Sunflower Bean to open at Bill Graham on Thursday Arnav Chaturvedi June 23, 2016 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews Sunflower Bean, a young Brooklyn trio emerging from the wake of the sounds of TV On The Radio and Here We Go Magic, are set to play a string of performances through the US and Europe accompanying bands like Bes...
TICKET GIVEAWAY: Mitski at Starline Social Club Oakland Valerie Law June 19, 2016 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, Contests If you missed Mitski on Upper Sproul this semester, you're in luck. We're giving away a pair of tickets to her all-ages show at the Starline Social Club in Oakland on Friday, July 8, which also features San Fr...
The Hush Sound’s comeback tour comes to the Bay Area Vivian Chen May 29, 2016 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, News, Previews After a five-year long hiatus, indie pop-rock band The Hush Sound continues their comeback tour in San Francisco's Social Hall on June 2nd. Since their last album release Goodbye Blues (2008), band member...
Andrew Bird promises to wow at SF’s Masonic HR Huber-Rodriguez May 16, 2016 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews Multi-instrumentalist Andrew Bird's music is so layered and lushly arranged that it’d be difficult to imagine his live renditions accurately representing his studio creations. But Bird makes excellent use of ...
What we expect from Last Shadow Puppets at the Fillmore Jacob Elsanadi April 15, 2016 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, Previews The Last Shadow Puppets will be bringing their signature Brit-rock style to the historic Fillmore this coming Sunday. Fronted by Arctic Monkey’s lead singer Alex Turner and the Rascal’s Miles Kane, the band...
Savoir Adore and friends, says Paul Hammer, head out on tour Joanna Jiang March 26, 2016 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews Sometime between Our Nature (2013) and "Lovers Wake," dream pop outfit Savoir Adore were put on hiatus by the media. Though we were unaware of the news then, it was shortly after their critically-acclaimed soph...
Sacred Space for Serenity Gathering 2016 Conner Smith March 3, 2016 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews The extraterrestrial rock playgrounds of the Joshua Tree Retreat Center will serve as the location for what is sure to be this year’s most auspicious celebration of the spring equinox– Serenity Gathering. ...
Keys N Krates to stage a Bay Area return at the Regency tomorrow night Isaac Yi February 17, 2016 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews Toronto-based Keys N Krates are set to make an appearance at the Regency Ballroom tomorrow, February 18, as part of their month-and-a-half long tour following the January 15 release of their latest EP, Midnite ...
Majical Cloudz release Wait & See EP, to play The Chapel Tuesday Joanna Jiang January 22, 2016 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews Canadian minimalists Majical Cloudz exploded late last year with their third record, Are You Alone?, the latest installment of a steady climb from critically acclaimed obscure pop to... popular indie obscure po...
Gallery and Recap: Not So Silent Night 2015 Edfil Dulay January 5, 2016 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, Photos When we think of the holidays, we think of quaint family gatherings, bountiful feasts, and warm gatherings by a fire. Live 105's Not So Silent Night sort-of abides by these holiday traditions, if you consider...
Odesza’s live set blooms for In Return tour Arnav Chaturvedi December 23, 2015 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews On a night of rough rain and hailstorms, everyone in the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium completely forgot the world outside its doors. Friday night, Odesza’s unique brand of subtle melodic trap music managed ...
Keep Shelly in Athens return to Rickshaw Stop November 19 Joanna Jiang November 16, 2015 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews Two years ago, we interviewed Keep Shelly in Athens before their performance at Rickshaw Stop. The Greek duo were then comprised of producer RΠЯ and a “petite young girl with large eyes that go from worried...
Zeds Dead will bring the bass to the Mezzanine Christopher Farmer November 11, 2015 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews If you were lucky enough to cop tickets early, brace yourself for two nights chocked full of bass music courtesy of Zeds Dead. The Canadian duo will bring their genre crashing antics to the Mezzanine on Frida...
Reptar to radiate rapture at Rickshaw Stop this Friday Jacob Elsanadi November 5, 2015 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews On tour following the March 2015 release of Lurid Glow, an upbeat and easy to dance to album that is full of energy, Georgia-natives Reptar will bring their talents to the Rickshaw Stop Friday night. Their free...
Kylesa’s singular southern sludge to return Sunday at The Fillmore Joanna Jiang November 4, 2015 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews Staying power is something to be marvelled in a discipline as technically-nuanced, theatrical, and rare (relatively-speaking) as metal. So when a mammoth force perseveres and pioneers for over a decade, it's re...