Patti Smith Boarding House, San Francisco, CA (1976)

She'd been a New Yorker since moving to the city in 1967, aged 21. She had a child that she gave up for adoption, met and started a relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe - with whom she shared a room at the infamous Chelsea Hotel for some time - and she discovered the work of French symbolist poet Arthur Rimbaud. She appeared in Warhol Superstar Jackie Curtis's play Femme Fatale with Wayne County, and - for one night only - in Cowboy Mouth which she co-wrote with Sam Shepherd. She was considered for the role of lead vocalist in Blue Oyster Cult, but instead contributed lyrics to many of the band's songs, and she started a relationship with BOC keyboardist Alan Lanier. She contributed articles to rock journals Rolling Stone and Creem.

Throughout his decades-long career, Dan Hicks stood as one of contemporary music's true eccentrics. While steeped in folk, his acoustic sound knew few musical boundaries. He drew on country, call-and-response vocals, jazz phrasing, and no small amount of humor to create a distinctive, albeit sporadic, body of work that earned him a devoted cult following. Hicks was born December 9, 1941, to a military family then living in Arkansas, and grew up in California, where he was a drummer in a number of high-school bands. He attended college in San Francisco, where he switched to guitar and began playing folk music. He returned to the drums, however, when he joined the Charlatans, one of the Bay City's first psychedelic bands.

This previously unreleased project from the Owsley Stanley Foundation and Claddagh Records is the last ever from Paddy Moloney, a legendary member of the Chieftains. Bear's Sonic Journals: The Foxhunt was recorded live in San Francisco at the Boarding House on October 1, 1973, by soundman Owsley "Bear" Stanley. The Chieftains appeared at the personal invitation of Jerry Garcia. 2 CD set includes a bonus disc featuring the 1976 show at San Francisco's Great American Music Hall in 1976.

Frankenstein was recorded during live ballet performances at War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco by RR’s engineering team, comprised of GRAMMY®-­winning engineer and Technical Director Keith O. Johnson, and multi­ GRAMMY®­-nominated engineer Sean Martin.

A recording of Loreena’s ground-breaking 1994 recording, The Mask and Mirror, was captured live at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco on May 19th 1994, originally for radio syndication throughout the U.S. and Canada. On June 14th, it will be released as The Mask and Mirror Live – and it’s available to you for pre-order now.

A recording of Loreena’s ground-breaking 1994 recording, The Mask and Mirror, was captured live at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco on May 19th 1994, originally for radio syndication throughout the U.S. and Canada. On June 14th, it will be released as The Mask and Mirror Live – and it’s available to you for pre-order now.

My Morning Jacket A cheval entre indie-rock et country alternative, My Morning Jacket, formation américaine originaire du Kentucky, mêle sonorités rurales americana aux assauts d'une guitare et d'une batterie parfois teintés de textures héritées du mouvement Shoegazing. Avec sa voix plaintive à la Neil Young et armé d'un solide sens poétique, Jim James mène le groupe qui commence à générer un buzz dès son second effort, At Dawn avant de s'imposer à un public plus large avec It Still Moves en 2003 et de livrer l'un des disques les plus remarqués de la décennie avec Z en 2005, et son single "Off the Record".

Smith and her band represented the vanguard of the American punk movement in the mid-'70s. Collection includes: Radio Ethiopia (1976); Easter (1978); Wave (1979).

Punk rock's poet laureate Patti Smith ranks among the most ambitious, unconventional, and challenging rock & rollers of all time. When she emerged in the '70s, Smith's music was hailed as the most exciting fusion of rock and poetry since Bob Dylan's heyday. With her androgynous, visual presentation echoing her unabashedly intellectual and uncompromising songwriting, Smith followed her muse wherever it took her, from structured rock songs to free-form experimentalism.