Freak the Freak Out!
Last weekend, right on the heels of San Francisco’s multi-day, multi-venue Psyched! Fest, we crossed state lines for a Pacific Northwestern analogue: Freakout Fest in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle. The ...
8 DAYS/14 SHOWS/9 VENUES: A Countercultural Halloweek at Psyched! Fest
Psyched! Fest - San Francisco's Independent Festival of Arts, Music, Diversity & Counterculture - opened Wednesday, October 25th at Rickshaw Stop. Brought to you by Psyched! Radio, the multiracial nonprofit...
HANNAH SHARES APERTURE WITH THE BAY
Support from Miloe & Lance Redeker primed what became Hannah Jadagu’s stage through and through. She breezed into the city Wednesday night, immediately following her show at the Echo 24 hours prior, to pl...
Ultra Q Reunites with Hockey Dad for Rickshaw Nostalgia
Australian surf rock duo Hockey Dad fathered Jakob Armstrong, Chris Malaspina, Enzo Malaspina, and Kevin Judd through their first full US tour when the boys still went by Mt. Eddy in 2018. Five years later, Jak...
Decolonial Punk at Kilowatt
Los Cogelones combined brotherhood and Aztec punk Sunday night at Kilowatt Bar, on the heels of what Psyched! Radio SF deems three pillars of this new San Francisco scene: Thank You Come Again, Buzzed Lightbeer...
“Good Tone and Emo Shit:” Ridgeway Ends My Summer Right
I have been gunning to see Ridgeway again since first catching their set with bands Soft Blue Shimmer and Downard last August…
Timing just so happened to work out perfectly this final week before classes s...
Maybe Love is Real: Mr. and Mrs. Tennis at the Fox
In tennis (the sport), love means zero. In Tennis (the band), that is hardly the case. Husband-and-wife duo Alaina and Patrick Riley have been spreading their love through music since 2010. They met as philosop...
Love and Rapture: A Cinderella Fairytale of A Night With the SF Ballet
The San Francisco Ballet’s production of Cinderella takes a modern twist on the classic fairytale, where in place of magic, mice, and wands that go bippity-bobbity-boop, there are Four Fates, colorful spirits...
Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair for Natalie Mering: Weyes Blood Makes Hearts Aglow During Night 2 at the Regency
Weyes Blood put me under a spell Sunday night at the Regency Ballroom, and I still haven’t fully recovered. Draped in the white billowing fabric of gods and/or ghosts, she breezed onto the stage...
Friends and Fauxes: Four Bands in One Night at Cornerstone
Touring with The High Curbs along their west coast stint, King Shelter breathed OC air into the Cornerstone at Berkeley Tuesday night. “Berkeley, you’re an interesting place," declared lead singer Taylor He...
Masonic Boom: Peach Pit Rocks So Hard That Neil Hurts His Neck
Before Thursday night at the Masonic in SF, the closest I had ever come to seeing Peach Pit live was the Tropicalia Festival in 2019. Their self-titled claim to fame “Peach Pit” garnered extreme views on Yo...
Love Lives in the Bay: Soft Blue Shimmer Debuts Their New Record at Neck of the Woods
“my dreams always seem concerned with your well-being…i can’t seem to shake…maybe one day we’ll learn to grow separately. maybe one day i’ll grow on my own. maybe one day this piece of you inside of...
How to Not DYE in the Pit: Together Pangea Takes San Francisco By Storm
Together Pangea, Sad Park, and Reckling brought out all the stops Thursday night at Cafe Du Nord for the 29th show of Pangea’s How to DYE tour. Reckling kicked things off as the crowd trickled into the Market...
HELLTONES AND MACKS AND SPOON BENDERS, OH MY!
Who? The Helltones, The Macks, and Spoon Benders; What? Oakland Secret Halloween Bash; When? Thursday, October 21st at Oakland Secret - community arts space for live music and vendors, but also home to my good ...
Getting to Play the Guitar Not as a Man: Sam Quiñones on New Music and Gender
From virtual dorm room jam sesh to The Sound of University of California-Berkeley, “Stay” by Emielyn and Sam Quiñones is finally out and getting the recognition it deserves. Released on October 15, it chro...