Guitarist Dan Hawkins highlights a half dozen songs from the new ‘Dreams on Toast’ album by The Darkness, the British quartet ...
Thirty years ago, Dan Bejar picked up an acoustic guitar and started performing as Destroyer. Since then, the project has consistently evolved: into a full band on 1998’s City of Daughters, toward pop ...
Bela Fleck, jazz harpist Edmar Castañeda and drummer Antonio Sánchez bring their new trio to SF for three shows ...
New York City indie-rock duo Frog’s latest record, “1000 Variations On the Same Song,” is brutally honest in the best way ...
One of Maui’s most accomplished and beloved musicians, Salvador Godinez Jr., passed on March 9 at the age of 74. A ...
This article is a loving review of indie-pop band Japanese Breakfast's enchanting new album, "For Melancholy Brunettes (& sad women)." ...
Dennis Quaid looks back on his acclaimed five-decade career, which started when he accompanied his brother Randy to a film ...
When Flecktones’ electric bassist Victor Wooten and his technology-loving, Drumitar-wielding brother Future Man found a unique ... playing all the chords, like a piano, while my left hand ...
Eventually, he found his answer in front of the piano. Bejar had been messing with ... “This was about balladry and getting back into chord progressions,” he says. “I was probably thinking ...
"But I played guitar, so I quickly got a book of mandolin chords, and next thing you know ... one year you spent 12 hours a day learning the piano to play Jerry Lee Lewis in "Great Balls of ...
In a world where music often moves too fast and meaning gets lost in the noise, Marvin Sapp continues to stand out. His songs ...