Columns and Opinions

Thanksgiving break has passed, and sadly we are beginning to enter the weak winter club season.  Lineups throughout the rest of December are not strong, as most venues are winding down until the end of the yea...

After a power packed weekend last week, it’s only fair that lineups have softened up a bit in the city.  However there are still plenty of great acts to see, and from a genre perspective there is a nice pal...

It’s a typical Thursday night under the dim incandescent lighting of the Metropolis Café basement in Union Square, New York. Androgynous dancers cast gyrating shadows over a stage split evenly among a DJ, a...

If you do not have tickets to a show this weekend you've made a huge mistake.  Some of the biggest acts of the season will be gracing stages large and small this weekend in the City.  From the former (DJ Mag)...

If you missed out on Halloween, worry not. There's still a full lineup of talent coming into San Francisco this weekend.  From big name headliners to funky new power duos, there is definitely something for ev...

Halloween has always been a wonderful ritual in our lives, but its purpose seems to be changing as we age. Instead of going door to door in our neighborhoods looking for treats, we’re showing up to the doors ...

In recounting my experiences at this year's Symbiosis Gathering, I continue to return to one: gazing into the depths of a beautiful painting titled Genesis by Hans Walør in the art dome. The image rotat...

Between his SUPERB performance and a cover shoot for fellow UC Berkeley student publication Caliber, you might say that East Bay rapper Lil B is "locally world famous." Or, while catching up on the evening new...

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 ...

Welcome to now. Enjoy this moment. The now is all we have. Remember this sentiment. String Theory Labs is a progressive group of recent Harvard, Stanford, and Berkeley graduates who want to deliver an...

Vince Staples is on fire. “Wool” really showed us that. His enticing intro features a brand new flow and a much more energetic Staples than his lethargic and aimless havoc he spat on EARL (2010). His...

Each year – and despite drought -- the grass at Golden Gate Park is greener this second week of August, particularly for Bay Area soundhounds out scavenging for as many headliners in three days as possibl...

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...

We used to listen to a few songs repeatedly. Now we can listen to more songs, with fewer repetitions. In its latest campaign, TIDAL describes itself as “the future of music streaming.” The service wa...

In the world of noise rock, it’s easy for artists to adhere to recurring structures when attempting to craft an avant-garde tone, resulting in music that tends to fall flat and indistinguishable. However...