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10 Music Festivals To Overwhelm 2013
Music festival season is upon us! Do you Roo, or do you Hickey
Read More »A Fan’s Notes: Amy Helm, Narrows Center For The Arts – Fall River, MA
Amy Helm and her first-rate band had a big night in Fall River
Read More »Live Music: Les Claypool’s Duo De Twang @ Terrapin Crossroads
Les Claypool is truly a singular artist. He’s transcended his various projects over the decades to become a sound, a style, a genre, all his own. When Primus was signed to a major label
Read More »This Line is Disconnected: Caro Emerald @ The El Rey
Two quick points about last week’s Caro Emerald show at the El Rey here in Los Angeles. The first: it made me feel my age (37 years). The second: it was terrific. While the
Read More »Live Music: Midge Ure Live in Cleveland, January 16, 2013
Midge Ure has engendered quite a bit of goodwill over the years, thanks to a long musical career spanning myriad genres. In the ‘70s and ‘80s alone, the Scotland native did time in amiable
Read More »Live Music: Happy Body Slow Brain at the Bottom of the Hill, San Francisco
If you’re still looking for a New Year’s resolution that will both enhance your life and not be so easily discarded, might I suggest that a great choice would be to see more live
Read More »Live Music: The Motet in San Francisco
Just before Christmas, the Motet lit up a little pocket of San Francisco, bringing a much-needed boost of merriment to a holiday season that felt to me more sad and stressful than festive, stamping
Read More »Live Music: Leonard Cohen @ HP Pavilion, San Jose
Only Leonard Cohen could transform a space as impersonal and corporately stamped as the HP Pavilion into a dazzling concert hall on a tired Wednesday night. Suburban yuppies filed in alongside the bohemian art
Read More »Live Music: The Presets at the Independent, San Francisco
Bay Area music fans rejoiced as the Treasure Island Music Festival came back into town for its sixth year this past weekend. In addition to hosting world-class musicians out on the San Francisco Bay,
Read More »Live Music: Shpongle at the Warfield, San Francisco
Our writer was officially Shpongled, and lived to tell the tale
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