Great American Music Hall (GAMH)

Where: 859 O'Farrell Street, San Francisco , CA
Call: 415.885.0750
Web: http://www.musichallsf.com
Tags: Music

About

San Francisco's oldest and grandest nightclub, the Great American Music Hall carries guests back to an earlier, more elegant era, with its ornate balconies, soaring marble columns and elaborate ceiling frescoes. Long-time customers and newcomers alike feel at home in the 5,000-square-foot concert hall that symbolized renewal and optimism when it opened in 1907. Today, a professional sound and lighting system, two full bars, a modern kitchen and a spacious oak dance floor help to blend contemporary quality with turn-of-the-century graciousness.

Articles

Jello Biafra

The Audacity of Hype
10/22/2009, by Matt Crawford
Alternative Tentacles, the Bay Area record label that helped launch influential punk band the Dead Kennedys, celebrates its 30th anniversary starting November 5th with Incest-a-Thon, a three-night sta... More »
Kip Berman of The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

More Than a Handful
09/04/2009, by Matt Crawford
The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, the latest band to rise in short order from obscurity in Brooklyn to darlings of the internet, have the sincere, fuzzy indie-pop thing down. The band returns to San F... More »
Rebelution

A Bright Spot in the Foggy City
07/24/2009, by David Johnson-Igra
Since leaving San Francisco, Eric Rachmany went on to receive a degree at UC Santa Barbara, and now returns as the lead singer of Rebelution. With their debut album Courage to Grow, R... More »
Brett Constantino of Sleepy Sun

Weird and Simple
06/04/2009, by Matt Crawford
After spending most of this year touring the U.S. and Europe and recording new songs, Sleepy Sun vocalist Brett Constantino is regrouping in the shadow of the Sierras, shoveling dirt and working on la... More »
King Khan

Rocking Like a Hurricane
05/26/2009, by Matt Crawford
Rock ’n’ roll is alive and well with King Khan and the Shrines, the Berlin-based outfit that returns to San Francisco with its big-band psychedelic boogie March 28th at Great American Music Hall. Khan... More »
Jared Swilley of Black Lips

Band on the Run
04/23/2009, by Matt Crawford
Sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll are part of San Francisco’s DNA, but, as the Black Lips recently found out, those founding principles still meet persistent opposition in distant locales. The Atlanta-base... More »
Supergrass

An Interview with Bassist Micky Quinn
02/17/2006, by Roger Thomasson
Every band has its mythology. As a budding folk guitarist, punk icon Joe Strummer adopted the moniker of his unlikely hero -- Woody Guthrie. Richey James, lyricist for the Manic Street Preachers, ha... More »
Hold Steady

at GAMH, 10/18
10/07/2005, by Roger Thomasson
The retro-centric obsession steering our culture can often make it difficult to avoid the numbing effect of familiarity. Listen to a modern rock station, and you are likely to hear a NEW new-wave ban... More »
Feist at Great American Music Hall, 9/17

Canadian Chanteuse with an Indie Twist
09/09/2005, by Ginevra Kirkland
Feist's roots can be seen in everything from Ella Fitzgerald to Burt Bacharach, combining immense vocal talent with a knack for understanding the fun in being today's reigning indie princess. Born Les... More »
Vinyl & Sila and the Afrofunk Experience

at GAMH on Sat 8/27
08/19/2005, by Ginevra Kirkland
We're Californians, so we adore fusion in our music, as well as in our cuisine. Future collides with tradition as Vinyl and Sila and the Afrofunk Experience bring together the mix just the way we like... More »
Loud*Live*Local

October 15th to 30th
10/15/2004, by matthew thayer
A varied mix of live music leads up to two of San Francisco's biggest holiday's: Halloween and the national elections. Please... party and then vote. On a musical note, I always look forward to FREE s... More »
Sufjan Stevens at Great American Music Hall

07/22/2004, by Jeremy Sampson
Sufjan Stevens will never be accused of thinking small scale. For starters, the Brooklyn-based singer/songwriter plans to release 50 solo albums, each dedicated to a different U.S. state. This audacio... More »
Camera Obscura

07/08/2004, by Jeremy Sampson
Go ahead. Just try and write about Scottish septet Camera Obscura without mentioning Belle and Sebastian. I tried to do it. Really I did. (Or did I? Perhaps this is nothing but a cheap literary device... More »
Great Night Out

07/02/2004, by John Zaterka
"An every gimmick hungry boy digging gold from rock 'n' roll, Grabs the mike to tell us he'll die before he's sold." In the latest scheme to sell more tickets by adding Jam Bands to the roster going s... More »
NoisePop

02/13/2004, by Jeremy Sampson
Thank goodness for Leap Year! With 24 extra hours in the bank this February, we don't have to feel guilty about spending most of our spare time at shows the last week of this month. Unless you've deve... More »
Fun Lovin' Criminals

12/05/2003, by Jeremy Sampson
Gangster-chic made a big pop-culture comeback sometime in the mid-'90s. I speak not of the bling-bling gangsta rap still dominating MTV and suburban teenage stereos, but of the stylish archetype of co... More »
Damien Rice

Love songs worth listening to
09/25/2003, by Lisa Butterworth
Maybe it's the rolling green hills or the constant drizzly days of life in the outskirts of Dublin. Perhaps it's the pastoral nature of County Kildare where Damien Rice grew up or simply the luck of t... More »
Rilo Kiley

Plus M Ward and A Band of Four & The Golden Age
06/08/2003, by Lisa Butterworth
Rilo Kiley sound like your first kiss and your last broken heart. Hopeful sounding hooks and honest lyrics sit alongside purging ballads about the tribulations of love lost, an irresistible dichotomy ... More »
Black Heart Procession

at Great American Music Hall
02/16/2003, by Lisa Butterworth
If the San Diego music scene were likened to high school, Creeper Lagoon would be the varsity quarterback, Hot Snakes would be the punk skater kid perennially stuck in detention, and the Black Heart P... More »