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Porto Franco

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    January 24, 2012

    The Family Folk Explosion at Amnesia: Free Last Waltz-Style Americana from S.F. Locals

    January can be an interesting month for live music in San Francisco. With many large tours still in holiday hiatus mode, the local weirdos get to take over the city's venues and conduct all sorts of unusual musical experiments in them. One of this year's most notable midwinter trials is the Family F ... More >>

  • Music

    December 28, 2011

    One Last Spin: A Look Back at the Year in Bay Area Music

    January can be an interesting month for live music in San Francisco. With many large tours still in holiday hiatus mode, the local weirdos get to take over the city's venues and conduct all sorts of unusual musical experiments in them. One of this year's most notable midwinter trials is the Family F ... More >>

  • News

    November 23, 2011

    SF Weekly Letters

    January can be an interesting month for live music in San Francisco. With many large tours still in holiday hiatus mode, the local weirdos get to take over the city's venues and conduct all sorts of unusual musical experiments in them. One of this year's most notable midwinter trials is the Family F ... More >>

  • Music

    November 16, 2011

    Mission Label Porto Franco Plans to Stop New Releases

    January can be an interesting month for live music in San Francisco. With many large tours still in holiday hiatus mode, the local weirdos get to take over the city's venues and conduct all sorts of unusual musical experiments in them. One of this year's most notable midwinter trials is the Family F ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 16, 2011

    Mission Label Porto Franco Plans to Stop Releasing New Records Next Year

    Peter and Sergei Varshavsky, founders of Porto Franco Records​Bon Voyage, Porto Franco: Big-time success was never a likelihood for Porto Franco, a family-run Mission District record label that prides itself on championing local artists, rather than ones working in the same musical genre. Russ ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2011

    Gojogo's New Chasing the Moon Videos Are Moody and Exhilarating

    Gojogo playing at Chasing the Moon​ Chasing the Moon is a monthly video/podcast series put out by producer and engineer Scott McDowell that features local musicians. Always beautifully filmed and recorded (at Hyde Street Studios), the acts chosen vary widely -- past episodes have included indi ... More >>

  • Music

    August 3, 2011

    Aaron Novik: Show Preview

    Gojogo playing at Chasing the Moon​ Chasing the Moon is a monthly video/podcast series put out by producer and engineer Scott McDowell that features local musicians. Always beautifully filmed and recorded (at Hyde Street Studios), the acts chosen vary widely -- past episodes have included indi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2011

    Watch This Now: LaTosha Brown's Voice Will Give You the Chills (In a Good Way)

    ​ Two days ago, LaTosha Brown probably wouldn't have considered herself famous. But that may change soon -- since YouTube featured her impromptu performance of the spiritual "I Know I've Been Changed" yesterday, the video has racked up almost 500,000 views (and counting). The video is part o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 14, 2010

    100 S.F. Musicians Teaming Up To Record -- and Perform -- Pixies' Dolittle

    ​Earlier this fall, more than 40 local musicians got together -- along with Liz Phair and Third Eye Blind's Stephan Jenkins -- to perform the Velvet Underground's seminal debut album at Coda Jazz Supper Club. This project was the first from a new coalition of Mission music regulars, artists, and p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2010

    It Takes a Village To Plan a Crazy Velvet Underground Cover Show

    ​Think you know the players of the Bay Area music scene? Well, you can test your chops next Tuesday at Coda Jazz Music Supper Club, when a positively ridiculous number of them join forces to pay tribute to the 1967 classic The Velvet Underground and Nico. In album order, each song will be gang-int ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 15, 2010

    Angel-Headed

    ​Think you know the players of the Bay Area music scene? Well, you can test your chops next Tuesday at Coda Jazz Music Supper Club, when a positively ridiculous number of them join forces to pay tribute to the 1967 classic The Velvet Underground and Nico. In album order, each song will be gang-int ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2010

    Download Meklit Hadero for Free

      For years, Meklit Hadero has been a Mission fixture, working with the Red Poppy Art House and the Mission Arts and Performance Project. Now she's stepping out as a singer, as Sam Prestianni writes of this global-gazing songwriter in this week's issue.Hadero's ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2009

    Track of the Day: Mark Matos Sings About the Mission

    Peter Varshavsky​There's something very Pavement-y about this Mark Matos track, "High Priest of the Mission." Perhaps the resemblance resides in the vocals, which remind me a bit of Stephen Malkmus' solo stuff. But with the warm organ melodies and the extra handclapped beats, Matos makes this upbe ... More >>

  • Music

    November 11, 2009

    Porto Franco Records exports the Mission’s eclectic live music scene

    Peter Varshavsky​There's something very Pavement-y about this Mark Matos track, "High Priest of the Mission." Perhaps the resemblance resides in the vocals, which remind me a bit of Stephen Malkmus' solo stuff. But with the warm organ melodies and the extra handclapped beats, Matos makes this upbe ... More >>

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