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Live Music: The Jayhawks @ The Fillmore, February 4, 2012
I didn’t even know who the Jayhawks were in the ‘80s and most of the ‘90s, arguably the band’s defining years. I was a small town kid on the east coast and didn’t dig
Read More »Live Music: The Pimps of Joytime @ The Independent, January 28, 2012
The Pimps of Joytime lit up Divisadero Street in San Francisco this past weekend, playing back-to-back sold-out shows at the pristine sounding Independent and giving all the patrons in attendance serious cause to dance.
Read More »Live Music: Iggy Pop and the Stooges @ the Warfield, December 6, 2011
Earlier this week, I saw Iggy Pop and the Stooges perform live at the Warfield to an audience of about 2,000 people. The band was supposed to swing through San Francisco in September, but
Read More »Live Music: The Budos Band and Afrolicious at Mezzanine, November 19, 2011
The funk tends to bring the fun, and Saturday night’s installment of San Francisco’s 10th annual Funk Festival lured the city’s dance party people out to help Afrolicious and the Budos Band transform the
Read More »Live Music: Future Islands @ Bottom of the Hill, November 15, 2011
Straight out of Baltimore by way of Greenville, North Carolina, Future Islands brought their own brand of crazy to Bottom of the Hill on Tuesday night. The show, headlined by one of the Wham
Read More »Live Music: Julian Velard @ Schubas, November 4, 2011
A review of Julian Velard concert last Friday at Schubas in Chicago
Read More »Live Music: The Felice Brothers @ Great American Music Hall, October 27, 2011
At San Francisco’s Great American Music Hall late last week, the Felice Brothers proved themselves a long way from the early busking days that broke them onto the music scene back in 2006. A
Read More »Live Music: Newport Folk Festival Lineup Announced
Last night, the lineup for the 2011 Newport Folk Festival was announced at a live event in Cambridge,
Read More »Live Music: Neil Young & Joanna Newsom at Masonic Auditorium, San Francisco, CA, 12/8/10
Neil Young and Joanna Newsom lent their talents to a worthy cause in San Francisco, and Michael Fortes gives the rundown on how it all unfolded
Read More »Live Music: The Weepies, Hiro Ballroom, New York, NY, 11/10/2010
Michael Parr reviews The Weepies' recent performance at the Hiro Ballroom in
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