“The Metallica Blacklist.” In honor of the 30th anniversary of their self-titled album, mostly referred to as the Black Album, Metallica is doing two things. The band is re-releasing the album with a lot of concert recordings and alternate versions. It’s not their first time doing so; in 2008…

A group of Bay Area artists, including Grammy-Award-winning blues artist Fantastic Negrito, rockers the Stone Foxes, Tim Bluhm of The Mother Hips and Americana band Rainbow Girls have contributed songs to a new charity album that will benefit the homeless in San Francisco. The album, called Blanket the Homeless,…

Since 1989, Jesse Townley has played in numerous East Bay punk bands, such as Blatz, The Gr’ups, The Criminals and The Frisk. The first time that Townley—known to many in the 924 Gilman Street scene as Jesse Luscious—and Blatz played in Southern California, at a pizza parlor, they were…