Blues Festival. But each musician is proud for a different reason.

Night & Day

Reviews

The Red Menace

Bad music. Bad press. Bad hair. Sammy Hagar's heard the insults. But for the Bay Area's Red Rocker, the best revenge is living well.

Bluesman's Blues

Paul Pena,who's played with everyone from Jerry Garcia to B.B. King, is coming out of the musical shadows, thanks to the award-winning documentary Genghis Blues. He's also blind, and sick, and entirely tired of living.

The House of Tudor

Riff Raff

Remembering Charles Brown

The Bay Area bluesman's influence was recognized as massive eventually

Chasing History

For 40 years, Arhoolie Records' Chris Strachwitz has worked to make unknown roots music (almost) famous

Night + Day

Still Giving It Up

Delbert McClinton has something better than a record deal a sound all his own

Up a Tree. Still?

Environmentalists have all but won their fight to save the Headwaters Forest. Somehow, that's not enough to bring Julia Hill down from her treetop perch.

Night + Day

Reviews

Night + Day

Sound Ideas

Mitchell Froom provided the sonic boom behind some of the '90s' best records

Riff Raff

Beer-Soaked Lambs

Hype! surpasses its title

Bites

SFO3 1996

Night+Day

Recordings