Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

“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. https://www.youtube.com/watc...

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 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...

The windows were down and the cool bay air hit my skin. I asked the uber driver if he had an auxiliary cord, and he did. So I played “The Journey” -- the first song off of Tom Misch’s second project, Beat...