Dolly Parton

Grace Potter and the Nocturnals Lead a Rock 'n' Roll Revival at the Fox, 11/3/12

Grace Potter and the Nocturnals Saturday, Nov. 3, 2012 Fox Theater, Oakland Better than: Believing rock is dead. Grace Potter is an old-school rockstar. With golden locks veiling her eyes and mile-long thighs in leather short-short shorts, she calls to mind Nancy Wilson in her "Barracuda" days. Bu ... More >>

Whitney Houston: Surveying the Great Diva's Checkered Film Career

EDC 2012: Calvin Harris Plays CDs of Himself Singing

Dance music is fighting for its soul. The charts are filled with tracks (Rihanna, Flo Rida) that borrow from the ecstatic trance and pulsing grooves of electronic dance music. The last time pop was so infatuated with the dance floor was 1979, the year disco died. This time around fans are more sa ... More >>

Live Review, 2/19/12: Warren Hellman Public Celebration Brings Emmylou Harris, Old Crow Medicine Show and More to Ocean Beach

Old Crow Medicine Show at the Warren Hellman public celebration.​ Warren Hellman Public Celebration February 19, 2012 Ocean Beach Better than: Watching the live stream at home on your laptop. Some of the nation's top roots musicians gathered together yesterday with Bay Area music fans to cel ... More >>

The Top 10 Worst Film Performances By Musicians

By DAVE GIL DE RUBIO Rock star, singer-songwriter, producer, interior designer -- now we should add thespian to the many creative hats sported by Lenny Kravitz, who performs tonight (Feb. 14) at the Fox Theater in Oakland. In keeping with the family business -- his mom was the late Roxie Roker, a.k ... More >>

David Lindley: Show Preview

"Joyful Noise": Nothing Is Sacred in This Gaudy Mess

DJ Shadow's The Less You Know The Better: A First Listen

Let's get this out of the way right from the off: DJ Shadow's fourth solo studio album, The Less You Know The Better, won't finally stop long-time fans from requesting that he makes a true sequel to 1996's Endtroducing. Not that that's necessarily a bad thing. (I usually don't have the patience to l ... More >>

Juke Hunt Finale: The Best Jukeboxes in San Francisco

You saw it coming...​Over the past few months, we've found treasures and trash in San Francisco bars: Old school jukeboxes with surprisingly sincere music picks, and sad little boxes we  urge you to skip. It's all come to this: The juke hunt winners distilled into a single list, the best offe ... More >>

Six Extremely Weird Cover Songs, Featuring Bill Shatner, Dolly Parton, and ... Pat Boone?

Between Miley Cyrus covering Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and now Ben Folds covering "Sleazy" by (our guilty pleasure du jour) Ke$ha, we felt it was only appropriate this week, that we compile some other unexpected covers. Here are six of the weirdest we can think of. 6. Sonic Youth do ... More >>

R.I.P. Hazel Dickens, American Legend, Feminist Folk Singer, and Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Fixture

Jay BlakesbergHazel Dickens with Dolly Parton and Warren Hellman​Hazel Dickens, a bluegrass singer who played every Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival since the free event began in 2001, died today at age 75.Described by the Washington Post as "a living legend of American music," Dickens use ... More >>

On the Hunt for the Best Jukebox in the Castro

The jukebox at the Last Call.​The heyday of authentic jukeboxes is long over. With many bars installing those nasty touchscreen digital Internet boxes, the old school record-flipping kind of jukebox is a dying breed. And this is in the town that originated the concept of jukeboxes back in 1889. So ... More >>

The Top 8 Songs To Listen To While Punching Yourself in the Face

​Dear everyone, it looks like we owe you all a huge apology. There we were last week, thinking that having a sense of humor about the fact that we live on a gigantic fault line was infinitely better than stressing ourselves out to the point of constant anxiety about the next Big One. But then our ... More >>

A National Tour of 10 Strange Musical Sandwiches

​Music celebrities continue to be a fertile source of inspiration for sandwich makers across the nation. Behold some incredibly strange examples of a growing art form; call it an iTunes eatlist. The star: Lady Gaga The sandwich: Fried cod sticks, avocado, roll The location: Hapa Ramen, San F ... More >>

Spit It Ou

Got a Spare Couple Thousand Dollars? Private Brian Wilson Performance in SF.

​Brian Wilson doesn't do too many performances these days (the last time I saw him was on his Smile tour, a great show with a lot of help from backup singers and musicians). The Beach Boy will be in San Francisco this month, though, playing a space much smaller than the Fillmore, in support of his ... More >>

Last Night: Adele at The Warfield

Adele The Warfield January 29, 2009 Better than: Watching Amy Winehouse frolic a step away from death. British singer/songwriter Adele Laurie Blue Adkins (known simply as Adele) totes a voice that's dripping with old soul, yet she's only 20. When she took to the stage last night at the Warfiel ... More >>

Buzz Kill

The Secret Life of Bees is all honey, no sting.

Donna Summer relaces her dancing shoes

Dolly Parton, Free Agent

Getting All Dusty

Hey DJ! Friday Q&A: Three Kinds of Stupid

Castro Theatre to Start Showing Blockbusters

Kelly Willis

Translated from Love (Ryko)

Mekons

Natural (Quarterstick)

She Opened the Box

An avid Net radio listener shares what she´d miss about the station that cracked her musical code

Punk rockers raid your mom's record collection

Piper at the Pearly Gates

Solitary Refinement

Rhett Miller feeds multiple musical beasts from one well of inspiration

Repertory Film Listings

Shades of Bluegrass

Gillian Welch and Split Lip Rayfield celebrate -- and upend -- tradition at the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival

Lost? Found.

Video for voyeurs

Southern Baptist Sissies

The satire here is stronger than any drama of self-discovery

BeatBox

!!! blows the lid off of dance-punk; 2Many DJs lives up to their name with pan-genre mash ups

Where Were Pat and Vanna When the Lights Went Out?

The S.F. taping of Wheel of Fortune goes momentarily dark; Spanganga fades permanently to black

Mekons

Punk Rock

Norah Jones

Feels Like Home

House of Tudor

Comic Neil Hamburger tells lame, awkward anti-jokes. What's so funny about that?

Trash Gawk

Looking in on the bucolic fun at the Springtime Egg Sucking fest and the Sadie Hawkins Dance

The Monster Mash-up

2 Many DJ's is never enough

Best Costume Shop

Costumes on Haight

The Great Escape

Baz Luhrmann makes movies--and audiences--in his own image

Out of the Country

Richard Buckner gave up on major labels and "y'allternative," but not the art of storytelling

The House of Tudor

Stage

Night Crawler

Letters

Rhinestone Cowpie

Night+Day

Beauty Knows No Pain

Building a Better Body at the 28th Annual Session of the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery