BruceSpringsteen.netThe BossBreak out the Sharpie and circle your calendars. The lineup for the 2009 Bonnaroo Festival has just been announced, and suffice to say Woodstock and Lollapalooza have nothing on this. Just when you thought the four-day music and arts extravaganza, held on a farm in rural Tennessee, could get no bigger, the promoters snag Bruce Springsteen--fresh off his Super Bowl halftime performance--as their headliner, earning much more "cool points" than the Coachella Festival, wh
EKAphotographyGalactic (with guest emcee Boots Riley) at the Fillmore, 2007
We've enjoyed summer-like weather the past few days here in the Bay Area, so what better time to announce a summertime music and camping festival? Today, the High Sierra Music Festival, which takes place July 2-5 in Quincy (Plumas County - about four hours from SF) announced its 2009 lineup, which looks promising indeed. While High Sierra typically leans heavily on folk and nu-Americana acts, festival organizers have lan
Laura WilliamsAfrican Blues: Vieux Farka Toure
SF's esteemed world music label Six Degrees have added to their already enviable track record (which includes Bebel Gilberto, Bossacucanova, Alice Russell, and Cheb I Sabbah) with Fondo, the latest album from Malian guitarist Vieux Farka Toure. The album, which drops May 26, is a stunning display of traditional African folk music blended with a bit of blues-rock. Though obviously inspired by his late father, the legendary Ali Farka Toure, Fondo fin
EKAphotographyRoom with a Vieux: Vieux Farka Toure
In this economy, who has the means to travel internationally anymore? Luckily, with all the world music acts coming through the Bay Area of late, you don't have to have a passport, visa, hotel, and plane ticket to catch some of the most scintillating global groovesters around. For example, last week I went to France, and this past weekend, I traveled to Mexico, Mali, and Brazil (twice). And I didn't even have to leave the 7x7 square miles of th
EKAphotographyMichael Franti at 2008's PTTP​
Watch out, Outside Lands and TIMF! Power to the Peaceful--Michael Franti's annual free party in Golden Gate Park--has announced the lineup for this year's throwdown, which is expected to bring between 50 and 75 thousand people. The featured artists this year are not only one of the strongest PttP bills to date, but stack up well against the big-time acts at the other, non-free, music festivals happening later this fall in San Francisco.
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EKAphotography copyright 2009. all rights reservedVoodoo Child? Vieux Farka Toure
It would be somewhat of a disservice to Vieux Farka Toure to call him the Jimi Hendrix of Malian music. Though he's definitely an innovator and an amazing player--sometimes given to playing behind his back, as Hendrix did--and has updated African music much like Jimi gave the blues a psychedelic facelift, Toure belongs in his own box. The last time he played the Independent, he held the crowd in rapture for
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