Music
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A Chat with Zap Mama
Marie Daulne’s music reflects the story of her life. Her father, a Belgium colonialist, was killed by child rebels in the Democratic Republic of the Congo shortly after impregnating her mother, Cyrille Daulne. After his death Cyrille emigrated to Belgium,…
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 3/15-3/21
This week, the San Francisco Asian American Film Festival is in full swing, catch Paul Madonna at Sketch Tuesday, assuage the pain of your own coyote-ugly experiences at Bawdy Storytelling’s Too Close For Comfort reading, and celebrate your favorite ephemera…
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Notable New York, This Week 3/15 – 3/21
This week in New York Keith Gessen and Elif Batuman talk, Guernica has a reading, Joanna Newsom sings and plays harp, Marcel Dzama appears, talks and signs books, The Moth has a Story Slam, Christopher Walken loses a hand and…
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“I’d much rather be 49 than 20.”
“The reason I’m still around through all this is persistence. And the fact that I’ve always gone for myself, in that I’ve never hooked onto a trend, it was just me doing me.” Henry Rollins talks Henry Rollins.
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Resident Bohemians: Gerald Busby, The Tender Hooligan
Gerald Busby’s music for ‘3 Women’ is so perfect I don’t know how to talk about it. – Robert Altman Several years ago, a friend recommended I rent Three Women, not because of my interest in Robert Altman, but because…
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Noise Pop: The Ghost of a Saber Toothed Tiger
The son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono was due to take the stage any minute, and the venue was still half empty. The bar remained fairly quiet until well past the posted show time of 8pm, and the crowd…
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How to Make It
“You basically built a band with very thin musical talent to begin with.” Morning Coffee editor Dan Weiss, who is also the front man for The Yellow Dress, talks with SF Intercom about how to make it as an indie…