Recipes are tricky things. A pinch too much of one ingredient and you’ve gone from flavor town to gak-ville in the blink of a taste bud. Even when the individual ingredients are delicious, sometimes the combination of flavors only appeals to a very specific palate. Tonic Immobility, the fifth…

Wayne Kramer of MC5 at The Regency Ballroom in San Francisco on Oct. 4, 2018. Photos: Shawn Robbins. SAN FRANCISCO — A half century ago, when MC5 (the Motor City Five) burst onto the scene, America was in crisis. Ideological differences were tearing the nation apart. Racism was everywhere. Cities…

Baby Nirvana Good news! We’ve made it to the ’90s in RIFF Rewind. OK, yeah, it’s still technically 1989. But any list that includes Nirvana, Nine Inch Nails and Faith No More’s “Epic” is basically the ’90s, right? In fact, I was surprised by the latter two of those…