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Bay Area native Tycho casts a pastel aurora, transcends at hometown show

Chris Redman
November 1, 2014
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, Photos
Transcendence is a bold concept and curious state, but Tycho’s showing this past Thursday at the Fox Theater in Oakland took us there, if not pretty close. The resonance of the venue, allowed the lower freq...

Feed Me feeds Warfield crowd Saturday night

Chris Redman
September 10, 2014
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos
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As I approached The Warfield on Saturday night, fans with blinking necklaces and bracelets engulfing their arms in every neon colour imaginable asserted that I was in the right place. About a year ago, a ...
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Jack Johnson brings the beach to Berkeley

Chris Redman
August 30, 2014
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos
Fans of all ages and cultural backgrounds filled the Greek Theatre just above the UC Berkeley campus on Tuesday August 26th. Bahamas, aka Afie Jurvanen, got the positive vibes flowing with songs from his r...

DJs Gold Panda and Doseone connect with fans at Mezzanine SF

Chris Redman
August 19, 2014
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos
Two rising artists took the stage in San Francisco’s Mezzanine on Saturday August 9th: Doseone swept the crowd with a bass-infused melodic current from the very beginning and Gold Panda ended the show cha...

Slightly Stoopid and friends tear up the Greek

Chris Redman
July 20, 2014
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos
Friday evening, an extensive number of people filed into The Greek Theatre at UC Berkeley, ready to have a good time. Slightly Stoopid’s tour included Stephen Marley and NOFX, and that night, all three pr...

Art Strikes Back: “Avaritia” by deadmau5

Chris Redman
July 14, 2014
Album Review, Multimedia
The pulsating reverberations of deadmau5’s "Avaritia" from while(1...

Art Strikes Back: Visual Review of Lone’s Reality Testing

Chris Redman
July 4, 2014
Album Review, Blog, Multimedia
"Blue Sky" was inspired by Lone's Reality Testing (2014) Reality Testing was released June 16th, 2014 on R&S Records. Stream it via THUMP. ...

Rappers Waka Flocka Flame and Chanel West Coast tag team Mezzanine

Chris Redman
June 24, 2014
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Chanel West Coast | Waka Flocka Flame | Mezzanine SF ...

Blog Week: The Used and Taking Back Sunday’s loyal fan base occupy The Warfield

Chris Redman
March 27, 2014
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos
Editor’s note: It’s Spring Break at Cal, and we’re honoring this week’s heed to unwind by posting our music news with a touch of personality. Welcome to Blog Week. After falling 36 feet from a scaffol...

Four Tet practices hypnosis at San Francisco’s Mezzanine

Chris Redman
March 10, 2014
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos
Four Tet at Mezzanine in San Francisco Four Tet, the moniker of electronic artist Kieran Hebden, delivered a hypnotic, sample-based performance at the Mezzanine in San Francisco Saturday night, mixing element...

Art Strikes Back: Visual Review of Four Tet’s ‘Parallel Jalebi’

Chris Redman
October 17, 2013
Album Review, Multimedia, Reviews
Melodic intricacies pour out from the speakers as my eyes transfix on a mash-up of what can only be described as a 1920s Fantasia vibe induced with Lucy singing in the Sky with the biggest Diamond she can get h...

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