Stevie Ray Vaughan

Defenders of the Blues: Why We Still Need the Black Keys

Why We Still Need the Black Keys

How Your Favorite Musicians Will Die

Monte "M-Dog" Talbert-- the "Teach Me How To Dougie" guy-- was recently gunned down in a drive-by in South Central L.A.. The "Teach Me How To Dougie" guy! Shot and killed! That's crazy. How many famous musicians have we lost to unusual deaths? A lot. Biggie and Tupac. John Lennon. Dimebag Darrell. A ... More >>

Broken, Not Shattered: Adam Stephens and his band celebrate life after a tour accident

Monte "M-Dog" Talbert-- the "Teach Me How To Dougie" guy-- was recently gunned down in a drive-by in South Central L.A.. The "Teach Me How To Dougie" guy! Shot and killed! That's crazy. How many famous musicians have we lost to unusual deaths? A lot. Biggie and Tupac. John Lennon. Dimebag Darrell. A ... More >>

Texas Vs. San Francisco: the World Series of Music

The World Series is about much more than baseball. It's a clash of two cities, two regional cultures, two rabid groups of fans, two color schemes, two outlooks on drug policy, and much more. (We ain't even gonna go into politics.)Starting right now, we're also making the World Series about music. To ... More >>

Bye Bye Blues Fest?

Scott AllenHe's No B.B. King: Tommy Cast As the Merc's Jim Harrington reported yesterday, not has only the 2009 SF Blues Festival has been canceled, but "that cancellation could turn out to be permanent." Harrington quotes event organizer Tom Mazzolini as saying, ""we may well have seen the ... More >>

Our top DVD picks scheduled for release this week:

Scott AllenHe's No B.B. King: Tommy Cast As the Merc's Jim Harrington reported yesterday, not has only the 2009 SF Blues Festival has been canceled, but "that cancellation could turn out to be permanent." Harrington quotes event organizer Tom Mazzolini as saying, ""we may well have seen the ... More >>

Six-string giant Buddy Guy delivers sublime blues

Scott AllenHe's No B.B. King: Tommy Cast As the Merc's Jim Harrington reported yesterday, not has only the 2009 SF Blues Festival has been canceled, but "that cancellation could turn out to be permanent." Harrington quotes event organizer Tom Mazzolini as saying, ""we may well have seen the ... More >>

Digging Into a Good Book

Scott AllenHe's No B.B. King: Tommy Cast As the Merc's Jim Harrington reported yesterday, not has only the 2009 SF Blues Festival has been canceled, but "that cancellation could turn out to be permanent." Harrington quotes event organizer Tom Mazzolini as saying, ""we may well have seen the ... More >>

Highway to Sell

Is a musician's dream gig a post at Guitar Center? We spent a day on the job to find out.

Mission Too

Avoid the Mission's pee stink when you venture south of Cesar Chavez

Change of Heart

M. Ward's new album is damn fine folk -- from a guy who used to ignore folk music

Hear This

Guitarist Vince Converse rocks the blues with sassy wah-wah and other effects.

Blowin' Smoke

Ted Demme and Denis Leary are a match made in effin' heaven

Riff Raff

Jukebox Hero and Gordon Dorsey

Back Door Memories

Tom Mazzolini speaks proudly of his San Francisco Blues Festival. But each musician is proud for a different reason.

The House of Tudor

Tom Mazzolini speaks proudly of his San Francisco Blues Festival. But each musician is proud for a different reason.

The One ... the Only ... Circus Redickuless

Chicken John takes chaos, dysfunction, and the Stupidest Show on Earth from San Francisco to Boise

Letters

Chicken John takes chaos, dysfunction, and the Stupidest Show on Earth from San Francisco to Boise

Reviews

Chicken John takes chaos, dysfunction, and the Stupidest Show on Earth from San Francisco to Boise

Slap Shots

Chicken John takes chaos, dysfunction, and the Stupidest Show on Earth from San Francisco to Boise

Night Crawler

Chicken John takes chaos, dysfunction, and the Stupidest Show on Earth from San Francisco to Boise

White-boy blues

The life and times of Preacher Boy and the Natural Blues