Choir Boy: Matt Alber
Matt Alber performs in a special concert with the Cello Street Quartet on Thursday, March 28 at the Swedish American Hall (upstairs from Café Du Nord).
Archive for the 'Bands' Category
Le Jazz Hot
Jazz music in San Francisco; its rich past floats through open windows like melancholy notes from Chet Baker’s horn at the old Black Hawk. Today, the genre thrives at new and historic venues all over town.
Brock of Ages
San Franciscans lucky enough to hear Jason Brock’s soulful performances at local cabarets and benefits can brag that they knew the talented singer before he rose to fame on Fox’s ‘The X Factor.’
Blondie & Devo
@ The Warfield
Two iconic pop bands, Blondie and Devo, perform September 10 at San Francisco’s Warfield Theatre, then September 11 at the scenic Mountain Winery in Saratoga.
Homo Hip-hop
A new generation of queer hip-hop homos almost luxuriously rap, sing, shimmy or vogue their way through tracks that talk, sing or are about their queerness if they feel like it, or about something else if they don’t.
Banjee-nius
Whether dancing, singing or posing a la classic vogue style, the diminutive AB Soto (he’s 5′ 7″) brings jumbo-size energy and poise to his stage acts.
Suddenly Cyndi
The pop music star answered a few questions in advance of her appearance at the annual Black & White Ball, in the midst of her work for the True Colors fund, and along her Memphis Blues tour.
Vagabondage
@ Various Venues
Vagabondage, a local whimsical Americana/folk band, would seem just as comfortable performing in an episode of Firefly or at a steampunk gathering. Catch one of their many local shows in July.
Music: Heavy Liquid
Kent James, who long ago abandoned the punk mohawk, as well as a previous Country-Western persona, seems comfortable in simple garage mechanic duds as the front man for a thudding, loud and deliciously authentic rock and roll band that plays music without politics.
Music: Shawna Virago
There’s no mistaking that many of the themes in local transgender singer Shawna Virago’s CD Objectified are autobiographical. The lead lyric in three of the CD’s songs, “Objectified,” “Transsexual Dominatrix” and “Butterfly” is the word “I.”
Judy, Judy, Connie
Connie Champagne continues to uphold the Christmas spirit as she channels legendary songstress Judy Garland in her upcoming performance, “Connie Champagne as Judy Garland” at The Rrazz Room, Dec. 20 & 21.
Logan Lynn: Musician-Activist
Gay electropop-rock singer Logan Lynn (“Bottom Your Way to the Top”), who recently performed in San Francisco, is now offering up his music for an LGBT nonprofit.
Fired Up: Scissors Sisters’ Night Work
When it comes to “gay music,” who better to support than the rainbowlicious Scissor Sisters? Their new album, Night Work, is said by lead singer-composer Jake Shears to have evolved into a musical statement on what our world would be like if AIDS never happened.
Video: Pepperspray
@ Supperclub
Drag band extraordinaire Pepperspray perform one of two reunion concerts at Supperclub (and the previous night at the Eagle Tavern) in San Francisco. Here’s just a taste.
