SAN FRANCISCO — For Rudy Colombini, the frontman of San Francisco cover band The Unauthorized Rolling Stones, the launch of Music City SF offers a chance to “reignite the artistic soul of the city.”
“It is there. It’s always been there, and it is ready,” the city native and Music City SF cofounder said.
The space—comprising 20 recording studios, 26 rehearsal studios, a podcasting space, musician lodging, restaurant and more—aims to be a centralized hub of all things music, and it’s taken more than 15 years to officially open. Yet despite several delays due in part to Colombini suffering a brain aneurysm and the pandemic, the hub’s official opening on Saturday, which Colombini and others marked with a neighborhood block party and concert, is a bright spot among an otherwise struggling industry…