Terry Riley

Remotely Composed

Tri Angle Records Celebrates Its Birthday

Drone-Metal Duo Barn Owl Talks Desert Motifs, Meditative Sounds, and Performing in Cathedrals

Barn Owl​ San Francisco's Barn Owl makes densely layered guitar music that is equal parts heavy and beautiful. Guitarists Jon Porras and Evan K. Caminiti arrived at their textured sound six years ago while students at SF State, munching vegan tofu burritos and taking in music by rock god Neil ... More >>

Sunday Night: The Black Crowes Begin Their Last Stand at the Fillmore

Calibree PhotographyThe Black Crowes at the Fillmore last night.​The Black Crowes December 12, 2010 @ The Fillmore Better than: That thing Martin Scorsese lugged a camera to. To an Appalachian hillbilly transplant shivering through his first winter in the Bay Area, hearing that durable Southern ... More >>

The Octopus Project: Show Preview

Calibree PhotographyThe Black Crowes at the Fillmore last night.​The Black Crowes December 12, 2010 @ The Fillmore Better than: That thing Martin Scorsese lugged a camera to. To an Appalachian hillbilly transplant shivering through his first winter in the Bay Area, hearing that durable Southern ... More >>

Pantha Du Prince: Show Preview

Calibree PhotographyThe Black Crowes at the Fillmore last night.​The Black Crowes December 12, 2010 @ The Fillmore Better than: That thing Martin Scorsese lugged a camera to. To an Appalachian hillbilly transplant shivering through his first winter in the Bay Area, hearing that durable Southern ... More >>

Bobby Browser Pays Respect to the Past, Doesn't Like Dubstep

​ If one thing can be said about producer Bobby Browser (the stage moniker for Andre Ferriera), it's that he knows his dance music history. The statement is somewhat obvious if you've had the pleasure of hearing his vintage-sounding, classic-house-inspired tracks. And when Behind the Beat had the ... More >>

Five Places We Wish Bands Could Play in SF

Photo at Magowan's Infinite Mirror Maze at Pier 39. Why don't bands play here?​We're blessed with great live music venues here in San Francisco, but sometimes, bars, ballrooms, clubs, and arenas get kinda monotonous. Here are five more exotic locations that would make awesome spaces to see a band, ... More >>

En Garde!

Photo at Magowan's Infinite Mirror Maze at Pier 39. Why don't bands play here?​We're blessed with great live music venues here in San Francisco, but sometimes, bars, ballrooms, clubs, and arenas get kinda monotonous. Here are five more exotic locations that would make awesome spaces to see a band, ... More >>

Yoshi Wada’s heav(enl)y drones

Photo at Magowan's Infinite Mirror Maze at Pier 39. Why don't bands play here?​We're blessed with great live music venues here in San Francisco, but sometimes, bars, ballrooms, clubs, and arenas get kinda monotonous. Here are five more exotic locations that would make awesome spaces to see a band, ... More >>

Sticking Their Necks Out

Photo at Magowan's Infinite Mirror Maze at Pier 39. Why don't bands play here?​We're blessed with great live music venues here in San Francisco, but sometimes, bars, ballrooms, clubs, and arenas get kinda monotonous. Here are five more exotic locations that would make awesome spaces to see a band, ... More >>

Pauline Oliveros

Four Electronic Pieces, 1959-1966 (Sub Rosa)

The Gift of Admission

Four Electronic Pieces, 1959-1966 (Sub Rosa)

Growing

All the Way (Social Registry)

Nevada City Film Fest Features Mike Mills

All the Way (Social Registry)

The Contemporary Jewish Museum: What’s Inside Libeskind’s Box

All the Way (Social Registry)

Punk Family Values

Meet the Rosenthals: two generations of art stars in one six-story warehouse.

Kronos Quartet and Wu Man

Terry Riley: The Cusp of Magic (Nonesuch)

My Tunes: Kronos Quartet

David Harrington of the internationally respected string quartet

Wooden Shjips

S/T (Holy Mountain)

Adams vs. Glass

Two contemporary music giants descend upon the Bay

Lichens; White/Lichens

Omns (Kranky)

White/Lichens (Holy Mountain)

All in the Family: Grass Roots love for Nevada City

Omns (Kranky)

White/Lichens (Holy Mountain)

The Psychic Paramount

Origins and Primitives Vol. 1 and 2 (No Quarter)

Disco Braniacs

Matmos slides a healthy dose of funk into cryptic compositions

House of Tudor

Crimp your hair and borrow your dad's Chevy: You've been invited to Kunst-Stoff's "The Prom"

Cutting Edge

Progressive and contemporary music get along

Reps Etc.

Progressive and contemporary music get along

Zappa and Spooky and Grainger -- oh my!

Other Minds' Eyes & Ears film festival

SF Weekly Music Awards 2002

A galaxy-spanning journey through space and sound!

Hear This

George Brooks holds a summit meeting of American jazz and Indian classical music

Mind Over Clatter

A Pulitzer surprise notwithstanding, Other Minds continues its noncommercial quest to make the world safe for weird music

Josephine the Mouse Singer

Last Planet Theatre production

Riff Raff

Everything Quieter Than Everything Else; Studio Time

Various Artists

Machine Soul: An Odyssey into Electronic Dance Music, Ohm: The Early Gurus of Electronic Music

Making Up Their Minds

S.F.'s Other Minds Festival continues to blur the boundaries of modern composition

Riff Raff

Creatingmusic.com, "Silver Apples," and Morton Subotnick

Pointed Counterpoints

A decade after their first collaboration, Steve Reich and Kronos Quartet rediscover the art of the ensemble composition

Uncharted Territories

Trailblazing composer Terry Riley still seeks out new sources for improvisation

Melding Pot

Kronos Quartet blends history, cultures, and classical music

Hear This

Kronos Quartet blends history, cultures, and classical music

The Dark Shadow

Barbara Manning and the S.F. Seals find that Truth Walks in Sleepy Shadows

Night+Day

Barbara Manning and the S.F. Seals find that Truth Walks in Sleepy Shadows