Author Archives: David Gill
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SF ‘Vultures’ listening party offers rare glimpse of Kanye West, Ty Dolla $ign
Ye (Kanye West) and Ty Dolla $ign perform at Chase Center in San Francisco on March 12, 2024. Matt Pang/STAFF. SAN FRANCISCO — Controversial rap superstar Kanye West brought his Vultures listening party to an enthusiastic and sizable crowd at Chase Center Tuesday night. The event, which featured Ty…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Jesus and Mary Chain flows quicker on ‘Glasgow Eyes’
The Jesus and Mary Chain, “Glasgow Eyes.” For those of us who remember, there was a very specific feeling you used to get from a Jesus and Mary Chain album. The blissed-out noise rock was like the love buzz you’d get seeing your crush in the hallway during passing…
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REVIEW: Municipal Waste, Ghoul and friends bring the mayhem to The UC Theatre
Municipal Waste performs at The UC Theatre in Berkeley, Calif. on March 4, 2024. Sean Liming/STAFF. BERKELEY — Weeknight or not, the Brainsqueeze tour rolled into Berkeley on Monday, unleashing a quartet of thrash metal bands at the UC Theatre. The tour commemorates the 21st anniversary of Waste ‘Em…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Kim Gordon makes herself at home on ‘The Collective’
Kim Gordon, “The Collective.” The second solo album by Kim Gordon, The Collective, is a little like the beginning of Charles Dickens’ “A Tale of Two Cities,” as it sounds like both the best of times and the worst of times. The Collective Kim Gordon Matador, March 8 9/10 Get…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Taj Mahal gets monumental at ‘the Church in Tulsa’
Taj Mahal, “Swingin’ Live at the Church in Tulsa.” Like the palace in India, musician Taj Mahal has been around for awhile. The bluesman, born Henry St. Claire Fredericks, Jr. is, in fact, a national treasure who should be as revered here as his namesake palace halfway around the…
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REVIEW: André 3000 wings it at The Independent
André 3000 performs at Bimbo’s 365 Club in San Francisco on Feb. 20, 2024. Courtesy Stephanie Port. SAN FRANCISCO — “I never thought I’d be onstage playing flutes,” André 3000 told the audience two thirds of the way through his early show at The Independent on Saturday. After a moment…
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REVIEW: Ty Segall and the Freedom Band launch tour with new drummer at GAMH
Ty Segall performs at Starline Social Club in Oakland on Jan. 14, 2020. Karen Goldman/STAFF. SAN FRANCISCO — “Give a warm welcome to our new drummer, Evan Burrows,” Ty Segall told the assembled crowd at Great American Music Hall Tuesday night. Segall and his Freedom Band weren’t just debuting…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Dinosaur Jr.’s J Mascis melts hearts and faces on latest solo record
J Mascis, “What Do We Do Now.” There’s a special kind of yearning found in only the best of love letters: short vague sentences, pregnant with meaning, written to be read over and over again like a magical incantation. “Wish you were here,” “Thinking of you,” “You’re living all…
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Triumph the Insult Comic Dog poops on Weird Al at SF Sketchfest
Triumph the Insult Comic Dog hosts quiz show “Let’s Make a Poop!” with Michael Winslow, Adam Savage, Rob Schneider, “Weird Al” Yankovic, Thomas Lennon, Amber Ruffin and Dave Hill during SF Sketchfest at Castro Theatre in San Francisco on Jan. 21, 2024. Courtesy Jakub Mosur. SAN FRANCISCO — Triumph…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Ty Segall gets complicated on ‘Three Bells’
Ty Segall, “Three Bells.” No matter how intensely we try to imagine the future, tomorrow is always a little weirder than we envision. Our predictions are scuttled by unforeseen events and circumstances both great and inconsequential. Rock and roll has consistently outmaneuvered its supposed prognosticators, and no one grunging…