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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 >>

MP3 (And Mission Creek Pick) of the Day: Helene Renaut and Emily Jane White

Hélène RenautTonight the Mission Creek Music Festival continues giving indie acts props, as the music showcase moves into its second week. Forget your Monday blahs with lovely folk tunes from French born Hélène Renaut and local silvery-voiced songstress Emily Jane White. SF Weekly freelancer Rya ... More >>

SFJFF Announces "Rockin' Puppet Mayhem"

Q: when is a puppet show not just a puppet show? A: When the puppets referred to are the Puppet Folk Revival Band. On July 31st, CellSpace hosts the West Coast concert debut of Rockin' Puppet Mayhem: the Puppet Folk Revival Band. Described in their PR as "an unholy blend of the puppetcraft of The ... More >>

In the Beginning

Q: when is a puppet show not just a puppet show? A: When the puppets referred to are the Puppet Folk Revival Band. On July 31st, CellSpace hosts the West Coast concert debut of Rockin' Puppet Mayhem: the Puppet Folk Revival Band. Described in their PR as "an unholy blend of the puppetcraft of The ... More >>

Still Charming

Q: when is a puppet show not just a puppet show? A: When the puppets referred to are the Puppet Folk Revival Band. On July 31st, CellSpace hosts the West Coast concert debut of Rockin' Puppet Mayhem: the Puppet Folk Revival Band. Described in their PR as "an unholy blend of the puppetcraft of The ... More >>

Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Rhetoric

Q: when is a puppet show not just a puppet show? A: When the puppets referred to are the Puppet Folk Revival Band. On July 31st, CellSpace hosts the West Coast concert debut of Rockin' Puppet Mayhem: the Puppet Folk Revival Band. Described in their PR as "an unholy blend of the puppetcraft of The ... More >>

Bob Dylan Wins Pulitzer Prize

Q: when is a puppet show not just a puppet show? A: When the puppets referred to are the Puppet Folk Revival Band. On July 31st, CellSpace hosts the West Coast concert debut of Rockin' Puppet Mayhem: the Puppet Folk Revival Band. Described in their PR as "an unholy blend of the puppetcraft of The ... More >>

Old Jazz Hand

Q: when is a puppet show not just a puppet show? A: When the puppets referred to are the Puppet Folk Revival Band. On July 31st, CellSpace hosts the West Coast concert debut of Rockin' Puppet Mayhem: the Puppet Folk Revival Band. Described in their PR as "an unholy blend of the puppetcraft of The ... More >>

Folkster Jim Post Performs Songs About Mark Twain Feb. 2

Q: when is a puppet show not just a puppet show? A: When the puppets referred to are the Puppet Folk Revival Band. On July 31st, CellSpace hosts the West Coast concert debut of Rockin' Puppet Mayhem: the Puppet Folk Revival Band. Described in their PR as "an unholy blend of the puppetcraft of The ... More >>

Cat Power

Jukebox (Matador)

Walk Hard: The first biopic to address bad tripping with the Beatles and slicing your sibling in half

Jukebox (Matador)

He's No Dummy

Jukebox (Matador)

Feist Back in San Francisco Early November: Indie-boner --- risING

Jukebox (Matador)

The Bird and the Bee, Sonic Youth, Aaron Ross -- ASD's Live Music Picks for Thursday, July 19

Jukebox (Matador)

My Revolver, Papercuts, Black Moon -- ASD's Live Music Picks, July 3

Jukebox (Matador)

Capsule Reviews

Our critics weigh in on local theater

Alvarius B

Blood Operatives of the Barium Sunset

Award Show Guide

Americana/Folk/Country DJ/Turntablist Electro/Electronic/Experimental Hard Rock Hip Hop Indie Rock/Noise Pop Jazz Soul/R&B World Music Music Video

Sublime Frequencies

Based Out Of: Seattle

Hear This

Tom Russell pays homage to "real goddamn American character"; Dengue Fever takes you to Cambodia and back

Best Folkie

Tom Russell pays homage to "real goddamn American character"; Dengue Fever takes you to Cambodia and back

Freak Folk Shmreak Shmolk

Never mind the Banharts, here's the Jewelled Antler. Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying (About $$) and Love the Bomb

Walk On

The Walkmen are not a part of that New York retro rock thing. Seriously.

Blue Year's Eve

Reaves-Phillips breaks it down

Folk Explosion

The Waybacks strike a chord with fans of old-timey music

Sí, Sí, Sí

It's their time, sweet baby, to break on through: The Yeah Yeah Yeahs come to town

The Littlest Songbird

Jolie Holland sings the prettiest tunes -- informed by ghosts, bayous, and a whole lot of traveling

Alice Stuart | Catherine Irwin

All the Good Times | Cut Yourself a Switch

Saadet Türköz

Marmara Sea

Wander Lore

Folk singer David Dondero finds his songs the old-fashioned way -- by roaming the country's highways and byways

John Hartford

RCA Country Legends (Buddha); Gum Tree Canoe (Rounder); Hamilton Ironworks (Rounder)

Better Days

An imaginative, intelligent account of the lives of two families broken by the Great Depression

Outside the Game

Greil Marcus struggles to link a president and a king

Behind the Music

Damien Jurado's life is nothing like the bleak, miserable landscape he depicts

Caetano Veloso Singles

Rita Lee Hoje E O Primeiro Dia Do Resto Da Sua Vida Os Mutantes Technicolor (Philips)

The Man Who Came to Dinner

Colman Domingo

Night + Day

Colman Domingo

Hear This

Colman Domingo

Riff Raff

Colman Domingo

House of Tudor

Colman Domingo

Busker Do!

Mary Lou Lord comes out of the subway and into a theater near you

"Dealing Real"

Mary Lou Lord comes out of the subway and into a theater near you

Recordings

Mary Lou Lord comes out of the subway and into a theater near you

Suspicious Minds

Mary Lou Lord comes out of the subway and into a theater near you

SFO3 1996

Mary Lou Lord comes out of the subway and into a theater near you

Recordings

Mary Lou Lord comes out of the subway and into a theater near you

The Professor of Punk

From the book Lipstick Traces to his new The Dustbin of History, Eat Bay critic Greil Marcus has revealed the secret history of pop culture

Recordings

From the book Lipstick Traces to his new The Dustbin of History, Eat Bay critic Greil Marcus has revealed the secret history of pop culture

Samples

From the book Lipstick Traces to his new The Dustbin of History, Eat Bay critic Greil Marcus has revealed the secret history of pop culture