Kasabian make it look ‘Eez-Eh’ at the Fox Luke Sheard October 11, 2014 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Multimedia, Photos, Reviews It’s safe to say that Kasabian are used to playing bigger venues, much bigger than the Fox Theater in Oakland. Ahead of the release of 48:13 the band spent a summer touring festivals, headlining Glastonbu...
Hardly Strictly squares: a photo essay Conner Smith October 10, 2014 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos It seems the heat brought out the best in all of us this past weekend at another successful Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival at Golden Gate Park, one of the most exciting and unique annual events in the Bay ...
Lorde dazzles at the Greek Theatre, premieres “Yellow Flicker Beat” Ryuka Ko October 9, 2014 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos 3 Comments The first performance of two nights in Berkeley, Lorde brought her tour to the Greek Theatre on Thursday October 2, 2014. Hailing from New Zealand, the young 17-year-old singer-songwriter attracted a dive...
Milo Greene on childhood memories, breaking an A string, and faking a publicist Kavitha George October 8, 2014 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Interview, Photos 1 Comment Milo Greene played the fifth night of their tour with Luxley and Bombay Bicycle Club at The Warfield in San Francisco on Sunday. Started in 2010, Milo Greene is a "self-described cinematic pop band" with...
Clean Bandit make an explosive San Francisco debut, violinist Neil Amin-Smith talks writing, touring, and collaborations Luke Sheard September 30, 2014 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Interview, Photos 1 Comment For a group of former students, Cambridge, England’s Clean Bandit went from 0 to 100 real quick. The four-piece (plus-two live) stopped in San Francisco for about twelve hours yesterday in the midst of their...
Scottish punk band PAWS plays speedy set at Rickshaw Stop Penelope Leggett September 29, 2014 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Multimedia, Photos, Reviews Continuing their extensive touring - by October they will have spent the last eight months relentlessly on the road in both Europe and North America - Glasgow-based punk band PAWS stopped by Rickshaw S...
Photos: The B-Side Fall 2014 Launch Myra September 24, 2014 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos Photos by Edfil Dulay, Penelope Leggett & Ryan Warner...
Old Crow Medicine Show find hillbillies in San Francisco Kavitha George September 23, 2014 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos Clearly from a different era, The Deslondes jumped on stage Saturday night, unironically sporting cowboy boots and rolled up sleeves -- even the guitarist wore a pair of overalls and a trucker hat. Not ...
An evening with The Avett Brothers Luke Sheard September 17, 2014 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos "If you put your ear to the street, you can hear the rumble of the world in motion: people going to and from work, to school, to the grocery store. You may even hear the whisper of their living rooms, their con...
Summersalt 2014: “Light it up, San Francisco” Joanna Jiang September 15, 2014 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Interview, Photos "Are the beach balls the only thing that make this feel like a festival?" William Benssussen (otherwise known as The Gaslamp Killer) confronted the crowd Saturday night at the third annual Summersalt Festiv...
Passenger confidently orates the Fox Theater, brings friends Stu Larsen and The Once Sam Putt and Luke Sheard September 13, 2014 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos 1 Comment Eclectic human masses slowly oozed into the historic Fox Theater in Oakland on a Thursday evening. The opening acts of the night were short bursts of vocally-driven songs that filled the entire theater with...
City and Colour saturate the Greek Theatre for The Head and The Heart Atreyue Ryken September 10, 2014 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos On Friday September 5, an eclectic mix of fans poured into the Greek Theatre for James Supercave, City and Colour, and The Head and The Heart. Initially the crowd seemed rather disengaged with City and C...
Feed Me feeds Warfield crowd Saturday night Chris Redman September 10, 2014 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos 1 Comment As I approached The Warfield on Saturday night, fans with blinking necklaces and bracelets engulfing their arms in every neon colour imaginable asserted that I was in the right place. About a year ago, a ...
Jack Johnson brings the beach to Berkeley Chris Redman August 30, 2014 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos Fans of all ages and cultural backgrounds filled the Greek Theatre just above the UC Berkeley campus on Tuesday August 26th. Bahamas, aka Afie Jurvanen, got the positive vibes flowing with songs from his r...
British Isles band Joanna Gruesome kick off US tour in Oakland Penelope Leggett August 26, 2014 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos UK-based band, Joanna Gruesome -- yes, it is a play on Joanna Newsom -- have finally made it over to the United States, starting their US tour off with a sold-out show. The band played Oakland's premier punk v...