John Zorn

Erik Friedlander compliments dad's MOMA show

The Sound of Silents

The Knitting Factory's "Loud Music Silent Film" series comes to San Francisco

Free-Jazz Punishment

The Knitting Factory's "Loud Music Silent Film" series comes to San Francisco

Pop residencies gain traction in S.F.

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John Zorn’s wild imagination takes root at Yoshi’s

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The Gift of Admission

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The Turks embrace Amphetamine Reptile's abrasive edge

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Under Byen's Icelandic envy

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Subtle

For Hero: For Fool (Lex/Astralwerks)

Sufjan Stevens and the Pacific Mozart Ensemble sing for the states

For Hero: For Fool (Lex/Astralwerks)

Unquiet Riot

Youngblood Brass Band marches out the jams

Ennio Morricone

Crime and Dissonance

The Gris Gris

For the Season

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The Pop Crush Festival, hi-NRG mechanical violence, and the return of astro-rock band Zolar X

Scott Amendola Band

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Frantic noise and a pornographic stage show means the Boredoms are anything but; Japan's PINE*am brings its comical pop to town

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Reeling the Out Sound In

What the Bay Area's world-class improvisational music scene is doing to put more butts in the seats

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Carla Kihlstedt

2 Foot Yard

Kind of Code Blue

Is jazz dead? Local experts search for signs of life.

Yuka Honda

Memories Are My Only Witness (Tzadik)

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Fred Frith expands the boundaries of what guitar can be

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Peoples Bizarre

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Danny Cohen; Laughing Squid's Fifth Anniversary Celebration

Reel World

Reversal of Fortune; Crossing Delancey; Through the Olive Trees

On Being Sincere

Adam Levy Trio and The Cordials

Finger-picking Good

Duck Baker explores uncharted territory with his acoustic guitar

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Masada

Riff Raff

Jim Ryan's experimental jazz and the Boom Boom Room mural controversy part II

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Master Musicians of Jajouka, OtherStarPeople, "Musical Atrocities and Eccentrics, 1926-52," and New Music on the Mountain

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Master Musicians of Jajouka, OtherStarPeople, "Musical Atrocities and Eccentrics, 1926-52," and New Music on the Mountain

Baby, It's Him

How can Burt Bacharach make a comeback when he never went away?

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Avant Starred

Stork Club booker Lorrie Murray moves on; Idiot Flesh wigs out

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Stork Club booker Lorrie Murray moves on; Idiot Flesh wigs out

Jazz Assassins

John Zorn's Painkiller and the Denison/Kimball Trio rewrite the rules of jazz

Yoshi’s steps up its game with free-jazz fest

John Zorn's Painkiller and the Denison/Kimball Trio rewrite the rules of jazz

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En Garde!

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