John Cale

Sizzle & Fizzle: Highs and Lows from the Last Week in S.F. Music

Four Men With Beards: Rescuing Classic Out-of-Print Releases From the Archives

Many local labels are offering obscure reissues and innovative new releases on all conceivable formats. Label Sampler will profile a different Bay Area record company every other week. Name: 4 Men With Beards Owner: Filippo Salvadori Founded: 2001 Headquarters: San Rafael Creation story: 4 Men ... More >>

Listen to This While High: John Cale's New Extra Playful EP

​Listen to this while high: John Cale's Extra Playful EP​Behind the buzz: Seeing John Cale's first new release in over a half decade casually racked at Amoeba Music last weekend was a pleasant shock, and the title itself imparts a nice little thrill of suspense at what the fabulously playful art ... More >>

Destroyer, Nine Albums In, Remains A Singular Band, Plays Monday at Great American Music Hall

Ted BoisThe answer, my friend, is blowing in my hair​ In the past ten years or so, there's been a proliferation of "bands" that are essentially one person, and whoever accompanies him or her on an album/tour. Perhaps it's a way for performers to "distance" themselves from being pigeonholed by a ... More >>

It Takes a Village To Plan a Crazy Velvet Underground Cover Show

​Think you know the players of the Bay Area music scene? Well, you can test your chops next Tuesday at Coda Jazz Music Supper Club, when a positively ridiculous number of them join forces to pay tribute to the 1967 classic The Velvet Underground and Nico. In album order, each song will be gang-int ... More >>

That's My Jam!: The Sight Below's Blurry Soundscapes

Bob HansenRafael Anton Irisarri​Like Oneohtrix Point Never and many of the artists that recently performed during San Francisco's On Land Festival, Seattle's The Sight Below chooses form over function when composing his dense, panoramic soundscapes. Producer Rafael Anton Irisarri crafts his amorph ... More >>

Smashing Classical Boundaries at Switchboard Music Festival

Zoe Keating​The Bay Area is at the center of one of the most radical movements in music these days: the joyful destruction of the boundary between so-called "classical" music and "popular" music. The two worlds have been cross-fertilizing for years -- see Lou Reed and John Cale hanging with minima ... More >>

Leonard Cohen dwells where the scars run deep

Zoe Keating​The Bay Area is at the center of one of the most radical movements in music these days: the joyful destruction of the boundary between so-called "classical" music and "popular" music. The two worlds have been cross-fertilizing for years -- see Lou Reed and John Cale hanging with minima ... More >>

Tony! Tony! Tony!

Zoe Keating​The Bay Area is at the center of one of the most radical movements in music these days: the joyful destruction of the boundary between so-called "classical" music and "popular" music. The two worlds have been cross-fertilizing for years -- see Lou Reed and John Cale hanging with minima ... More >>

Music Movie Wednesday: next week

Zoe Keating​The Bay Area is at the center of one of the most radical movements in music these days: the joyful destruction of the boundary between so-called "classical" music and "popular" music. The two worlds have been cross-fertilizing for years -- see Lou Reed and John Cale hanging with minima ... More >>

Kronos Quartet and Wu Man

Terry Riley: The Cusp of Magic (Nonesuch)

Halou Releases Digital EP Feb. 12

Terry Riley: The Cusp of Magic (Nonesuch)

Lou Reed, Patti Smith, the Supremes: rare footage at SF Library

Terry Riley: The Cusp of Magic (Nonesuch)

Hear This

Angelina Jolie's ex, Mr. Billy Bob Thornton, shifts from the big screen to Slim's stage

Alejandro Escovedo, Detroit Cobras, Boca Do Rio -- ASD Live Music Picks for Friday, August 17

Angelina Jolie's ex, Mr. Billy Bob Thornton, shifts from the big screen to Slim's stage

Previewing Bandwidth

Angelina Jolie's ex, Mr. Billy Bob Thornton, shifts from the big screen to Slim's stage

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

Angelina Jolie's ex, Mr. Billy Bob Thornton, shifts from the big screen to Slim's stage

Another Marley makes his mark in the reggae business

Angelina Jolie's ex, Mr. Billy Bob Thornton, shifts from the big screen to Slim's stage

Alejandro Escovedo

The Boxing Mirror

John Cale

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Where the Wild Things Are

A haunting mix of Indonesian music and Shakespearean mystery

Destroyer

Notorious Lightning

A Friend Indeed

Luna's last waltz and what it means to be a best-friend band

The Life and Times of an American Remixer

Oh the challenges of remixing a '60s recording * and the odd ethical conundrums that go with it

Reps Etc.

Oh the challenges of remixing a '60s recording * and the odd ethical conundrums that go with it

House of Tudor

The Femmes who "Blister in the Sun" prove they're still violent after all these years

Get Over It

Celebs tell it like it is

Love Plus One

Or five ways to make existing groups that much more super

Reps Etc.

Or five ways to make existing groups that much more super

Fun Down There

Sex without death in gay director Todd Wilson's Under One Roof

Don Lennon

Downtown (Secretly Canadian)

Notes From the Underground

The Cave-ins' indie rock debut sounds mighty familiar -- but in a good way

Under Ogre

Shrek offers an amusing, if empty, fractured fairy tale

Labor of Love

For 10 years, Mike Levy led the local band the Sneetches. It took half that time to put out his first solo album.

Riff Raff

Mark Eitzel at Hotel Utah, Clit Stop, Arhoolie Records' 40th Birthday

Debris

Static Disposal

Reel World

Black to the Promised Land, Short of Breath, The Last Waltz

Night & Day

Black to the Promised Land, Short of Breath, The Last Waltz

House of Tudor

Black to the Promised Land, Short of Breath, The Last Waltz

Busker Do!

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

Genuine Artlessness

NorCal transplant Jonathan Richman finds the words

Suspicious Minds

NorCal transplant Jonathan Richman finds the words

Letters

NorCal transplant Jonathan Richman finds the words

Night+Day

NorCal transplant Jonathan Richman finds the words

Drowning in Pop

NorCal transplant Jonathan Richman finds the words

The Dark Shadow

Barbara Manning and the S.F. Seals find that Truth Walks in Sleepy Shadows

Samples

Barbara Manning and the S.F. Seals find that Truth Walks in Sleepy Shadows

Femme Fatale

Nico-Icon trails the downward spiral of the Velvet Underground chanteuse

Recordings

Nico-Icon trails the downward spiral of the Velvet Underground chanteuse

Recordings

Nico-Icon trails the downward spiral of the Velvet Underground chanteuse