RAEGAN, Pigeon Pit, and Autoheart bring Queer Joy to the Cornerstone Ashley Mauldin March 18, 2024 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos, Reviews On a rather uneventful St. Patrick’s Day, I found myself on the 36 (which almost didn’t stop for me) making my way towards Downtown Berkeley for a Sunday evening concert at the Cornerstone. The headliner fo...
Love like religion: A Dollface album review Katie Hulse March 18, 2024 Creative Writing, Album Preview, Album Review, Columns and Opinions, folk, indie, indie scene, indie-pop, music, Music Composition, Opinion, Pop, Reviews, women in music, women's music Hana Bryanne released her debut album titled Dollface on September 15, 2023, at twenty years old. It was written entirely by Bryanne and produced by Carter Jahn and Maxwell Bienert. Its namesake deriv...
Arlo Parks’ Performance at the Fox Theater Was “Too Good” Eliza Scheer March 16, 2024 Berkeley, Black Culture, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, indie-pop, Oakland, Photos, Womens History Month On March 5, Arlo Parks performed at Oakland’s Fox Theater. To kick off the show, Chloe George opened. Her 30 minute set was filled with gratitude and fun. Her joy performing on stage radiated throughout th...
PLVTINUM: “HELLBOUND” But Sent to Heaven Jenai Johns-Peterson March 16, 2024 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, EDM, San Francisco It's not often you come across a crowd of people hoping to get spit on, but that’s exactly what you would have found on Jan. 26 at Cafe Du Nord in San Francisco. A night of red lights, chokers and a whole lot...
From indie folk to rock and roll: The Paper Kites deliver unforgettable performance at August Hall Anna Armstrong March 16, 2024 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews Nearly 13 years ago, Australian band The Paper Kites charmed the indie-folk community with the release of their debut EP Woodland (2011). Today, it would be hard to find anyone who has not heard the band’s fi...
Reachin’ through time: Digable Planets at The Fillmore Lucy Gleeson February 8, 2024 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews Touring the 30th anniversary of their first record Reachin’ (1993), Digable Planets returned to the stage once again on Saturday night, after having disbanded in 1995 due to a disillusionment with the music i...
Supporting Local Music, and Why You Should Listen to Gingsu Joshua Morse February 7, 2024 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, Interview, Reviews A hush fell over the crowd at the Art House Gallery as sound checks faded into the background. The eager patrons were a mix of young and old, local and outsider, but one feature united us all: our appreciation ...
A San Franciscan Holiday Tradition- SF Ballet’s The Nutcracker Ashley Mauldin January 2, 2024 dance, Reviews Every girl dreams of being a ballerina at some point in their lives, and for me, ideas of ballet started with The Nutcracker and the story of A Very Young Dancer, a book that illustrated the Nutcracker season w...
It’s a basement blitz with the Lemon Twigs! Gianna Caudillo December 17, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Rock, San Francisco San Francisco’s glitter-faced, mini-skirted, tailor-made crowd is alive and well, and the place to find them is in the Castro, clad in cheeky Beatles buttons and stomping through neon-lit basements in velvet ...
Mystical Moments at Cafe Du Nord with Strawberry Guy Ashley Mauldin December 15, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos, Reviews A misty haze, a sweaty but excited basement, and a hushed crowd. Strawberry Guy’s presence at Cafe Du Nord Wednesday night enthralled San Francisco. Alex Stephens, known as Strawberry Guy, is a Welsh artist b...
plum blossom (revisited) tour- a reflection into the past Ashley Mauldin December 15, 2023 Album Review, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos, Reviews What were you like at seventeen? The answer to that question is often one filled with an awkward pause before replying with some form of “I was naive and didn’t understand love,” or “I was still ...
Chronicles of a Diamond – Black Pumas, an album review Megan Darzynkiewicz December 7, 2023 Album Review, Opinion, R&B, Reviews, Rock The first time I heard the Black Pumas was when their song “Colors” popped up on my Spotify Discover Weekly. Since then, it’s become an absolute star on my playlists, with its building chorus and messag...
P-Funk’s Guide to the Mothership Lex Andersen December 3, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Black Culture, Funk, Oakland, Photos On November 25th, Parliament Funkadelic featuring George Clinton stopped by the Fox Theater on their “Just for the Funk of It” tour, celebrating over 50 years of intergenerational, genre-bending music. Ecle...
The complexity of love and loss in the Beatles’ “Now and Then” Gianna Caudillo November 28, 2023 News, Album Review, Reviews, Rock “One, two…,” counts Paul McCartney, but he is not about to launch into a rollicking, “Well, she was just seventeen! You know what I mean!” This McCartney count-in is more methodical, of lower timbre, ...
“There’s Something About the Women!:” Warmth pervades Irene Young’s book release at the Freight & Salvage Gianna Caudillo November 27, 2023 Reviews, Berkeley, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Contemporary Folk, Jazz, Local, Music History, Women's Music Movement When looking back at my frantically scratched notes in a pocket-sized address book I had brought to the 7pm celebration of Irene Young at the Freight & Salvage on November 19, one sentiment stands out in pa...