Raveena—A Human Ray of Sunshine—Spreads Her Light Over Oakland Tovah Popilsky April 28, 2022 Uncategorized A couple days ago, Raveena and her opener, Fana Hues, delivered a stunning performing to their audience at the New Parish Oakland. Their performance, full of joy and light, left the audience beaming by the end ...
Elujay Hypnotizes His Hometown Crowd with a Captivating Performance Tovah Popilsky April 27, 2022 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos On Saturday night, Elujay performed a sold out show at Cafe Du Nord in San Francisco in order to showcase his new album and perform some crowd favorites. Elujay, who grew up in Oakland, was excited to be back a...
Omar Apollo Returns to the Bay and Wows the Crowd at the Warfield Tovah Popilsky April 19, 2022 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Multimedia, Photos, Reviews Last week, Omar Apollo (and his two opener Tora-i, and Deb Never) performed a magnificent set at the The Warfield in San Francisco, CA. Singing everything from crowd favorites such as "Kamikaze" and "Hey Boy," ...
Still Feeling Woozy after a Night Groovin’ at the Warfield Tovah Popilsky March 16, 2022 Reviews, Uncategorized This past Monday night at the Warfield in San Francisco, Still Woozy and company gave their audience the performance of a lifetime. The night's concert consisted of three hour long sets featuring Legwurk, Walli...
Faye Webster Dazzles at the New Parish Oakland Tovah Popilsky February 17, 2022 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos Faye Webster dazzled her audience this past weekend at the New Parish and performed something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue. The set list consisted of everything from her classic so...
More Than Just a Musical Offering Tovah Popilsky October 28, 2020 Columns and Opinions, News 2 Comments On Thursday afternoons, the small cafe at 2430 Bancroft Way is normally filled with the sounds of a lively jazz trio, bustling crowds and its staff. Normally comprised of an upright bassist, drummer and pianis...
A trip to Dreamland: escaping reality with the Glass Animals Alice Markman and Tovah Popilsky October 20, 2020 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews Upon first access into the Glass Animals “Live in the Internet” show, it was clear we had teleported back into the time of AOL messenger with the bandmates. The show was largely emulating the early 2000s, ...
The grooviest of nights with Thundercat at the Fox Oakland Tovah Popilsky and Daniella Ivanir March 10, 2020 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, Multimedia, Photos 1 Comment On Friday, March 6th - amid the global Coronavirus panic - a sold-out crowd still gathered outside the flashing red ‘Fox’ sign awaiting the mystical bassist by the name of Stephen Bruner -- known more ...
MM.. Food: Dinner for 5 inspired by MF DOOM’s album Tovah Popilsky December 2, 2019 Columns and Opinions, Creative Writing Cooking and music have always been my favorite hobbies. I have loved to cook before I could even reach the counter and picked up my first instrument when I was four year old. When I listened to the iconic recor...
Carpool Tunnel’s growing audience and cosmic shows Alice Markman and Tovah Popilsky April 30, 2019 Columns and Opinions, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews Up-and-coming NorCal-based indie rock band Carpool Tunnel don’t like to think of themselves as conventional. Instead, they describe themselves on Spotify as “an idea of what it means to be human, and to sha...
The 2019 Bay Area Noise Pop Festival Welcomes Crumb Tovah Popilsky March 11, 2019 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews As the 2019 Bay Area Noise Pop Festival came to a close, Crumb, comprised of members Lila Ramani (guitar/vocals), Jesse Brotter (bass), Brian Aronow (synth/keys, percussion, reeds), and Jonathan Gilad (drums), ...
Jorja Smith makes the crowd fall in love at The Warfield Tovah Popilsky November 28, 2018 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews On November 24th, 21-year-old England native Jorja Smith performed an unforgettable show at The Warfield in San Francisco, leaving the crowd in awe and simply beaming throughout the night. This tour served as...