Event | Mar 14, 2010

Part Vocal. Part String Quartet. Very Real.

RVSQ's music is by turns beautiful, haunting, mesmerizing and foot-stomping fun. The Quartet plays the Hotel Rex March 17. By Rik Malone

Music | Mar 08, 2010

Three to See: March 2010

March has totally blindsided me with a number of can't-miss concert opportunities around the Bay Area. Catch buzzed-about local trio Grass Widow at The Knockout before they blow up real good; Laura Gibson and Ethan Rose at Rickshaw Stop and So Cow at The Hemlock. By Ben Van Houten

Spark | Feb 28, 2010

Jacinta Vlach

Join choreographer Jacinta Vlach and saxophonist Howard Wiley, as they start work on a new dance theater production about San Francisco's Fillmore District.

Festival Report | Feb 27, 2010

SFJAZZ Spring Season Preview

SFJAZZ is equal parts nostalgic grandfather-type who tells you about the hep-cats who used to play with Coltrane and Miles Davis, and hipster college-station DJ who introduces you to amazing, obscure bands years before anyone else knows about them. By Tessa Stuart

Music Review | Feb 26, 2010

Joanna Newsom: Have One on Me

After her enchanting masterpiece Ys was released in 2006, Joanna Newsom kept quite a low profile musically. Fans of the Bay Area native and harp virtuoso began to worry that they might never again hear Newsom's anachronistic brand of quirky, literary, and lush music. Luckily, Have One on Me is here at last. It'll make you see stars. By Emmanuel Hapsis

Event | Feb 25, 2010

Stephin Merritt is all around us

Why the sudden ubiquity of tart-witted phrase turner, musical magpie, Magnetic Fields frontman and author of such songs as "The Cactus Where Your Heart Should Be"? By Jonathan Kiefer

The Bay Bridged | Feb 18, 2010

Noise Pop 2010 Preview Mix

The latest Bay Bridged podcast highlights ten of the great bands performing during the 2010 Noise Pop Music Festival, which kicks off on Tuesday, February 23.



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Festival Report | Feb 18, 2010

Live Music: Noise Pop Picks

Noise Pop, the Bay Area's most awesome festival of all things indie (music, art, film) starts next Tuesday, February 23, featuring the work of over 100 bands and artist in multiple venues around town. By Ben Van Houten

Art Review | Feb 11, 2010

Long Play: Bruce Conner and the Singles Collection

There's good rockin' tonight (and tomorrow, and the next day) at SFMOMA. By Michael Fox

Event | Feb 08, 2010

25 Years of Sticking Something New in Your Ear

Earplay opens their 25th season TONIGHT at the Herbst Theater with the Ear and There festival, providing locals a chance to hear brand new ear opening chamber music. By Rik Malone

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