Mickey Hart

The Psychic World of Stanley Krippner: A quest to document ESP

Stanley Krippner: Amazing Stories That Didn't Make it Into the Story

Professor Stanley Krippner is an impossible man to pigeonhole. He's nearly impossible to encapsulate in a single cover story. Well, we did our best. But, we acknowledge, we've only scratched the surface of his life and work. On a milder note, we also left out a cartload of mind-blowing anecdotes. Kr ... More >>

Five Things to Know About the Grateful Dead's New Licensing Efforts

The 1960s Grateful Dead, inside their house at 710 Ashbury St., S.F.​ After years of keeping the band's considerable legacy on the down-low in terms of merchandise and licensing, the surviving members of the Grateful Dead are ramping things up. As the L.A. Times explains today, that doesn't me ... More >>

Links: Classical's Cafe Revolution, Bay Bridged's Regional Bias, and the Outside Lands 2011 Poster

​ Classical music moves out of the concert hall and into the cafe. [The Bay Citizen] Local music blog the Bay Bridged, now five years old (!), is holding its annual fundraiser/birthday party this weekend. [The Bay Bridged]

The Wanderlust Festival Blisses Out The Fillmore

Romana MachadoShiva Rea, Mickey Hart at Wanderlust Festival​Wanderlust FestivalSub SwaraDavid Starfire Live EnsembleMC YogiShiva ReaMay 21, 2011@ The Fillmore Better than: Being cast into the Lake of Fire to fry. Back where I'm from, the Apocalypse has been going on for quite some time now. In the ... More >>

Kazoo Record Attempt at Tonight's Jerry Garcia-Themed Giants Game

Jerry Garcia says: 'Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.' So root for the Giants.​Sorry folks, the Jerry Garcia bobblehead is no longer available. But fans can keep on truckin' with a Guinness Record attempt for largest kazoo ensemble during tonight's festivities hon ... More >>

Monday's Pick: Jerry Garcia Tribute Night

​Jerry Garcia Tribute NightAT&T ParkPre-game tribute performance at home plate at 6:30; game at 7:15Even after his death, Jerry Garcia is still on a long, strange trip, which will make a stop at the Giants/Cubs game at AT&T Park tonight. Aligned with the 15th anniversary of his passing, Je ... More >>

Eric 'Doc' Smith Tosses Hat Into Increasingly Crowded District 10 Ring

Eric "Doc" SmithEric "Doc" Smith -- a musician and environmental activist who those keeping track of such things have noticed showing up at an increasing number of politically important events and standing on the podium side of a growing tally of City Hall demonstrations -- told SF Weekly this morni ... More >>

Global Drum Project Snags World Music Grammy

Global Drum Project Former Grateful Dead drummer Mickey Hart didn't invent world music. But he was among the first to take it out of the hands of ethnomusicologists and into the clutches of pop culture. Eighteen years ago, Hart and tabla titan Zakir Hussain won the first World Music Grammy for ... More >>

The Dead Plan Live Show for May

Attention Deadheads: the show will go on. After a five-year hiatus, the remaining members of the Grateful Dead (Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart) will hit the road with keyboardist Jeff Chimenti and Allman Brothers Band/Gov't Mule guitarist Warren Haynes this spring. The band, ca ... More >>

Bay Area Grammy Nominees: Metallica, Neil Young, Keyshia Cole

Metallica, Neil Young, and Keyshia Cole were among the Bay Area acts on the Grammys' nominee list, which made the rounds in the music industry today. Metallica is up for "Best Metal Performance," "Best Rock Instrumental Performance," and "Best Rock Album," (all related to Death Magnetic). Young got ... More >>

Grateful Dead Drummer Displays New Art

("Coral Reefer" by Mickey Hart) Grateful Dead fans can stop gazing at all those old posters and tie-dyes on Haight Street and check out more recent works of art by a member of those iconic hippies. Dead drummer Mickey Hart is having an art show that opens today at Dennis Rae Art Gallery (a gallery ... More >>

Bob Weir's cutoffs not going to Grateful Dead archive

("Coral Reefer" by Mickey Hart) Grateful Dead fans can stop gazing at all those old posters and tie-dyes on Haight Street and check out more recent works of art by a member of those iconic hippies. Dead drummer Mickey Hart is having an art show that opens today at Dennis Rae Art Gallery (a gallery ... More >>

The Weekend Hitlist: 4/18-4/20

("Coral Reefer" by Mickey Hart) Grateful Dead fans can stop gazing at all those old posters and tie-dyes on Haight Street and check out more recent works of art by a member of those iconic hippies. Dead drummer Mickey Hart is having an art show that opens today at Dennis Rae Art Gallery (a gallery ... More >>

Deadheads For Obama Rally At Warfield Day Before Super Tuesday

("Coral Reefer" by Mickey Hart) Grateful Dead fans can stop gazing at all those old posters and tie-dyes on Haight Street and check out more recent works of art by a member of those iconic hippies. Dead drummer Mickey Hart is having an art show that opens today at Dennis Rae Art Gallery (a gallery ... More >>

Lines of Longitude

LINES Ballet makes cross-cultural strides for its 25th–anniversary season

Indie stalwarts Minmae come to Thee Parkside; Swedish trio E.S.T. updates altrock for the jazz set

LINES Ballet makes cross-cultural strides for its 25th–anniversary season

Say Schwa

Spending depressed days at Tosca, eavesdropping on silly bands

Hear This

Quirky lo-fi pop is On the Speakers; the Roots, the Coup, and more show up for the We the Planet Festival

Party Train

Janis, the Dead, the Band, and others take the happiest trip of their lives

House of Tudor

A Deadhead's Songcatchers and the best rock band in America

The Voodoo That She Do

Bobi Céspedes casts a Yoruban spell over Afro-Cuban jazz

Monkey Business

The otherworldly chanting of Tibet's Gyuto Monks

SF Music Awards 2001

An exotic adventure into the mysterious world of sound!

Playing God

Francis Ford Coppola re-creates his Vietnam phantasmagoria

Tool(s) of the Man

Mickey Hart is still pursuing that perfect beat -- in words, sound, and even government service

Let the Rhythm Hit 'Em

Zakir Hussain is one of the country's finest tabla musicians, but can Indian percussion music play in Peoria? It just did.

Hear This

Zakir Hussain is one of the country's finest tabla musicians, but can Indian percussion music play in Peoria? It just did.

The Red Menace

Bad music. Bad press. Bad hair. Sammy Hagar's heard the insults. But for the Bay Area's Red Rocker, the best revenge is living well.

Up a Tree. Still?

Environmentalists have all but won their fight to save the Headwaters Forest. Somehow, that's not enough to bring Julia Hill down from her treetop perch.

The Fall of Love

Chet Helms and his Avalon Ballroom were the heart and soul of the Summer of Love. Thirty years of stupid business moves later, love is all that's left.

The House of Tudor

Chet Helms and his Avalon Ballroom were the heart and soul of the Summer of Love. Thirty years of stupid business moves later, love is all that's left.