Soul, Sparkle, and Stardom: Molly Grace Preaches in Berkeley Sailor Hill December 17, 2024 Berkeley, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Funk, LGBTQ+, Local, music, Pop, Reviews, Soul, women in music, women's music “It’s a shame I’m not a religious person because I think I would’ve made a great preacher. So, Berkeley, will you let me take you to church?” With those electrifying words in the latter half of her...
Only in Your Wet Dreams: A Double Feature on Snow Wife & Wet Leg Jenai Johns-Peterson April 17, 2024 dance, EDM, indie scene, Indie-Rock, LGBTQ+, Pop, Reviews, women in music Skydiving off of a building. Skinny dipping with your best friend. Committing arson in the dead of night. Have you done any of these actions that I cannot legally condone? No? Well, neither have I. This, howeve...
Gayathri Krishnan: Rockstar Shit, Genre-Bending R&B, and Manifesting Dreams Andrew Zendejas March 19, 2024 R&B, Interview, LGBTQ+, Ones to Watch, Pop, Womens History Month Gayathri Krishnan is an artist on the rise hailing from the City of Angels who is capturing the attention of audiences everywhere with her luscious, captivating voice and her unique approach to the artistry of ...
From the Bayou to Big Ben: exploring ‘Drive Home’ and beyond with Portraits Of Tracy Harrison Peters October 21, 2023 indie-pop, Interview, LGBTQ+, music, Rap 19-year-old self-taught producer, singer-rapper, and multi-instrumentalist Portraits Of Tracy from Baton Rouge, Louisiana released her new project, Drive Home, this past May 26th, 2023. Dubbed an “audio n...
50 Shades of Grey: Pragmatism and Queertopia in Music Culture Ellie Nguyen August 9, 2023 Columns and Opinions, LGBTQ+, Music History, Opinion, Political At last year’s Outside Lands, Moses Sumney gave a cathartic performance. Clad in latex and a leather skirt, his voice pierced the San Francisco fog, entrancing the audience in his siren song. And it was throu...
Taking back stolen time with Odie Leigh Anoushka Ghosh July 20, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Country, folk, indie, LGBTQ+, music, San Francisco I arrived at Cafe du Nord in San Francisco accompanied by the jittery flutter of anxiety that whispered *you're going to miss Odie's set you're going to miss Odie's set you're going to miss Odie's set.* Howe...
You Just Had to Be There: San Francisco’s Fake and Gay Boiler Room Sravya Gadepalli May 3, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, LGBTQ+, Reviews Late this past Saturday night, April 29, Boiler Room hosted a sold-out event in collaboration with party-starters Fake and Gay in San Francisco at The Midway. With a sensational line-up of twenty three artist...
The Excellence of Jackie Shane Cole Haddock April 8, 2023 Black Culture, LGBTQ+ 1 Comment Note: To read this article properly, listen to the correct music while reading. This could include Jackie Shane, Little Richard, Billy Wright, Esquerita, or Big Mama Thorton. For a Spotify playlist, click he...
Miya Folick bares her soul at the Fox Theater, Oakland Anoushka Ghosh April 8, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, indie, indie scene, indie-pop, LGBTQ+, Multimedia, music, Oakland, Photos I arrived just in time to hear the first strums of her acoustic guitar. I hurried to the front of the general admission floor and then I saw her in all her beauty, dressed in the coolest yellow corset top desig...
SASAMI thinks that nature has feelings too!! Samantha Friedland March 24, 2023 Album Review, folk, indie, indie scene, LGBTQ+, music Take a large scoop of heavy metal, a teaspoon of electronic demon sounds, a dash of indie rock and folk music, blend it all together on the floor in a cabin in the woods, and you get the sophomore album, Squeez...
August Hall turned Pink Pony Club: Chappell Roan in San Francisco Sinead de Cleir March 19, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, LGBTQ+, Reviews, San Francisco 1 Comment Chappell Roan in her music video for "My Kink is Karma" “It's not fun. It's not hot. It's not interesting. It's boring.” These were the words that Chappell Roan used to describe her experien...
A Rockstar Sometimes, A Mommy Forever Brandon Phan December 20, 2022 Berkeley, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, indie, indie scene, LGBTQ+, music, Oakland, Photos, Reviews “Mommy! Yes, mommy! I love you, mommy!!” the crowd cheers on. It’s pitch black out on a Saturday night, and the crowd is ecstatic to see everyone’s favorite mom perform live at the Fox Theater in Oaklan...
Young Queer Boys & Female Pop Stars: A Relationship That Transcends Generations and Isolation Adrian Ceja November 26, 2022 LGBTQ+, Opinion It was 2009. I was 6 years old sitting in the backseat of my parents’ car. We were driving in the car on the freeway, and all of a sudden I heard a sound. ‘Mum mum mum mah’ filled the space around me whil...
Music is a people Kedhar Bartlett November 23, 2022 Blog, Columns and Opinions, indie scene, LGBTQ+, music, Opinion If you’re reading this magazine, you probably know how it feels to not fit in. To have – at least at some point in your childhood – felt like the odd one out. At the risk of sounding like a middle school ...
You can leave it to Alex G Div Buccieri November 7, 2022 Album Review, Berkeley, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, indie scene, indie-pop, LGBTQ+, Multimedia, music, News, Reviews Surely, you or someone you know went to the Alex G concert in SF. The event, held Oct. 19 at The Fillmore on a chilly fall Wednesday night, mothered something other than the usually-disquieted Alex G, thanks to...