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• Rick Danko: Infectious Joy and Non-Showbiz Charisma

  by Jeff Wilson•April 30, 2008•Comments (14)

  Smiling so hard his face must have hurt, Danko had a boyish, wide-eyed, let’s-get-this-party-started look in his eyes as he approached the mic. And he was dressed to impress, wearing black dress slacks, shiny hard-soled shoes, and a bright red button-down shirt (read more)

• Rediscovering Rock and Roll, A Journey: Chapter Three

  by Paul Williams•April 9, 2008•Comments (1)

  What kind of a fan am I today? In some ways I’m unchanged, and I still look for and sometimes find in the music exactly whatever it was I hungered after when I was 16 (proof that the world is a passionate place; a friend in the lonely night; release for my anger, confusion, idealism, desire fear and love). (read more)

• The Golden Road: A Report on San Francisco

  by Paul Williams•February 27, 2008•Comments (5)

  But San Francisco—the Fillmore, the Avalon, the Trips Festivals, the Diggers, Owsley’s acid, Haight Street and Ashbury and Masonic and Golden Gate Park, the Straight Theater, Herb Caen, the Barb, the communication company—these have been and are and will be the environment (read more)

• Mountain Goats

  by Jessica Gentile•February 20, 2008•Comments (0)

  "it’s more steadfast then ever before" (read more)

• The Black Heart Procession, Jandek, and Magic Bullets

  by Howard Wyman and Angela Zimmerman•January 23, 2008•Comments (0)

  In January, everything seems to sludge to a molasses crawl, and even many of our rock bands have eased up their touring schedules. But hey, there's no rest for the weary, and rock music in San Francisco never slows down for long. (read more)

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