Angélique Kidjo to premiere Philip Glass composition stateside with SF Symphony Joanna Jiang July 5, 2015 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews From two internationally-respected artists proven limitless in both time and place comes Ifé, an orchestral illustration of the Yorùbán creation land and holy city. The collaboration between visionary co...
Interview: Guantanamo Baywatch talk Burger Boogaloo 2015 Patricia Villon July 1, 2015 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, Interview 1 Comment Guantanamo Baywatch recently released their album Darling... It's Too Late (2015) via Suicide Squeeze Records and are playing Burger Records' Burger Boogaloo festival in Oakland once again. The festival ret...
Flesh World find new sound on record, The Wild Animals In My Life Penelope Leggett June 30, 2015 Album Review, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edpYl_3p6O8 Upon haphazardly encountering Flesh World’s music while browsing bandcamp, we were welcomely surprised to find that they were far more local than our internet di...
Lights, camera… A-Trak to return to the Bay on Friday Joanna Jiang June 16, 2015 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews Teenagers left, right, and centre are trading guitars for turntables these days in hopes of becoming the next big thing. Having won his first DMC World Championship at age 15, Fool’s Gold founder A-Trak is bo...
Emmy the Great to conquer SF this Friday with fresh folk, acoustic bliss Kavitha George June 8, 2015 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews She's witty, crisp, and talented, the perfect listen for early summer nights, for blues and joy alike. Emma-Lee Moss (stage name Emmy the Great), born in Hong Kong but brought up in England, is yet another...
Palma Violets to bring the feels Thursday at Bottom of the Hill Jade Theriault June 3, 2015 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6il1Wdqwhs British garage rock four-piece Palma Violets are well-entrenched in a sweaty tour of their fresh-out-of-the-studio sophomore record Danger in the Club. After they ...
Other Lives’ Jonathon Mooney shares his stance on touring, doughnuts, and new LP Rituals Joanna Jiang May 3, 2015 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews Portland-by-way-of-Oklahoma trio Other Lives are due to commence a month-long North American tour next week after releasing third full-length album Rituals, due May 4 via TBD Records. This third record, c...
Ambassadeurs releases Can’t You See EP, to play LIB and Mezzanine Joanna Jiang April 28, 2015 Album Review, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews We’ve been anticipating Mark Dobson’s forthcoming and ever-elusive debut record… for years. By way of Brighton under the deceivingly-French moniker Ambassadeurs, Dobson’s been producing a distinct, ...
Bicycle Day 2015 to celebrate sensation, create sacred space Conner Smith April 16, 2015 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, Previews A fusion of visual art and music in an experience of near mythical proportions, this year’s Bicycle Day production is set to impress just as much as -- if not more than -- last year’s. With names suc...
TICKET GIVEAWAY: Lord Huron at The Fox Oakland Joanna Jiang April 16, 2015 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, Contests If you’ve grown up in a temperate climate on the east coast or rural Europe, you’ll know there’s something about the low-hanging moistness of morning fog rolling over soft hills and valleys. Moors: si...
Clean Bandit’s Jack Patterson on songs, styles, strings, and singers Maddy Smith April 10, 2015 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, Interview 1 Comment Clean Bandit are just blowing up internationally. With their recently won Grammy and success of New Eyes (2014), they are getting more and more renowned throughout the world. The album’s fourth single ...
Find Happyness celebrating Weird Little Birthday at Bottom of the Hill this Monday Penelope Leggett March 27, 2015 Album Review, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews London-based three-piece Happyness embark on their first US tour beginning in Los Angeles this week, having just released Weird Little Birthday with Bar/None Records this past Tuesday. The newer band h...
Q&A: Wolf Alice to play SF’s Rickshaw Stop before SXSW, talk debut, peaches, and airports Joanna Jiang March 10, 2015 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews photo by Jordan Curtis Hughes UK indie rockers Wolf Alice recently announced their much-anticipated debut, titled My Love Is Cool, last week and are currently crossing the nation on a tour that sees stops t...
Noise Pop 2015: Thao Nguyen charms the Swedish American with smiles and her guitar Edfil Dulay March 2, 2015 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, Photos In one of numerous Noise Pop 2015 offerings this past Tuesday, Thao Nguyen played an intimate acoustic session at the Swedish American Hall in San Francisco. The night was host to a mixture of local and n...
The Nile Project inspires longevity and unification Nikos Zarikos February 25, 2015 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews The Nile Project was conceived over a few beers at an Uptown Oakland café by two Bay Area locals: ethnomusicologist Mina Girgis from Egypt, and Meklit Hadero from Ethiopia. The vision served a dual purpos...