SUN is the new studio album from Cat Power. Six years after her last album of original material, Chan Marshall has moved on from her collaborative forays into Memphis soul and Delta blues. She wrote, played, recorded and produced the entirety of SUN by herself, a statement of complete control that

Back in February we broke the unfortunate news that Doc’s Clock would be closing once their lease was up in 2017. Everyone was pretty sad about that since it’s such a wonderful bar. I’ve personally had a long loving relationship with it for over a decade. But today there is good

The Queen of legendary Memphis juke joint Wild Bill’s, backed by SF’s funkiest Southern soul band. Created in San Francisco, Otis shows are a modern take on the Stax soul revue that roared through Europe in 1967. The band’s raw, powerful sound combines horns, B3 organ and backing vocals in support

Even before my teenage self would jump between two worlds (getting bussed from the ghetto and into the middle class neighborhood for school), my pre-teen self was already crossing those invisible lines between two different worlds; those worlds being New Edition and New Kids on the Block. And then a

San Francisco (CA) – Donald Trump visited the Castro in the buff this morning, in the form of a very curious piece of public art.  Nobody ever thought they would see Donald Trump in Jane Warner Plaza outside of the historic Twin Peaks Tavern like this.  Unfortunately by the time you

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Band of Horses is an American rock band formed in 2004 in Seattle by Ben Bridwell. The band has released five studio albums, the most successful of which is 2010’s Grammy-nominated Infinite Arms. The band’s lineup, which included Mat Brooke for the debut album, has undergone several changes; although the current

  Digable Planets are an American alternative hip hop trio based in Brooklyn, New York, composed of Ishmael “Butterfly” Butler (from Seattle), Mary Ann “Ladybug Mecca” Vieira (from Silver Spring, Maryland) and Craig “Doodlebug” Irving (from Philadelphia). Butler and Irving met in Philadelphia in the late 1980s; Vieira and Irving had