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Marin resident brings beloved saloon back to life
For new owner Bryan Hendon, a 63-year-old retired San Anselmo firefighter, it was the happily overwhelming culmination of a more than year-long effort to save and restore a building that’s ne…
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January 30, 2026 at 1:44 AM
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The legacy of Bobby Weir and the Grateful Dead
Long one of Mill Valley’s resident rock stars, Weir died Jan. 10 at age 78, sending waves of grief through our local music community that radiated out into the larger universe of the Grateful Dead …
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January 16, 2026 at 4:16 AM
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Mill Valley artist’s creations part of rock history
You could say that Mill Valley artist George Mead’s paintings hold a larger-than-life place in the history of rock art.
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December 12, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Remembering Donna Jean Godchaux-MacKay, ‘first lady of the Grateful Dead’
Known as “the first lady of the Grateful Dead,” she died of cancer on Nov. 2 in hospice care in Nashville at age 78.
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November 14, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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‘I don’t get tired of the road’: Bluegrass legend comes to Marin
One of the all-time greats of bluegrass, Del McCoury, quietly passed through Marin County last week, playing a sold-out outdoor barbecue at Rancho Nicasio, his first performance here in 15 years.
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October 31, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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Inside Sweetwater Music Hall’s new life as a nonprofit arts organization
“We have the freedom to present artists that normally won’t get a show in this area.”
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October 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Mill Valley Film Festival: Metallica fans get personal in new documentary
The film focuses on fans from around the world who embrace Metallica’s hard rock anthems and bombastic concerts as a kind of group therapy.
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September 26, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Jerry Harrison of the Talking Heads to receive Milley Award
“I kind of feel it’s being awarded by your peers, by the people around you. So yeah, it’s a special thing,” he said.
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September 12, 2025 at 5:01 AM
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Maria Muldaur’s new album pays tribute to blues pioneer Victoria Spivey
Maria Muldaur honors her former mentor and friend on her new album, “One Hour Mama: The Blues of Victoria Spivey.”
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August 29, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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Sound Summit celebrates 10th anniversary with tribute to Sly and the Family Stone
Producer Michael Nash wanted to do something special to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Sound Summit, the annual rock festival on Mount Tamalpais.
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August 15, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Famed drummer’s work in music, law inspires Marin-set rock novel
The protagonist of Greg Anton’s tale is Woody Harper, a gifted guitarist and songwriter who can’t seem to get out of his own way as he struggles.
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July 25, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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New photo book captures the Grateful Dead’s formative years
In a word, Jim Marshall once said what it takes to become a successful rock photographer — trust.
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July 11, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Miist: Marin’s accidental pop star
Rongrong Souang, a native of China, is as surprised as anyone about her new career as a budding pop star who calls herself Miist.
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June 27, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Legendary Marin musician still creative after all these years
As the drummer for the legacy band Big Brother and the Holding Company, Dave Getz played on one of the greatest rock albums of all time, “Cheap Thrills,” a No. 1 record in 1968 that made a supersta…
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June 13, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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New book examines what inspired the hippie movement, Summer of Love
“The Last Great Dream: How Bohemians Became Hippies and Created the Sixties,” a new book by Dennis McNally, explores the roots of counterculture that flowered in SF’s Haight-Ashbury in 1967.
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May 23, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Huffman uses music as tool for ‘human connection’
With a district of nearly 750,000 people, it’s safe to assume that many, if not most, of Rep. Jared Huffman’s constituents are unaware that they’re represented by a singing, guitar-strumming …
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May 9, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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‘The music lasts forever’: Documentary on iconic band America heads to Marin film festival
“I Need You: 53 Years of the Band America” comes to San Rafael’s DocLands.
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April 25, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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West Marin author shows another side of Yoko Ono in new biography
West Marin author David Sheff has written a new biography.
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April 11, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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Fairfax resident reflects on his ‘wild ride’ with Garcia, the Grateful Dead
Len Dell’Amico, the Grateful Dead’s longtime videographer, writes about his friendship with Jerry Garcia in a new memoir that portrays the charismatic guitarist as a Christ-like figure who ac…
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March 28, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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From Pokemon to pop: A Novato teen’s budding career as a music producer
A senior in high school, Nataan Hong works as a pop music producer and as a composer for the Pokemon TV series.
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March 14, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Legendary Marin musician shares stories of rock ‘n’ roll, rebellion in new book
As the onetime leader of the outlaw Sausalito houseboat band the Redlegs, Joe Tate occupies a uniquely maritime niche in the history of Marin County rock ‘n’ roll.
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February 28, 2025 at 6:11 AM
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Petty Theft’s Dan Durkin spent his life ‘runnin’ down a dream’ — now he’s living it
For thousands of Bay Area live music fans, Dan Durkin is best known as the cowboy-hatted front man and lead singer of Petty Theft, a phenomenally popular Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers tribute ban…
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February 14, 2025 at 5:58 AM