“A concert is no good unless there’s some magic,” Jarvis Cocker told the crowd, soon after Pulp hit the stage in Brooklyn. “You react to us, we react to you — that summons the magic.” The Britpop gods ...

Pulp only has five cities listed on its long-overdue North American tour. And — wow — were Bay Area fans ever fortunate that one of those highly coveted spots was in San Francisco. The thousands of ...