Ralph Carney

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

Ralph Carney Gets (Moderately) Serious with The Serious Jass Project

​If any rock performer can double as a character in a James Joyce novel, it's Ralph Carney. A multi-instrumentalist best known as reedman for Tom Waits and a host of others, the S.F.-based Carney plays the way he talks: expansive, eccentric, and endlessly discursive. As a member of Tin Huey, he wa ... More >>

Blow Gage with Ralph Carney's Serious Jass Project's Seriously

​Listen to this while high: Ralph Carney's Serious Jass Project's Seriously. ​ Behind the buzz: The subject line of the publicist's email mentioned something about Tom Waits' saxophonist, but the magic name of Ralph Carney dispelled any incipient attack of the whatevs. I mean, we're not talking ... More >>

Friday Night: Pere Ubu's David Thomas and the Wounded Stag Get Arty at the Shop in Oakland

Romana MachadoWounded Stag with dancer Erica Blue​ David ThomasWounded StagApril 15, 2011@ The Shop Better than: If not nature, Metamucil.Likely the next fine and arty place to hang, The Shop is retooled warehouse space wedged behind a stretch of brown metal fence along a quiet residential street ... More >>

Wednesday's Pick: Gaucho and Michael Abraham Jazz Session

Photo by Peter Varshavsky​GauchoMichael Abraham Jazz SessionAmnesia8 p.m., freeThe term "gaucho" commonly refers to nomadic South American cowboys, which is pretty indicative of how the San Francisco band Gaucho plays its version of Gypsy jazz: in Gaucho's hands, le jazz manouche is left playfully ... More >>

Crunk's Not Dead, the Haberdash, Kelley Stoltz, Godwaffle Noise Pancakes and More

Jenna Riot plays El Rio this Friday​Let's get cultured, San Francisco. Put on your leopard-skin pill-box hat and paint the town red. But before you brave those cruel streets, check our list of cheap things to do this weekend for less than the cost of a quality whiskey sour. Here are ten things fo ... More >>

Music Awards Program Guide

Jenna Riot plays El Rio this Friday​Let's get cultured, San Francisco. Put on your leopard-skin pill-box hat and paint the town red. But before you brave those cruel streets, check our list of cheap things to do this weekend for less than the cost of a quality whiskey sour. Here are ten things fo ... More >>

High Times

Jenna Riot plays El Rio this Friday​Let's get cultured, San Francisco. Put on your leopard-skin pill-box hat and paint the town red. But before you brave those cruel streets, check our list of cheap things to do this weekend for less than the cost of a quality whiskey sour. Here are ten things fo ... More >>

SF Weekly Music Awards Nominee: Mushroom

Jenna Riot plays El Rio this Friday​Let's get cultured, San Francisco. Put on your leopard-skin pill-box hat and paint the town red. But before you brave those cruel streets, check our list of cheap things to do this weekend for less than the cost of a quality whiskey sour. Here are ten things fo ... More >>

Want Some Candye?

Jenna Riot plays El Rio this Friday​Let's get cultured, San Francisco. Put on your leopard-skin pill-box hat and paint the town red. But before you brave those cruel streets, check our list of cheap things to do this weekend for less than the cost of a quality whiskey sour. Here are ten things fo ... More >>

How to Tell Your Hippies from Your Heshers from the Black Keys

Jenna Riot plays El Rio this Friday​Let's get cultured, San Francisco. Put on your leopard-skin pill-box hat and paint the town red. But before you brave those cruel streets, check our list of cheap things to do this weekend for less than the cost of a quality whiskey sour. Here are ten things fo ... More >>

Producer, Label Honcho, Performer, Journalist

Pat Thomas is San Francisco's musical catalyst.

Danger Mouse Produces New Black Keys Album, Apparently Never Sleeps

Pat Thomas is San Francisco's musical catalyst.

Elvis Costello

King of America

Fiery Architecture

Uncategorizable but lovely Australian

Dance Dance Revolution

Whole lotta shakin' goin' on

Uke Till Ya Puke

A festival devoted entirely to the tiny Hawaiian guitar

House of Tudor

Smackdown in Oaktown: Some saucy picks to lure you into the East Bay mix

House of Tudor

Smackdown in Oaktown: Some saucy picks to lure you into the East Bay mix

House of Tudor

The ever-expanding aural universe between Ralph Carney's ears, and a sugary LiftOff! Spacecapades farewell

House of Tudor

A Clarinet Thing, mammalian minxes, and a Valentine's Day Fabulous Disaster

Tipsy

Remix Party! (Asphodel)

Sound Advice

Classical glaciers, tarnished saints, hellish holidays, and Arab artists.

House Of Tudor

Silke Tudor swoons over Foetus, cowboy space tunes, and Tentacle Sessions

House Of Tudor

Danny Cohen; Laughing Squid's Fifth Anniversary Celebration

Against the Grain

Map of Wyoming's Dale Duncan learned everything he needed to know about music in the woodshop

House Of Tudor

Kitty City; Carl Sonny Leyland; Mission Creek Festival; Club Inferno; S.F. Drag King Contest; From Bubblegum to Sky

House Of Tudor

T-Model Ford; Paul Jones; Robert Belfour; Blue Room Boys; Dropkick Murphys

The House of Tudor

Flogging Molly, Los Mex Pistols del Norte, Reid Paley

Perfectly Weird

Happily, Zmrzlina's members aren't sure what their own music sounds like

Night Crawler

16 Reasons to Produce Next Year's Wammies

House Of Tudor

Omar Faruk Tekbilek, TV Killers, WAMMIES, Smashing 1970s, and Atomic Bitchwax

The House of Tudor

Omar Faruk Tekbilek, TV Killers, WAMMIES, Smashing 1970s, and Atomic Bitchwax

Reviews

Omar Faruk Tekbilek, TV Killers, WAMMIES, Smashing 1970s, and Atomic Bitchwax

The House of Tudor

Omar Faruk Tekbilek, TV Killers, WAMMIES, Smashing 1970s, and Atomic Bitchwax

The House of Tudor

Omar Faruk Tekbilek, TV Killers, WAMMIES, Smashing 1970s, and Atomic Bitchwax

Night + Day

Omar Faruk Tekbilek, TV Killers, WAMMIES, Smashing 1970s, and Atomic Bitchwax

House of Tudor

Omar Faruk Tekbilek, TV Killers, WAMMIES, Smashing 1970s, and Atomic Bitchwax

Night+Day

Omar Faruk Tekbilek, TV Killers, WAMMIES, Smashing 1970s, and Atomic Bitchwax

The House of Tudor

Omar Faruk Tekbilek, TV Killers, WAMMIES, Smashing 1970s, and Atomic Bitchwax

The House of Tudor

Omar Faruk Tekbilek, TV Killers, WAMMIES, Smashing 1970s, and Atomic Bitchwax

Wammies 1996

Omar Faruk Tekbilek, TV Killers, WAMMIES, Smashing 1970s, and Atomic Bitchwax

SF Weekly Picks

Omar Faruk Tekbilek, TV Killers, WAMMIES, Smashing 1970s, and Atomic Bitchwax

Night+Day

Omar Faruk Tekbilek, TV Killers, WAMMIES, Smashing 1970s, and Atomic Bitchwax

Samples

Omar Faruk Tekbilek, TV Killers, WAMMIES, Smashing 1970s, and Atomic Bitchwax

Orange Crush

The mutated sounds of the Oranj Mancinis

Night+Day

The mutated sounds of the Oranj Mancinis

Recordings

The mutated sounds of the Oranj Mancinis

Recordings

The mutated sounds of the Oranj Mancinis

White-boy blues

The life and times of Preacher Boy and the Natural Blues