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

The Best of Hardly Strictly Bluegrass: Saturday, Oct. 6

It's Red Baraat with the Saturday morning dance party This Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival definitely felt more hardly than strictly. Red Baraat kicked off the party on Saturday morning, and it didn't matter that they were a full-throttle, self-proclaimed "pluralism"-proselytizing funk band, rath ... More >>

Live Review, 2/19/12: Warren Hellman Public Celebration Brings Emmylou Harris, Old Crow Medicine Show and More to Ocean Beach

Old Crow Medicine Show at the Warren Hellman public celebration.​ Warren Hellman Public Celebration February 19, 2012 Ocean Beach Better than: Watching the live stream at home on your laptop. Some of the nation's top roots musicians gathered together yesterday with Bay Area music fans to cel ... More >>

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

Old Crow Medicine Show at the Warren Hellman public celebration.​ Warren Hellman Public Celebration February 19, 2012 Ocean Beach Better than: Watching the live stream at home on your laptop. Some of the nation's top roots musicians gathered together yesterday with Bay Area music fans to cel ... More >>

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

Old Crow Medicine Show at the Warren Hellman public celebration.​ Warren Hellman Public Celebration February 19, 2012 Ocean Beach Better than: Watching the live stream at home on your laptop. Some of the nation's top roots musicians gathered together yesterday with Bay Area music fans to cel ... More >>

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass: Merle Haggard Rocks! (Slideshow)

I'm not one for festivals of any sort -- or any event that requires sharing a Porta-Potty with 5,000 other people for the day. Unless of course, Merle Haggard is performing. Add in Gillian Welch, Broken Social Scene, and some warm sunshine, and I'm there -- hand sanitizer and all. If you missed the ... More >>

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass: 10 Bands to See for Free

I'm not one for festivals of any sort -- or any event that requires sharing a Porta-Potty with 5,000 other people for the day. Unless of course, Merle Haggard is performing. Add in Gillian Welch, Broken Social Scene, and some warm sunshine, and I'm there -- hand sanitizer and all. If you missed the ... More >>

Low, Bachelorette, Great American Music Hall

I'm not one for festivals of any sort -- or any event that requires sharing a Porta-Potty with 5,000 other people for the day. Unless of course, Merle Haggard is performing. Add in Gillian Welch, Broken Social Scene, and some warm sunshine, and I'm there -- hand sanitizer and all. If you missed the ... More >>

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2011: Robert Plant, Thurston Moore, Broken Social Scene, and More

Broken Social Scene is one of more than 90 acts playing Hardly Strictly Bluegrass this year.​ The lineup for this year's Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival is out, and good luck figuring out whom to call the "headliner." For the festival's 11th year, organizers have put together another insane ... More >>

Monday's Pick: Tinariwen at Yoshi's

Thomas Dorn​TinariwenYoshi's SF8 p.m. and 10 p.m., $20-$30The term "desert blues" is more than a little reductive, but it does at least begin to describe the sound of Tinariwen, a North African group of Tuareg tribesmen. Over bass and hand percussion in swaying, trance-like rhythms that threaten t ... More >>

Show preview: Tinariwen

Thomas Dorn​TinariwenYoshi's SF8 p.m. and 10 p.m., $20-$30The term "desert blues" is more than a little reductive, but it does at least begin to describe the sound of Tinariwen, a North African group of Tuareg tribesmen. Over bass and hand percussion in swaying, trance-like rhythms that threaten t ... More >>

"Get Him to the Greek": Crude on the outside, sweet in the middle

Thomas Dorn​TinariwenYoshi's SF8 p.m. and 10 p.m., $20-$30The term "desert blues" is more than a little reductive, but it does at least begin to describe the sound of Tinariwen, a North African group of Tuareg tribesmen. Over bass and hand percussion in swaying, trance-like rhythms that threaten t ... More >>

Local Frequency: Bay Area Band Q&A w/ B and Not B

​Bay Area natives B and Not B have been playing together for a little over a year, pairing witty lyrics with 60's-inspired pop hooks to keep your head bopping from beginning to end. Wrapping up a five city tour of the Northwest, the band recently recorded a full-length, self-titled LP slated for a ... More >>

Last Night: Them Crooked Vultures at the Fox

Dustin Rabin​Them Crooked VulturesNovember 19, 2009Fox Theater Better Than: Listening to Robert Plant shy away from the high notes at Led Zeppelin's 2007 reunion show. It's no accident that the supergroup has, in recent years, gone the way of New Coke, the McRib, and Lindsay Lohan's career. For ... More >>

The Wanderers

Dustin Rabin​Them Crooked VulturesNovember 19, 2009Fox Theater Better Than: Listening to Robert Plant shy away from the high notes at Led Zeppelin's 2007 reunion show. It's no accident that the supergroup has, in recent years, gone the way of New Coke, the McRib, and Lindsay Lohan's career. For ... More >>

Windsurf’s beach blanket disco

Dustin Rabin​Them Crooked VulturesNovember 19, 2009Fox Theater Better Than: Listening to Robert Plant shy away from the high notes at Led Zeppelin's 2007 reunion show. It's no accident that the supergroup has, in recent years, gone the way of New Coke, the McRib, and Lindsay Lohan's career. For ... More >>

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss Play Not So Free Concert at Mountain Winery 10/5

Dustin Rabin​Them Crooked VulturesNovember 19, 2009Fox Theater Better Than: Listening to Robert Plant shy away from the high notes at Led Zeppelin's 2007 reunion show. It's no accident that the supergroup has, in recent years, gone the way of New Coke, the McRib, and Lindsay Lohan's career. For ... More >>

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival Keeps Piling It On

Dustin Rabin​Them Crooked VulturesNovember 19, 2009Fox Theater Better Than: Listening to Robert Plant shy away from the high notes at Led Zeppelin's 2007 reunion show. It's no accident that the supergroup has, in recent years, gone the way of New Coke, the McRib, and Lindsay Lohan's career. For ... More >>

Friday Night: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss at The Greek

Dustin Rabin​Them Crooked VulturesNovember 19, 2009Fox Theater Better Than: Listening to Robert Plant shy away from the high notes at Led Zeppelin's 2007 reunion show. It's no accident that the supergroup has, in recent years, gone the way of New Coke, the McRib, and Lindsay Lohan's career. For ... More >>

Warner Bros. vet launches music site for baby boomers

Dustin Rabin​Them Crooked VulturesNovember 19, 2009Fox Theater Better Than: Listening to Robert Plant shy away from the high notes at Led Zeppelin's 2007 reunion show. It's no accident that the supergroup has, in recent years, gone the way of New Coke, the McRib, and Lindsay Lohan's career. For ... More >>

Bing Ji Ling: from ice cream funk to tasty soul

Dustin Rabin​Them Crooked VulturesNovember 19, 2009Fox Theater Better Than: Listening to Robert Plant shy away from the high notes at Led Zeppelin's 2007 reunion show. It's no accident that the supergroup has, in recent years, gone the way of New Coke, the McRib, and Lindsay Lohan's career. For ... More >>

Depth of a Salesman: Parsing Economic Philosophy at Paragon

Dustin Rabin​Them Crooked VulturesNovember 19, 2009Fox Theater Better Than: Listening to Robert Plant shy away from the high notes at Led Zeppelin's 2007 reunion show. It's no accident that the supergroup has, in recent years, gone the way of New Coke, the McRib, and Lindsay Lohan's career. For ... More >>

Freight and Salvage Begins Year-Long Multi-Million Upgrade

Dustin Rabin​Them Crooked VulturesNovember 19, 2009Fox Theater Better Than: Listening to Robert Plant shy away from the high notes at Led Zeppelin's 2007 reunion show. It's no accident that the supergroup has, in recent years, gone the way of New Coke, the McRib, and Lindsay Lohan's career. For ... More >>

CD Review Roadtrip: Robert Plant and Alison Krauss -- Raising Sand

Dustin Rabin​Them Crooked VulturesNovember 19, 2009Fox Theater Better Than: Listening to Robert Plant shy away from the high notes at Led Zeppelin's 2007 reunion show. It's no accident that the supergroup has, in recent years, gone the way of New Coke, the McRib, and Lindsay Lohan's career. For ... More >>

Beat Box

Dustin Rabin​Them Crooked VulturesNovember 19, 2009Fox Theater Better Than: Listening to Robert Plant shy away from the high notes at Led Zeppelin's 2007 reunion show. It's no accident that the supergroup has, in recent years, gone the way of New Coke, the McRib, and Lindsay Lohan's career. For ... More >>

Queen of Rock Sluttitude in SF Tonight (Friday)

Dustin Rabin​Them Crooked VulturesNovember 19, 2009Fox Theater Better Than: Listening to Robert Plant shy away from the high notes at Led Zeppelin's 2007 reunion show. It's no accident that the supergroup has, in recent years, gone the way of New Coke, the McRib, and Lindsay Lohan's career. For ... More >>

Groupies

The view from Jimmy Page's pants: groupies claim their 15 minutes

Beat the Crowd

The view from Jimmy Page's pants: groupies claim their 15 minutes

Love Was Here and Now You're Gone

Arthur Lee 1945-2006

Hear This

Neil Young, Arthur Lee, Coughs, White Mice, and Fountains of Wayne. Did you get all that?

Into the Woods

How the riot grrrls of Sleater-Kinney punk'd Keith Moon and Jimi Hendrix

Jeff Buckley

Live at Sin-é -- Legacy Edition

Dem Blues

The left, turning right, was plain wrong to attack pop culture

The White Stripes

Elephant

Primal Scream

Evil Heat

Listen to the Movie

Almost Famous rings in your ears -- and heart -- long after it's over

A Fan's Notes

After Jerry Maguire, Cameron Crowe comes of age...finally

Hear This

White Stripes

Hippie Chic

Foxgluv's emergence on the rave scene has been a series of happy accidents and absurd coincidences

Why We Fight

Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love -- or at least respect -- Third Eye Blind

Night + Day

Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love -- or at least respect -- Third Eye Blind

Reviews

Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love -- or at least respect -- Third Eye Blind

Out of Africa

Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love -- or at least respect -- Third Eye Blind

The House of Tudor

Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love -- or at least respect -- Third Eye Blind

Stalemate

The Chess Records 50th anniversary reissues and the death of the blues

Recordings

The Chess Records 50th anniversary reissues and the death of the blues

Samples

The Chess Records 50th anniversary reissues and the death of the blues

Hearing Voices

The vocal wizardry of Bjsrk and Jeff Buckley

Signed, Sealed and Misdelivered

The Rise and Fall of Bay Area Bands