The End of The End of the Movie: Lizzy McAlpine in Oakland Sinead de Cleir May 19, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, folk, indie, Oakland, Reviews 1 Comment The air on May 13th, 2023 held a tinge of finality. College graduates, fresh out of the commencement ceremony, walked the streets of Berkeley with flowers and their families, bidding farewell to their undergrad...
Tyler Childers’ Powerful Voice and Undeniable Talent Sells Out The Greek Theater Eliza Scheer May 11, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Country, folk On April 27, Tyler Childers performed at Berkeley’s Greek Theater. Childers is a rare commodity on the West Coast, rarely performing in California. Unsurprisingly, his show sold out immediately. In fact, many...
A Night Out With Pixies Josh Jiwanmall May 7, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Oakland I’m going to preface this write-up with one crucial piece of information that must be said: I am not an 80s-90s alt-head. Nirvana, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Breeders, Sonic Youth: my partner loves that stu...
You Just Had to Be There: San Francisco’s Fake and Gay Boiler Room Sravya Gadepalli May 3, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, LGBTQ+, Reviews Late this past Saturday night, April 29, Boiler Room hosted a sold-out event in collaboration with party-starters Fake and Gay in San Francisco at The Midway. With a sensational line-up of twenty three artist...
Maybe Love is Real: Mr. and Mrs. Tennis at the Fox Nico Chodor May 3, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos In tennis (the sport), love means zero. In Tennis (the band), that is hardly the case. Husband-and-wife duo Alaina and Patrick Riley have been spreading their love through music since 2010. They met as philosop...
Trashed and thrashed: Municipal Waste will fuck you up Lily Ramus and Tyler Harding May 2, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews Photo by Lily Ramus With finals season approaching, legions of stressed metalheads graduating sometime between 3 weeks from now and 40 years ago, descended upon the UC Theatre on Friday, April 28th. The cre...
A celebration of Asian culture: WeBRIDGE’s inaugural expo & festival Kamieko Goines April 27, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, International, K-pop, Reviews Asian culture and music filled the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Nevada as WeBRIDGE put on their inaugural 3-day expo and music festival the weekend of April 21-23. I was able to check out the expo, which greeted ...
Yaeji playfully smashes expectations “With a Hammer” at Fox Theater Kyle Garcia Takata April 26, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, dance, Oakland, Photos, Reviews After 3 years of delays and postponement, Yaeji finally took the stage at Fox Theater in Oakland to a full venue. The building excitement from the years of waiting filled the room with a feverous buzz. Everyone...
Phish phood phor thought: Don’t knock em’ till ya see em’ Lily Ramus April 20, 2023 Berkeley, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews, Rock 2 Comments “Shrooms, molly, ketamine, pre-rolls!” As soon as we stepped in line, the Phish experience was off to a raging start. After almost fifteen years, Phish returned to the Greek Theatre in Berkeley Califor...
A Night Out with Key Glock, TiaCorine, Kenny Muney, and Jay Fizzle Josh Jiwanmall April 15, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Previews, Reviews, San Francisco, Uncategorized Alright so I feel like I have to explain this concert through a different lens because I wouldn’t be able to effectively communicate the host of events that I went through Tuesday night. Key Glock performe...
Love and Rapture: A Cinderella Fairytale of A Night With the SF Ballet Dorothy Eck and Nico Chodor April 12, 2023 Columns and Opinions, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Opinion, Reviews, San Francisco The San Francisco Ballet’s production of Cinderella takes a modern twist on the classic fairytale, where in place of magic, mice, and wands that go bippity-bobbity-boop, there are Four Fates, colorful spirits...
Miya Folick bares her soul at the Fox Theater, Oakland Anoushka Ghosh April 8, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, indie, indie scene, indie-pop, LGBTQ+, Multimedia, music, Oakland, Photos I arrived just in time to hear the first strums of her acoustic guitar. I hurried to the front of the general admission floor and then I saw her in all her beauty, dressed in the coolest yellow corset top desig...
Kash’d Out leaves crowd in a daze with “Whiskey and Weed” Tour Kyle Garcia Takata April 5, 2023 Berkeley, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, music, Reviews The Whiskey and Weed Tour from Kash’d Out provided Cornerstone Berkeley with over three hours of uninterrupted satisfaction. Fans were delighted by the calm, cheerful mood provided by the band and their opene...
Alt-J’s Immersive Light and Sound at the Fox Theater Eliza Scheer April 2, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, indie scene, indie-pop, music, Oakland, Photos Alt-J performed an unforgettable show at their second of two consecutive shows at the Fox Theater in Oakland on March 24. The show was packed with audience members of all ages coming to hear their experimental ...
Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair for Natalie Mering: Weyes Blood Makes Hearts Aglow During Night 2 at the Regency Nico Chodor March 30, 2023 Berkeley, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos Weyes Blood put me under a spell Sunday night at the Regency Ballroom, and I still haven’t fully recovered. Draped in the white billowing fabric of gods and/or ghosts, she breezed onto the stage...