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Raveena—A Human Ray of Sunshine—Spreads Her Light Over Oakland

Tovah Popilsky
April 28, 2022
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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...

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