Grouplove is a Big Mess – in the best way possible Michelle Cho October 20, 2016 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Multimedia, Photos, Reviews Thursday night in Oakland on the evening of October 6th was a little more vibrant than usual, thanks to the presence of indie-pop band Grouplove. The five members performed at the Fox Theater on a stage of brig...
Ween reunites at Bill Graham Rebekah Gonzalez October 20, 2016 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos This past weekend, October 14 and 15, Ween stopped by the Bill Graham Civic Center Auditorium in San Francisco, on the first tour since their disheartening breakup in 2012. With over two decades under their b...
Treasure Island 2016: Photos won’t do it justice Fiona Duerr October 19, 2016 Multimedia, Photos Photos won't do Treasure Island Music Festival 2016 justice, because you can never experience torrential downpour and hazardous winds through a photograph. You cannot feel the ankle deep mud through these imag...
Joyce Manor (the band you will never get out of your head) rocks Great American Music Hall Sam Jameson October 6, 2016 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Multimedia, Photos, Reviews Joyce Manor kicked off their Fall 2016 tour on October 5th at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco. After roughly a 3 month break since their last full US tour with Modern Baseball, the band returne...
A Day at Hardly Strictly: Where the young and old dance as one Fiona Duerr October 5, 2016 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, Photos, Uncategorized Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Music Festival is a beautiful gift to San Francisco. The free, three-day music festival draws a diverse group to Golden Gate Park with the purpose of dancing, singing, and watching liv...
VÉRITÉ brings The Fillmore to life Joanna Jiang September 29, 2016 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos After a quick live equipment check, Brooklyn songstress VÉRITÉ (real name Kelsey Byrne) hit the Fillmore stage before an impressively energized post-Folsom Street Fair crowd. The second opener for fellow Eas...
Coldplay Rival Superbowl Performance for Labor Day Weekend Arnav Chaturvedi September 8, 2016 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos Coldplay returned to Levi's Stadium on Saturday (9/3) to bring a triumphant end to the US leg of their Head Full of Dreams tour . Their last appearance at the stadium was none other than the extravagant ha...
Gallery: The National colorize the Greek Kavitha George August 8, 2016 Photos The National played Berkeley's Greek Theatre last weekend, where they also hinted at a new album. Photos by Kavitha George...
Punk Rock’s Not Dead: Saturday at Burger Boogaloo 2016 Fiona Duerr July 3, 2016 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos One summer day in Mosswood Park started with a visit from an astronaut on the drums on the Dirty Mouth stage at Burger Boogaloo. The Young Fresh Fellows were neither young nor fresh, but they delivered an ent...
Interview: Out for tea with Japanese Breakfast Shino Takahashi July 2, 2016 Blog, Interview, Photos I wait to meet Michelle Zauner of Japanese Breakfast in the darkened game room at the back of Brighton Music Hall. After some time a woman that was unmistakably her walks in the room. She wore a black crop to...
West Coast welcomes back Rogue Wave at Teragram Ballroom Vivian Chen June 24, 2016 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos Last Friday night, Rogue Wave and Floating Action performed at Los Angeles's Teragram Ballroom. Floating Action, hailing from North Carolina, displayed their lo-fi indie folk-rock style through their two gu...
BRONCHO deliver bold set at Teragram Ballroom Fiona Duerr June 15, 2016 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos After first stumbling upon BRONCHO a few months ago I was excited to see they would be on tour in my hometown. The Teragram Ballroom, located on the edge of downtown Los Angeles can be described as a more intim...
Disclosure bring steady dance electronic to Bill Graham Civic Auditorium Edfil Dulay May 30, 2016 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos Sold-out for their two day San Francisco stop, Disclosure was hotly anticipated, their meteoric rise in the music industry dates back to 2012 and spread of their hit single "Latch." The young electronic duo fr...
Explosions in the Sky exactly that in Oakland Edfil Dulay May 16, 2016 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos Swaying bodies reminiscent of oceans currents, a mystifying curtain of hazy fluorescent lights, and colossal booms and beats dazzled the Fox, filled with eager spectators there to see Explosions in the Sky thi...
The Last Shadow Puppets: A certain bromance rouses the Bay Sofia Duarte April 25, 2016 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos The Last Shadow Puppets returned to the Bay in promotion of their latest album, Everything You've Come to Expect (2016). Alex Turner, of Arctic Monkeys, and Miles Kane, of The Rascals, reprised their world-fam...