Album Review: Puscifer’s Moneyshot
Maynard James Keenan, frontman of Tool and A Perfect Circle, considers Puscifer his 'creative subconscious'. After hearing V for Vagina in 2007, many believed that Puscifer would be a playful and comic side ...
On an impressive debut, Maribou State paint Portraits with skill and vision
At the start of this month, Hertfordshire- turned London-based duo Maribou State released their debut album via Counter Records. The release carries a sense of completeness: Liam Ivory and Chris Davids ha...
Chick Corea and Herbie Hancock team up to dazzle Zellerbach Hall
Audiences at Cal Performances on Thursday, March 19 witnessed two seminal jazz composers, Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea, produce an experimental showcase testament to their illustrious and diverse careers as s...
The Nile Project inspires longevity and unification
The Nile Project was conceived over a few beers at an Uptown Oakland café by two Bay Area locals: ethnomusicologist Mina Girgis from Egypt, and Meklit Hadero from Ethiopia. The vision served a dual purpos...
Psychedelic soloist Ty Segall to rock the Great American Music Hall
The Great American Music Hall will host Ty Segall's first San Francisco performances in support of his new album Manipulator on January 29 and 30.
The psychedelic sensation has been described as 'prol...
San Francisco Symphony to reprise The Soldier’s Tale this weekend
This weekend, Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas leads the San Francisco Symphony in three performances of Stravinsky's L'Histoire du soldat (The Soldier's Tale) with Elvis Costello as narrator. The Sol...
Opeth shreds the night away
Monday December 8, The Warfield, San Francisco. I was running a bit late as it was (due to ongoing protests in Berkeley), and arrived shortly after the night's openers expecting an enjoyable few hours.
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Vivaldi, Bach, and Tchaikovsky: an evening with the San Francisco Symphony
On October 23, San Francisco Symphony concertmaster Alexander Barantschik, Principal Second Violin Dan Carlson, and Principal Keyboard Robin Sutherland starred as soloists at the Davies Symphony Hall in a p...
Magisterial Garrick Ohlsson on the shoulder of giants
In 1676, Sir Isaac Newton wrote in a letter: 'If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants'. A concept perhaps made relatively more colloquial by physicist Stephen Hawking in 2002, i...
Thievery Corporation: earthly enigma infused with musical genius
Generally speaking, it seems that bands aim to transport their audiences to alternate universes or spacial realms through their music, to transport them anywhere but here on this planet. It is very rare fo...
The spiritual promise of Thievery Corporation comes to the Fox this Thursday
Perhaps it takes more than a thief to be a good artist. Picasso would reply with contentious conflagration, but then again Picasso wasn't challenged with the brutality of technology.
The onset of streami...