Author Nikos Zarikos

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 ...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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. ...

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...

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...

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...

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...