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The 12 best Sixties "San Francisco Sound" rock albums

For more than 40 years, San Francisco bands have had to live up to, manifest their refusal of, or (not so) simply transcend the legacy of the...
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Teddy Thompson: Like father, like mother, like son, like self?

Teddy Thompson doesn't face the same problems as, say, Jakob Dylan or Julian Lennon, or Sean Ono Lennon or Frank Sinatra Jr., or Dweezil Zappa or...
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Neil Halstead makes a rewarding slow dive from shoegazing to songcraft

Nearly two decades after his band Slowdive rode the ambient alt-rock wave of guitar effects and hushed vocals into the heart of shoegazer territory...
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The Waybacks, part I: One of S.F.'s best bands in a Dead heat

With the release of Loaded, their third studio album, the Waybacks took a quantum leap toward establishing a stable musical identity, even if no...
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Outside Lands: The only game in town? Yes and no.

You may have noticed there's a big shindig planned for the Outside Lands, a.k.a. Golden Gate Park, this weekend, Friday–Sunday, Aug. 22&ndash...
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Conor Oberst starts over at the Bottom (of the Hill), plays free at Amoeba

Thousands of Bay Area Bright Eyes fans will be ticketless and forlorn Friday and Saturday nights (Aug. 1-2) as their Omaha idol, Conor Oberst,...
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Pop goes Yoshi's with Shawn Colvin

Who would take issue with Yoshi's, one of the premier jazz clubs in the world, booking pop-folk singer-songwriter Shawn Colvin for a three-night...
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James McMurtry casts a spell on U, uh, W.

James McMurtry can get a look in his eye that says either, "What kind of fool do you think I am?" or "What kind of fool are you?...
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Jesse Sykes: A Sweet Hereafter to die for

Jesse Sykes calls her band the Sweet Hereafter. I think of her music as the sweet here and now. It causes you to slow down, the way flypaper puts...
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