A gentle introduction to Resident Advisor’s authority on taste Ismail Salim April 9, 2018 Blog, Columns and Opinions It’s safe to say that Resident Advisor is one of the highest authorities in the electronic music world. The brand has come a long way since Nick Sabine and Paul Clement launched their Australian-focused onlin...
What So Not takes The Fox to a new world Jacob Green April 8, 2018 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews Just past 9:30, the lights on the stage went dim. Slowly, each light fixture turned on and off, flashing between white, red and blue colors before moving to the next. First, the overheads. Next, the massive pan...
What So Not will bring new music and visuals to The Fox on April 5th Jacob Green March 30, 2018 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, Previews Photo Credit: Luke Eblen After over three years of experimentation, recording, and extensive production, DJ What So Not released his highly anticipated debut album Not All the Beautiful Things (2018). The...
EDEN brings new sound, emotion to the Regency Ballroom Jacob Green March 19, 2018 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews Minutes before the beginning of his highly anticipated performance, 22-year-old Jonathon Ng (stagename EDEN) quickly peaked his head out from backstage to see a sea of fans closely monitoring the stage for any ...
At home with Porches Bianca Lu March 9, 2018 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Multimedia, Photos, Videos “Hi hi.” Synth lord, frontman, the brains behind Porches, Aaron Maine, stepped onto the stage with a gentle introduction that easily wooed every being in the venue. Porches had a two-night residency...
Hippies on their “Path of Righteousness” tour Anna Nguyen February 16, 2018 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews Brothers Kevin and Jeff Saurer performing as the electronic duo Hippie Sabotage came through the Warfield in San Francisco on Friday, February 2nd, as the second stop on their international, “Path of Righteou...
Surveying the scene: how Low End Theory has recovered since parting ways with The Gaslamp Killer Veronica Irwin January 9, 2018 Uncategorized 1 Comment A weekly Wednesday night event in a seedy pocket of East Los Angeles, Low End Theory has always been cooler than it should have been: with better-than-thou fashionable attendees despite its un-instagrammable ae...
Homeshake Slows It Down At The Observatory Annie Nguyen December 30, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Multimedia, Photos, Reviews Peter Sagar, former Mac Demarco guitarist, started Homeshake in 2013. Since then, Homeshake has released three albums, their newest one titled Fresh Air (2017). It seems like I've been seeing Homeshake everywhe...
The Seshen preview and ticket giveaway Veronica Irwin November 29, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, Previews, Uncategorized Bay area-based R&B group The Seshen is set to grace the Cornerstone stage in Berkeley this Friday. Opening will be LoCura, Space Captain, and DJ Dream Queen. Characterized by Akiyoshi Ehara’s synthy-di...
Quinn XCII is as real as it gets Annie Nguyen November 10, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Multimedia, Photos, Reviews There’s pop, there’s electronic, there’s hip-hop, there’s reggae, and then there’s Quinn XCII, who somehow can effortlessly combine all of those four into his own unexpected, exciting, vibrant sound. ...
Snakehips showcase all-star live show at the Fox Noah Bogner October 28, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews The London-based electronic music duo Snakehips brought their good vibes to the Fox Theatre on Tuesday night for the fifth show on their All Stars Tour. Snakehips has been making waves in the electronic/hip-hop...
Uh Oh! Watch out for Tennyson’s electric performance and their new EP Anna Nguyen October 8, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews What were you doing the summers you had off from school? Well, probably like me, you weren’t doing a whole lot. But if you were Luke and Tess Pretty, you might have been touring and performing jazz covers...
Moses Sumney starts tour off with a bang after dropping Aromanticism Anna Nguyen September 29, 2017 Album Review, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews Moses Sumney is talented, majorly talented. If the first minute of his show couldn’t tell you that, his features on tracks of big name artists like Flume (“Weekend”) and Solange (“Mad”) should. With...
MNL to SFO: Manila Killa swings through the Regency Ballroom Jordan Aronson July 27, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews On Saturday, July 8, 24 year old Filipino DJ Manila Killa brought some of his future bass stylings to the Regency Ballroom, delivering a 90-minute set of this year’s EDM staples. Manila Killa – who takes hi...
In penultimate North American show, Jean-Michel Jarre stuns at The Greek Jordan Aronson June 11, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews Lasers danced across the sky like holograms, settling on the treetops at the back of the theater, in time to the warm sounds of electronic vibes combating the chilly Bay Area evening as spectators high in the b...