Carlos Santana Archives

Music

Music docs grab the mic this fall, with Queen Latifah, Joan Baez, more

John-Paul Shiver - October 10, 2023

New releases reframe the way we heard. Ready to walk a mile in Milli Vanilli's steel-toed boots?

Movies

Screen Grabs: Dance Film Fest leaps onto screen—and out of prison yards

Dennis Harvey - September 18, 2023

Plus: Carlos Santana's story, Cambodian cinema showcase, 'North by Northwest' in 35mm, and campy hell on wheels

Music

Jazz legend John Santos teaches ‘Rhythms of Resistance’ to defeat gentrification

Joshua Rotter - August 25, 2023

New course on Cuban and Puerto Rican music at MoAD highlights their role in the struggle for social justice

Arts + Culture

‘It was more than rock ‘n roll’: Ben Fong-Torres on SF’s music heyday and ‘Like a Rolling Stone’

Joshua Rotter - May 17, 2022

A new doc spotlights the iconic rock journalist's experience with legends—and being an Asian American reporter in the '60s and '70s

Music

1970s NoLa blues-funk history shimmers on ‘Another Side’

John-Paul Shiver - January 19, 2022

A previously unreleased album from trailblazing guitarist Leo Nocentelli illustrates a momentous time in musical evolution.

Music

10 artists centering Latinidad in the sound of the Bay today

Richard Villegas - July 28, 2020

For over 50 years, the Bay Area has been a crucial intersection of global music. Everything from psych rock to funk, hip hop, and...

Beyond ‘Suavecito’: A tribute journey through Jorge Santana’s Chicano rock

John-Paul Shiver - June 8, 2020

Guillermo "Jorge" Santana, the musician, guitarist, and younger brother of Carlos Santana—who passed on May 14 of natural causes at the age of 68...

Finding out why ‘All Your Favorite Music is (Probably) Black’

Marke B. - February 17, 2019

ALL EARS This is the first time I'll be making this presentation, but I've been preparing for it all through my career," composer and musician...

Santana mural in the Mission vandalized: “a blatant act of hate”

Marke B. - July 16, 2018

"Growing up in the Mission, murals are something sacred. No one touches them because they tell our story, the story of a multicultural community...

Arts + Culture

Dolores Huerta, filling the screen

Caitlin Donohue - August 29, 2017

In 1962, political organizer Dolores Huerta was a twice-divorced mother of seven. She had also just told Cesar Chávez that she would join him...

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Music docs grab the mic this fall, with Queen Latifah, Joan Baez, more

Screen Grabs: Dance Film Fest leaps onto screen—and out of prison yards

Jazz legend John Santos teaches ‘Rhythms of Resistance’ to defeat gentrification

‘It was more than rock ‘n roll’: Ben Fong-Torres on SF’s music heyday and ‘Like a Rolling Stone’

1970s NoLa blues-funk history shimmers on ‘Another Side’

10 artists centering Latinidad in the sound of the Bay today

Beyond ‘Suavecito’: A tribute journey through Jorge Santana’s Chicano rock

Finding out why ‘All Your Favorite Music is (Probably) Black’

Santana mural in the Mission vandalized: “a blatant act of hate”

Dolores Huerta, filling the screen

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