Lee Ranaldo is performing at the Swedish American Hall in San Francisco! Ranaldo – composer/visual artist/writer etc – is a founding member of Sonic Youth, now in its 32nd year. Although songwriting and performing with his band The Dust (Steve Shelley, Alan Licht, Tim Lüntzel) is his current focus, Lee

  Kool Keith comes in many forms and many incarnations, but his style is distinctly his own. Just as there’s no mistaking his smooth lyrical delivery and searing hip-hop prose with its underlying edgy beats, there’s no denying the incredible force of power that is Kool Keith. Whether as a foundingmember

As 2024 winds down, we’re reflecting on another incredible year of sharing the stories, art, culture, and nightlife that make the Bay Area so unique. BrokeAssStuart.com wouldn’t be what it is without you—our community of readers, supporters, and believers in independent media. This year, instead of asking you to join Patreon

  Hailing from Athens, GA., of Montreal have carved their own niche – establishing themselves as a band that thrills fans with compelling live performances, delights critics with their constant innovations, and continually showcases their musical evolution by drawing from a different set of influences for each album. Primary songwriter

    Greg and Inara met a few years ago. They discovered a common love of jazz standards…nerded out for a couple of hours playing every song they knew…and then wrote and recorded a record together. With all of these elements you have what we now know as The Bird

The Chapel, Halloween Night – The Candy Butchers Bash… A three ring evil circus featuring The Sam Chase, Royal Jelly Jive, and The Crux. The Bash also features marching band shenanigans from Mission Delirium, daring onstage feats by Circus Automatic, and aerial performances by Levity. Run away with the circus

Indulging every whim, Halestorm wrote songs that pulsate, pound and soar, as well as confessional, heartstring-tugging tunes and everything between. “Amen,” grooves to a chaingang shuffle and sparse keyboards, featuring a verse reminiscent of Fleetwood Mac and a chorus that has more in common with Joan Jett. Then there’s “Mayhem,”

There are few heavy metal bands that have managed to scale the heights that Judas Priest have during their nearly 40 year career. Their presence and influence remains at an alltime high as evidenced by 2008’s ‘Nostradamus’ being the highest charting album of their career, a 2010 Grammy Award win for ‘Best Metal Performance’, being

  Midnight North’s debut album ‘End of the Night’ proved successful enough online and on CD that they chose to press a limited edition mixed colored vinyl record. In an age when bands seem to come and go like fireflies, Midnight North is entering their second year of holding down a