Why Alex G Should and Shouldn’t Be Our Selfish Secret Gabriel Giammarco June 12, 2018 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews (SANDY) Alex G’s name has become recognizable enough that it has typecast a rather unbecoming local association: that he, in the footsteps of Elliott Smith, is the crowned prince of the indie sad boy stereoty...
Do Right: Catching Up with Ash Reiter and Sugar Candy Mountain Gabriel Giammarco June 6, 2018 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Interview Ash Reiter took the stage with a “Happy Wednesday” greeting as her band Sugar Candy Mountain celebrated the release of their new record Do Right (2018) earlier this month at the Rickshaw Stop. Do Right f...
Beggars Banquet: Fifty Years of Sympathy Gabriel Giammarco March 21, 2018 Columns and Opinions I’m partial to this song – at my first real concert, the Rolling Stones played it in my backyard. I was 7 years old and the show was at Dodger Stadium, close enough to our house that we could walk and close...
The Syncopated Sun of Palm’s Rock Island Gabriel Giammarco March 12, 2018 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews Guitarist Eve Alpert (left) and bassist Gerasimos Livitsanos (right) Palm at the Rickshaw Stop, a classic San Francisco spot termed by Google Maps as a “hip indie music venue” (haha). Conseque...
