Carnegie Hall

Insecurity: The Boston Bombings Create a Revival of Security Theater in S.F.

S.F. Symphony Rejects "Cooling Off Period," Cancels East Coast Tour

Musicians with the San Francisco Symphony are reportedly steadfast in their strike, refusing to play their East Coast tour scheduled for later this week. The Examiner reports this morning that musicians and management remain at odds after a federal mediator attempted to intervene and suggest the s ... More >>

SF Symphony Goes on Strike

If you had tickets to the local symphony tomorrow night, time to make other plans. Some 100 musicians of the Grammy-winning SF Symphony walked off the stage today (so to speak) to protest their prolonged and unsuccessful wage negotiations with symphony management. David Gaudry, the chair of the mu ... More >>

SFJAZZ Opens Its Hayes Valley Center with Transparent Intentions

Patti Page: What Did She Mean By "Throw Mama From the Train?"

I'm staggering through Walgreens Wednesday night, my brain in slo-mo, and my body numb. I'm getting a cold and I'm hoping to diminish its severity with some mass-produced placebos. My head is thick, the walls are moving and the floor is tilted. I come to a shelf packed with various remedies all prom ... More >>

Live Review, 7/16/12: Five Things We Learned at Last Night's Mayhemic Trash Talk and SpaceGhostPurrp Show

Trash Talk SpaceGhostPurrp Monday, July 16, 2012 Slim's 333 Club Better than: Shows where they don't find random shoes, watches, and other detachable items strewn about afterward. Last night, the rising Sacramento hardcore band Trash Talk and freaky Florida rapper SpaceGhostPurrp shared an unusual ... More >>

R.I.P. Doc Watson, America's Greatest Folk Guitar Player

Doc Watson, who died Tuesday at 89, was the greatest folk guitar player the country ever produced. There were other folk/country/pop legends on the scene -- Merle Travis and Chet Atkins come to mind - but Doc out played them all with an encyclopedic repertoire that included folk, country, blues, blu ... More >>

Mochipet on Wearing His Big Purple Dinosaur Suit, and Playing LovEvolution This Saturday

Rekanize​ While many DJs can say they've performed alongside dance music icons such as Rusko, Bassnectar, and Mary Anne Hobbs, few can honestly claim that they've worn a purple furry dinosaur suit the entire time. Bay Area native Mochipet , who began his career with his well-known album, Girl ... More >>

Nostalgia and the Curious Collector of 78 RPM Children's Records

​As I get older, nostalgia has become an adversary I frequently want to bind with rope, coat in honey, and leave to the insects. "Guess what / nostalgia sucks," goes that NOFX song. Blunt, yet astute. Of course, that couplet is followed by, "But I miss the days of Reagan punk," a clear acknowl ... More >>

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass: 10 Bands You Should Not Miss

​San Francisco's annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival is kind of like a choose-your-own-adventure novel. You could pick any number of themes to select the acts you want to see -- old punk pioneers, roots music up-and-comers, etc.-- and follow one through all three day's lineups. You coul ... More >>

Gil Scott-Heron's evolution (will not be televised)

Classic Comedy: Love It

Blues Control’s sonic hypnosis

The Roots discuss hip-hop’s second jazz age

Mos Def Announces Yoshi's Show

The Mighty Mos Def is coming to Oakland. And he's playing a jazz club. Tickets are now on sale for Mos' upcoming three-night stint at Yoshi's Oakland location April 14-16. As a press release noted, the rapper-turned-thesbian is coming off of critically-acclaimed performances at Carnegie Hall an ... More >>

The Top 10 Reissues of 2008

By Chris Gray It's time to rank the best of what went around and came around again. BILLY JOEL The Stranger (Columbia/Legacy) As punk and disco exploded, the Piano Man's deeply unhip 1978 breakthrough proved that top-shelf Broadway/Brill Building songwriting could still sell - and, occasionally, ... More >>

MTT Alert: See Michael Conduct Lenny Before New York Does!

Models from Leonard Nimoy's 'Full Body Project' at Suite Jesus 8/22

The young and the accomplished: Nico Muhly

The Slav Trade

In the Black

Patti, Sans Tuba

Doing It Her Way

International Relations

Anoushka Shankar displays her father's innovative spirit

Award Show Performers

SF Weekly Music Awards

Six Eye Columbia

Judy at Carnegie Hall

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The Master of Mirth, David Byrne, plays three dates at the Fillmore, and the Masters of Persian Music grace Zellerbach Hall

The Cast: Award Show Performers

SF Weekly Music Awards 2003

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A "Dark Kabaret," Buy Nothing Day, synth love, and the ever-fierce Marianne Faithfull

Salsa Cultura

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Bubble blowers, tranny divas, and a Roxie rent party

Dance to the Music

Two local choreographers bring the songs onto the stage

Shearer Delight

The voice of Flanders is the voice of reason, absatively posilutely

Hear This

Joshua Bell

Riff Raff

Tuvans! Everywhere!, (Insert Carnegie Hall Joke Here), and There Are No Current Plans to Change the Name to Club Y2K

REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

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Rhapsody in Green

At the end of the Gershwin centennial, his trust benefits from new copyright laws. But are they protecting artists or merely bank statements?

House of Tudor

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The House of Tudor

Apocrypha

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