Alt-rock Avant Garde: Pixies Prove Their Relevance in 2023 Anna Armstrong September 19, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews Before The Smashing Pumpkins, The Killers, Death Cab for Cutie or even the Arctic Monkeys, there were the Pixies. Formed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1986, the Pixies have long been associated with the grea...
An Enthralling Monday Evening with Bruno Major Ashley Mauldin September 13, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Multimedia, Photos, Reviews You wouldn’t expect for a line to be all the way around the block filled with young adults dressed in flowy skirts, florals, and oversized sweaters to be in SF on a Monday night in September. But with Bruno M...
Ultra Q Reunites with Hockey Dad for Rickshaw Nostalgia Nico Chodor September 11, 2023 Album Review, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos, Reviews Australian surf rock duo Hockey Dad fathered Jakob Armstrong, Chris Malaspina, Enzo Malaspina, and Kevin Judd through their first full US tour when the boys still went by Mt. Eddy in 2018. Five years later, Jak...
Lil Baby’s Big Night Sunny Sangha September 11, 2023 Columns and Opinions, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews Lil Baby embarks on his first stadium tour, delivering an electrifying show at the Oakland Arena. He proves he is a powerful force in music and provides a challenge to the previous notions of men in rap being b...
From Gay Head to Goldenrod: the first decade of the Women’s Music Movement in song Gianna Caudillo September 5, 2023 Album Review, Berkeley, folk, music, Music History, Oakland, Reviews, Rock, women's music, Women's Music Movement Commercial rock and roll has always been a boys’ club. From the success of songs that glamorized abuse and the gross fetishization of women, such as the Rolling Stones’ “Brown Sugar” or the Beatles’ ...
Poppers to Poppy Vicente Angel Saavedra September 4, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews Hi, I am not Poppy. But the person who stood in front of me, in the flesh, on August 22nd was. My first introduction to Poppy was in 2017, when their ominous videos went viral. The videos were shrouded by a v...
Decolonial Punk at Kilowatt Nico Chodor September 1, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos, Punk, Rock, San Francisco Los Cogelones combined brotherhood and Aztec punk Sunday night at Kilowatt Bar, on the heels of what Psyched! Radio SF deems three pillars of this new San Francisco scene: Thank You Come Again, Buzzed Lightbeer...
“Good Tone and Emo Shit:” Ridgeway Ends My Summer Right Nico Chodor August 20, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Interview, Reviews I have been gunning to see Ridgeway again since first catching their set with bands Soft Blue Shimmer and Downard last August… Timing just so happened to work out perfectly this final week before classes s...
From indie pop to Afrobeat: The Listening Dolls at Neck of the Woods Sophia Shen August 16, 2023 Afrobeats, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, indie, indie scene, indie-pop, Music History, Rock, San Francisco The Devil works hard, but LA-based music organization The Listening Dolls works harder. The Listening Dolls, co-founded and directed by SF native Martine Kolderup-Lane, was born late last year through the jo...
Taking back stolen time with Odie Leigh Anoushka Ghosh July 20, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Country, folk, indie, LGBTQ+, music, San Francisco I arrived at Cafe du Nord in San Francisco accompanied by the jittery flutter of anxiety that whispered *you're going to miss Odie's set you're going to miss Odie's set you're going to miss Odie's set.* Howe...
OHFR? Rico Nasty Played The New Parish? Lucy Gleeson June 6, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos Baltimore rapper Rico Nasty stopped in Oakland for a show on her Monster Energy Outbreak Tour. The New Parish date unsurprisingly sold out to a crowd excited to see Rico play her saccharine spin on hip hop and ...
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...