Desert daze preview and ticket giveaway
Coming back for their sixth installation, Desert Daze is set to rock out Joshua Tree October 12th-15th. To celebrate the start of the new semester, we will be giving away tickets to the event.
The “ritual ...
What to expect from Tim & Eric (here’s a hint: we don’t know)
Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim make up a fantastic comedic duo with a polarizing sense of humor that can effectively leave half of an audience amused beyond belief, while the other half lies at the peak of con...
Burger Boogaloo: Punk fest returns to Mosswood Park
It's that time of the year again.
July 1-2, Oakland's Mosswood Park will be the site of the 8th annual Burger Records' Burger Boogaloo. Dreamlanders' cult cinematographer John Waters returns to host the eve...
Comedian Chris Hardwick launching ID10T Festival at the Shoreline
Music, comedy, comics books -- need I say more?
Chris Hardwick's ID10T Festival (June 24 - 25) is everything you and your inner-nerd have been waiting for. Not only will the festival feature big name headlin...
Jean-Michel Jarre returns to North America, plays The Greek May 26
Jarre performs in Toronto on May 9, kicking off the North American leg of the Electronica Tour
On the heels of his last two projects – Oxygène 3 (2016) and Electronica (2015-2016) – French electronica ...
Henry Grace’s graceful approach to balancing school and music
Henry Grace’s adept songwriting skills and unique vocals defy his age. At 25 years old, UC Berkeley student Henry Grace sounds like he’s a musician with years of experience touring and making music under hi...
The price of pro: The Growlers at The Warfield
Brooks Nielsen is not a good dancer.
The Growlers frontman shuffled around The Warfield stage for over two hours this Friday on their City Club tour, his back straight, arms gesticulating casually to the thu...
Shing02 & The Chee-Hoos pay tribute to Nujabes at the Social Hall
In an emotion-packed, rhyme-flying concert, Japanese rapper Shing02 with help from the The Chee-Hoos paid tribute to fellow artist and principle collaborator, Nujabes (Jun Seba), who tragically passed away...
The B-Side picks, South by Southwest
As South by Southwest officially enters its thirty-first year, I enter my twenty-first, and our paths finally collide. Growing up, my dad promised to take me to the Elysian musical free-for-all in Austin, Texas...
Ann Wilson on her solo tour, the Bay, and how to be a rock and roll feminist in 2017
Barracuda was written out of absurd circumstances. When an industry sleazeball in Heart's dressing room insinuated that lead singer Ann Wilson and her sister, Nancy, were lovers, Wilson retaliated by writing....
Teen Daze awakens from utopic dreams on ‘Themes,’ to play NP25 at Hemlock Tavern
Sometime in the last couple of years, British Columbia’s Teen Daze (Jamison) disclosed his last name (Isaak) and relocated to Abbotsford, a quieter part of the Fraser Valley he’s called home the entire time...
Five Years of Killing Time: An Interview with Terry Malts’s Corey Cunningham
The world was a different place five years ago, in the year of our Lord two-thousand and twelve.
“Gangnam Style” was the biggest song in the world. People wrote impassioned blog posts about Fifty Shades...
Austra to bring political subtleties to MEZZANINE SF
“I love you more than you love yourself,” croons Katie Stelmanis on a lead single of the same title from Austra’s recent album, Future Politics, out January 20 via Domino.
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Slow Hollows and the 411 on “4141”
In high school perhaps you knew a friend or acquaintance in a band and made the pilgrimage to the local all ages venue, got your hands X'ed and swayed alongside your classmates. Maybe you even had your own band...
James Vincent McMorrow to float through Berkeley 11/29
James Vincent McMorrow captures that foggy, dreamlike folk reminiscent of early Bon Iver, but with the gravelly rumbles of an Irish accent hidden under layers of falsetto, floaty synths, and the kind of sentime...