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).
Winter Blues: Earl Thomas Sings Out & Proud
Earl Thomas is the greatest gay ambassador you’ve never heard of, or more probably, never heard. The acclaimed blues singer tours the world, and performs here in San Francisco, too.
BARtab February 2013 page-view
Read our new expanded uncensored page-view-only edition of February 2013 BARtab, with lots more photos from Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato’s book, The World According to Wonder.
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.
Valentimely
Where to go and what to do to celebrate all things of the heart? We have the scoop this month for those in or out of love, or somewhere in between.
DJ Hot List: Jim Hopkins
Tenacious would be just one apt word to describe the career of Jim Hopkins, the local disc jockey known for his classic disco mixes, contemporary house blends, as well as archival work and original music.
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.”
DJ List: Bear Z Bub
Currently the resident DJ at the Lone Star and for Suppository Spelling’s monthly solo night for Mary Go Round at The Lookout, Bear Z Bub shares his 12 Songs of Christmas.
Scissor Sisters After-Party @ The Clift Hotel
After the fantastic Scissor Sisters concert at Oakland’s gorgeously renovated Fox Theatre September 12, hundreds of stylish, fun-loving, eccentric and music-loving fans took over the beautiful Redwood Room lobby bar of the Clift Hotel in downtown San Francisco.
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.
DJ List: Don Tix
DJ Don Tix came into the club scene a few years ago. He has been a featured DJ on internet music stations Tagartmusic.com and G.I.R.L. (Gay Internet Radio Live). He has held residencies at San Francisco clubs Club Dragon, BDP (BirthDayParty), as well as Steamworks in Berkeley.
DJ List: Robbie Martin
Proud, Mary
DJ Robbie Martin shares his Pride anthem faves
by Jim Provenzano
The Bourbon Pub, also known as The Parade Disco on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, is the location of the inauspicious debut of DJ Robbie Martin.
“As a DJ, you can’t get experienced faster than working the New Orleans holidays,” said Martin. “Mardi Gras, Southern Decadence, [...]
Ozomatli:
“Gay Vatos in Love”
Celebrated Los Angeles culture-mashers Ozomatli are back with a new album and a new label, Fire Away, out now on Mercer Street Records / Downtown Records.
Ozomatli
Fire Away features the band’s Grammy Award-winning mix of hip hop and salsa, dancehall and cumbia, samba and funk, merengue and comparsa, East LA R&B and New Orleans second line, [...]
Andy Gram:
Can’t Stop Now
This is supposed to be where I only review Non-Stop, Andy Bell’s terrific new solo CD, but we ran out of space for a blathering editorial, so I’ll be succinct.
Non-Stop will be released on June 7 on CD and via download and features the singles “Running Out,” “Will You Be There?” and “Call On [...]
