Music & Nightlife
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| People often accuse Duran Duran of going through nearly as many lineup changes as hairstyles in the past 30 years. We wanted scientific proof. |
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Remembering Michael Honored at BET awards | What are your memories? | Obit: 'King of Pop' dead at 50 | Jackson's complex reign | Photos | Videos | Guest book |
Summer Sounds
The Chronicle's awesome summer concert guide | 2009: songs of the summer | The season's biggest albums.
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Bay Area Bandwidth Into the local music scene? Join the Bay Area Bandwidth page, post your photos and connect with other fans. |
Big blend of jazz, classics
Matt Small brings his revamped Crushing Spiral Ensemble to Yoshi's S.F. to play a batch of new pieces.
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Pop quiz Tim Armstrong and guitarist Lars Frederiksen of Rancid set off on a co-headlining tour with Rise Against. |
Chiming in
Barbershop quartets are experiencing a rejuvenation that some are hoping will help change public perception for good.
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Picking the hits Bay Area music directors talk about how they weed through the avalanche of new music that rolls in. |
Festival lineup
Marianne Faithfull, Billy Bragg, Nick Lowe and others are set to play at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 9.
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Pop Quiz Cindy Wilson of The B-52s let us in on where those high-energy performances come from. |
Behind-the-scenes portraits
Photographer Herman Leonard captured the odd, intimate moments in the lives of jazz greats.
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Street sounds Clarence Bekker is one of the street musicians on the "Playing for Change" CD. |
Making online hits
They're a bunch of regular grade school kids, but their fans include millions of YouTube viewers.
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Help for music writer The "father of rock criticism," Paul Williams, needs our help. |
Elvis is in the building
Elvis Costello performs at the S.F. Amoeba store to push his new country album, "Secret, Profane & Sugarcane."
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Loud and blurry S.F. Symphony's semi-staged "Iolanthe" came off as misguided. |
Beguilingly teeters
Amy X. Neuburg delivered shapely, unpredictable art songs at the Great American Music Hall.
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Flying solo During his Fillmore show, Gavin Rossdale delivered his music with bluster. |
Every song a standout
Wesla Whitfield awes in her sublime 15-song program at the Nikko Hotel's Rrazz Room.
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Kings are crowned Kings of Leon played 90 minutes of solid rock 'n' roll in S.F. |
Endless applause
The extraordinary young pianist Yuja Wang dazzled Davies Symphony Hall.
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Dark energy Violinist Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg probed the dark in a fairly literal fashion. |
New CDs
Rachmaninoff, 'Preludes' | GrooveLily, 'Sleeping Beauty Wakes' | Wilco, 'Wilco'
