Author Conner Smith

As Karl the fog begins his annual assault on the San Francisco coastline, blue skies and warm winds await us further north. As we cruise on towards the solstice, this weekend’s Enchanted Forest Gathering ...

Music moves. Mind-body binaries begin to melt away, hands form foreign structures in the air above heads, and blood begins to course through veins with a different weight. The Saharan sounds of African rock gro...

It was full speed right from the start. The murmur of casual conversations beneath the warm glow of the Fillmore’s chandeliers and the crunching of house-provided scarlet apples between teeth were immedia...

Saturday: The little bit of sun between the rain There’s a lot to be said about Treasure Island 2016. But to be concise, it wasn’t great. Having been to many different festivals including Coachella a...

  If you haven’t yet mustered the curiosity to pull off onto that mysterious government island beside the Bay Bridge, this weekend is your chance. Treasure Island Music Festival is celebrating ...

Now that the dirt – like black tar in our lungs – has begun to dissipate, the myriad of experiences at this weekend’s Symbiosis begins to take shape. Immersive visual experiences, live art, world music, l...

Grab your orca inflatables, heart-shaped sunglasses, and decorated parasols because the incredible Symbiosis team is calling us back to Woodward Reservoir for this year’s Family Tree celebration in two s...

The desert did us dirty at this year’s Serenity Gathering. With around-the-clock live art and opportunity for exploration in the stunning and stark Joshua Tree landscape, this communal coalescence hail...

photo by Piper Ferguson After listening through the latest from Brooklyn retro-pop quintet Lucius, we have one prevailing exaltation: Good Grief! Louder, bolder, and more unafraid; this aptly-named soph...

The extraterrestrial rock playgrounds of the Joshua Tree Retreat Center will serve as the location for what is sure to be this year’s most auspicious celebration of the spring equinox– Serenity Gathering. ...

Stringing together all of the most desirable elements of Appalachian Folk, 90's Hip-Hop, Southern Soul, and World Music, Rising Appalachia had the New Parish howling (literally) for more on Friday night. ...

Treasure Island isn't natural. It was built by the US government as a site for the 1939 World Fair, then used as a naval base during World War II. The base is no longer be use, but the ruins of the barracks and...

In Colour -- two words that encapsulate the sensational performance laid down by Jamie xx at the Fox this past Friday. This London producer has breathed -- or rather, jolted -- new life into the contemporary...

In recounting my experiences at this year's Symbiosis Gathering, I continue to return to one: gazing into the depths of a beautiful painting titled Genesis by Hans Walør in the art dome. The image rotat...

The English language does not contain the depth of prose to construct a fitting representation of the four-day spectacle that was the Symbiosis Gathering: stages built within trees sprouting from floating bar...