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Odessa Chen

  • Blogs

    July 26, 2010

    Last Night: All Shook Down Music Festival in North Beach

    Joseph SchellJanelle Monae​All Shook Down FestivalNorth BeachJuly 25, 2010Better Than: Getting all shook down in North Beach for the very first time.Disco dancers, cowboys, glam girls, hipsters, indie rockers, hip-hoppers, sock-hoppers, punk rockers, clash city rockers, category-defiers and more: ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 25, 2010

    All Shook Down Festival: More Crowds, Even More Cupcakes

    I've made my way slowly but surely -- navigating around the exponentially growing crowds filling the North Beach streets and random hula hoopers-- to Mojito again, where people are getting down to The Park. Just five minutes until Janelle Monae hits the big stage. We can't wait. Bu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2010

    Odessa Chen Talks to the Animals For New Album

    Shoka ShafieeOdessa Chen​Odessa Chen decided four years ago that she was done with romance -- at least until her next CD. For her current project, Archives of the Natural World, the singer-songwriter cast aside songs for an ex named Jeff (not to be confused with Mr. Jeff Buckley, to whom she's oft ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2010

    All Shook Down Festival: Everything You Need to Know Is Right Here

    ​This is it. We promise. It. The last "we're having a festival and it's going to be awesome and you should come" post. The last one. For this year, anyway.We couldn't resist one final opportunity to guide you, like a friendly Friday afternoon phone tree, through the preliminaries of this Sunday's ... More >>

  • Music

    July 21, 2010

    All Shook Down: SF Weekly's music fest is unlike any other this summer

    ​This is it. We promise. It. The last "we're having a festival and it's going to be awesome and you should come" post. The last one. For this year, anyway.We couldn't resist one final opportunity to guide you, like a friendly Friday afternoon phone tree, through the preliminaries of this Sunday's ... More >>

  • Music

    July 21, 2010

    All Shook Down: A cross-section of the festival schedule

    ​This is it. We promise. It. The last "we're having a festival and it's going to be awesome and you should come" post. The last one. For this year, anyway.We couldn't resist one final opportunity to guide you, like a friendly Friday afternoon phone tree, through the preliminaries of this Sunday's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2010

    Presenting the All Shook Down Music Festival Schedule

    ​Here you have it, San Francisco (and Bay Area) music fans: the long-awaited schedule for this year's All Shook Down Music Festival. As you've probably heard by now, the All Shook Down Festival will bring a boatload of local musical talent to stages in North Beach on July 25. Neon Indian, Janelle ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2010

    Neon Indian, Janelle Monae, Jazz Mafia All Stars, More at All Shook Down Music Fest

    Neon Indian​That's right: we're throwing a party. This July 25 in North Beach, you can catch Neon Indian and Janelle Monae along with a hefty smattering of local talent -- the Jazz Mafia All Stars, The Ferocious Few, and the Oakland Faders among them -- at the first-ever All Shook Down Music Festi ... More >>

  • Music

    January 13, 2010

    Odessa Chen leaves her music open to interpretation

    Neon Indian​That's right: we're throwing a party. This July 25 in North Beach, you can catch Neon Indian and Janelle Monae along with a hefty smattering of local talent -- the Jazz Mafia All Stars, The Ferocious Few, and the Oakland Faders among them -- at the first-ever All Shook Down Music Festi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 13, 2010

    From Today's Paper: Bouncer's Gaydar, Lomax in Haiti, Dancing with Odessa

    Association for Cultural EquityEthnomusicologist Alan Lomax in 1938.​Fresh from today's Weekly music section:Katy St. Clair gets tagged a lesbian, hits the Lexington [Bouncer]A different angle on news from Haiti: Alan Lomax's early recordings collected in beautiful new box set, produced locally [N ... More >>

  • Music

    December 23, 2009

    The decade in ideas: local artists, DJs, studio heads, and tech geeks discuss the past and present in music

    Association for Cultural EquityEthnomusicologist Alan Lomax in 1938.​Fresh from today's Weekly music section:Katy St. Clair gets tagged a lesbian, hits the Lexington [Bouncer]A different angle on news from Haiti: Alan Lomax's early recordings collected in beautiful new box set, produced locally [N ... More >>

  • Music

    December 23, 2009

    Odessa Chen

    Association for Cultural EquityEthnomusicologist Alan Lomax in 1938.​Fresh from today's Weekly music section:Katy St. Clair gets tagged a lesbian, hits the Lexington [Bouncer]A different angle on news from Haiti: Alan Lomax's early recordings collected in beautiful new box set, produced locally [N ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 23, 2009

    What To Do? Wednesday's Pick: Odessa Chen

    ​Odessa Chen @ First Unitarian Universalist Society Local singer-songwriter Odessa Chen is self-taught on guitar and classically trained in cello and voice; she belonged to choirs specializing in medieval styles. Her singing is mellifluous as the late Jeff Buckley's, while her distinctive songs ... More >>

  • Music

    October 15, 2008

    2008 Music Awards Nominees

    ​Odessa Chen @ First Unitarian Universalist Society Local singer-songwriter Odessa Chen is self-taught on guitar and classically trained in cello and voice; she belonged to choirs specializing in medieval styles. Her singing is mellifluous as the late Jeff Buckley's, while her distinctive songs ... More >>

  • Music

    July 2, 2008

    Soundwave's AudioBus series offers road trips with local composers

    ​Odessa Chen @ First Unitarian Universalist Society Local singer-songwriter Odessa Chen is self-taught on guitar and classically trained in cello and voice; she belonged to choirs specializing in medieval styles. Her singing is mellifluous as the late Jeff Buckley's, while her distinctive songs ... More >>

  • Music

    December 1, 2004

    Tales From the Dark Side

    Dave Hudson's deep, doleful world comes alive on the Boxcar Saints' Last Things

  • Music

    August 25, 2004

    Emerge From Nothing

    Thee More Shallows wowed critics with their debut, then disappeared. Will More Deep Cuts put them back on the map?

  • Calendar

    August 4, 2004

    Playing Horsie

    Equine entertainment

  • Music

    June 16, 2004

    Hear This

    Featuring a conversation between Jakob and Bob Dylan, and a few words about Nick Drake

  • Music

    December 24, 2003

    Holiday Jeer

    Twas the night before Xmas, and all through this column, a bunch of bands you never heard of, got their names in print

  • Calendar

    December 3, 2003

    This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

    Twas the night before Xmas, and all through this column, a bunch of bands you never heard of, got their names in print

  • Music

    September 17, 2003

    House of Tudor

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

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