The NY group had the SF crowd twirling frantically for a whole set. Golem breathed life & vitality into Yiddish & Russian lyrics over gypsy tunes in this March 26 show at the Rickshaw Stop. Great Jewish Music Festival event!
Live on the scene, caught in the crossfire. Oh the humanity!
The Kooks kicked off the holiday season with a stellar performance at Bimbo’s on Sunday night, December 16, as part of the Alice in Winterland celebration hosted by Alice 97.3 FM
Simon Posford is our generation's greatest musical mind, waltzing between genres with intricate rhythms & arching epic melodies: psytrance, middle-eastern, south american, neptunian (that's where some of his songs seem to come from) and now, psyrock.
drum&bass
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss, along with T Bone Burnett, delighted crowds at the 8th annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival on Friday, October 3, 2008. adambrody(at)haightashburybeat.com
Consider the Rabbit Rocked. The Heavy wailed at Mezzanine in SF; Cataracts...not so much...
Sustainability is sexy. That's what Zion-I, Heavyweight Dub Champion & Bassnectar are touring the US to say. It was sold out (so blackout rules shouldn't apply) and at one point every single person on both floors were jumping up & down to Lorin's command
The crowd of thousands celebrates the city's tolerance of life's finer things, and breaks up to go either West to the Mickey Hart show in Speedway Meadows, or back East to fill Haight Street's cafes and restaurants...
Pirates out, Vikings In. Big Floats Out, Zany Costumes Still In (one guy had gas nozzle sticking out of his ass). Fell Street roared all day
The 2008 Burning Man Decompression heated up the streets of San Francisco on October 12.
Ishi Dube, Jah Sun, Soulmedic and Winstrong tear it up at DeeCee's Soul Shakedown Party at Club Six on Saturday, April 5. Admission was free before 10:30 p.m. with RSVP on www.going.com
Radiohead's performance and stage light show blew away the competition at the first ever Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival in Golden Gate Park on Friday, August 22, 2008. adambrody(at)haightashburybeat.com
Hare Krishnas parade down Haight Street during a warm day in late July, 2008. adambrody(at)haightashburybeat.com
Free Dubstep and Grime party is SF's best monthly music event. It's been around for 3 years, and shows no signs of slowing down.
Adam Brody mixes up Chicken Tortilla Soup
Critical Mass on Haight&Masonic
Jerk Chicken beats a jerk roommate, so get out of the house and get down to Cha Cha Cha. Grab a pitcher of Sangria before catching a movie at the Red Vic (just don't drink too much before seeing Baraka--what a snoozer...)
Bucket drummers and other street musicians are a common sight throughout San Francisco.
Fundraising season is in full-swing, as Opulent Temple raised about $20,000 (half from an anonymous donor) towards bringing the bangingest sound camp back to the beach at this year's Burning Man.
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