Johnny Cash

Sonny and the Sunsets: Show Preview

Five Cover Songs That Are Better Than the Originals

As musical pairings go, they don't come much more oddball than Mastodon with Feist. But -- we can't quite believe it either -- on Record Store Day (April 21st), the unlikely collaborators are releasing Feistodon: a split single that will feature Mastodon covering Feist ("A Commotion") and vice versa ... More >>

In Print: Exploring Bhi Bhiman's Funny, Compassionate Folk Songs

Bhi Bhiman​Bhi Bhiman: It might surprise anyone who's heard his booming tenor of a voice, but San Francisco singer-songwriter Bhi Bhiman didn't always want to be a musician. His first chosen profession? Comedian. Which goes some way toward explaining the sharp humor in his lyrics. "I tried to ... More >>

Comparing M.I.A.'s Super Bowl Middle Finger to Music's Greatest Bird-Flippers

Juvenile, numbskulled, pointless, banal, outrageous -- M.I.A. flipping the bird at this year's Super Bowl halftime show might have been all or none of those things, depending on whom you ask, but it was one thing above all: A surefire plot to join the ranks of the middle-finger-flashing musical elit ... More >>

Food TV: Bobby Deen Has a Show Because His Mom's Food Is Unhealthy and Terrible

Each week we take a quick, cautious look at what's going on with televised cooking. This week: Not My Mama's Meals, a half-hour psych pop quiz, Wednesdays at 9 p.m. on the Cooking Channel. In Not My Mama's Meals, the Cooking Channel convinces Paula Deen's son Bobby to remake her death-food in a ma ... More >>

R.I.P. Jesse Morris: San Francisco's Punk Rock Johnny Cash

Jenner Davis​Jesse Morris, a local musician and BART busking staple with an uncanny take on Johnny Cash, died Sunday, Nov. 6, in his home, according to friends and colleagues. Morris had survived a suicide attempt by hanging in September, but did not survive a second attempt over the weekend. ... More >>

The Man in Blatz

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The Dodos Have a Brawl in Ultra-Noir 'Black Night' Video

​Good week for sumptuous and slightly sinister black-and-white videos from San Francisco acts. This one, for "Black Night," the first song off of No Color (aha!), finds local duo The Dodos channeling equal parts Johnny Cash and Fleet Foxes over an ever-stranger, ever-tenser assemblage of split-sec ... More >>

Andrew Goldfarb, the Slow Poisoner, Discusses Arsenic, Laundromats, and Keeping S.F. Weird

Andrew Goldfarb, aka the Slow Poisoner.​The Slow Poisoner is the one-man band of Andrew Goldfarb, a talented San Franciscan of considerable eccentricity. Describing his music as a "hoe-down on Mars," or a combination of Johnny Cash and David Bowie, Goldfarb has plied his tunes across the country f ... More >>

The Top Six Weirdest Musical Appearances on Sesame Street

Last week, Katy Perry's cleavage got her appearance on Sesame Street canceled, due to a barrage of complaints from parents who saw the leaked clip on YouTube before it had a chance to air. We personally can't see what all the fuss is about, since Katy's breasticles looked pretty well contained to us ... More >>

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A Waking Life Take on "Ain't No Grave"

​I love the rotoscope. When I first saw Ralph Bakshi's Wizards, the fluid movements of the animated characters were simultaneously disquieting yet thrilling. I was even a sucker for a-ha's "Take On Me" video, and I will watch anything Richard Linklater wants to animate. And like Linklater's Waking ... More >>

Memorial For Legendary Photographer Jim Marshall Monday

Jim Marshall, giving the Johnny Cash salute​Hanging in the living room of Jim Marshall's Castro flat is a photograph of Obama standing in the White House, pointing to a picture of John Coltrane on the wall. Marshall took that Coltrane photo more than 40 years ago in San Francisco Chronicle columni ... More >>

The Ferocious Few Get Off the Streets

​Drawn together by a shared loved of rock, soul, and country's most dynamic voices (James Brown, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan), The Ferocious Few decided to take its stripped-down bluesy rock to the streets. Literally. "Our very first show was on the corner of O'Farrell and Powell," says singer-guitaris ... More >>

High on Fire Prepping New Album

​Oakland metalheads High on Fire are hard at work on a new collection of music that frontman Matt Pike promises will share with the masses "the dark seas of our new riffs and tragic stories." Next month they hit the studio to record their fifth album, working with producer Greg Fidelman (Metallica ... More >>

Bobby Badfingers' snappy jailhouse comeback

An Honest Drunk: Inebriated S.F. Driver Waves Off Sobriety Test, Admits He's Plastered

Ya got me, officer...In a scene ripped straight from the Kris Kristofferson/Johnny Cash ditty "Sunday Morning Coming Down" (Well I woke up Sunday morning/ With no way to hold my head that didn't hurt/ And the beer I had for breakfast wasn't bad/ So I had one more for dessert), cops from San Francisc ... More >>

Noise Pop 2009: Antony, AC., No Age

(Antony and the Johnsons, minus Johnsons)Noise Pop HQ sent off its first official annoucement of 2009's lineup. Headliners include Antony and the Johnsons, A.C. Newman, No Age, Goblin Cock, Clues, and Dear in the Headlights ... film selection highlights include "Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison" and a d ... More >>

You Should Explore Your Own

The Lowbrow Art Sale -- Glenn Barr, Eric Bailey & Mitch O'Connell

Hock the Line

Sending up the biopic, Walk Hard sells cheap laughs, lame cameos, and lifeless Cox

Borrowing Some Cash

The Man in Black on the Boob Tube: The Johnny Cash TV Show by Mark Keresman

Keeping Abreast

Johnny Cash

American V: A Hundred Highways (American/Lost Highway) Personal File (Columbia/Legacy)

The Great Cash-In

Repertory Film Listings

Holiday Gift Guide

Hello, He's Not Johnny Cash

Walk the Line never strays from the dull telling of a tall tale

If it's kinda, sorta music-related, we'll review it. This week: Rick Rubin's moxie.

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Best Poster Store

Poster Source

Cash on Demand

We still mourn the Man in Black

BeatBox

Get your frown on at "Dark Sparkle" or put on some stilettos and check out "High Heels"

A Fan's Notes

Ideas that were forgotten but not gone in 2003

Shops and Gifts

House of Tudor

Go to the SF Weekly Music Awards, then give back to the Man in Black.

Hear This

It may be "Hardly" Strictly Bluegrass, but it's free and there are big names you won't want to miss

Prick

The shockingly interconnected lives of JFK, Lincoln, Johnny Cash, and John Ritter

Best Jukebox

The Ha-Ra

Johnny Cash|Various Artists

At Madison Square Garden|American IV: The Man Comes Around|Dressed in Black|Kindred Spirits

Johnny Cash; Merle Haggard

Cash: American III: Solitary Man (American) / Haggard: If I Could Only Fly (Anti/Epitaph)

Reviews

The House of Tudor

Riff Raff

Night+Day

Cash Rehash

Night+Day

Heat Stroke

Pulpit-pounding with the Reverend Horton Heat