Bootsy Collins

Bitter:Sweet, Oliver Future, FreekBass -- ASD's Live Music PIcks for Wednesday, August 8

Superbad: Soundtrack Way Funkier Than First Thought

Night+Day

George Duke

Dukey Treats (Heads Up)

Maceo Parker and the WDR Big Band

Roots and Grooves (Heads Up International)

2 Percent Jazz, 98 Percent Funky Stuff

Roots and Grooves (Heads Up International)

Gang Today, Hair Tomorrow

The Suey Sing Boys of Oakland were a bunch of low-level Chinese-American thugs. Then 10 of them became high-fashion hairstylists.

Creature Feature

Horror wears a rubber suit

BeatBox

Swayzak's techno ain't what it used to be, but Matthew Dear is picking up the slack; the Nortec Collective brings beats from Tijuana.

Pranks for the Memories

Harmon Leon's media adventures

California Loved

Roger Troutman and his family brought funk to West Coast hip hop and influenced everyone from Ice Cube to Tupac Shakur. Then his older brother put four bullets in him.

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.

The House of Tudor

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.

Night + Day

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.

Sex Bomb

Girls Against Boys proves that everything new is old again

Six Degrees of Peter Criss

Girls Against Boys proves that everything new is old again

Night+Day

Girls Against Boys proves that everything new is old again

The House of Tudor

Girls Against Boys proves that everything new is old again

Jazzoetry

The return of the legendary Last Poets

P-Funk Tribute Tonight at PST

Let Me Ride: George Clinton on the Mothership Attention funkateers, freak-a-zoids, and motor-booty-aficionados. Tonight at 330 Ritch's Pacific Standard Time, DJ Sake One dons his Mr. Wiggles suit and plays a very special 4-hour tribute to Parliament-Funkadelic, and, no doubt, its associated artists ... More >>

Music Awards: Jukebox Roundtable by Dan Strachota

Let Me Ride: George Clinton on the Mothership Attention funkateers, freak-a-zoids, and motor-booty-aficionados. Tonight at 330 Ritch's Pacific Standard Time, DJ Sake One dons his Mr. Wiggles suit and plays a very special 4-hour tribute to Parliament-Funkadelic, and, no doubt, its associated artists ... More >>

Claude VonStroke’s bird-themed empire takes flight

Let Me Ride: George Clinton on the Mothership Attention funkateers, freak-a-zoids, and motor-booty-aficionados. Tonight at 330 Ritch's Pacific Standard Time, DJ Sake One dons his Mr. Wiggles suit and plays a very special 4-hour tribute to Parliament-Funkadelic, and, no doubt, its associated artists ... More >>

10 Things to Do This Weekend for Under $10

James Franco, live and at the Castro on Sunday​Thirteen is a very lucky number, and we've always seen Friday the 13th as the night to press that luck--rather than the night you get sliced up by a serial killer at a summer camp. Anyway, here's this week's lucky list for cheap bastards everywhere. B ... More >>

What to Do? Tuesday's Pick:

​Late Night Live w/ Black Quarterback @ Yoshi's A few months ago the Examiner quoted a restaurant consultant's report decrying the music at Yoshi's: "No soul, no funk, no personality." Ouch. Had none of those surveyed been to Yoshi's Fillmore outpost on a Tuesday? That's when Bay Vibes hosts its ... More >>

Jack Dangers is back with a new beat manifesto

​Late Night Live w/ Black Quarterback @ Yoshi's A few months ago the Examiner quoted a restaurant consultant's report decrying the music at Yoshi's: "No soul, no funk, no personality." Ouch. Had none of those surveyed been to Yoshi's Fillmore outpost on a Tuesday? That's when Bay Vibes hosts its ... More >>

Exclusive: DJ Mini-Mix by Phoenix and Lampen the Laptop Hero

Phoenix​Not to make a big deal out it, but much of the coverage of local DJs and producers on this blog has been almost entirely about males. We know there are lots of ladies out there DJing, making tunes, and doing the damn thing on a regular basis, but we'd be lying if we said we're not having t ... More >>

Get Faded with Bootsy's Rubber Band

​ Listen to this while high: Bootsy? Player of the Year by Bootsy Collins.​Behind the buzz: In honor of the Booted One's scheduled stomp on the Fillmore's planks this Saturday night, I'm gonna burn this Tuesday bongload in the company of one of the few early Bootsy Collins albums whose liner ... More >>

Saturday: Bootsy Collins Rains Down Love on the Fillmore

Romana MachadoBootsy Collins​ Bootsy CollinsJune 4, 2011Fillmore AuditoriumBetter than: Piling mounds of funk in your living room and awaiting the arrival of the Mothership. We got in line early for this much-anticipated exercise in total-immersion funk, despite warnings that buckets of rain cou ... More >>

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

Romana MachadoBootsy Collins​ Bootsy CollinsJune 4, 2011Fillmore AuditoriumBetter than: Piling mounds of funk in your living room and awaiting the arrival of the Mothership. We got in line early for this much-anticipated exercise in total-immersion funk, despite warnings that buckets of rain cou ... More >>

Sept. 13 Is Officially Jimi Hendrix-Winterland Day in San Francisco

​Need another reason that San Francisco is awesome? The San Francisco Board of Supervisors just proclaimed Sept. 13, 2011, to be Jimi Hendrix Winterland Day in honor of six concerts Hendrix performed at S.F.'s historic (and now long gone) Winterland Ballroom in October 1968. Okay, so Hendrix ... More >>

Today Is Jimi Hendrix Day in S.F.: Here Are Six Great Hendrix Songs

​By decree of your San Francisco City Supervisors and the executors of the Jimi Hendrix Estate, today, Sept. 13, is officially Jimi Hendrix-Winterland Day in San Francisco. The resolution, approved late last month by the Supes, cites the late guitar genius for the post-Summer of Love shows h ... More >>

The Top 50 Songs To Get High To

We'd bet Barry O. bumped some of these back in the day...​ As you might imagine, combing back numbers of my Listen to This While High column and my own vast library for a reasonable stab at the Fifty Stoniest Songs Ever is a labor and hashish intensive experience. Preliminary fossickings unear ... More >>