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Be sure to wear flowers in your hair if you’re going watch San Francisco Sounds: A Place In Time. As noted in journalist Mark Kennedy’s Associated Press article (picked up in today’s Chicago Tribune), the two-part documentary is now streaming on MGM+. It features interviews with and vintage performance footage of some of the best known acts from the city’s psychedelic heyday in late 1960s through the mid 1970s. San Francisco Sounds was created by Anoosh Tertzakian and Alison Ellwood, who previously gave us the Laurel Canyon documentary.

 

Tickets are now on sale today for Bob Dylan’s October 6, 7, and 8 concerts at the Cadillac Palace Theatre. Dylan is currently in the midst of an epic tour titled Things Aren’t The Way They Were . . . “Rough And Rowdy Ways.”

If you’re looking to add a bit of Halloween spice to your Labor Day weekend, Amazing Heeby Jeebies, the Chicago-based garage rock and rockabilly outfit that conjures tales of werewolves, mummies, and other frightful creatures, will perform this Sunday, September 3 from 6:00 to 8:00 pm at The Northman Riverwalk. It’s located at 233 E. Riverwalk in downtown Chicago.

This past Saturday, Durty Nellie’s in Palatine hosted the totally fun, nearly eight-hour Third Coast Surf Fest featuring Los Straitjackets and six other surf and 1960s acts. I miswrote in my preview that they would all play instrumental sets; Total Beaches and Roger That offered well-crafted vocals on their cover versions of major hits. Those that did go the instrumental also impressed, particularly OUTRONAUT, with its otherworldly sonic adventures. The critically acclaimed masked posse Los Straitjackets were a blast with their mix of humor and innovative musicianship. Their twangy take on The Hollies’ “Bus Stop” was my personal favorite.

Artists For Wildlife Conservation are holding a fundraiser this Wednesday at the City Winery in Boston featuring the work of rock and roll photographer Henry Diltz. The event offers a meet-and-greet with Diltz, who will be selling signed prints of his work. Proceeds will go toward elephant conservation in the Amboseli National Park in Kenya.

The Academy Award Best Picture winner Everything Everywhere All At Once will be shown tomorrow night at 6:30 pm as part of the Millennium Park Summer Film Series. Admission is free.

The Cubby Bear, on north Clark Street just outside Wrigley Field, has a triple bill of The Spindles, Urban Twang, and Paige & The Kaisers coming this Friday.