The Mekons

CD Review: Turbonegro - Retox

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival Keeps Piling It On

The Gourds

Haymaker! (Yep Roc)

Heavenly Choir

Haymaker! (Yep Roc)

Mekons

Natural (Quarterstick)

Josef K

Entomology (Domino)

Birdmonster

No Midnight

From the Molecules to the Mekons; genres get scrambled and sanctiomy gets scrapped

No Midnight

Hear This

Maximo Park's Wire-y rock, the Mekons' many side projects, and the final installment of "Ace of Spades"

Sally Timms

In the World of Him

Mekons

Punk Rock

Pine Valley Cosmonauts

The Executioner's Last Songs Vol. 2 & 3

Hear This

The Magnetic Fields' Stephin Merritt is too prolific to lay low

The Firm

The curiously compelling rock cocks of Cynthia Plaster Caster

House of Tudor

Soviet film satire, organ plaster-casting, and animal 'toon carnage

Don Lennon

Downtown (Secretly Canadian)

Pop Philosophy

What's up, doc?

Hear This

Aden

The 6ths

Hyacinths and Thistles (Merge)

Not Missing the Hits

For 25 years, the Mekons' lack of success has kept them going.

Perfectly Weird

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

House Of Tudor

Zmrzlina, Little Jimmy Scott, Hank Crawford, and Jimmy McGriff

Riff Raff

Singing a New Tune, What's in a Name?, Back in Business, and Spin Control

Reviews

Rico Bell & the Snake Handlers' Dark Side of the Mersey, The Mekons' Where Were You?, and Stefon Harris' BlackActionFigure

Review

The Aluminum Group's Pedals

Those Who Dared

Why the three San Francisco music scene vets who make up Virginia Dare have happily retired to home and hearth

The House of Tudor

Why the three San Francisco music scene vets who make up Virginia Dare have happily retired to home and hearth

Country and Midwestern

Why the three San Francisco music scene vets who make up Virginia Dare have happily retired to home and hearth

Measure for Measure

Why the three San Francisco music scene vets who make up Virginia Dare have happily retired to home and hearth

Riff Raff

Why the three San Francisco music scene vets who make up Virginia Dare have happily retired to home and hearth

House of Tudor

Why the three San Francisco music scene vets who make up Virginia Dare have happily retired to home and hearth

Year of the Elephant

Dead guys, psychedelic pop, and no sober opinions at South by Southwest 1998

The House of Tudor

Dead guys, psychedelic pop, and no sober opinions at South by Southwest 1998

Kiddie Primer

Dead guys, psychedelic pop, and no sober opinions at South by Southwest 1998

Suspicious Minds

Dead guys, psychedelic pop, and no sober opinions at South by Southwest 1998

Suspicious Minds

Dead guys, psychedelic pop, and no sober opinions at South by Southwest 1998

Suspicious Minds

Dead guys, psychedelic pop, and no sober opinions at South by Southwest 1998

Suspicious Minds

Dead guys, psychedelic pop, and no sober opinions at South by Southwest 1998

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Pools Together Roots Music Enthusiasts

Dead guys, psychedelic pop, and no sober opinions at South by Southwest 1998

Very Post-Punk

Dead guys, psychedelic pop, and no sober opinions at South by Southwest 1998

Or, the Whale

Dead guys, psychedelic pop, and no sober opinions at South by Southwest 1998

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Day 1: This Is About Coming Together

​Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Day 1Oct. 2, 2010 @ Golden Gate ParkBetter than: chasing a fox out the hen house.  San Francisco's Hardly Strictly Bluegrass
festival sings America. The annual outdoor concert is about coming together:
scores of rootsy musicians, a half-million or more conc ... More >>

For the Sadies, country twang is a family affair

​Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Day 1Oct. 2, 2010 @ Golden Gate ParkBetter than: chasing a fox out the hen house.  San Francisco's Hardly Strictly Bluegrass
festival sings America. The annual outdoor concert is about coming together:
scores of rootsy musicians, a half-million or more conc ... 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 >>

Gram Parsons Tribute Concert: Show Preview

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 >>

Mekons at Hardly Strictly: Sally Timms Talks Longevity and the Punk Rock Ethos

The Mekons​ The Mekons are not like any other band. Almost an art collective as much as a regular rock band, the British outfit was born out of the same late-'70s Leeds punk rock scene that birthed such legends as the Gang of Four. But where Gang of Four favored spare, scathing post-punk, the ... More >>

R.I.P. Warren Hellman, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Founder and Eccentric Banjo Player

Jay BlakesbergWarren Hellman at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass​ Warren Hellman, the billionaire banjo-picker and eccentric who founded the free Hardly Strictly Bluegrass music festival, lost his battle with leukemia on Sunday. He was 77. Hellman was a successful investment banker a beloved philant ... More >>

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

Jay BlakesbergWarren Hellman at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass​ Warren Hellman, the billionaire banjo-picker and eccentric who founded the free Hardly Strictly Bluegrass music festival, lost his battle with leukemia on Sunday. He was 77. Hellman was a successful investment banker a beloved philant ... More >>