Joe Satriani

Live Review, 2/11/12: Uli Jon Roth Dazzles the Shred-Heads at Oakland Metro Operahouse

Uli Jon Roth, The Golden Ghosts, Tony MacAlpine, LoNero, FlaMetal Feb. 11, 2012 Oakland Metro Better than: Being forced to listen to The Scorpions farewell tour cash-grab covers album, Comeblack. As a subset of metal fans, those who worship at the altar of face-melting shred guitar wizards tend to ... More >>

Blues-Rock Legend Robin Trower Takes Command of the Fillmore

Romana MachadoRobin Trower​Robin Trower BandMarch 3rd, 2011@ The FillmoreBetter than: A poke in the eye with a hot lick.Though brightened by some few beautiful women, the crowd clomping through the lobbyof this iconic venue for '70s guitar wizard Robin Trower was one long processionof starch and f ... More >>

Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and lows from the last week in S.F. music

Hometown Shredder Joe Satriani Rocks the Fox with Sammy Hagar and an Army of Fanboys

Richard HaickSatriani showing off at the Fox last night​Joe SatrianiNed Evett & Triple DoubleJanuary 13, 2010@ The Fox Theater, OaklandBetter than: Hearing Machine Head in high-school detention hall. There's just something about the title of Joe Satriani's new album, Black Swans and Wormhole ... More >>

Meet Local Guitar God Joe Satriani in S.F. This Saturday

Satriani: Not the first to shave his head after balding set in.​Nowadays, with Guitar Hero turning everyday basement dwellers into rock gods, and electronica granting everyone with a laptop the ability to make impossible masterpieces, a skilled technician like Joe Satriani must feel left behind. ... More >>

Last Night: Julian Casablancas at the Regency Ballroom

​Julian CasablancasTuesday, Nov. 17, 2009The Regency Ballroom(Not) better than: The Strokes, Little Joy, Albert Hammond, Jr.It has to be hard, breaking into the 2000s as the symbol of the hipsters overtaking the mainstream, only to fall down to the bottom of the hype heap a decade later. As the fr ... More >>

Tom Morello and Boots Riley rage as one in Street Sweeper

Last Night: Tom Morello, Steve Earle, Wayne Kramer, Sammy Hagar, Boots Riley, Corey Taylor, Joe Satriani and Damian Kulash

Tom Morello, Steve Earle, Wayne Kramer, Sammy Hagar, Boots Riley (The Coup), Corey Taylor (Slipknot), Joe Satriani, and Damian Kulash (OK Go) Thursday, March  26, 2009Slim'sBetter than: Playing Guitar Hero.It was midway through the Tom Morello hootenanny when Rage's shredding machine grinned at ... More >>

Saturday: YouTube Live

Last Night: YouTube LiveHerbst Pavilion, Fort MasonNovember 22, 2008Review by Tamara PalmerSee a full YouTube Live slideshow by Sam Heller here.Better than: Going to the dentist.Watch: The show (but don't say I didn't warn you).Remembering life without YouTube isn't easy; it has permeated our online ... More >>

Guitar Superstar, Brews on the Bay, Jell-O Wrestling and Shepard Fairey: Your Monday Morning Hangover

Last Night: Aspiring Guitar Heroes Bare All in Front of Joe Satriani, Steve Vai and Andy Summers

Flying Vs and fake cocaine at the U.S. Air Guitar Championships

Highway to Sell

Is a musician's dream gig a post at Guitar Center? We spent a day on the job to find out.

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Ozric Tentacles will blow your mind, but Chromeo will have you dancing your ass off

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Run, Turkey, Run

Gobblers gather at Thee Parkside

Giving a Folk

A Mighty Wind takes the piss out of folkies, but in the best possible way

Everybody Get Footloose

Dancers run amok in S.F.

Break Like the Wind

Spinal Tap tapped,

the Folksmen turn it

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A flock of nostalgia; an early -- and bloody -- valentine.

The Man Who Came to Dinner

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Return of the Prodigious Son

Jazz guitarist Charlie Hunter revisits the Bay Area, energized and uncorrupted by the bustle of New York City

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