Secret Chiefs 3 Saturday, May 11, 2013 Cafe Du Nord Better than: The day before mother's day has any right to be. To say Secret Chiefs 3 have been lately absent from the musical landscape is to ascribe a regularity to their release and touring schedule that's never really existed in their 17 years ... More >>
Even if you don't recognize his name, you've probably heard Trevor Dunn's music. In addition to leading his own groups Trio-Convulsant and Mad Love, he's a perpetually in-demand, bi-coastal bassist equally adept at jazz, classical, and death metal. That schizophrenic skill set led him from his stint ... More >>
For Hero: For Fool (Lex/Astralwerks)
Youngblood Brass Band marches out the jams
Crime and Dissonance
For the Season
The Pop Crush Festival, hi-NRG mechanical violence, and the return of astro-rock band Zolar X
Believe
Frantic noise and a pornographic stage show means the Boredoms are anything but; Japan's PINE*am brings its comical pop to town
What the Bay Area's world-class improvisational music scene is doing to put more butts in the seats
2 Foot Yard
Is jazz dead? Local experts search for signs of life.
Memories Are My Only Witness (Tzadik)
Fred Frith expands the boundaries of what guitar can be
Peoples Bizarre
Danny Cohen; Laughing Squid's Fifth Anniversary Celebration
Reversal of Fortune; Crossing Delancey; Through the Olive Trees
Adam Levy Trio and The Cordials
Duck Baker explores uncharted territory with his acoustic guitar
Masada
Jim Ryan's experimental jazz and the Boom Boom Room mural controversy part II
Master Musicians of Jajouka, OtherStarPeople, "Musical Atrocities and Eccentrics, 1926-52," and New Music on the Mountain
How can Burt Bacharach make a comeback when he never went away?
Stork Club booker Lorrie Murray moves on; Idiot Flesh wigs out
The Knitting Factory's "Loud Music Silent Film" series comes to San Francisco
John Zorn's Painkiller and the Denison/Kimball Trio rewrite the rules of jazz
