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’80s troubadour Colin Hay is still a man at work

Joshua Rotter -
Singer Colin Hay could have written Men at Work’s first major hit “Who Can It Be Now?” anywhere. But there was something about conceiving it...

New Music: The Seshen’s sonic-visual journey through ‘Cyan’

John-Paul Shiver -
Forget it. This version of longtime favorite band The Seshen (playing Thu/27 at Rickshaw Stop)—where lead vocalist and lyricist Lalin St. Juste emancipates herself and this...

Ethio-jazz legend Mulatu Astatke still defines contemporary cool

John-Paul Shiver -
Mulatu Astatke’s Mulatu Of Ethiopia from 1972, re-issued by Strut Records in 2017, captures a seminal moment in Ethiopian Jazz: THIS was a certain certain type of mood,...
Screen Grabs

Screen Grabs: A tragic star hounded by the FBI

Dennis Harvey -
A couple of the smaller, more idiosyncratic local film festivals add to the celluloid mix this week. Within the larger Noise Pop schedule of...
Movies

Robbie Robertson on heart-wrenching The Band doc ‘Once Were Brothers’

Joshua Rotter -
The Band’s Robbie Robertson feels that most rock autobiographies and documentaries lack “feeling." But finding so much pathos and excitement in much of his former...

New Music: Stone Foxes polish their rock into ‘Gold’

John-Paul Shiver -
Through numerous lineup changes over the years, San Francisco outfit The Stone Foxes—playing the Independent Sat/29, as part of Noise Pop 2020—formed in 2005...
Movies

What we saw at Sundance, Part 2: A side-trip to Slamdance

Jesse Hawthorne Ficks -
Culling through the forty features viewed at both the Sundance and Slamdance Film Festivals last week has been as much fun as watching them...

New Music: Jay Som’s fever dream—from chopsticks and a trumpet

John-Paul Shiver -
If pressure makes a diamond, then overlooked and broken instruments from yesteryear direct the creative arc of Jay Som—aka Oakland-raised, Los Angeles-based producer, songwriter,...
Movies

What we saw at Sundance, part 1: Wild rides and deep looks

Jesse Hawthorne Ficks -
Culling through the 40 features viewed at both the Sundance and Slamdance Film Festivals last week has been as much fun as watching them...

New Music: Andy Shauf’s ‘The Neon Skyline’ traces old flames in wee hours

John-Paul Shiver -
It's unclear at times if Andy Shauf's unnamed protagonist, the center of 11 songs on The Neon Skyline is actually having a good time. (Shauf performs Fri/21 at...
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