SF music

SF music

Magdalena Bay turns up the rock Miami-by-way-of-LA duo Magdalena Bay became an SFGATE staff favorite over the past year for their candy-coated synth pop. At Portola, they expanded into an explosive four-piece live band, bringing an energetic rock edge worthy of its place on the main festival stage. Bonus points for four costume changes from singer Mica Tenenbaum. - SFGATE senior culture editor Dan Gentile

It seems the new reincarnated version may now be calling itself The DeLuxe, according to their new social media handles (that punctuation matches their longtime red neon sign). And on Thursday, the new owners went before the SF Planning Commission requesting a permit to establish amplified live musical entertainment, and an authorization allowing hours of operation to be 9am-2am 7 days a week.

Hosted by NVTS & Two Dogs Barking Inc , this evening of dance will start with a beginning swing dance lesson, followed by a fantastical evening of swing dancing. Famed swing dance duo David & Charlie Stellar will teach you to to move & groove to swing music. After the lesson, our DJ will spin tunes to get your feet moving & bodies grooving!

On a recent August afternoon, Golden State Valkyries guard Kaitlyn Chen looks up, bends her knees and releases the ball with a flick of the wrist, sinking another 3-pointer. Down the violet-tinted court, forward Cecilia Zandalasini runs drills, crouching low as she dribbles the ball between her legs. "I love a good DJ," guard Tiffany Hayes tells KQED courtside, pointing to a music note tattoo on her ankle. "I think positive frequencies are important. ... The DJ in here got us rockin' right now, gettin' ready for the game."

Take Your Coffee Break Back to the Baroque! Experience live classical music as it was heard in 18th-century salons and coffeehouses-performed on period instruments using historically informed practices by members of Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra. This is the first of three free Coffee Concerts in the series, held monthly at The Conservatory at One Sansome in downtown San Francisco. Come early, grab a seat, and enjoy an hour of music alongside complimentary Ritual Coffee and Semifreddi's pastries. Program:

A dual release party for Brycon's "Totally! Unneccesary! White Guy Dub" & Cold Medina & Brycon's "From out the Soil" - w/ all vinyl DJ sets from Equipto, Maitre D, Jima and Brycon. Hosted by Cold Medina.

To one of the greatest cities in America, one of the most beautiful cities in America, where culture happens, where it all begins,

Every Sunday, the Berkeley Thai Temple draws hundreds for its famous brunch, a community tradition running since 1980. Behind the food Thai noodle soup, curries, and Kanom Krok are volunteers who start work long before the doors open, from monks prepping ingredients to chefs, retired cooks, and families keeping the meal running. For many, volunteering is as much about connection and community as it is about cooking, turning the weekly brunch into a ritual of service, flavor, and shared joy.

The final acts have just been announced for next months' 25th anniversary Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival, with Wilco vocalist Jeff Tweedy added to a lineup that already included String Cheese Incident, Reverend Horton Heat, and Dengue Fever. It was pretty obvious as early as May of this year who a pretty large chunk of the artists playing would be at this year's 25th annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival (October 3-5), when they announced a night-before-the-festival Emmylou Harris tribune concert at The Masonic.

Yup, I'm running a day late and a dollar short, but I'm finally back in your inbox after a much-needed break in Lake Tahoe at my family's cabin in Tahoma, where I have been going almost every summer of my entire blessed life. It was a restful and calming vacation, and although it rained the first week I was up there (I'm talking total downpours), it was the perfect excuse to sleep in and binge some series

Saturday September 27, 2025 (12pm - 6pm) 📍 Fulton Plaza - Larkin Street (between Grove + Mcallister) San Francisco, CA 🆓 All ages, Family Friendly, CommUNITY and Cultural Celebration FEATURING: Dance Battles ▪️Crew vs Crew Breaking Battle (1st Place $4000 + Spin Control Gear) ▪️"Unknown Chambers Crew Anniversary" Solo All Styles Dance Battle (1st Place $1000) ▪️Solo Kids (13 & under) All Styles Dance Battle (1st Place $250) ▪️ Register on @breakkonnect

Since the creation of hip-hop in the '70s, the genre has developed regionally. The SF Bay Area scene refined that regionalism to an impressive degree, and no group embodies the Bay's own thing more than RBL Posse. Founded in 1991 in SF's Hunter's Point, the group reached instant success with the self-produced "Don't Give Me No Bammer Weed." Though RBL Posse followed up with further successful records, tragedy followed as well.

his one-man show on Monday night (Sept. 8) at Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco by remembering how his father had once told him that he was a mistake but a good mistake. He'd later learn that his parents originally planned to terminate the unplanned pregnancy and his father even sent his mother off to an abortion clinic with $300 to do just that. Yet, while waiting at the clinic, his mother decided to go use the money to buy groceries at Safeway instead.

Join us every Wednesday night at the fabulous DecoDance bar free dance lessons followed by a DJ dance party. Make new friends, learn to dance and get out on a Wednesday night! Disclaimer: Please double check event information with the event organizer as events can be canceled, details can change after they are added to our calendar, and errors do occur.

That vision became the seed of The Cemetary Girlz, the band AlienSPagan founded in 2006. For nearly 20 years, its music has carried the atmosphere of that moment-eerie, melancholic, but strangely comforting. On Sat/13, when The Cemetary Girlz step onto the stage of DNA Lounge, the venue itself will become a mausoleum of sound, part of the inaugural GLŌM FEST: a touring funeral procession of goth, deathrock, post-punk, and darkwave artists from both sides of the Atlantic.

We just cleared the stench of patchouli out of San Francisco for the Dead & Company concerts and Jerry Day celebration that marked the 60th anniversary of the Grateful Dead. Yet the wharf rats down at Fisherman's Wharf's Pier 39 think that Bay Area Deadheads might still have some boogie left in their new speedway. As such, the Chronicle reports that there will be yet another Grateful Dead 60th anniversary celebration at Pier 39 on Saturday, September 6 from 12 - 7 pm,