 | A Monthly Preview of the Best Shows As we head deeper into our version of summer, July heats up with an amazing line-up of bands from around the world that are coming through the Bay Area for outdoors shows and festivals. Most notably, the Stern Grove Festival turns 70 this year and continues to innovate with bhangra, Brazilian funk and preservation hall jazz for a free series of amazing Sunday afternoons.More |
 | "Music is a force that can melt your who body into one." --Anias Nin It lifts you up and gets you out, but how long can you keep it up? As the city's leading importer and melting pot of world music, check out these amazing shows coming to the city. Representing places from Senegal to Columbia and groove music on the Latino tip, these band's will keep you movin' and groovin'. Lest we forget the indie rockers, SF and Boston bands bring on the noise. Along with the North Beach Jazz Festival, celebrating their 10th Anniversary, they present this month with the world's largest Hip-Hop Orchestra.More |
 | "An every gimmick hungry boy digging gold from rock 'n' roll, Grabs the mike to tell us he'll die before he's sold." In the latest scheme to sell more tickets by adding Jam Bands to the roster going sideways due to poor ticket sales, Lollapalooza is calling it quits. So what's next? Would it be sacrilege if Perry joined up with Madonna and religious bands to form Kabballapolooza?More |
 | With all this machinery making modern music, it's great to see that big bands are back grooving on styles from Ska to Afro-beat to even the premier of a special Eno-orchestra. Live hip-hop is back with a new home in the Mission's new club 12 Galaxies as True Skool brings back live acts to the mix. DNA's stages a fund raiser for the St. James Infirmary for the hard-rockin' and gothedelically inclined. Here's another serving of six summer audio treats:More |
 | City classics the Haight St. Fair and the Annual Stern Grove free concert series will both be jumpstarting the summer season on Sunday June 13th. So do you roll through the Haight early and then over to Stern Grove in time to catch openers Tin Hat Trio? Or do you start out at the Grove and bust a crazy move to squeeze your way into the sun and alcohol soaked Haight Street fair before it ends at 5:30? From Hip-Hop and Hindi music and industrial Indie to African Griot and the runaway rock-kitty, all have come to town for our summer in the City.More |
 | May turns electric, eclectic and experimental. The Bay Area has always been home to the great experimenters. The next few weeks bring in a amazing array of boundary pushing talent from Buckethead to the highly visual multimedia shows of the Kronos Quartet and RJD2. Salty old punks the New Model Army come over from across the pond to play the DNA. And the good old East Bay delivers two of their finest: Rogue Wave and Hyim & the Fat Foakland Orchestra all roll into town for your Great Night Out.More |
 | What better way to kick off the month of May than checking out the 5th Annual How Weird Street Faire! Dance around the may pole and rejoice in the wonders of the city. You never what you'll see or hear this Saturday May 1st in the SOMA(12th and Howard Streets).More |
 | April 16 - 30 For most ardent music fans, the thrill is all about the discovery of the latest new band or cool new innovative song. Nobody has epitomized this more than the "Mayor of Sunset Strip" Rodney "on-the- ROQ" Bingenheimer. All music fans should check out this documentary during its limited engagement run here in town. Throughout this bittersweet documentary, I found myself floored by both the soundtrack and by all the artists that he had championed, everyone from Bowie and Blondie to the Smiths, Coldplay and No Doubt.More |
 | Spring has sprung its way back into our lives, so why not keep on hopping? Bay Area Hip-Hop has always been a force to be reckoned with, and we are lucky enough to be able to see the old school, new school and there-ain't-no-school-yet school shows coming through. Hip-Hoppers bear witness- knowledge is nutritious.More |
 | As we soak up this early summer in the City, here is your first your bi-weekly six-pack of hits for you to choose from for a great night out. I'll help you find that elusive show, the one where you realize you are at the right place at the right time, seeing the right band. So where to begin, the king - Alice in Wonderland - once said one can "Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop." The king is dead but not forgotten.More |
