All Ears Archives - Page 4 of 7

After the mudslides, Kendra McKinley’s musical dispatch from ‘Big Sur Island’

Joanna Ladd - November 30, 2018

ALL EARS In the high season of May to October 2017, Big Sur was ghost town. The Pfeiffer Canyon Bridge was under construction in...

Arts + Culture

Old school Chinatown funk? 50 years of Jest Jammin’ with Rev. Norman Fong

Joanna Ladd - October 9, 2018

ALL EARS If you’re not nostalgic for Chinatown nightlife circa 1970, it’s probably because you don’t know about it. Despite the passing of civil rights...

Hold, please, for Text Me Records

Daniel Bromfield - October 2, 2018

ALL EARS The first thing you hear when you call Patrick Brown is “please enjoy this ringback tone,” followed by Louisiana rapper Kevin Gates belting...

Making noise and empowering girls: 15 years of Women’s Audio Mission

Joanna Ladd - September 13, 2018

ALL EARS For 15 years, the sound engineers at SoMa neighborhood-based Women’s Audio Mission have been applying their skills to one of the field’s trickiest...

Opera singer Russell Thomas on diversity, drive, and ‘Roberto Devereux’

Emily Wilson - September 8, 2018

ALL EARS When opera singer Joy Davidson heard tenor Russell Thomas sing in his high school choir in Miami, she asked him if he’d ever considered...

Arts + Culture

A swell wave of female talent rolls in with TIDES

Joanna Ladd - August 23, 2018

ALL EARS It makes sense that Suzanne Galal wants her new monthly party to be inclusive. A professor of pharmacy by trade, Galal started writing...

A hot-button ‘Ring’ at SF Opera? You bet your Brünnhilde

Marke B. - June 11, 2018

ALL EARS With great art comes great baggage. And quite possibly no work comes with greater baggage than Richard Wagner's epic Ring Cycle (opening...

Homegrown soul sensation Con Brio is back

Joanna Ladd - May 2, 2018

ALL EARS It wasn’t so long ago that people thought Con Brio was dead. In 2013, its original lead singer had moved on and...

Funky old Iceland? DJ Platurn dives into Reykjavik’s rare grooves

Marke B. - March 27, 2018

ALL EARS At turns goofy, touching, mesmerizing, super-funky, and just plain weird, local DJ Platurn's just-released, two-part mix of unfamiliar Icelandic rare grooves and...

21st Romani Music Festival lights up with electrifying horns, cultural openness

Joanna Ladd - March 5, 2018

ALL EARS You know your Balkan party scene is good when top-shelf Balkan musicians want in on it. The Romani clarinet wizard Ismail Lumanovski...

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