Bananarama at the Warfield: through a modern lens Rebekah Gonzalez February 25, 2018 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos, Uncategorized I'm two hours early. At an average show, there would be a few thin lines of people against the barricade, the die hard fans that probably waited outside of the venue for most of the day. The rest of the fan bas...
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah bring the Thunder to SF Leka Gopal February 19, 2018 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos, Reviews The Rickshaw Stop is not the biggest venue. It can hold 400 people probably, if you try hard enough, but it doesn’t seem like the place you’d find a band that’s been around for the past 14 years, already ...
Freedom – Triple-B Records California Takeover Sam Jameson February 19, 2018 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Multimedia, Photos, Reviews This past weekend, I had the pleasure of catching a date of another Triple-B Records California tour, this time hosted by The Hard Times Shows at 924 Gilman St in Berkeley, California. The last Triple-B Record...
MAYDAY & Dead Prez @ The Independent: a photo gallery Circe Ament February 13, 2018 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos The Independent is a hip and intimate venue nestled between the Lower Haight and Anza Vista. The lineup for the evening was to be MAYDAY and Dead Prez. MAYDAY is a rising hip-hop duo from Miami, consisting of r...
Hippo Campus charms at the Fillmore with soulful set Desiree Diaz and Kayla Kettmann January 28, 2018 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos Hippo Campus, formed in 2013, has performed the likes of South by Southwest, Lollapalooza, and Bonnaroo. But on Tuesday night, they seemed happy to grace the stage of The Fillmore in front of an eager audience ...
Homeshake Slows It Down At The Observatory Annie Nguyen December 30, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Multimedia, Photos, Reviews Peter Sagar, former Mac Demarco guitarist, started Homeshake in 2013. Since then, Homeshake has released three albums, their newest one titled Fresh Air (2017). It seems like I've been seeing Homeshake everywhe...
The Pixies in bloom: An essential band makes its presence heard at the Fox Rebekah Gonzalez December 15, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos About two months ago, as I skimmed through a classmate’s short story, I came across a line that read, “Outside there is a boxcar”, and without thinking twice, the small jukebox in my brain began blasting ...
Angle Snapping: an interview Jake Olshan John Lawson December 8, 2017 Columns and Opinions, Multimedia, Photos The B-Side caught up with UC Berkeley student Jake Olshan, a freelance photographer from Los Angeles. In this interview, we talk to him about the merits of film, counterfeiting press passes, and shooting Rihann...
Citizen – As You Please in San Francisco Sam Jameson November 21, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Multimedia, Photos, Reviews Citizen is one of those bands that I’ve listened to for almost as long as I can remember; I remember listening to their first EP Young States (2012) and their split with Turnover back in 2012, and I’ve con...
Tennis time travels in San Francisco Annie Nguyen November 21, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Multimedia, Photos, Reviews If Tennis’s music is good at one thing, it’s traveling back in time to the warm, breezy summers of the early 70’s. Their retro sound features balmy keyboards, pronounced bass lines, and soothing harmonies...
Quinn XCII is as real as it gets Annie Nguyen November 10, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Multimedia, Photos, Reviews There’s pop, there’s electronic, there’s hip-hop, there’s reggae, and then there’s Quinn XCII, who somehow can effortlessly combine all of those four into his own unexpected, exciting, vibrant sound. ...
SWMRS Drive North for Uncool Halloween Fest Celia Davalos November 7, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Multimedia, Photos, Reviews On October 28, SWMRS gave hometown fans in the Bay Area a memorable show at the UC Theater. Their sold out Halloweekend show, appropriately named Uncool Halloween, was a mini-fest featuring five other Californi...
Fête Records brings a touch of soul to their Bay Area debut Anna Nguyen November 5, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos, Reviews I had been a fan of Fête Records (pronounced 'fet') since I discovered them earlier this year. So when they announced their debut event in the Bay Area featuring a full lineup at the New Parish in Oakland, I ...
Four years later with The Underachievers Fiona Duerr November 2, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Multimedia, Photos, Reviews Four years ago, I was still in high school, and tickets to FYF FEST were only 100 bucks. FYF was the first music festival I ever attended and I went with a group of friends and my brother, Joe. On the second da...
The No More Jobs Tour: Underground hip-hop all the way from Chicago Circe Ament October 30, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos, Reviews Do you have a yearning for lyrical ingenuity, cutting sarcasm, and witty humor in your music? If yes, then get excited because The Palmer Squares are on tour, an underground rap duo from C...