Music
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 11/29-12/5
This week in San Francisco, booze for a cause at Drink Good Do Good, come hang out with me at this month’s Quiet Lightning, two words: Cinema Orgy, Booksmith’s first Literary Clown Foolery, Babylon Salon, and fund raise San Francisco…
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Artists: Barter for Your Health Care
I am one of the lucky ones: a full-time desk jockey/part-time writer with health insurance. I recently finished up some physical therapy sessions for my right arm; the bill says that for two sessions a week, the actual cost of…
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“Ted Wilson Is Everywhere”
Our very own columnist Ted Wilson was mentioned on “All Things Considered” during an interview with the Ryan Montbleau Band. Check it out!
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 11/22-11/28
This week, art porn at 111 Minna, a list of the best Mission bars to spend Thanksgiving at, do good this Black Friday at Creative Housing Liberation’s Housing Harvest, and a Murder Mystery Dinner! Monday 11/22: Attend an extra-festive Cat’s…
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Autonomika, Autonomika!
Today Maddie Oatman interviews Brooklyn-based musician Aaron Wolfe, who records beautiful cover songs, writes about how the songs relate to his life, and then posts both the cover and the story to his Tumblr account, Autonomika, Autonomika! We highly recommend…
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Portrait of the Music Blogger as a Young Man: The Rumpus Interview with Aaron Wolfe
How a Brooklyn musician uses Tumblr to cover a song a night (roughly) and write accompanying life stories.
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 11/8-11/14
This week in San Francisco, The November Monthly Rumpus, art openings at City Hall and White Walls, indie circus goodness and a musical orgy(!) at the Bohemian Carnival, and kinetic visual sculptures meet improvised electroacoustic shamanic noise jazz (don’t worry,…
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King of the Rats
Paranoid—From the greek: Paranoos, “distracted” from “para” irregular and “noos,” mind. There are rats in my garage. Boot-sized ones that run straight up the walls and then tiptoe along the roof beams.
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 11/1-11/7
This week in San Francisco, the Booksmith hosts some radical readings, Last Gasp teams up with 111 Minna for a showing of legendary Japanese erotica, SoEx’s Cinema by The Bay, and the Day of the Dead! Monday 11/1: A struggling…
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Swinging Modern Sounds #26: The Cessation of Miracles
The city of brotherly love is always reinventing itself, coming up with varieties of eccentricity meant to distract from its diet of horrors, for example, a good baseball team.
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 10/25-10/31
This week: How Language Shapes Thought, the final Kaliedoscope Reading Series of the year, Muni Diaries Live! at the Makeout Room, and San Francisco’s favorite holiday (after Folsom Street Fair and LoveFest) — Halloween! Monday 10/25: While The Rumpus’ book…
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 10/18-10/24
This week, the Porchlight Reading Series, Poetry and Jazz at Viracocha, yacht rock + psychedelia at the Blue Macaw, and Uberpup! Monday 10/18: Head over to the Verdi Club for the latest Porchlight Reading: The Animal Show, featuring Matt Baume,…