Arts & Entertainment From Protests to Parades: SF’s Brass Bands Keep the Spirit Alive Fat Tuesday is next week with a free all-ages Mardi Gras festival in the Fillmore and performances by Mission Delirium and New Orleans' Rebirth Brass Band in the Mission. SFist takes a closer look at a few local brass bands that have influenced the scene through the years.
Arts & Entertainment Local Musicians: Bring Joy, Sign Up To Play Some Bach On BART Local musicians who like Bach, sign up for next month's annual Bach in the Subways event. We could all use a pick-me-up, but be sure to get your permit!
Arts & Entertainment Historic Oakland Music Landmark Vandalized, GoFundMe Campaign Launched Thieves recently stole 40 plaques from Oakland’s Walk of Fame, erasing tributes to music legends like B.B. King and Aretha Franklin. A GoFundMe aims to raise $150K to replace them and restore the landmark.
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Steve Martin Is One Serious Banjo Player Comedian and actor turned playwright Steve Martin also plays banjo on the side, because as he and Stephen Colbert recently discussed, he's a polymath and apparently never sleeps. He's got a new album
Arts & Entertainment Exclusive: Bubbles Recorded This Love Letter Track To San Francisco Two Months Before He Was Killed As we learned right after he was fatally shot in the Tenderloin two weeks ago, local character, artist, DJ, and nightlife personality Bubbles was planning to leave San Francisco for good to move
Arts & Entertainment Internet Archive Trying To Digitize Every Old 78 Record In Existence Fans of old vinyl records will not hiss at this news: The Internet Archive and the Archive of Contemporary Music are attempting to preserve and digitize every single remaining 78-rpm vinyl album, and
Arts & Entertainment Go Do This Thing: Free Large-Scale Jazz Piece At The Sutro Baths Catch what the New York Times calls "the ultimate environmental piece" and what a New Yorker reviewer calls "one of the most rapturous experiences of my listening life" (!) when John Luther Adams' jazz
Arts & Entertainment SF Symphony Closes Out Season With Berlioz's 'Romeo and Juliet' Over last weekend, the SF Symphony ended its 2016-17 season with some fireworks: a dazzling performance of Berlioz's Romeo and Juliet. Like his Requiem, Romeo and Juliet is an odd bird, a choral
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Burger Boogaloo Blows Up Oakland's Mosswood Park by Nicole Gluckstern Though the biggest (to date) Burger Boogaloo did not go off without a single hitch (there security fence issues, and inadequate trash receptacles), we had a great time taking in
SF News Tenderloin Ukulele Player Beaten With Hammer A Tenderloin-area ukulele player was the victim of a violent mugging Sunday, when he was beaten and robbed of his instrument. The crime, police say, occurred at 6:30 a.m. Sunday near
Arts & Entertainment Rec And Parks Denies 'Summer Of Love' Concert Yet Again, But The Hearing Was Hilarious Will promoter and old-school hippie Boots Hughston ever catch a break? The 68-year-old has been trying to get the city and County of San Francisco to let him produce a free concert in
SF News Neil Young's Bridge School Benefit Is No More Well this is some sad news for fans of live music and children. Neil Young's annual Bridge School Benefit Concert has reportedly been sent out to pasture. The 30-year-old, always star-heavy acoustic concert
Arts & Entertainment Rock of Ageds: Your 'Throwback' Summer Concert Guide For 2017 The classic rock reunion festival known as “Oldchella” will not be taking place this summer, but neither Styx nor the Stones will be taking the summer of 2017 off. (The Stones, however, will
Arts & Entertainment 'Flower Piano' Returns To Golden Gate Park In July Flower Piano, the now annual event in which the San Francisco Botanical Garden (SFBG) in Golden Gate Park gets transformed into a dozen outdoor concert halls, will be back for its third straight
Arts & Entertainment Cafe Du Nord Officially Relaunches With June 1 Party And Rogue Wave Show Today we got some more details of the previously announced rebirth of Cafe du Nord as a full-time music venue, and among the new details we learn that the space is going to
Arts & Entertainment Stern Grove's 80th Free Festival Lineup Features Fantastic Negrito, Kool & The Gang, Mavis Staples Better start staking out that prime spot for your blanket and picnic basket: Stern Grove has announced its full lineup for another summer of free concerts. Every Sunday for 10 weeks, from June
Arts & Entertainment Dave Chappelle And John Mayer Perform At The Fillmore This Friday And Saturday Dave Chappelle and John Mayer, entertainers and friends both known to be occasionally offensive, present a surprise set of two performances this weekend: "Chappelle & John Mayer: Controlled Danger," as Live Nation revealed
Arts & Entertainment Old Person Sent Into Fog Of Nostalgia By Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk's Free Summer 2017 Concert Lineup Forty- and fifty-somethings nostalgic about the soundtracks to their younger years got a bit of good news this week and, no, I'm not talking about a Hair Club For Men coupon in today's
Arts & Entertainment Your Guide To 'Fauxchella' 2017, The De Facto SF Music Fest Created By Acts On Tour For Coachella By Adrian Spinelli There’s a ridiculous flood of musical talent arriving in the Bay in the coming weeks, which can only mean one thing: Fauxchella is here y’all!. No, that’s
Arts & Entertainment Here's A List Of Likely Outside Lands Performers, Based On Touring Schedules And Hunches It's around this time in late March that Golden Gate Park music festival Outside Lands releases its lineup, or at least that's been the case these last few years. For the 10th Outside
Arts & Entertainment Phono Del Sol, SF's Best Low-Key Music Fest, Announces Lineup With Thee Oh Sees, Jay Som, And More Compared to most music festivals, which can frankly be a hassle, Phono del Sol is a walk in the park. Held at Potrero del Sol, the large, sunny patch of grass and with
Arts & Entertainment Fantastic Negrito Wins Grammy For His Album 'The Last Days Of Oakland' In a banner year for Bay Area Grammy Award nominations — 18 local artists and producers got the nod according to the Chronicle — one who walked away with a little gold phonograph was Fantastic
Arts & Entertainment The Best Shows, Films, And More At The 25th Noise Pop Festival By Adrian Spinelli From February 16th through February 27th, Noise Pop Festival will be celebrating it’s 25th turn through SF and Oakland. While there’s a strong contingent of folks who look
Arts & Entertainment Longtime SF DJ Builds Online Archive Of '80s And '90s Club Mixes From Long-Gone Nightclubs "Somebody just came and dropped off this whole bag of cassettes," Jim Hopkins says, showing me a plastic grocery bag full of hand-labeled tapes sitting in the corner of the DJ booth at
Arts & Entertainment Afternoon Palate Cleanser: Pretty Music Video Shows Off Sonoma And Mendocino Coast Sonoma-based singer-songwriter Garrett Pierce has a new album out next week on Crossbill Records called Dusk, and the first release, "Distant Thought," comes with this music video directed by Pierce featuring nature scenes
