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Ultra Q Reunites with Hockey Dad for Rickshaw Nostalgia

Nico Chodor
September 11, 2023
Album Review, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos, Reviews
Australian surf rock duo Hockey Dad fathered Jakob Armstrong, Chris Malaspina, Enzo Malaspina, and Kevin Judd through their first full US tour when the boys still went by Mt. Eddy in 2018. Five years later, Jak...

Decolonial Punk at Kilowatt

Nico Chodor
September 1, 2023
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos, Punk, Rock, San Francisco
Los Cogelones combined brotherhood and Aztec punk Sunday night at Kilowatt Bar, on the heels of what Psyched! Radio SF deems three pillars of this new San Francisco scene: Thank You Come Again, Buzzed Lightbeer...

OHFR? Rico Nasty Played The New Parish?

Lucy Gleeson
June 6, 2023
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos
Baltimore rapper Rico Nasty stopped in Oakland for a show on her Monster Energy Outbreak Tour. The New Parish date unsurprisingly sold out to a crowd excited to see Rico play her saccharine spin on hip hop and ...

Maybe Love is Real: Mr. and Mrs. Tennis at the Fox

Nico Chodor
May 3, 2023
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos
In tennis (the sport), love means zero. In Tennis (the band), that is hardly the case. Husband-and-wife duo Alaina and Patrick Riley have been spreading their love through music since 2010. They met as philosop...

Yaeji playfully smashes expectations “With a Hammer” at Fox Theater

Kyle Garcia Takata
April 26, 2023
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, dance, Oakland, Photos, Reviews
After 3 years of delays and postponement, Yaeji finally took the stage at Fox Theater in Oakland to a full venue. The building excitement from the years of waiting filled the room with a feverous buzz. Everyone...

100 gecs literally hit with fans

Miranda Craig
April 9, 2023
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, indie-pop, music, Oakland, Photos, Uncategorized
100 Gecs and Machine Girl together in concert is a match made in heaven. Their April 5 show at Oakland’s Fox Theater was no exception. For anyone looking for high-energy music and dancing, it was a must-see s...

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...

Alt-J’s Immersive Light and Sound at the Fox Theater

Eliza Scheer
April 2, 2023
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, indie scene, indie-pop, music, Oakland, Photos
Alt-J performed an unforgettable show at their second of two consecutive shows at the Fox Theater in Oakland on March 24. The show was packed with audience members of all ages coming to hear their experimental ...

Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair for Natalie Mering: Weyes Blood Makes Hearts Aglow During Night 2 at the Regency

Nico Chodor
March 30, 2023
Berkeley, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos
  Weyes Blood put me under a spell Sunday night at the Regency Ballroom, and I still haven’t fully recovered. Draped in the white billowing fabric of gods and/or ghosts, she breezed onto the stage...

Live! At The Masonic Auditorium: NAV Delivers A Truly Piping Hot, Poppin’ Performance

Ava Aguiar
March 20, 2023
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos, Reviews
Pictured: NAV during "Never Sleep" I attended NAV’s show at the Masonic Theater in San Francisco on March 18, 2023, for his “Never Sleep” tour. Nav, who goes by NAV or the much more stylized ΠΔV is ...

Punk performance from Otoboke Beaver sends tremors through UC Theatre

Kyle Garcia Takata
March 19, 2023
Berkeley, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, music, Photos, Reviews
The UC Theatre shook with exhilaration from experiencing over an hour of nonstop punk energy from Otoboke Beaver on International Women’s Day. With Accorinrin providing the main vocals, Yoyoyoshie on guitar, ...

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...

25 Years of The Lonesome Crowded West: Modest Mouse at The Fox Theater in Oakland

Lucy Gleeson
December 5, 2022
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, indie, Oakland, Photos, Reviews
The Lonesome Crowded West (1997) is considered by many to be one of the greatest indie albums of all time; last Wednesday, Modest Mouse came to the Fox Theater in Oakland to celebrate 25 years since its release...

Addison Sartino ‘Pulled it Together,’ Creating a Memorable Show For Fans, Despite Illness, a Broken Trailer, and a New Drummer

Cole Haddock and Eliza Scheer
November 24, 2022
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, indie, Photos, San Francisco
We walked into the police station, and the only other person there had a curly blonde mullet, blue vest, and septum.  “Hey, were you just at the Greeting Committee concert?” The guy said yeah...

One magic hour with Surf Curse at the Warfield

Liv Bjorgum
November 21, 2022
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos, Reviews, San Francisco
“We’re not 18 anymore / But we’ve still got our habits / You’re the creature in my heart / And you’re about to devour it / ‘Cause I remember when” - Surf Curse, “Nostalgia,” Nothing Yet (2017)...
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