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Pop Quiz: Beach Boys’ Al Jardine trips through the past on solo tour
Pop Quiz: Beach Boys’ Al Jardine trips through the past on solo tour
By Aidin Vaziri
Al Jardine, original founding member of the Beach Boys, has seen it all. For more than the past five decades, the diminutive blond singer and rhythm guitarist has stood at the center of the drama that has ...
This Week's Stories
Kacey Musgraves hits the dance floor on ‘Golden Hour’
Kacey Musgraves Pop Kacey Musgraves will always be the sweetheart of the radio. But the 29-year-old Texan singer-songwriter’s latest album, “Golden Hour,” finds her giving ...
CD review: Mark Applebaum, ‘Speed Dating’
Mark Applebaum New Music Just in time for the Other Minds Festival — which during the coming week will fill the ODC Theater with a variety of performances built around sound ...
How to experience the music of Coachella without leaving the Bay Area
There’s a lot to love about a great festival: the camaraderie of tens of thousands of fans assembled in one place, singing along with some of the biggest acts in music or discovering new favorites over ...
Taking the measure of the Baroque with Monteverdi’s ‘Vespers’
Monteverdi’s landmark “Vespers of 1610” is many things simultaneously — a work of liturgical music, a stylistic snapshot and an unabashed boast. The piece is an encyclopedic survey of all the ...
King celebrates Ella, the queen
The great Ella Fitzgerald would have turned 100 a year ago this month. But while she’s gone, her influence on other singers remains and, of course, her recordings are timeless. Among her most devoted ...
Soccer Mommy weaves influence of ’90s indie into contemporary angst
At 20, Sophie Allison has earned a reputation as the darling of the indie rock world. The Nashville singer-songwriter’s first proper studio album under the name Soccer Mommy, “Clean,” is made up of ...
Music Festival Guide
No crickets here. The sounds of summer in the Bay Area consist of plenty of guitar buzz, bass and cheering fans. We’ve got festival survival tips and event lineups. Are you ready to rock?
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California celebrated in Adams’ ambling violin concerto
No one appreciates a place as much as someone who’s moved there from somewhere else. Composer John Adams came to California nearly half a century ago, and he’s writing musical love letters to the ...
Steve Tyrell, coming to San Francisco, gives a bit of grit to...
Shell-shocked by the results of the 2016 presidential election, Hillary Clinton was barely seen in public for weeks after her electoral college drubbing. When she resurfaced in New York City with Bill, ...
Tenor Lawrence Brownlee unveils a new song cycle on themes of...
As a renowned operatic tenor, a honey-toned specialist in the music of Rossini with a burgeoning reputation, Lawrence Brownlee enjoys an enviable life in many ways. But he’s also a black man in America, ...
Outside Lands reveals first act set for 2018 festival
Portugal. The Man is just one of the bands performing at this year’s Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival , according to a cryptic tweet by festival officials posted Thursday afternoon. A portion ...
Bob Weir joins Sammy Hagar as co-host of Acoustic-4-A-Cure...
James Hetfield may be out touring the world with Metallica , but Sammy Hagar has found another capable partner to co-host his fifth annual Acoustic-4-A-Cure benefit concert. Fellow Marin resident and ...
Morlot’s tour with Seattle Symphony puts spotlight on John...
It’s been a long time since a piece of contemporary music landed with the kind of all-encompassing cultural splash that attended the 2013 world premiere of John Luther Adams’ “Become Ocean.” This ...
Scruffy local bands take flight on budget SF Eagle bill
There aren’t many venues left in San Francisco where you can catch three scruffy, noisy and downright awesome local bands on one bill for less than the price of avocado toast. But on Thursday, March 29, ...
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CD review: David Greilsammer, ‘Sounds of Transformation’
David Greilsammer Classical Each new CD by pianist David Greilsammer represents not only a musical document, but also a fresh rethinking of what a recording can be, and this new ...
Soccer Mommy’s messy emotions come to the surface in...
Soccer Mommy Rock There’s a sweet, amateurish quality to Soccer Mommy’s first full-length album, “Clean.” But Sophie Allison, the 20-year-old Nashville songwriter behind ...
Pop Quiz: Kelley Deal on how sobriety saved the Breeders, and...
The Breeders have gone through several lineup changes, but this year sees the return of the one that made the biggest splash, with 1993’s platinum-selling “Last Splash.” Composed of twins Kelley and ...
I’m With Her deliver folk through the prism of harmony
I’m With Her began on a whim — and well before Hillary Clinton adopted the phrase for her 2016 presidential campaign. The trio comprising folk musicians Sara Watkins, Aoife O’Donovan and Sarah ...
Lera Auerbach unveils a darkly formidable new piano work
In his “Pictures at an Exhibition,” Mussorgsky takes a listener along with him as he strolls along the spacious, rectilinear and well-lit halls of a gallery, peering at the artwork he encounters along ...
Lawrence Brownlee unveils work by Tyshawn Sorey
One of the things you can do as an artist with star power like the tenor Lawrence Brownlee is use that cachet to add to the repertoire. Brownlee is best known for his mastery of the bel canto operatic ...
Morris Day and the Time play in San Leandro
While Morris Day and the Time were the foils in Prince ’s breakthrough movie, “Purple Rain,” it was easy to walk away from that 1984 film wanting to see the Time in concert as much as, if not more ...
This Week's Stories
Kacey Musgraves hits the dance floor on ‘Golden Hour’
Kacey Musgraves Pop Kacey Musgraves will always be the sweetheart of the radio. But the 29-year-old Texan singer-songwriter’s latest album, “Golden Hour,” finds her giving ...
CD review: Mark Applebaum, ‘Speed Dating’
Mark Applebaum New Music Just in time for the Other Minds Festival — which during the coming week will fill the ODC Theater with a variety of performances built around sound ...
How to experience the music of Coachella without leaving the Bay Area
There’s a lot to love about a great festival: the camaraderie of tens of thousands of fans assembled in one place, singing along with some of the biggest acts in music or discovering new favorites over ...
Taking the measure of the Baroque with Monteverdi’s ‘Vespers’
Monteverdi’s landmark “Vespers of 1610” is many things simultaneously — a work of liturgical music, a stylistic snapshot and an unabashed boast. The piece is an encyclopedic survey of all the ...
King celebrates Ella, the queen
The great Ella Fitzgerald would have turned 100 a year ago this month. But while she’s gone, her influence on other singers remains and, of course, her recordings are timeless. Among her most devoted ...
Soccer Mommy weaves influence of ’90s indie into contemporary angst
At 20, Sophie Allison has earned a reputation as the darling of the indie rock world. The Nashville singer-songwriter’s first proper studio album under the name Soccer Mommy, “Clean,” is made up of ...
Music Festival Guide
No crickets here. The sounds of summer in the Bay Area consist of plenty of guitar buzz, bass and cheering fans. We’ve got festival survival tips and event lineups. Are you ready to rock?