Author Audrey Gertz

Though he may not be doing stage dives at Kingface shows anymore, director Scott Crawford is still a devout punk pundit. His recent feature Salad Days: The Birth of Punk Rock in the Nation’s Capital docu...

Ballet School headline Brick & Mortar in San Francisco on Sunday, November 2, 2014 Photos by Audrey Gertz Fresh off sleeping on an airport floor -- or so they told us -- Ballet School showed at the low-...

At the height of Death Grips' breakup last month, I came across a photographer who caught my eye: New York City's Daniel Topete. I'd just started my own serious venture into photojournalism, capturing bands wit...

White Lung Start planning your weekend concert wear: White Lung, the Vancouver band Pitchfork calls "riveting" and "relatable" is getting ready to rile up our Rickshaw Stop this Saturday.Your obvious goal ...

Metz at Great American Music Hall in San Francisco on July 7, 2014 This is not hyperbole; this is how it went down: a monster lineup of Toronto's Metz, Ohio's Cloud Nothings, and UK band The Wytches endorse...

Blowing off steam at Burger Boogaloo On Saturday, July 5, I had the pleasure of (wo)man-ing KALX's merch table on Day 1 of Burger Boogaloo, Burger Records' annual music festival in Oakland's Mosswood Park...

Priests at 1-2-3-4 Go! Records in Oakland Washington, D.C.'s Priests took the back room platform at Oakland's 1-2-3-4 Go! Records on Tuesday night after a somber set from local droners Alien Tears. No pre-s...

Oakland noisemakers Stillsuit and Alien Tears are teaming up tonight at 1-2-3-4 Go! Records to welcome D.C.'s Priests, who are on tour with their debut EP, Bodies and Control and Money and Power. Priests ...

Photo by Jamie Chew Macaulay Culkin and his New York clique brought the Pizza Underground (yup, it's still a thing) to The Uptown in Oakland Friday night, and the four-piece, Moldy Peaches alum Toby Goodshank...

“Welcome to the Shaking the Habitual Tour!" cheered The Knife’s opening hype man at the Fox Theater Wednesday night. "I’m here to warm you up!” He bounced onstage to face a full house of plaid shirts,...

Mistaken For Strangers Fast off a two-day showing of the must-see Slint documentary, San Francisco's Roxie Theater has another treat for rock film fans. Starting tonight March 28th through April 3rd, Bay Are...

Pitchfork Music Festival Today Pitchfork released the full lineup for this summer's 2014 Pitchfork Festival, happening as usual in mid-July, 18-20, at Chicago's Union Park. Billed at the top of this weekend ...

Noise Pop 2014 Going on 22 years strong, Noise Pop will again unpack its annual festival around San Francisco this week, and everyone from hometown indie hero Mark Kozelek to Michigan up-and-comers Lord Huron ...

Pussy Riot protests in Sochi Just two months out of the gulag, punk rock activists Pussy Riot are still doing what they do best: mucking up those moral foundations the Russian Federation strictly protects. I...

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