Insert Foot rejoices at the return of Live 105 to the Bay Area radio waves. Dave is dead. Thank God. Dave FM was a dick. Dave had no respect for my ears. Dave told bad jokes he didn’t know were bad, and that’s coming from a dad who still…

Reichsparteitag (“imperial party congresses) in Nuremberg, Germany in 1938. Tom Morello is right. If you’re with Nazis and you don’t call them out, you might be a Nazi. Photo by Imagno/Getty Images. Nazis were in the news again this week… every week, it seems. When we want to show…

Foo Fighters, “But Here We Are.” But Here We Are is the concept record the Foo Fighters never wanted to make. But Here We Are  Foo Fighters Roswell Records/RCA, Feb. 24 9/10 Get the album on Amazon Music. But a year after the tragic loss of their brother and…

Ben Harper, “Wide Open Light.” Everyone loves Ben Harper. Wide Open Light Ben Harper Chrysalis Records, June 2 8/10 Get the album on Amazon Music. And why not? From mainstream to Mississippi blues, he’s seemingly played everything with everyone, from a former Beatle to Charlie Musselwhite, Harry Styles and…

Rendering: Adam Pardee/STAFF. I talked last week with someone about artificial intelligence in the context of journalism. They brought it up; I have other things to worry about. Like whether I’ll have money to be alive in 10 years and that burning smell coming from my daughter’s room. Why…

Aerosmith. L to R: Steven Tyler, Tom Hamilton, Joe Perry, Brad Whitford and Joey Kramer. Courtesy Fin Costello/Redferns. The Golden State Warriors playoff collapse, Vida Blue’s death and Aerosmith calling it a day have some of us Bay Area Gen Xers (well, me) pondering the end of some glorious…

Insert Foot has some thoughts on statements by Dee Snider and Paul Stanley. It’s sort of weird that two guys who made their careers out of wearing makeup and heels might be on the outs of the LGBTQ community. Gender affirming care is a complex topic that can have…

Harry Belafonte waves to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. during a civil rights march in Montgomery, Alabama on March 24, 1965. Getty Images. There’s a great clip that’s been going around for a couple years of the USA for Africa gang on the night they recorded “We Are the…

Insert Foot visits the Fillmore concert poster room. Original image: Mike DeWald/STAFF. I had a dilemma this week. A very first world problem, not a “Sophie’s Choice” kind of dilemma. It was more like that feeling well-off suburbanites get when forced to park their SUV an extra row away from…

Insert Foot is available to fill in as Taylor Hawkins in any Foo Fighters tribute bands, such as the Fooz Fighters. My buddy and I had this silly idea this week that we could go see the Foo Fighters in Tahoe in August. We don’t need to, as we’ve…