Music
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 6/21-6/27
This week in San Francisco: Hey Honey, it’s the Tamale Lady’s birthday!, Flaming tassels at Cafe Du Nord, The Big Lebowski meets William Shakespeare at SF IndieFest, McSweeney’s and the Believer get it on at Amnesia for an All Acoustic…
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Swinging Modern Sounds #24: A Magician of the Highest Degree
The millennium is not very old, it’s true, and yet today is the day on which I feel obliged to anoint a best song of the millennium, and to risk open debate on the subject, even though I recognize that…
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #8: Sarah Legg in Conversation with Bruce Legg
This is an interview with Bruce, fifty-nine years old, a former shipping department employee, and general music enthusiast. Bruce is usually quiet, but always up to talk about his first love. He is also my dad.
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Woods’ At Echo Lake
Recalling those famed sandwiches of chocolate, marshmallow, and graham cracker goodness enjoyed around a crackling campfire, aptly named folkie lo-fi musicians Woods bring back your campfire days.
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 6/14-6/20
This week in San Francisco: The June Monthly Rumpus!, short operas, burlesque, underground film, and cardboard tube fighting! Monday 6/14: It’s that time again: get your ass down to the Makeout Room for June’s Rumpus, Beautiful Beginnings! Co-hosted by SMITH…
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Bay Area Music Lovers!
The Rumpus and the Rickshaw Stop present an evening of music, intriguing video projections, and rad friends! Featuring: The Yellow Dress, Rachel Fannan (of Sleepy Sun), and Quite Polite! Weds June 9th, at the Rickshaw Stop (155 Fell Street) in…