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Christmas Eve is, Zac Holtzman jokes, “Jews’ night out.” The joke lends a title to a song he and members of his band, Dengue Fever, will be playing at Tikva Records tonight. (There are two shows: one at 7:00pm and the other at 8:30pm.)
In many ways, the Tikva concert also serves as a …
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When the Idelsohn Society opened Tikva Records on December 1, the store turned a tiny slice of San Francisco’s Outer Mission into a 1950s-style vinyl record shop. When the Burton Sisters reunited last night on stage at Tikva, the neighborhood was transformed briefly into the Catskills
Roger Bennett, one of Idelsohn’s founders, summed up the …
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Fool’s Gold rocked the house twice last night. The five-piece, LA-based, African-flavored, Hebrew-singing band packed tight into the rear of the main room at Tikva Records, and they ran through two sets of songs, drawn mostly from their recent album, Leave No Trace.
They may have left no trace, but they didn’t leave empty-handed. …
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Luke Top has phoned from his home in the Los Feliz neighborhood in Los Angeles. His band, the African-infused rock group Fool’s Gold, just back home from a six-week tour, is preparing to head to San Francisco for a pair of Wednesday (December 7) CD-release shows at Tikva Records.
“Home,” it turns out, is a …
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Tikva Records is sending out a weekly email newsletter about the goings on at the December-only location in San Francisco’s Mission District. Click through below to read in full, and enter your email address in the section to the lower right, in order to receive future Tikva Records and Idelsohn Society emails.
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