Subject: Chuck Berry

• Last Night: Redd Kross at Slim's

  November 12, 2007

• Bo Diddley Dies

  June 2, 2008

• Last Night: Hopping along with Kepi: The Band at the Bottom of the Hill

  July 17, 2008

• Dreamy Patti Smith Visits SF, Enjoys Fans, Party, Shrimp

  October 23, 2008

• Aisle Seat

  May 24, 1995

• Last Night: M. Ward at Palace of Fine Arts

  Annie Musselman M. WardThursday, March 5, 2009Palace of Fine ArtsBetter than: Having to stand the whole time. I was tired. I liked the seats.I think people like M. Ward because he seems like an ordinary guy doing semi-extraordinary things. Personally, I'm not fan enough to tag his work with descriptors like that, but I'm in the minority it seems. New York magazine, for example, recently gushed that the Portland, Or. songwriter is "the embodiment of everything cool and hopeful about indie rock,

  March 6, 2009

• Night+Day

  October 11, 1995

• Under the Covers

  April 3, 1996

• The Time Bandits

  April 10, 1996

• Spinning Blues Into Lies

  Cadillac Records can't handle the truth.

  December 3, 2008

• Motorhead's Lemmy Kilmister tills rock's roots in the Head Cat

  January 9, 2008

• Hear This

  December 5, 2007

• Cellar Beware

  December 5, 2007

• The Band

  Live at Watkins Glen (Capitol)

  January 10, 2007

• Pop operas

  September 20, 2006

• Vampires of Moscow

  June 21, 2006

• The Hellacopters

  Rock & Roll Is Dead.

  March 22, 2006

• Reps Etc.

  February 2, 2005

• Hot Dark Metal Revival

  Forget Black Sabbath. Don't even mention The Darkness. Dirty Power will lead the hard rock revolution to come.

  November 10, 2004

• Gabba Gabba Henh

  The Ramones bopped toward history and an unhappy end

  August 25, 2004

• Electra-fied

  John Kerry's high school garage band tells all!

  August 11, 2004

• Songs of Freedom

  Perhaps the candidates running in the 2004 election could use some help selecting their campaign music

  August 4, 2004

• Jerry Garcia

  All Good Things (Rhino)

  May 26, 2004

• You, Spy

  Why can't Americans make TV shows as good as Brit import MI-5?

  July 30, 2003

• Mickey Baker

  The Wildest Guitar

  February 26, 2003

• Hear This

  Legendary DJ Afrika Bambaataa brings his b-boy esoterica to town

  November 27, 2002

• Collision Course

  The garage rock career of Russell Quan has been one long train wreck

  June 26, 2002

• Hear This

  Fred Frith expands the boundaries of what guitar can be

  November 14, 2001

• Pulp Friction

  How the Orange Peels turned sour grapes into freshly squeezed pop

  February 28, 2001

• Big Boys Don't Cry

  Pete Miller is a rock 'n' roll legend -- or at least he should be

  October 25, 2000

• Hear This

  The Brian Setzer Orchestra

  August 9, 2000

• One-Hit Wanderer

  Since moving to the Bay Area a decade ago, Alec Palao has diligently tracked the history of local bands before the Grateful Dead (yes, such bands existed)

  May 12, 1999

• Hip Pocket

  In Austin, Texas, it's a neck-and-neck race between art and commerce at South by Southwest

  March 31, 1999

• Striking Chords

  March 24, 1999

• Into the Groovy

  October 21, 1998

• SF Weekly's Wammies '98

  October 14, 1998

• Through the Past (Lightly)

  October 1, 1997

• Swamped

  July 16, 1997

• Quiet, Please -- We're Rocking

  The American Analog Set, and how quiet may be the last place for rock to go

  July 9, 1997

• Stalemate

  The Chess Records 50th anniversary reissues and the death of the blues

  April 30, 1997

• Slap Shots

  August 7, 1996

• Slap Shots

  November 29, 1995

• Heroes,Villains,Obsessions

  The upcoming release of the Beach Boys' legendary "Smile"session ends super-fan Domenic Priore's Journey to the past

  March 22, 1995

• Thee Oh Sees: A little Help goes a long way

  May 20, 2009