Watch: Helado Negro's Humid, Solitary Trip Through Miami in "Dance Ghost"

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Helado Negro's Robert Lange
You can feel the humidity in the music of Helado Negro. Every spare electronic beat hits inside a languid haze. Florida-via-Brooklyn musician Roberto Lange, singing in Spanish and English, sounds weighed down by heat, distance, feeling. The songs on his latest album, Invisible Life, propel forward at medium tempos, often with only skeletal elements, forming seductive, subtle atmospheres of electronic pop. There's a loneliness to this music, but that doesn't keep Lange from arriving at what feel like breakthroughs, albeit sweaty ones. "Dance Ghost" breaks the heat fever most decisively, landing, as the title suggests, just on the danceable side of Lange's often meditative sound. The video contributes its own sense of solitude, following a character through the pastel condo towers and lurid nightclubs of Miami. Check it out below. You can inhabit Helado Negro's seductive humidity tomorrow, May 4, at Rickshaw Stop, with Javelin, Silver Hands, and Epicsauce DJs.


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Mount Tam Jam Books Galactic, Cake, and Others to Benefit Marin State Parks

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The view from the Mountain Theater on Mt. Tam: Not bad.
There hasn't been a rock concert on top of Mount Tamalpais in decades. But there will be this year, when the first-ever Mount Tam Jam brings Galactic, Cake, Taj Mahal, and others to play a benefit show for the Marin County peak on its very own slopes. The concert comes at at difficult time for the California State Park system as a whole, and especially for Mt. Tam, as organizers point out:


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Steve Earle Will Perform for Free at the Warren Hellman Museum Today

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Steve Earle
Country-folk legend and preeminent beard spokesman Steve Earle has a new album, The Low Highway, out now. Local fans may know that there's a song on the new album called "Warren Hellman's Banjo" -- a backwoodsy tribute to Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival founder Warren Hellman.

Earle is in San Francisco today, for an appearance on KFOG and a set this evening at Amoeba. But before then, he's playing a free show in honor of the late billionaire and banjo player who is subject of that song at the museum dedicated to his memory.


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Snoop Dogg/Lion Is Playing the Fillmore on What Promises to Be the Blunted-est 4/20 Ever

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Snoop then-Dogg at Coachella
As part of his coming-out tour, and only days before the release of his Diplo-produced reggae album, Snoop Lion (né Dogg) will be playing one of those intimate shows here in S.F. at the Fillmore. And because Snoop Lion loves weed, and San Francisco loves weed, Snoop has decided to come to San Francisco on World Weed Day -- aka April 20, aka 4/20, aka the best day in all of the year to see Snoop Dogg perform.


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The Rolling Stones Announce Two Bay Area Concerts in May

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Just as we were expecting, the Rolling Stones this morning announced a U.S. leg of their ongoing 50 and Counting Tour for this spring. And just as expected, it includes two dates in the Bay Area next month.

See also: Here Is the Billboard That Proves the Rolling Stones Are Playing San Francisco This Year


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Here Is the Billboard That Proves the Rolling Stones Are Playing San Francisco This Year

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The S.F. billboard
So the Rolling Stones have been making a rather large, um, bang on Twitter all week about some big announcement coming tomorrow, April 3. Yes, it is almost certainly going to be U.S. tour dates for this spring -- a continuation of the band's 50th Anniversary shows of last year. And yes, it's almost certainly going to include San Francisco. Because if not, this electronic billboard at the west end of the Bay Bridge, and those ads on Muni stops around town would be, like, really dick.

See also: The Rolling Stones Announce Two Bay Area Concerts in May


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Prince To Play Four Intimate Shows at DNA Lounge in April

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Prince in Oakland
Right on the heels of his marathon, headline-grabbing set at SXSW, Prince's opening project band announced he'll be doing the small-room thing for audiences outside of Austin, too. A podcast on a Prince fansite revealed last night that the Purple One will play multiple shows in club-sized California venues, including four shows at S.F.'s DNA Lounge, this spring.


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Robyn Hitchcock Birthday Show at the Fillmore Will Feature Colin Meloy, Rhett Miller, Amanda Palmer, and More

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Robyn Hitchcock is 60!
Robyn Hitchcock, the great former Soft Boys member, solo singer-guitarist, and lover of San Francisco, turned 60 this March 3. And guys like him just don't turn 60 without a big party. So in May, the Fillmore will host ¡Viva Hitchcock!: A 60th Birthday Celebration for Robyn Hitchcock, which will bring a bunch of famous people like the Decemberists' Colin Meloy, Amanda Fucking Palmer, Rhett Miller (of Old 97's), and many more out for a night of live music in honor of Mr. Hitchcock.

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* Robyn Hitchcock Looks Back on Looking Back on San Francisco

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Cult Heroes Sparks Announce S.F. Show at the Chapel in April

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Sparks, as a patient fan of the cult band once explained to us, is a musician's band. Held in high esteem by the likes of pretty much everyone cool ever -- they're credited with inspiring both Morrissey and Bjork to go into music, and count Joey Ramone, Kurt Cobain, and Paul McCartney as fans -- Sparks had a huge, largely under-appreciated influence on the course of pop music. Brothers Ron and Russell Mael are credited with practically inventing New Wave with the the quirky, smart, keyboard-inflected rock they started making as students at UCLA in the '70s.

Though far more popular in the U.K. and Europe than the U.S., Sparks are touring the States this year based around their Coachella appearances -- and, as you've gleaned by now, a super-rare S.F. date is on their tour schedule, too.


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Morrissey Pretends He'll Play San Francisco One Day, Adds April Show

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"Should I play? Or should I just go hang out at DNA Lounge?"
Last week, Morrissey canceled his fourth S.F. show in a row, leading to anger, exasperation, and further abandonment of all hope for Moz fans. He's still got one more local date on the calendar -- the Regency Ballroom on March 9 -- and he's just added another.

That any Bay Area tour date exists of course seems hugely optimistic, considering the fact that Morrissey hasn't actually played a scheduled one in years. Also, the new announcement mentions the fact that Moz has recovered from his recent medical problems (Barrett's esophagus) -- and the press release came out literally the day after Morrissey's latest canceled S.F. show. Hmmmmmmm.

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* Dear Morrissey, Will You Ever Actually Make it to San Francisco?
* Morrissey Has Canceled This Sunday's Show at Davies Symphony Hall, Of Course

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