Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews

photo by Nour Mohamed “For thousands of years Egyptian farmers irrigated by simple diversions from the Nile and nothing went badly wrong;” writes American environmentalist Marc Reisner in his best-known...

photo by Stacy Newsgent Bandmates and sisters close in age, Lily & Madeleine Jurkiewicz capture a kind of “old soul” quality to their music that is rarely heard these days, especially from artists...

Capable of capturing the bitter realities of heartbreak and internal struggles of morality, Two Gallants also know how to (simply) create great Americana-style rock music; Adam Stephens and Tyson Vogel cont...

Following a three-year hiatus since their last release, The Union Trade's upcoming sophomore full-length LP sounds exactly as named. On A Place of Long Years, the local band ditches bassist Nate Munger's em...

Fool’s Gold producers Sleepy Tom and Anna Lunoe have teamed up yet again to release an infectious, high energy dance floor staple, “Pusher” today. The single includes a "club version" with additional ...

The Great American Music Hall will host Ty Segall's first San Francisco performances in support of his new album Manipulator on January 29 and 30. The psychedelic sensation has been described as 'prol...

This weekend, Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas leads the San Francisco Symphony in three performances of Stravinsky's L'Histoire du soldat (The Soldier's Tale) with Elvis Costello as narrator. The Sol...

The Juan MacLean, not unlike many other electronic artists, saw a relatively positive year in 2014. With the highly-anticipated September release of the DFA outfit’s third album, In a Dream, came a reviv...

Jessica Phillippe, AKA J. Phlip, is a house producer who hails from Chicago. Phillippe started DJing as a freshman at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and now works under Claude VonStrokes' Dir...

UK band Scars on 45 has recently released their album Safety in Numbers, and is now on a West Coast run opening for Augustana. The tour includes a stop at San Francisco's The Fillmore this Wednesday 12/10...

Known for his fast rapping, George Watsky started out as one of the most prominent teen poets in the Bay Area, having won the Brave New Voices National Poetry Slam back in 2006. Now he is on his latest worl...

Even the most investigative sound junkie will know that worthwhile music arrives from all avenues. We first stumbled across Gardens & Villa's debut single, "Black Hills" three years ago via now-defunct ...

Jennifer Lee, better known by her stage name TOKiMONSTA, is best known for her unrelenting ingenuity in the DJ scene. The Korean-born and LA-raised producer's unique  blend or jazz beats and pop hooks wi...

Embodying a sound both foreign and familiar, nostalgic and futuristic, Delicate Steve's music is like running through a field saturated in Technicolor to reach some triumphant, yet humble achievement. Th...

Springtime Carnivore released their debut album Springtime Carnivore on November 4th earlier this week via Autumn Tone Records. The all-female trio is lead by the dreamy vocals and guitar strokes of Gre...