Philanthropist and bluegrass lover Warren Hellman was honored Sunday with a free concert featuring a host of regulars at Hellman's own Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival.The day-long tribute to Hellman, who died of leukemia at the age of 77 in December, featured John Doe, Steve Earle, Buddy Miller, Gillian Welch, Boz Scaggs, Robert Earl Keen and Emmylou Harris and Hellman's band, The Wronglers.
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She never used to think of it as a yuletide custom. But this season, Exene Cervenka, frontwoman for legendary Los Angeles punk band X, decided to make it official. “Now it’s become a tradition that X plays the Bay Area for Christmas and New Year’s, and that’s just the way it is,” she says.
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It’s a banner year for punk legend John Doe. He recently wrapped three tours: one with his original outfit, X, with Exene Cervenka; another with his and Cervenka’s twangy spinoff, the Knitters; plus dates with Jill Sobule, backing their recent duets disc “A Day at the Pass.” In November, X will visit South America as the personally-requested opening act for Pearl Jam before returning to San Francisco for the annual year-end “X-Mas” concerts.
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Is it really that time again? Time for feigned festive holiday cheer? Indeed, it is. And a sure sign is the official notice from our fave proto-punkers X that — as is their usual Yuletide custom — they’ve once again booked two “X-Mas Rock N Roll Festival” nights at San Francisco’s Slim’s this time on Dec. 30 and 31.
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It’s an unusual event — seeing legendary punk outfit X during a San Francisco summer — instead of around Christmas, as usual.
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