Rad Upcoming SF Events     ArtSpan THU. 10/15 | 7:00PM @ SOMARTS CULTURAL CENTER Join us for a taste of art, games, wine, and stimulating discussion at the SF Open Studios Exhibition, featuring over 400 artworks from SF Open Studios Artists in diverse mediums. Please your palette with wine

  Rooted in Son Jarocho, Las Cafeteras seamlessly fuse traditional Afro-Caribbean music from Veracruz, Mexico with modern rhythms and lyrically rich storytelling to create a new Urban Folk sound from the streets of East Los Angeles. Las Cafeterashave taken the music scene by storm with their infectious live performances and

Indulging every whim, Halestorm wrote songs that pulsate, pound and soar, as well as confessional, heartstring-tugging tunes and everything between. “Amen,” grooves to a chaingang shuffle and sparse keyboards, featuring a verse reminiscent of Fleetwood Mac and a chorus that has more in common with Joan Jett. Then there’s “Mayhem,”

There are few heavy metal bands that have managed to scale the heights that Judas Priest have during their nearly 40 year career. Their presence and influence remains at an alltime high as evidenced by 2008’s ‘Nostradamus’ being the highest charting album of their career, a 2010 Grammy Award win for ‘Best Metal Performance’, being

  Midnight North’s debut album ‘End of the Night’ proved successful enough online and on CD that they chose to press a limited edition mixed colored vinyl record. In an age when bands seem to come and go like fireflies, Midnight North is entering their second year of holding down a

  A swirling flourish of strings whirls around a noir cocktail of stately country elegance of classic piano and brass flourishes, as a voice emerges from the stale smoke and dim lights equally trenchant resolve and raw ache. Daniel Romano, slightly behind the beat, offers a chivalrous promise of avengement

Rad Upcoming SF Events Meklit  THUR. 10/08 | 12:30PM @ YERBA BUENA GARDENS Born in Ethiopia and raised in an academic family in Iowa, New York and Florida, Meklit found herself as an artist in San Francisco. A luminous songstress and a cultural visionary, she’s a TED Global Fellow who spearheaded

  We have your attention, don’t we? We’re giving you an entire month to enter this Treasure Island Music Festival giveaway. This is your chance to win two tickets to two days of: DeadMau5, The National, Chvrches, Jose Gonzalez AND WAY MORE! With no overlapping sets, Bay Area cuisine, and the gorgeous,