Shakey Graves (Alejandro Rose-Garcia), courtesy. It’s been an unusual day for Alejandro Rose-Garcia. The artist, better known as Shakey Graves, meant to sit down to write out song descriptions for his new album, Movie of the Week, that would be sent to reviewers. But that activity turned an eight-page screenplay,…

“Let The Music Play On” artists Chuck Prophet, Patty Griffin, Birds of Chicago, Los Coast and Shakey Graves. Illustration courtesy: Mark Urliksen. Hardly Strictly Bluegrass veterans Chuck Prophet and Patty Griffin, as well as Birds of Chicago, Los Coast and Shakey Graves, have been announced as additional performers at “Let The Music Play…

Lord Huron performs at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley on Aug 2, 2019. Click the photo to begin the slideshow. BERKELEY — Lord Huron returned to the Bay Area on Friday, following performances at BottleRock and Treasure Island music festivals over the past nine months. Given the opportunity to…

Muse performs at BottleRock 2018. Photos: Alessio Neri, Martin Lacey and courtesy NAPA — Muse electrified BottleRock Napa Valley during the first day of the annual festival with a blistering set chock full of the band’s biggest hits from throughout its 20-year-old catalog. Muse defined what it means to be…

Roman Gokhman’s Favorite Concerts of 2015 Welcome to my annual countdown of the most entertaining music experiences of the year. I only went to 41 concerts. Life commitments and a family took a higher priority. But then again, I enjoy profiling an artist over critiquing the music. I put…

The Black Keys perform at Outside Lands 2015 in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. Photo: Paige K. Parsons. If you attended this year’s installment of the Outside Lands Music Festival, you likely have already a list of your top favorite moments. But if you’re still trying to make up…

Shakey Graves, courtesy. You know that fight you have with your parents? The one where they want you to go to school and study to be a doctor or a lawyer, but you just want to move to L.A., bum around and then strike it rich as an A-list…

Shakey Graves perform at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley on Aug 2, 2019. Karen Goldman/STAFF. A couple of weeks ago I spoke to musician-actor Alejandro Rose-Garcia, known as singer-songwriter Shakey Graves, who’s performing at the Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival this Sunday. The talk was supposed to last…

Courtesy: Outside Lands Deep in the vegetation of Golden Gate Park, among the tens of thousands of attendees at the Outside Lands Music and Arts Festival in 2012, beside the fairytale-like “houses” peddling chocolate – hot, cold, hardened and molten – and next to a carnival sideshow with clowns,…