Author Conner Smith

The winds of change sweep across San Francisco’s Mission District once again as Valencia Street’s renowned Elbo Room prepares to shut its doors for good come January. Luckily, San Francisco local out...

Bay Area and Nor Cal subscribers, stop what you are doing and clear your calendars for the weekend of September 17-20. Just outside of Oakdale on the Woodard reservoir -- a mere two-hour drive from the bay -- a...

Streaming across the celestial spheres and riding the ripples made by their latest Orcas (2015) off David Sulgaski’s (The Polish Ambassador) Jumpsuit Records, Colombian and Argentinian duo Lulacruza is de...

Mumbai is a city of contradictions, embedded in a country of deeper contradictions. You encounter cultural and lingual shifts without even crossing state lines. Furthermore, each of these microcultures has ...

London. Some call it the most expensive city in the world; others call it the land of deflated dreams and broken spirits. Some call it the hub of everything and anything exciting; a melting pot; a chaotic m...

A fusion of visual art and music in an experience of near mythical proportions, this year’s Bicycle Day production is set to impress just as much as -- if not more than -- last year’s. With names suc...

Nestled in a grove of oak trees and a basin of snow white sandstone, the fourth installment of Lucidity Festival transported us to a magical temporary village, filled with loving individuals who embodied and ...

Fusing the vibrations of South American spiritualism with sounds of contemporary folk and electronic music in a magnanimous tribute to Mother Earth, Lulacruza leaves us spellbound with their latest Orcas (2...

These three words are the mantra of the San Diego-based Desert Hearts crew that celebrated their third anniversary this year. Fronted by world renowned DJs such as Mikey Lion and Lee Reynolds, this distinct...

photo by Joe Lencioni A visionary with the ability to grasp hearts, Sufjan Stevens has laid it all out on the table in what could be his best yet with Carrie & Lowell (2015). From gifted hands come...

While we still aren’t sure if Will Butler has convinced us to take his side, his debut solo release is at times hypnotic, frightening, exciting, and every other sensation in between. Coming as a surpri...

Nothing short of a bursting ray of sunshine, My Morning Jacket’s latest single “Big Decisions” shows us just how worth it the almost four-year wait since the release of Circuital (2011) has been and s...

Arriving on the winds of The Weatherman (2013), South African-born Colorado-based Gregory Alan Isakov will grace The Fillmore this Thursday night with a performance in celebration of this acclaimed album. ...

Still simmering from their self-titled debut in 2012, LA’s Milo Greene have dialed back the burners on Control, out January 27 via Elektra. Flashing glimpses of overproduction at almost every turn, thi...

We're still reeling from the hypnosis that The Black Keys left us in. Monday night in Oakland, the duo demonstrated their incredible ability to stay true to their blues rock roots -- fittingly still turning th...