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Big things are on the way for Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, who released their self-titled, third album last week. While Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros was originally set to debut last year, the reason for the delay is clear—and worth it. The band has hardly taken a breath since hitting the road to support their sophomore album Here.

San Francisco veteran singer-songwriter Maurice Tani and Freight & Salvage in Berkeley announce a double CD release show on SUNDAY AUGUST 18 at 8:00pm. This show celebrates the simultaneous release of Tani's fourth and fifth albums: a new studio album, “Blue Line”, and “Two Stroke”, an album of acoustic duos and trios with bassist Mike Anderson and a variety of others. Maurice’s August 18th special performance at Freight & Salvage

Dennis McNally, as a trained historian and biographer, will talk about Jerry Garcia's upbringing and his distinctively San Francisco set of values that help shaped his own life and the Dead.  
 
Excelsior Library
(A few blocks from Jerry's childhood home)
 
4400 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94112
 
7pm
 
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Right in the midst of a fabulous summer festival season, Portland Oregon-based Shook Twins have just announced the addition of late summer and early fall tour dates to their already stacked calendar and a new song/video premiere. A first time tour to the Midwest and South in late September and for the entire month of October, will bring the groups trademark “eclectic mix of  folks, roots, pop and fun” to a whole new audience.

On Sunday, August 18th the ashes of music legend Richie Havens will be scattered across the field where the historic Woodstock Festival took place in 1969 - today the site of Bethel Woods Center for the Arts.

Planning is underway for Yonder Mountain String Band’s 8th annual Harvest Festival, set to take place at the majestic Mulberry Mountain from October 17-19th in Ozark, Arkansas.

Singer-songwriter Ali Holder’s August 27 release of her stunning solo debut, In Preparation for Saturn’s Return, is written in the stars.Inspired by an astrological event in which the planet Saturn completes one full orbit around the sun and returns to the same point in the sky that it occupied at the moment of a person’s birth — occurring in 27-30 year cycles, it’s said to usher a person into the next stage of her life — In Preparation for Saturn’s Return is a deeply personal collection of originals that incorporate elem

Equifunk, Pennsylvania's first all-inclusive music festival, celebrates its 6th anniversary August 16-18, 2013 in the heart of the Pocono Mountains at camps Equinunk and Blue Ridge in rural Equinunk, PA.

Previously unreleased Sunshine Daydream concert film featuring gloriously remastered picture and all new stereo and 5.1 audio mixes done by Jeffrey Norman at TRI StudiosBlu-ray Mastered by Grammy® winning engineer David Glasser at Air Show MasteringThe complete 8/27/72 concert CD mixed and mastered to HDCD from the original 16 track tapes by Jeffrey NormanAudio tapes transferred and restored by Plangent ProcessesBonus documentary “Grateful Days” featuring brand new interviews with Mountain Girl, Sam Cutler, Wavy Gravy, Ken Babbs, and moreDead.net exclusive: 40-page book fea

The 11-piece juggernaut known as the Tedeschi Trucks Band are in the midst of their co-headlining tour with The Black Crowes and nearing the release of their second full-length studio album, Made Up Mind via Sony Masterworks on August 20th.  Dynamic vocalist and guitarist Susan Tedeschi and her guitar virtuoso husband Derek Trucks have been joining the Crowes onstage at many shows and we wa

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