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...
100 gecs literally hit with fans Miranda Craig April 9, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, indie-pop, music, Oakland, Photos, Uncategorized 100 Gecs and Machine Girl together in concert is a match made in heaven. Their April 5 show at Oakland’s Fox Theater was no exception. For anyone looking for high-energy music and dancing, it was a must-see s...
The Magic Of The Buchla 100 Synthesizer: A Night At The Starline Social Club with Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith Ava Aguiar December 13, 2022 Album Review, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith is an American composer, producer, and performer originally from Northwest Washington. The artist, who is currently based in Los Angeles, spent her former years at the Berklee college of m...
A Misty Awakening – Kali Malone’s Living Torch Alton Sturgis December 7, 2022 Album Review Kali Malone—a Denver-born, Stockholm-based sound artist, model, and experimentalist—transitions from her organ-centric work to a new artistic era with her LP release Living Torch (2022). Malone’s pre...
San Francisco, Where’s Your Disco?: Dom Dolla Headlines Day To Night Festival Eliza Scheer October 22, 2022 Berkeley, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, EDM, Multimedia, music, Photos, Reviews, Uncategorized Day To Night Festival Day 1 Thousands of people traveled to Treasure Island on October 15 for Day To Night Festival. Only a 15 minute drive from Berkeley, I was at the festival in no time. There was onl...
The Portola Music Festival Experience Layla Mahmoud and Carolina Munce October 3, 2022 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews, Uncategorized On the 24th of September 2022, the Portola Music Festival commenced on Pier 80 at noon sharp. As all the attendees made their way toward the entrance of Portola, a chilling excitement could be felt and seen thr...
Molly Nilsson’s Sidereal Message to an Impending World Ally Flygare April 5, 2022 Album Review, Opinion, Reviews Swedish singer-songwriter Molly Nilsson is no stranger to exercising her independence. Writing, producing, and publishing her own music — through her independent record label Dark Skies Association — allo...
The Anti-Grimes Manifesto Piper Samuels November 30, 2021 Creative Writing, Satire, Uncategorized A SPECTER IS HAUNTING THE INTERNET — THE SPECTER OF GRIMES! Thus Piper Samuels introduces her program for the reorientation of justice-seeking music listeners towards new electronic-pop artists. A specter...
More Experimental Delight on Ecco2k’s PXE Xia Jimenez May 4, 2021 Album Review PXE (2021), pronounced “pixie,” is the newest EP from multi-hyphenate artist Zak Arogundade, also known as Ecco2k. Following the release of a few singles and the artist’s debut album in 2019, PXE now move...
Brijean’s album Feelings makes a dreamy debut Kennedy Rogers March 5, 2021 Interview Bay Area locals and UC Berkeley alumni, Brijean Murphy and Doug Stuart released their debut album, Feelings on February 26, 2021 with Ghostly International. The album incorporates various styles with most not...
Burial, Thom Yorke, and Four Tet Give 2020’s End a Melancholy Soundtrack with “His Rope” / “Her Revolution” Xia Jimenez January 21, 2021 Reviews As we move into 2021, the typical seasonal gloom is compounded by the terrors of 2020. The final months were a bleak and sad time; perhaps there was no better combination of people than Burial, Thom Yorke, and ...
RL Grime Halloween IX: The holiday tradition lives on Paulette Ely October 28, 2020 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Mixtapes, News, The Weekend Menu Let’s get right into it: Concerts are nowhere on the horizon, dressing up these days means simply wearing something other than sweatpants, and spiced (or spiked) cider just doesn’t hit right when spooky se...
We Got Lucky with Daft Punk Nikita Bhatia December 2, 2019 Columns and Opinions While most people became familiar with Daft Punk in 2013 with the release of their Grammy-winning album Random Access Memories, the duo has been around longer than I’ve been alive. For a quick refresher, Thom...
FKJ’s electric night at the Warfield Makaila Heifner April 14, 2019 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews I will argue till the day I die that French house music is superior. There’s something that just seems real about it, something that hits you deeper and urges you to move along with it. FKJ, also known as Fre...
Hi, this is (the new and improved) Flume Erika Badalyan March 30, 2019 Album Review Just in time for spring, Flume has released a surprise new mixtape (his first release since 2017). What perfect timing. The warmer months means the beginning of an onslaught of deep tropical house remixes by Sc...