It was SFGATE senior culture editor Dan Gentile's favorite show of the year.

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In front of 5,000 fans at the Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco, the experiment in chaos that was the world's biggest punk ...

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Cameron Picton, of the British band Black Midi, releases the self-titled debut album of his new project, channeling a riot of ...

Though I reserve the right to take all this back in the graphene-slim chance that I am ever nominated for anything, I am ...

Modern digital recording offers artists unparalleled precision, a stark contrast to the constraints of the 1950s and '60s.

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It’s positively uncanny how the deeper we get into this third decade of the 21st century, the more demand there is for ...