Creedence Clearwater Revival

Last Night: Tina Turner at the HP Pavilion

The Beat of a Different Drummer

Bongo king Armando Peraza

Night+Day

Bongo king Armando Peraza

Lily Allen’s bad-sex revenge fantasies

Bongo king Armando Peraza

Noise Pop Preview: Quick Picks

Bongo king Armando Peraza

Ike & Tina Turner, The Ike & Tina Story 1960-1975

Bongo king Armando Peraza

Past Action Hero

Even with the Mac kid at his side, John McClane is just ... old

Choogle Your Own Adventure

The Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound paints a bright apocalypse

Summer Camp

Demme's Candidate overhaul goes for the knowing giggle

Watered Down

From MTV to Rolling Stone, everyone loves the Distillers. Except us.

Words Into Type

Jim Parkinson designs the letters that let you read

Harmonic Convergence

Local folk/country group 86 creates a winsome debut album by following and escaping tradition

House Of Tudor

"Cover to Cover"; Brian & Chris; "Haydn and the Gypsies"

Stalker Fiction

Camden Joy turned Cracker's David Lowery into fiction. Too bad he's real -- and really angry.

Riff Raff

Camden Joy turned Cracker's David Lowery into fiction. Too bad he's real -- and really angry.

Riff Raff

Camden Joy turned Cracker's David Lowery into fiction. Too bad he's real -- and really angry.

Swamped

Camden Joy turned Cracker's David Lowery into fiction. Too bad he's real -- and really angry.

Recordings

Camden Joy turned Cracker's David Lowery into fiction. Too bad he's real -- and really angry.

Last Night: The Hold Steady, The Donkeys & A Decent Animal at the Fillmore

Gretchen Robinette ​The Hold Steady, The Donkeys, A Decent AnimalThursday, May 6, 2010 The Fillmore Better than: The Hold Steady used to be. It's not like The Hold Steady are new at this, and they're not young either, but damn if they don't play with the stupid grins of neophytes and the ecstati ... More >>

Bouncer: Tender hospitality at Jonell’s Cocktail Lounge

Gretchen Robinette ​The Hold Steady, The Donkeys, A Decent AnimalThursday, May 6, 2010 The Fillmore Better than: The Hold Steady used to be. It's not like The Hold Steady are new at this, and they're not young either, but damn if they don't play with the stupid grins of neophytes and the ecstati ... More >>

PB&J

Gretchen Robinette ​The Hold Steady, The Donkeys, A Decent AnimalThursday, May 6, 2010 The Fillmore Better than: The Hold Steady used to be. It's not like The Hold Steady are new at this, and they're not young either, but damn if they don't play with the stupid grins of neophytes and the ecstati ... More >>

Puff It up with Pendulum by Creedence Clearwater Revival

​ Listen to this while high: Pendulum by Creedence Clearwater Revival​Behind the buzz: This clutch of untelegenic megabuck hippies was supposedly outselling The Beatles as the '60s crumbled into the '70s. This second CCR album of 1970 is typically regarded as psychedelic as these country boys ev ... More >>

Music Links: Is Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Getting Too Big?

Hardly Strictly is getting pretty big...​ Is Hardly Strictly getting too big for its own good? [SF Gate] "Employees must carve 'Slayer' into forearms before returning to work." [Uptown Almanac]

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 >>

A Charlie Brown Christmas Composer Vince Guaraldi's Heirs Suing for $2M in Unpaid Royalties

​Given the time of year, you've probably seen -- and heard -- A Charlie Brown Christmas recently. The 1965 animated TV special's celebrated soundtrack was performed by noted San Francisco jazzman Vince Guaraldi's trio, and recorded at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley. But for the pianist and compo ... More >>

"Linus and Lucy" and Lawsuits: Guaraldi Heirs Sue for Royalties

​Given the time of year, you've probably seen -- and heard -- A Charlie Brown Christmas recently. The 1965 animated TV special's celebrated soundtrack was performed by noted San Francisco jazzman Vince Guaraldi's trio, and recorded at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley. But for the pianist and compo ... More >>