East Bay players weigh in on the jeopardized venue's importance. Plus, BALTHVS psychs out and Perennial sveltes up.

Improvisational player-composer has been everywhere lately, holding 'space' as a visionary jazz wave pushes through.

Hundreds of vintage lowriders cruised along San Francisco’s Mission Street during a celebration of the customized cars’ contributions to Latino culture.

Musicians bopped to each other's beats at Bottom of the Hill, concert history hung on the walls—and a expiration date loomed.

'90s indie heroes the Deal Sisters & co. rocked the 104-year-old venue—and the Gen X/Z mosh pit sparked some thoughts.

Plus: Daniel Villareal's dope jazz vibes, Thee Sinseers' sweet time portal, and an ode to the beloved Phone Booth

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Martin Luther McCoy, Kofy Brown, Jack White, Erykah Badu and The Alchemist—Bay 'summer' is back.

Glenn Donaldson returns with a portrait of SF that was

Listeners were perplexed by a sound collage of Bay Area radio jingles.

Plus: Bad Brains bassist goes jazz, Space Ghost coasts the cosmos, Doohickey Cubicle get downtown, more you must hear

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At Davies Symphony Hall, one of the 20th Century's last living jazz masters grooved full-tilt with an all-star band.

Plus: Alice Coltrane tapes—once heard only by ashram members—to take flight, and producer Carré serves dubby late-summer heat.

Plus: Cindy Blackman Santana bangs out the vibes, Pearl & the Oysters open their 'Monkey Mind,' Club DeLuxe reopens, more music

Plus: megiapa finds voice in Chicago's beat scene, golden hip-hop happening at Shoreline, Valerie June, more.

Heirs to soul royalty, the three sisters make a big impression on their Daptone debut

Acts on the come-up, faves on the curve, bison in the weeds, and a festival porta potty epiphany. Listen in.

The debut album by Sade, 'Diamond Life' told snippets and offered vignettes of dimly lit torch song narrative

The Lower Haight shop owner with a contagious love for music had been diagnosed with Stage 3 pancreatic cancer.

Declaring her independence on 1986's 'Control', Janet Jackson delivered a breakthrough album that heralded a new pop sound

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Plus: Brandee Younger, 'The Ecstatic,' Diagonal Lines, atmos bloom, The Chutes 'Widow's Bay'—we're slipping it all in

On her third album 'New Avatar,' Kelela offers a smelting of indie-rock communiques with electronic and R&B elements

A tribute to the late industry exec who introduced listeners to so many legends

After several reinventions, on their fourth album 'Stakes Is High,' De La Soul held up a mirror to hip-hop in 1996