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Willie Nelson

  • Blogs

    April 18, 2012

    The Top 20 Greatest San Francisco Musicians, Nos. 10-6

    See also: * The Top 20 Greatest San Francisco Musicians, Nos. 20-16 * The Top 20 Greatest San Francisco Musicians, Nos. 15-11 Throughout this week, we're counting down the greatest San Francisco musicians of all time. Having already honored the likes of Etta James, Mike Patton, and Michael Tilson ... More >>

  • Music

    January 25, 2012

    The Wizard of Wilco: A Conversation with Guitarist Nels Cline

    See also: * The Top 20 Greatest San Francisco Musicians, Nos. 20-16 * The Top 20 Greatest San Francisco Musicians, Nos. 15-11 Throughout this week, we're counting down the greatest San Francisco musicians of all time. Having already honored the likes of Etta James, Mike Patton, and Michael Tilson ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2012

    Wilco's Nels Cline on Working with Jeff Tweedy and His Reputation for Weird Sounds

    From SF Weekly's latest print music section: The Wizard of Wilco: Nels Cline is extremely lucky, and he knows it. Widely regarded as one of the world's finest living guitarists, Cline came up playing styles of music whose audience is sadly shrinking: jazz, improvisatory, and avant-garde. If those w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 3, 2011

    Saturday at Hardly Strictly: Merle Haggard and Kris Kristofferson Become the Great HSB Unifiers

    Merle Haggard & Kris Kristofferson A.A. Bondy Robyn Hitchcock Hugh Laurie October 1, 2011 Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Better than: Seeing Neil Young after he released Greendale, that's for sure. A man dressed in an official Hardly Strictly shirt walks out to say that the biggest set of the day will ... More >>

  • Film

    August 24, 2011

    "Our Idiot Brother": Predictable and Shallow Indie Ensemble Comedy

    Merle Haggard & Kris Kristofferson A.A. Bondy Robyn Hitchcock Hugh Laurie October 1, 2011 Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Better than: Seeing Neil Young after he released Greendale, that's for sure. A man dressed in an official Hardly Strictly shirt walks out to say that the biggest set of the day will ... More >>

  • Culture

    June 22, 2011

    Summer Guide: Pioneertown's Faux Frontier Paradise

    Merle Haggard & Kris Kristofferson A.A. Bondy Robyn Hitchcock Hugh Laurie October 1, 2011 Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Better than: Seeing Neil Young after he released Greendale, that's for sure. A man dressed in an official Hardly Strictly shirt walks out to say that the biggest set of the day will ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2011

    Which Bar Has North Beach's Best Jukebox?

    The juke at Tosca​The heyday of authentic jukeboxes is long over. With many bars installing those nasty touchscreen digital Internet boxes, the old school record-flipping kind of jukebox is a dying breed. And this is in the town that originated the concept of jukeboxes back in 1889. So what denote ... More >>

  • Music

    October 13, 2010

    Sonic Booty

    Six sets worth plundering at this year's Treasure Island Music Festival.

  • Blogs

    August 1, 2010

    Friday Night: Kinky Friedman and Carletta Sue Kay at Great American Music Hall

    Wade GrubbsL-R: Jeff "Little Jewford" Shelby, Kinky Friedman, and Washington Ratso​Kinky FriedmanCarletta Sue Kay July 30, 2010, @Great American Music Hall Better than: Nobody. Friedman is a Jewish Renaissance dude: a singer-songwriter, writer of comedic crime novels, independent po ... More >>

  • Music

    April 14, 2010

    Hot Chip's snuggly club tunes

    Wade GrubbsL-R: Jeff "Little Jewford" Shelby, Kinky Friedman, and Washington Ratso​Kinky FriedmanCarletta Sue Kay July 30, 2010, @Great American Music Hall Better than: Nobody. Friedman is a Jewish Renaissance dude: a singer-songwriter, writer of comedic crime novels, independent po ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 22, 2009

    Last Night: Weezer's 'Secret Show' at the Regency

    Joseph Schell ​WeezerWednesday, Oct. 21, 2009The RegencyBetter than: Seeing an arena rock band in an arena.Just to be clear, there was a lot of screaming going on at the Regency last night for Weezer's free "secret" show. Fans screamed when the line they were standing in outside the venue--a line ... More >>

  • Film

    May 14, 2008

    Art House

    Joseph Schell ​WeezerWednesday, Oct. 21, 2009The RegencyBetter than: Seeing an arena rock band in an arena.Just to be clear, there was a lot of screaming going on at the Regency last night for Weezer's free "secret" show. Fans screamed when the line they were standing in outside the venue--a line ... More >>

  • Music

    April 9, 2008

    Cat Power Under the Covers: A Listening Party with Jukebox Muses

    Joseph Schell ​WeezerWednesday, Oct. 21, 2009The RegencyBetter than: Seeing an arena rock band in an arena.Just to be clear, there was a lot of screaming going on at the Regency last night for Weezer's free "secret" show. Fans screamed when the line they were standing in outside the venue--a line ... More >>

  • Music

    October 3, 2007

    Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Pools Together Roots Music Enthusiasts

    Joseph Schell ​WeezerWednesday, Oct. 21, 2009The RegencyBetter than: Seeing an arena rock band in an arena.Just to be clear, there was a lot of screaming going on at the Regency last night for Weezer's free "secret" show. Fans screamed when the line they were standing in outside the venue--a line ... More >>

  • News

    March 14, 2007

    Full Nelson

    Can pro basketball's second-winningest coach put the Warriors back on the warpath? Don't count him out too quick.

  • Film

    November 15, 2006

    Radical Chick

    You can't tell Natalie Maines to Shut Up & Sing

  • Music

    October 11, 2006

    Bob Dylan

    Modern Times (Columbia)

  • Music

    December 28, 2005
  • Home Entertainment

    December 7, 2005

    Sweat Along With Russell

    Modern Times (Columbia)

  • Home Entertainment

    November 23, 2005

    Sweat Along With Russell

    Modern Times (Columbia)

  • Calendar

    October 12, 2005

    This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

    Modern Times (Columbia)

  • Film

    August 3, 2005

    White Trash

    There's nothing good about this remake of an awful ol' show

  • Music

    November 3, 2004

    No Sleep Till Oakland

    With its array of homemade instruments, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum makes Futurism fun again.

  • Calendar

    February 25, 2004

    Cash on Demand

    We still mourn the Man in Black

  • Music

    February 11, 2004

    The Noticon

    Germany's the Notwist and Oakland's Anticon are the hottest new coupling since Bennifer

  • Calendar

    January 21, 2004

    Wealth of Advice

    Germany's the Notwist and Oakland's Anticon are the hottest new coupling since Bennifer

  • Film

    August 6, 2003

    Kiss Me, Sons of God

    Gigantic nearly deifies They Might Be Giants -- and why not?

  • Music

    June 25, 2003

    House of Tudor

    Party like it's 1984, and the swamp rock-turned-street punk of Throw Rag

  • Music

    February 19, 2003

    The Littlest Songbird

    Jolie Holland sings the prettiest tunes -- informed by ghosts, bayous, and a whole lot of traveling

  • News

    February 12, 2003

    Bean There, Candied That

    Jason Mecier has a métier, and it's mosaic: beans, pasta, yarn, candy, junk, and pencils combined in a kitsch-art wonderland

  • Music

    November 20, 2002

    Johnny Cash|Various Artists

    At Madison Square Garden|American IV: The Man Comes Around|Dressed in Black|Kindred Spirits

  • Music

    July 3, 2002

    The Flatlanders

    Now Again (New West)

  • News

    February 27, 2002

    The House That Chuck Built

    What nasty business is behind the biggest donation to the new gay and lesbian center?

  • Film

    May 16, 2001

    Under Ogre

    Shrek offers an amusing, if empty, fractured fairy tale

  • Music

    February 7, 2001

    Amy Rigby

    The Sugar Tree (Koch)

  • Film

    June 28, 2000

    The Perfect Spoiler

    George Clooney stars in The Perfect Storm

  • Music

    November 17, 1999

    Solitary Man

    Tom Armstrong gave up on punk rock -- and Iowa -- for honky-tonk

  • Music

    August 18, 1999

    The House of Tudor

    Tom Armstrong gave up on punk rock -- and Iowa -- for honky-tonk

  • Music

    March 3, 1999

    Another Crossroads

    Former Sister Double Happiness frontman Gary Floyd re-confronts his (and America's) musical roots

  • Music

    February 3, 1999

    Reviews

    Former Sister Double Happiness frontman Gary Floyd re-confronts his (and America's) musical roots

  • Music

    November 18, 1998

    Still Giving It Up

    Delbert McClinton has something better than a record deal a sound all his own

  • Music

    September 9, 1998

    Take This Tradition and Shove It

    Experimentalist Eugene Chadbourne reworks country and jazz, sticks it to the KKK, makes guitars out of rakes and toasters -- and dreams of working with Willie Nelson

  • Calendar

    May 13, 1998

    Night Crawler

    Experimentalist Eugene Chadbourne reworks country and jazz, sticks it to the KKK, makes guitars out of rakes and toasters -- and dreams of working with Willie Nelson

  • Calendar

    October 29, 1997

    Night+Day

    Experimentalist Eugene Chadbourne reworks country and jazz, sticks it to the KKK, makes guitars out of rakes and toasters -- and dreams of working with Willie Nelson

  • Calendar

    April 30, 1997

    Slap Shots

    Experimentalist Eugene Chadbourne reworks country and jazz, sticks it to the KKK, makes guitars out of rakes and toasters -- and dreams of working with Willie Nelson

  • Music

    March 26, 1997

    The House of Tudor

    Experimentalist Eugene Chadbourne reworks country and jazz, sticks it to the KKK, makes guitars out of rakes and toasters -- and dreams of working with Willie Nelson

  • Music

    March 5, 1997

    Country Candor

    Experimentalist Eugene Chadbourne reworks country and jazz, sticks it to the KKK, makes guitars out of rakes and toasters -- and dreams of working with Willie Nelson

  • Music

    February 26, 1997

    Recordings

    Experimentalist Eugene Chadbourne reworks country and jazz, sticks it to the KKK, makes guitars out of rakes and toasters -- and dreams of working with Willie Nelson

  • Music

    October 9, 1996

    The House of Tudor

    Experimentalist Eugene Chadbourne reworks country and jazz, sticks it to the KKK, makes guitars out of rakes and toasters -- and dreams of working with Willie Nelson

  • Music

    January 3, 1996

    The Book of Lists

    SF Weekly contributors salute the best (and worst) music of 1995

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