Music & Nightlife
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After years of riding alongside his father, guitarist Carlos Santana, Salvador Santana is ready to do things from the ground up.
Music makes connections
Lisa Bielawa, a featured composers in the Other Minds Festival, says the social aspects of musical collaboration drive much of her creative energy.
Letting the songs breathe
TV Ghost, a band from Lafayette, Ind., draws inspiration from New York's No Wave scene of the late '70s and early '80s.
A pure, buoyant show
San Francisco Symphony Chorus Director Ragnar Bohlin led the Swedish Radio Choir in a superb concert presented by Cal Performances.
Vibration-heavy psych-drone
The Bay Area duo Barn Owl turns out ethereal, eerie soundscapes that are immediately evident and immersive.
A organically evolving ensemble
The eight-musician SFJAZZ Collective forges an independent spirit.
Sister, sister!
It's no contest: Tegan and Sara Quin are the best Canadian lesbian identical twin singer-songwriters. We're not the only ones to think so.
Amy Tan lends a hand
The author became a fan of Pascal Toussaint after seeing in him Paris. She's now helping him out as he makes his U.S. debut at Yoshi's in S.F.
An aural portrait of Cuba
Rebeca Mauleón loves to mix it up musically. That shows in her "Suite Afro-Cubano" for the Oakland East Bay Symphony.
Jingle-pop 'family band'
Bay Area group the Rantouls have a jingle-pop-oriented sound, replete with vocal harmonies and Mersey beat rhythms.
A transcendentalist fervor
Victor Kissine's "Post-scriptum" is a beautiful, mysterious orchestral essay that had its world premiere in Davies Symphony Hall.
A defining performance
Indie rockers the Dodos shared a stage with Magik Magik Orchestra for a memorable pairing.
Not bad, but not great
The annual guest appearances by the S.F. Symphony's conductor laureate Herbert Blomstedt wasn't the most exciting reunion.
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