Fred Armisen performs during SF Sketchfest at Great American Music Hall in San Francisco on Jan. 27, 2023. Photos by Jakub Mosur. SAN FRANCISCO — Musician and comedian Fred Armisen performed a mix of music and standup comedy for the first of three sold-out dates with his show Comedy…

Mike Dirnt will join Fred Armisen on Jan. 29 at Armisen’s SF Sketchfest show at Great American Music Hall. On Tuesday SF Sketchfest producers announced guest artists for Fred Armisen’s residency at the Great American Music Hall next week. Legendary jam band bassist Les Claypool will join the musician-actor-comedian…

Clockwise from top left: Jon Batiste, Beck, Run The Jewels, Tinashe, The Eagles, The Black Angels, Jayhawks, Lucy Dacus, Eyelids and Fred Armisen. Staff and courtesy composite. Concerts began returning in 2021 as artists cautiously hit the road, still balancing their safety and health with their livelihoods. Some of…

Photos: Karen Goldman OAKLAND — Director and counterculture legend John Waters introduced Devo by telling the crowd, “They were before new wave, ahead of industrial, before the word ‘alternative’ was coined. This band was no media invention, it was a grassroots movement that everybody here has embraced. David Bowie loved…

Carrie Brownstein and Fred Armisen of “Portlandia,” courtesy. Imagine: Williamsburgia – a community of progressive, ecologically conscious, left-leaning DIY-ers leading kooky lives in a hyper-reality. When “Saturday Night Live” actor Fred Armisen and Wild Flag and Sleater-Kinney guitarist-vocalist Carrie Brownstein pitched a sketch comedy show about several sets of…