• Tuesday Tracks: New music discovery for March 21

    Tuesday Tracks: New music discovery for March 21

    Temples, courtesy Molly Daniel. This week’s tracks go all over the place, musically. Temples are back, and their psychedelic sound has only gotten better. For a bit of alt-country, Carolina Story never disappoints. John Oates makes us wish for a better tomorrow with his beautiful cover and Fences…
  • Interview: Sasha Spielberg loving love, turning it into musical inspiration as Buzzy Lee

    Interview: Sasha Spielberg loving love, turning it into musical inspiration as Buzzy Lee

    Buzzy Lee (Sasha Spielberg), courtesy Phil Chester and Sara Byrne. A lot has changed for singer-songwriter Sasha Spielberg since she released her debut solo album as Buzzy Lee, 2021’s Spoiled Love, a collection of acerbic breakup songs about a doomed relationship. Most notably, Spielberg, the daughter of director…
  • Insert Foot: Courtney Love, Chrissie Hynde partially right about women in the rock hall

    Insert Foot: Courtney Love, Chrissie Hynde partially right about women in the rock hall

    Courtney Love photographed during Paris Fashion Week on Jan. 20, 2018. Photo by Victor Boyko/Getty Images for Balmain. Chrissie Hynde and Courtney Love both ripped the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last week for its lack of female representation, as both performers and those determining its membership.…
  • REWIND: St. Patrick's Day is for Dropkick Murphys and other Celtic punks

    REWIND: St. Patrick’s Day is for Dropkick Murphys and other Celtic punks

    Dropkick Murphys, seen at the Greek Theater in Berkeley on Aug. 20. 2017, are American Celtic punk legends forever. Alessio Neri/STAFF. It’s time for my semi-annual St. Patrick’s Day column. There are quite a few examples where genres really shine when brought over to a different culture than…
  • REVIEW: Toronto's Nav and friends wide awake at the Masonic

    REVIEW: Toronto’s Nav and friends wide awake at the Masonic

    Nav performs at the Masonic in San Francisco on March 16, 2023. SAN FRANCISCO — Canadian rapper Nav has worked with the likes of Lil Uzi Vert, Travis Scott and Drake, is signed to The Weeknd’s XO label, and his first EP was produced by Metro Boomin. His…
  • Interview: Margaret Cho plans jokes about high stakes on Live and LIVID! tour

    Interview: Margaret Cho plans jokes about high stakes on Live and LIVID! tour

    Margaret Cho, courtesy Sergio Garcia. Comedian Margaret Cho has seemingly been everywhere on screen recently, from the wildly successful Hulu movie “Fire Island” to Comedy Central’s “Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens,” 2020 animated film “Over The Moon” (which was nominated for an Oscar), 2021’s “Good on Paper” and…
  • REVIEW: SZA and Omar Apollo take Oakland Arena on a two-hour tour

    REVIEW: SZA and Omar Apollo take Oakland Arena on a two-hour tour

    SZA performs at Oakland Arena in Oakland on March 14, 2023. Matt Pang/STAFF. OAKLAND — When SZA headlined Outside Lands last summer, more than five months before she released her smash second album SOS, she already had the nautical concept of her current tour. As with that festival…
  • Tuesday Tracks: Your weekly new music discovery for March 14

    Tuesday Tracks: Your weekly new music discovery for March 14

    Khamari, courtesy Shamaal Bloodman. We have a slew of first-timers this week as we touch on a variety of different genres. Dance is on the menu with Sophie and the Giants, Franc Moody and Ebi Soda. Neo-soul continues to bring new talent with Khamari, as well as the…
  • REVIEW: Ibeyi invokes magic at August Hall

    REVIEW: Ibeyi invokes magic at August Hall

    Ibeyi performs at August Hall in San Francisco on March 12, 2023. Italie Penaloza/STAFF. SAN FRANCISCO — French Cuban duo Ibeyi sang in English, French, Spanish and the West African Yoruba language at their show at August Hall on Sunday, mesmerizing the standing-room-only crowd during the entirety of their…
  • REVIEW: Marc Anthony 'goes there' at raucous Viviendo Tour show at Chase Center

    REVIEW: Marc Anthony ‘goes there’ at raucous Viviendo Tour show at Chase Center

    Marc Anthony performs at Chase Center in San Francisco on March 10, 2023. Matt Pang/STAFF. SAN FRANCISCO — As if Marc Anthony, the top-selling tropical salsa artist of all time and winner of multiple Grammys, didn’t already make music that sounded effortless, he added to the effect at his show…
  • SF visits the 'Haus of Holbein:' An interview with SIX's Jasmine Forsberg

    SF visits the ‘Haus of Holbein:’ An interview with SIX’s Jasmine Forsberg

    The North American “SIX” Aragon Tour. Jasmine Forsberg far left. Photo by Joan Marcus. No theater show since “Hamilton” has had as much buzz and exploded onto the world stage as much as “SIX.” “SIX”  Through March 19 Orpheum Theatre, 1192 Market St., San Francisco Tickets. Recommended for ages…
  • Q&A: Vanessa Carlton faces off with 'Future Pain' on first headlining tour in years

    Q&A: Vanessa Carlton faces off with ‘Future Pain’ on first headlining tour in years

    Vanessa Carlton, courtesy Alysse Gafkjen. Vanessa Carlton is plotting future pain on her first headlining tour since before lockdowns, but it’s a current pain that’s postponed this conversation by a week and has her attention for the moment: The “A Thousand Miles” singer-songwriter broke her foot on a…
  • Column: Warriors fuse music, athleticism on African American heritage night at Chase Center

    Column: Warriors fuse music, athleticism on African American heritage night at Chase Center

    Alfreda Lyons-Campbell and the Sangin Saints perform “The Star-Spangled Banner” before a game between the Golden State Warriors and Portland Trail Blazers at Chase Center in San Francisco on Feb. 28, 2023. Courtesy Golden State Warriors. SAN FRANCISCO — Few sports fuse music and athleticism quite like basketball.…
  • Interview: Damian Lillard on the next Dame D.O.L.L.A. album, the viral plane freestyle

    Interview: Damian Lillard on the next Dame D.O.L.L.A. album, the viral plane freestyle

    Damian Lillard of the Portland Trail Blazers dribbles the ball during their game against the Golden State Warriors at Chase Center in San Francisco on Feb. 28, 2023. Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images. NBA superstar, rapper and entrepreneur Damian Lillard has had four hits over the past week,…
  • Interview: Ibeyi ready to cast spells on first U.S. tour in years

    Interview: Ibeyi ready to cast spells on first U.S. tour in years

    Ibeyi, courtesy Suleika Muller. Approaching a decade as a band, sisters Lisa-Kaindé and Naomi Diaz still have Ibeyi at the top of mind just about all the time. And because their mother is one of their managers, that means that even Christmas dinner is a planning session. Ibeyi Ojerime…
  • PHOTOS: Static-X kicks off 'Machine' anniversary tour at the Fillmore

    PHOTOS: Static-X kicks off ‘Machine’ anniversary tour at the Fillmore

    Static-X performs at the Fillmore in San Francisco on Feb. 25, 2023. Nate McKinley/STAFF. SAN FRANCISCO — Industrial metallers Static-X returned to the Bay Area Saturday on the opening night of their Rise of the Machines tour. The massive 45-stop tour had twice been postponed due to the pandemic.…
  • RIFF RADIO: Sophie Lloyd lights it up with Trivium collaboration

    RIFF RADIO: Sophie Lloyd lights it up with Trivium collaboration

    Sophie Lloyd, courtesy. Collaborating with Trivium’s Matt Heafy was a full circle moment for guitar shredding phenom Sophie Lloyd. “There’s the picture of me when I was recording my very first EP, Delusions, back in 2016 and I was wearing this big Trivium T-shirt that I ironed on myself,”…
  • Q&A: P1Harmony set in and saddle up on their second U.S. tour

    Q&A: P1Harmony set in and saddle up on their second U.S. tour

    P1Harmony performs at the Paramount Theatre in Oakland on Jan. 22, 2023. Steve Carlson/STAFF. Up-and-coming K-pop sextet P1Harmony seem genuinely excited to be backstage at the Grand Ole Opry, one of the most significant houses of music, not only in Music City but in the entire U.S. Speaking…
Tuesday Tracks: New music discovery for March 21