Organizers of Outside Lands just announced the biggest-ever slate of small-venue night shows for the week of the festival in late October, and these include a Wednesday DRAMA set at Bimbo's, and Kaytranada at 1015 Folsom. Also, there's a just-announced RUFUS DU SOL show at the Fox in Oakland.
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Whoever said artists should have to suffer for their art? Presumably, someone who never had to suffer much. Musicians, like writers, are still too often tagged with this bizarre assumption that creating their art should require an arduous grappling with their muse, borne of pain or sadness. Unfortunately, the past six months have brought with them a surfeit of suffering; it’s still hard to talk about almost anything without referring back at some point to the hardships many of us have dealt with this past year, courtesy of COVID-19. But thanks to a miracle of medical science and the vast majority of people sane enough to understand the need to get vaccinated, things are feeling a lot more hopeful than they have been in a long time.
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The best new LPs of May 2021
Sunshine might be a distant memory, but live music is back, so why do you want to go outside? As you start to browse the gig listings with a little more confidence, touch wood, here are some names to look out for. Not quite a baker’s dozen (those of us ever in the sourdough stage of lockdown are surely out of it now), here are our favourite twelve albums from May 2021.
th time lucky in Lambchop’s sonic explorations; an experimental triumph for Kurt Wagner and company.
L&Q says: “Here is a restless, dense, audacious and genuinely experimental record that, despite sounding not quite like anything the band have made before, nonetheless retains their personality and wit, retooled for another reinvention.”