Review + Photos: Galactic + Turkuaz at the Warfield
Galactic (photo: Joshua Huver) On Saturday, March 31, the legendary Warfield Theater in San Francisco held a heavyweight showdown that featured two top-class masters in funk: New Orleans funk-heavy jam band favorite Galactic and Turkuaz from Brooklyn, NY. Wrapping up a winter tour that consisted of 30 shows in 34 days, with 9,268 miles logged from coast to coast, Galactic is known for touring heavily to start the year. Turkuaz joined the tour for its final funky leg through California. Turkuaz has an equal reputation for being a nonstop touring machine that thrives on crisscrossing the country. Although Galactic are solid in [...]
Mount Tam Jam: Watch Galactic, CAKE, Taj Mahal & more atop Tamalpais
One of the Bay Area's crown jewels will be feted on Saturday, June 22 with a special show just in time for the Summer Solstice. Mount Tam Jam: A Benefit for the Mountain will be held at the historic Sidney B. Cushing Memorial Amphitheatre (aka the Mountain Theatre), the gorgeous, century-old, stonehenge-looking 4000-seat stone amphitheater on top of Mount Tamalpais in Marin County. The show is both a celebration of and a benefit for Mount Tamalpais State Park, which celebrates its 85th anniversary in 2013, set forth as "a creative response to the well-publicized California State Parks budget crisis here [...]