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Sun Ra

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2012

    Live Review, 2/2/12: Shabazz Palaces Mellow Out Yoshi's

    Shabazz Palaces at Yoshi's last night.​ Shabazz Palaces Yoshi's S.F. Thursday, Feb. 2, 2012 Better than: Expecting a Digable Planets reunion. I won't lie: if I wasn't sure what to expect of Shabazz Palaces. I secretly hoped I might witness a Digable Planets revival at the very least. There ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 3, 2011

    Blaze Away with Sea Lions' Joyously Stoned Debut Album

    ​Listen to this while high: Sea Lions' Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sea Lions But Were Afraid to Ask.​Behind the buzz: These D.I.Y. brats outta Oxnard with a nice line in spirited tunefulness impressive enough for the reliably tasteful people at Oakland's Slumberland Records ... More >>

  • Music

    April 27, 2011

    TV on the Radio Steps Back to Gaze at the Apocalypse

    ​Listen to this while high: Sea Lions' Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sea Lions But Were Afraid to Ask.​Behind the buzz: These D.I.Y. brats outta Oxnard with a nice line in spirited tunefulness impressive enough for the reliably tasteful people at Oakland's Slumberland Records ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 17, 2011

    Salva Debuts XLR8R Podcast, Fisticuffs Video, Sun Ra Video Remix

    We've all been on bad dates, but this one is pretty twisted. That's the new hotness from local DJ, producer, and house music magnate Salva -- it has nothing to do with the Clipse song of the same name, but we'd argue it's equally disturbing. Probably more so, in fact.

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2011

    J*Davey and Blu Make Mischief And/Or Sense at 330 Ritch

    Def Sound​J*DaveyBluDef Soul@ 330 RitchThursday, March 10, 2011Better than: A late-night spelling bee. San Francisco came out last night to party in good faith -- to get down, make noise, say Yeeaaayyuh, the usual -- but the partying spirit was damped, at least in my case, by an hour and fifteen ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 22, 2011

    Salva Channels the Spirit of Sun Ra for New Video 'Weeeird Science'

    ​Salva's new album, Complex Housing, is pretty damn good. And to go along with the album, he's dropped his first video in the form of "Weeeird Science," which is over three minutes of Salva's lithe and futuristic productions set to rearranged and augmented clips from Sun Ra's Space Is The Place.

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2011

    Spending High Time with MC5 -- A Guided, Stoned Tour through Motor City Mayhem

    ​Listen to this while high: High Time by MC5. Behind the buzz: Our recent visit to the Detroit retro-rock showroom sends us straight to the Cadillac of crunk rock, the Motor City Five. Elektra Records' overweening lust for a piece of the huge Midwestern rock LP market led to its short-lived assoc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2011

    This New Beep Video Will Give You Nightmares About Going to the Doctor

    Scary!​Maybe it's just us, but this trippy first video from jazzy San Francisco experimental outfit Beep looks very much like the nightmares we used to get as a kid after staring for too long at the posters on our doctor's wall. Weird hip-bone bubbles, pulsating human organs, 19th-century medical ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 12, 2011

    Adventures in Augmented Reality: Download New Flying Lotus Tracks With Your Webcam

    Flying Lotus​I've always maintained that, more than hip-hop or techno or IDM, Flying Lotus' Cosmogramma is an avant-jazz album. You can hear shades of Eric Dolphy, Sun Ra, Andrew Hill, and John Coltrane (naturally -- that's Steven Ellison's great uncle) all over the 45-minute gem. Apparently Elli ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 6, 2010

    Art of Eating's Ed Behr Shares His POV at Omnivore

    The Art of Eating, Ed Behr's prescient preoccupation.​If Art of Eating editor and publisher Ed Behr were the subject of a feature film, Taste is the Place wouldn't ― with apologies to Sun Ra ― be a bad title. Since launching his quarterly 24 years ago, the former carpenter has made the con ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 14, 2010

    Exclusive: DJ Mini-Mix From Bookworms

    ​Nicholas Dawson has been hard at work for over five years on the musical project Bookworms. In that time, Dawson has churned out a couple of EPs and the full-length LP The Hidden Staircase on Solos Records, in addition to remixing local favorites Mi Ami and Lemonade. His style is hard t ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 9, 2010

    Whaty Whaty?

    ​Nicholas Dawson has been hard at work for over five years on the musical project Bookworms. In that time, Dawson has churned out a couple of EPs and the full-length LP The Hidden Staircase on Solos Records, in addition to remixing local favorites Mi Ami and Lemonade. His style is hard t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 7, 2010

    A 2010 Playlist for Outer Space (Update on Carl Sagan's '77 List)

    New York's Vulture blog recently posted a link to the music Carl Sagan helped provide for robotic probes Voyager 1 and 2 back in the early days of space exploration. According to Lapham's Quarterly, Sagan was part of a curatorial crew that etched a soundtrack perfect for galaxy viewing into a "12-in ... More >>

  • Music

    February 3, 2010

    Works by Manson Family pal Bobby BeauSoleil’s Orkustra compiled on double album

    New York's Vulture blog recently posted a link to the music Carl Sagan helped provide for robotic probes Voyager 1 and 2 back in the early days of space exploration. According to Lapham's Quarterly, Sagan was part of a curatorial crew that etched a soundtrack perfect for galaxy viewing into a "12-in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 8, 2009

    Track of the Day: Julian Priester

    One secret ingredient in the elephantine new Sunn O))) record, Monoliths & Dimensions, is Julian Priester. The murky, dirgey album's coda comes from the trombonist, who adds free jazz to "Alice" after a record's worth of metal, drone, and other bone-compressing free for alls. (He also plays a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 5, 2009

    Saturday Night: Pharaoh Sanders at Yoshi's Oakland

    Pharaoh SandersYoshi's OaklandJan. 3, 2009Review by Eric K. Arnold Better Than: Watching Kenny G on Craig Kilborn. Pharaoh Sanders has an impeccable jazz pedigree. One of the titans of the way-out, dissonant style known as free jazz, the tenor saxophonist emerged in the mid-'60s as a counterpart ... More >>

  • Music

    December 17, 2008

    Black electronic acts break beats and assumptions

    Pharaoh SandersYoshi's OaklandJan. 3, 2009Review by Eric K. Arnold Better Than: Watching Kenny G on Craig Kilborn. Pharaoh Sanders has an impeccable jazz pedigree. One of the titans of the way-out, dissonant style known as free jazz, the tenor saxophonist emerged in the mid-'60s as a counterpart ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 25, 2008

    MP3 of the Day: Colossal Yes

    Oh man do I love Utrillo Kushner's piano jams. Comets on Fire's drummer takes a breather from pounding out the thunder with his ivories-tickling side project, Colossal Yes. The band released an excellent debut,  Acapulco Roughs, in 2006, an album that cut the difference between the Band and Row ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2008

    Last Night: Heloise & The Savoir Faire

    Oh man do I love Utrillo Kushner's piano jams. Comets on Fire's drummer takes a breather from pounding out the thunder with his ivories-tickling side project, Colossal Yes. The band released an excellent debut,  Acapulco Roughs, in 2006, an album that cut the difference between the Band and Row ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 2, 2008

    Pharaoh Speaks

    Oh man do I love Utrillo Kushner's piano jams. Comets on Fire's drummer takes a breather from pounding out the thunder with his ivories-tickling side project, Colossal Yes. The band released an excellent debut,  Acapulco Roughs, in 2006, an album that cut the difference between the Band and Row ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 12, 2007

    Tonight! Mushroom with jazz great Eddie Gale

    Oh man do I love Utrillo Kushner's piano jams. Comets on Fire's drummer takes a breather from pounding out the thunder with his ivories-tickling side project, Colossal Yes. The band released an excellent debut,  Acapulco Roughs, in 2006, an album that cut the difference between the Band and Row ... More >>

  • Music

    July 4, 2007

    Radioactive Clout

    Local genre-tweakers Mushroom meld with jazz giant Eddie Gale

  • Music

    October 18, 2006

    Indie Rock

    Ay, no mi tengo

  • Music

    June 7, 2006

    Sun Ra

    Sun Ra Research CD Two

  • Music

    March 29, 2006

    Floating on Vetiver's fumes; Free jazz befriends Four Tet

    Sun Ra Research CD Two

  • Calendar

    August 10, 2005

    Film Threat

    Form-tweaking docs

  • Calendar

    June 22, 2005

    Marshaling the Troupes

    Glamour-rama

  • Music

    August 11, 2004

    Hear This

    Catch the Fever's pan-genre rock sickness; Eddie Gale unveils why he's San Jose's "Ambassador of Jazz."

  • Music

    December 31, 2003

    Ferociously Stoned

    Remember when psych rock thrived in S.F.? Of course you don't. You were high. But Comets on Fire will jar more than your memory.

  • Calendar

    July 2, 2003

    Sun King

    The hokum of hippies or a boon to jazz progress? You decide.

  • Music

    June 4, 2003

    Hear This

    The jazz-schooled punks of Go-Go Fightmaster celebrate their debut CD, a tour de force of in-your-face eclecticism

  • Calendar

    May 14, 2003

    Shut Up and Listen

    A genre-crunching music fest

  • Music

    April 30, 2003

    To Sun Ra With Love

    The Hinds brothers make art about -- and inspired by -- Saturn's most influential musician

  • Music

    December 27, 2000

    Personal Best

    What the world needs now is a wholly subjective, occasionally snarky awards ceremony

  • Calendar

    August 9, 2000

    Pagan Lounge

    Rosin Coven

  • Music

    November 17, 1999

    Hear This

    Eddie Gale Quintet

  • Music

    August 11, 1999

    Hear This

    Eddie Gale Quintet

  • Calendar

    May 5, 1999

    The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

    Eddie Gale Quintet

  • Calendar

    March 31, 1999

    Night + Day

    Eddie Gale Quintet

  • Music

    December 23, 1998

    The House of Tudor

    Eddie Gale Quintet

  • Calendar

    July 29, 1998

    Night + Day

    Eddie Gale Quintet

  • Music

    May 27, 1998

    Unextended Play

    Putting the compact back in compact disc

  • Music

    March 18, 1998

    Riff Raff

    Putting the compact back in compact disc

  • Calendar

    December 10, 1997

    Night+Day

    Putting the compact back in compact disc

  • Music

    April 9, 1997

    The House of Tudor

    Putting the compact back in compact disc

  • Music

    February 5, 1997

    Hear This

    Putting the compact back in compact disc

  • Music

    October 30, 1996

    Recordings

    Putting the compact back in compact disc

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