The days are getting shorter, but November offers a long list of musical offerings.
When he performs at Davies Symphony Hall Monday, Grammy-nominated composer Charlie Puth will operate under one key artistic credo: In songwriting, he declares, “The most important thing that you can do is tell the truth — that’s the only way for your song to really resonate.”
Puth is hoping kids will relate to his 2015 mega-hit “See You Again,” a touching elegy he co-wrote with Wiz Khalifa to play over the photo-montage finale of “Fast & Furious 7,” honoring the late Paul Walker. “I’ve always wanted to make a song that transcends its original meaning, and that song has gone the distance and continues to show new sides of itself everywhere it goes, like being discovered by younger kids, like it’s a brand-new song.
But music has reunited the Sierotas again, first via Jamie’s solo project, meija, which just issued the first of two EPs, “Side A.” And he just rejoined his siblings for a series of buoyant, dream-pop singles as Echosmith, like “Gelato,” “Hanging Out” and a revamped take on their signature early hit “Cool Kids — Our Version.”
Echosmith. Great American Music Hall, 459 O’Farrell St., S.F., 8 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 16. $25-$79. gamh.comCult bandleader Ian Astbury has had so many close scrapes with death, he can barely remember them all. There were a couple of instances where he nearly froze, high in the snowy Himalayas.
“We were told to cut our hair and taught how to behave, but these kids were just running wild,” he recalls. “And they were really cool, non-judgmental with me and I just felt really at home, so I started to learn about the Iroquois Confederacy, the Six Nations and that led me to the Tibetan nomads, Joseph Campbell, Alan Watts, D.T. Suzuki and all these great thinkers, and I ended up in Tibet.”
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