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If you’ve seen the show 13 Reasons Why, you’ll know that its soundtrack contains a rather unexpected wealth of alternative music. Amid wide controversy over the show, I was drawn to watch its first season, ...

The past year has seen quite a transformation for the artistic trajectories of indie folk staple Fleet Foxes and experimental indie rock group Amen Dunes. For Fleet Foxes, the release of their third album Crack...

“We are not very good at stage banter,” Portugal. The Man’s backdrop proclaimed in bold white letters as the band began to set up their instruments on a dimmed stage. Unsurprisingly, their mantra proved t...

On April 21st, UC Berkeley’s school spirit celebration, Cal Day, took place. The event occurs every Spring, openly inviting newly admitted students to the campus. The school’s entertainment team Superb Prod...

The average concert goer's experience usually occurs within a four hour time frame, starting with their arrival to the venue once doors open, and ending with the artist’s exit from the stage and the house lig...

Over the past few weeks, The Hard Times Shows & 924 Gilman have brought some incredible shows to the Bay Area's Hardcore scene. More specifically, Nick Bane has been doing an absolute kick-ass job, bringing...

It’s about 4 o’clock, four hours before the show starts, and the line is already 50-people long. Just minutes before doors open, the crowd wraps along Geary Blvd and around the corner. COIN fans come out i...

“Hi hi.” Synth lord, frontman, the brains behind Porches, Aaron Maine, stepped onto the stage with a gentle introduction that easily wooed every being in the venue. Porches had a two-night residency...

Last weekend, Real Estate visited Fox Theatre to play their first show in Oakland, CA. The concert was part of the Noise Pop Music & Arts Festival, the Bay's annual indie arts week, and it was only fitting ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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, 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 ...

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...