Insert Foot is loving Peter Jackson’s “Get Back” Beatles documentary. Phone lines and the internet burned all over the world this week, and it wasn’t people remarking how lifelike tofurkey tastes in 2021. The hubbub was about four guys playing music more than half a century ago, as well as…

Insert Foot finding the joy in Thanksgiving again. Rendering: Adam Pardee/STAFF. Thanksgiving is a date on a calendar. Beyond that, its meaning and value depends on the year (in my world). Not this year. This one will be different. In the early years, Thanksgiving was the optimistic gateway/family dress…

Protestors at the #FreeBritney Termination Rally in in Los Angeles on Nov. 12, 2021. Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images. Britney’s free, bitch. Now what do we do? The question is, “what does Britney do?” Whatever she wants, I guess. What if I don’t care? Rendering: Adam Pardee/STAFF. I mean,…

A street sign shows the cancelation of the Astroworld Festival at NRG Park in Houston on Nov. 6, 2021. Eight people died and more than a dozen others were taken to hospitals after a crowd surge at the festival, started by Houston rapper Travis Scott in 2018. Photo by…

Does the world need a Steve Perry Christmas record? Beyond the shadow of any human doubt … no. It doesn’t. The Season Steve Perry Fantasy Records, Nov. 5 5/10 His loyal fans–of which there are many–might think they need Perry’s new holiday record, cleverly titled The Season, which is fine.…

Insert Foot vs. Mark Zuckerberg. Meta; is that a cheese? I first thought Marky Mark Zuckerberger and the No Fun Bunch over at Facebook was changing the name to “Meta” because, like me and most reasonable people, he loves cheese. He wants us to think of deliciously stale Greek…

Mastodon had a lot of steam to blow off. Hushed and Grim Mastodon Warner, Oct. 29 7/10 Between the death of the band’s longtime manager, Nick John, and the pandemic, it seemed the Atlanta metal veterans would come back big with Hushed and Grim, their first release since 2020…

Insert Foot on safety at Chase Center. One man died and two were injured Oct. 17, in two separate falls from the upper levels of San Francisco’s Chase Center during a Phish concert, over Plexiglass partitions. Rendering: Adam Pardee/STAFF. One man–who ended up dying–may have jumped, police say. No,…

Insert Foot vs. Dave FM. The Bay Area just lost a huge chunk of its musical soul—and just as big of a slice of its cool factor. San Francisco alt-rock station KITS-105.3 (Live 105/Alt 105; it switched names in 2017, but was always Live 105 to those remembering life…

Richie Faulkner of Judas Priest, courtesy. Sometimes words just can’t do justice to something’s pure awesomeness. But we have a duty to try anyway. Rendering: Adam Pardee/STAFF. Judas Priest guitarist Richie Faulkner had an acute cardiac aortic dissection on Sept. 26. Sounds like fancy TV-doctor talk for a heart…