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Johnny Cash

  • Blogs

    May 24, 2012

    Live Review, 5/23/12: Mark Lanegan Croons the Great American Into Sad Submission

    Mark Lanegan BandWednesday, May 23, 2012Great American Music HallBetter than: Staying at home and thinking about death.Mark Lanegan plays in the dark. Literally. A blue light here, a red one there, and zero variables. All you can really make out is his pronounced frown, gigantic jawline, and the shi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 16, 2012

    The Top 10 Best Music Biopics

    The news that Alan Rickman will be portraying Hilly Kristal in a new CBGB biopic half excited us, then half scared us yesterday. He'll be good, but Lordy, who is going to play Debbie Harry? And The Ramones? Those are big shoes to fill... So we comforted ourselves with this -- a list of our top 10 fa ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 4, 2012

    Six Children of Music Legends Whose Own Music Doesn't Suck

    You may have heard this week that Paul McCartney's son, James, wants to get together with the children of John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr and be a Beatles: Next Generation band. Truthfully, that might be one of the saddest and most desperate concepts for a musical project we've ever he ... More >>

  • Music

    February 15, 2012

    Finding worldly humor and compassion in the songs of S.F.'s Bhi Bhiman

    You may have heard this week that Paul McCartney's son, James, wants to get together with the children of John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr and be a Beatles: Next Generation band. Truthfully, that might be one of the saddest and most desperate concepts for a musical project we've ever he ... More >>

  • Music

    November 23, 2011

    Bouncer on Missing Jesse Morris, SF's Punk Rock Johnny Cash

    You may have heard this week that Paul McCartney's son, James, wants to get together with the children of John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr and be a Beatles: Next Generation band. Truthfully, that might be one of the saddest and most desperate concepts for a musical project we've ever he ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 23, 2011

    Bouncer: On Missing Jesse Morris, San Francisco's Punk Rock Johnny Cash

    From this week's Bouncer column: At times I find myself preoccupied with thoughts of suicide -- not my own, but other people's. I visit suicide memorial websites and read each blurb. I always look at the recent suicide postings on Wikipedia. It was there that I learned of the death of one of the m ... More >>

  • Music

    November 16, 2011

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

    From this week's Bouncer column: At times I find myself preoccupied with thoughts of suicide -- not my own, but other people's. I visit suicide memorial websites and read each blurb. I always look at the recent suicide postings on Wikipedia. It was there that I learned of the death of one of the m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 11, 2011

    Merle Haggard vs. San Francisco: Five Songs in Which Country's Best Works Through His Issues With the Bay

    The Hag will make you eat that gee-tar, hippies​Merle Haggard may contain multitudes, but he tends to feel just one of those multitudinous things at a time - and to feel it so hard and pure that he seems to have forgotten all the previous things he's felt that might not square with it. Perha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 19, 2011

    On the Hunt for the Best Jukebox in Bernal Heights

    The Juke at Nap's 3​Bernal Heights is often unfairly lumped in with the Mission as a whole. While it is backed up against the Mission, Bernal has its own plentiful offerings -- Indian pizza, indoor street food, and lesbian bars with three-story patios, to name a few. So, in deference to the vi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2011

    On the Hunt for the Best Jukebox in the Castro

    The jukebox at the Last Call.​The heyday of authentic jukeboxes is long over. With many bars installing those nasty touchscreen digital Internet boxes, the old school record-flipping kind of jukebox is a dying breed. And this is in the town that originated the concept of jukeboxes back in 1889. So ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 9, 2010

    Rock Jewell-ry

    The jukebox at the Last Call.​The heyday of authentic jukeboxes is long over. With many bars installing those nasty touchscreen digital Internet boxes, the old school record-flipping kind of jukebox is a dying breed. And this is in the town that originated the concept of jukeboxes back in 1889. So ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 6, 2010

    Five Places We Wish Bands Could Play in SF

    Photo at Magowan's Infinite Mirror Maze at Pier 39. Why don't bands play here?​We're blessed with great live music venues here in San Francisco, but sometimes, bars, ballrooms, clubs, and arenas get kinda monotonous. Here are five more exotic locations that would make awesome spaces to see a band, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 18, 2010

    What To Do? Thursday's Pick: Rykarda Parasol

    ​There's something unmistakably noirish about San Francisco, so it shouldn't surprise anyone that one of goth-folk's finest chanteuses is based here. Rykarda Parasol likes to call what she does "rock noir," a sound that has attracted comparisons to Nick Cave, Johnny Cash, and Siouxsie Sioux. Toss ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 1, 2009

    Eight Christmas Songs Worth Saving From the Fire (by The White Stripes, The Fall, Kurtis Blow, & more)

    Like clockwork, the waning of each year brings another slew of Christmas songs. Even Dylan has gotten in on the act. The vast majority of the seasonal crop is either nostalgic rehashings or sentimental cash-ins, but there are always a choice few that far outshine the rest. Below are eight season-app ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2009

    What Song Should Be the Giants' Late-Inning Theme? Your Input Is Requested.

    ​Yesterday, the Chronicle's Henry Schulman penned a truly entertaining article about how former Journey frontman Steve Perry is peeved because the Dodgers play "Don't Stop Believin'" when the team needs a rally in the bottom of the ninth -- and Perry is a Giants fan. Any article in which Perry utt ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 8, 2009

    Richie Rich

    ​Yesterday, the Chronicle's Henry Schulman penned a truly entertaining article about how former Journey frontman Steve Perry is peeved because the Dodgers play "Don't Stop Believin'" when the team needs a rally in the bottom of the ninth -- and Perry is a Giants fan. Any article in which Perry utt ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 5, 2009

    Saturday Night: Lila Downs at the Fillmore

    EKAphotographyLila DownsThe FillmoreApril 4, 2009Lila Downs took her commanding, enchanting post behind the mic at the Fillmore Saturday night, weaving her arms like a serpent amid the dry ice smoke as the tom-toms played the opening strains of "Black Magic Woman." You could already smell the p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2009

    Saturday night: Hank III and Assjack at the Grand Ballroom

    Hank III and AssjackThe Grand BallroomFebruary 28, 2009Better than: "That shit they call pop country music." Don't even get the dude started. "The barbarians have invaded the opera," my friend observed, taking in the radical aesthetic disjunction between the gilt trim and crystal chandeliers of the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2009

    Countdown to Noise Pop: 22 Days

    Courtesy of Noise Pop The Closer: Les Savy Fav Get ready, San Francisco. That annual extravaganza of musical zanyness, alt./indie hiptitude, and overall sub-mainstream coolness known as Noise Pop is only three short weeks away! As always, attending a festival with so many performances in ... More >>

  • Music

    January 21, 2009

    The Boozoo Boogie

    Courtesy of Noise Pop The Closer: Les Savy Fav Get ready, San Francisco. That annual extravaganza of musical zanyness, alt./indie hiptitude, and overall sub-mainstream coolness known as Noise Pop is only three short weeks away! As always, attending a festival with so many performances in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 30, 2008

    Van Arno's "The Boogie Disease" at Shooting Gallery

    The Shooting Gallery starts off 2009 with the latest solo showing from Los Angeles-based artist Van Arno. The Boogie Disease is a series of 15 oil paintings on canvas and wood combining Arno's use of surrealism and popular mythology. Arno's new works also displays his progression into a smoother st ... More >>

  • Music

    June 25, 2008

    Silver Jews

    Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea (Drag City)

  • Music

    January 2, 2008

    Underwater sirens stir local act Kitka to song

    Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea (Drag City)

  • Film

    January 2, 2008

    Revenge of the Nerds

    Judd Apatow's pretty good year

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2007
  • Culture

    March 21, 2007

    Unchained Melody

    Music and poetry, not plot, create A Place to Stand's emotional impact

  • Music

    November 29, 2006

    Straight, No Chaser

    Country chanteuse Amy Millan breaks out of the indie-rock world

  • Music

    September 6, 2006

    Opening your eyes and ears

    Country chanteuse Amy Millan breaks out of the indie-rock world

  • Film

    February 8, 2006

    Repertory Film Listings

    Country chanteuse Amy Millan breaks out of the indie-rock world

  • Calendar

    February 9, 2005

    What Was That?

    Experimental-music lovers roll out the welcome Matmos

  • Calendar

    October 27, 2004

    Making the Cut

    Directors on the same page

  • Calendar

    April 21, 2004

    This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

    Directors on the same page

  • Music

    March 24, 2004

    Mekons

    Punk Rock

  • Music

    September 17, 2003

    House of Tudor

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

  • Calendar

    May 21, 2003

    Neko Case Is God

    OK, maybe we're exaggerating, but her daredevil voice takes her work into addictive territory

  • Music

    May 14, 2003

    Rosanne Cash

    Rules of Travel

  • Music

    February 12, 2003

    Hear This

    Smokey & Miho's delightful re-creation of Brazilian bossa nova pop

  • Music

    August 7, 2002

    Noise Reduction

    Ven Voisey is on a mission to get you to shut up and listen

  • Music

    July 17, 2002

    House of Tudor

    Lowe maintenance, boat rocking, howling agony, and a garden ablaze

  • Dining

    May 8, 2002

    Steaking a Claim

    Mel Hollen's Bar & Fine Dining

  • Music

    March 27, 2002

    Me and you and Bobby McGee

    Tribute's just another word for nothing left to lose

  • Dining

    March 13, 2002

    Theatrics

    The Gold Dust's bartenders don't just mix drinks, they put on a show

  • Calendar

    May 19, 1999

    The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

    The Gold Dust's bartenders don't just mix drinks, they put on a show

  • Calendar

    October 7, 1998

    Night + Day

    The Gold Dust's bartenders don't just mix drinks, they put on a show

  • Music

    June 11, 1997

    Americana Gothic

    The Carter Family reissues (Rounder)

  • Music

    March 26, 1997

    The House of Tudor

    The Carter Family reissues (Rounder)

  • Calendar

    January 22, 1997

    REAL ASTROLOGY For an Unreal World

    The Carter Family reissues (Rounder)

  • News

    December 4, 1996

    Letters

    The Carter Family reissues (Rounder)

  • Music

    November 20, 1996

    The House of Tudor

    The Carter Family reissues (Rounder)

  • Music

    December 6, 1995

    Samples

    The Carter Family reissues (Rounder)

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