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Antlion performing at Tamper Room in Fremont, CA

Live at Tamper Room: A French Project, Little Critter, friendship games, and Antlion

Gwen Tam
May 6, 2025
Local, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, indie scene, music, Punk, Reviews
Fremont, California isn’t typically the place that comes to mind when thinking about the Bay Area music scene. The scene was in San Jose, Berkeley, Oakland, San Francisco, and Hayward even. Not Fremont. Wi...

Reminiscing on punk with X at Cornerstone

Mina Lavapies
February 4, 2025
Reviews, Berkeley, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos, Punk
John Doe of X As soon as I opened the doors to the Cornerstone to see X perform on December 16, I could tell that I was surrounded by some of their most original fans. I found myself in the middle of a sea ...

Punk’s Unlikely Grandfather: Bob Dylan, Patti Smith, and the legacy of Arthur Rimbaud’s Poetry

Micah Petyt
November 25, 2024
Columns and Opinions, Music History, Opinion, Punk, Rock
An absolute must-read for any French high school student–myself included–Arthur Rimbaud remains one of the most famous French poets, and one of the greatest poets of the Romantic period. When I first studie...

Patti Smith’s tribute to generations of musical icons at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2024

Annie Wynner
October 12, 2024
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, prog-rock, Punk, Reviews, Rock, San Francisco, women in music
San Francisco boasted a striking 97 degrees on Sunday, the last day of the annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival and the warmest October 6th the city had ever seen. Despite the excessive heat, the streets s...

Sleater-Kinney: Navigating a “Modern Girl” sound with 30-year punk roots

Peri Zoe Yildirim-Stanley
October 10, 2024
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Indie-Rock, Punk, Rock, San Francisco
My experience on Friday, October 4th, Day 1 of San Francisco’s annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival starts with a harrowing journey, full of twists and turns (literally, physically turning around and w...

Why I hate pop punk

Annie Wynner
September 4, 2024
Opinion, british post-punk, music, Music History, Print Edition, prog-rock, Punk
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I have always hated pop punk. A hatred rooted in watching friends undergo their Fall Out Boy eras in middle school and my traumatic viewing of Blink-182’s performance at Coachella in April of 2023; an hour ...

“Barking Loud” with Mannequin Pussy at August Hall

Sravani Khanal
June 3, 2024
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, indie, Photos, Punk, women's music
I learned about Mannequin Pussy thanks to my older sister, an ex-emo who has shaped most of my music taste. Immediately, I remember hesitating saying their name and thinking that I could never play Mannequin PU...

Green Day’s celebratory homecoming at the Fillmore in San Francisco

Dorothy Eck
April 5, 2024
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Local, Punk, Rock, San Francisco
Green Day by Jax Samsell The brisk San Francisco air felt refreshingly chilly to the red-faced, sweaty bodies spilling out of the Fillmore on Tuesday night. On an evening that will go down in Bay Area music...

93 ‘til Infinity: Bay Area hip hop and punk rock revolutions in 1993

Katie Hulse
March 6, 2024
Berkeley, Local, Music History, Oakland, Punk, Rap, Rock, San Francisco, Uncategorized
I was in my friend's car stumbling along the landscape when “93 ‘til Infinity" by Souls of Mischief trinkled out of the speakers and changed the way that I think about hip hop. Thirty years after its initia...

8 DAYS/14 SHOWS/9 VENUES: A Countercultural Halloweek at Psyched! Fest

Nico Chodor
November 6, 2023
Cultural Commentary, Columns and Opinions, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Feature, Multimedia, Music Consumption, News, Photos, Punk, Reviews, Rock, San Francisco
Psyched! Fest - San Francisco's Independent Festival of Arts, Music, Diversity & Counterculture - opened Wednesday, October 25th at Rickshaw Stop. Brought to you by Psyched! Radio, the multiracial nonprofit...

Decolonial Punk at Kilowatt

Nico Chodor
September 1, 2023
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos, Punk, Rock, San Francisco
Los Cogelones combined brotherhood and Aztec punk Sunday night at Kilowatt Bar, on the heels of what Psyched! Radio SF deems three pillars of this new San Francisco scene: Thank You Come Again, Buzzed Lightbeer...

Hey, hey we’re the Punk-ees: the unlikely influences of punk

Gianna Caudillo
March 16, 2023
Columns and Opinions, Music History, Opinion, Punk, Rock
The public’s lasting perception of 60s pop-rock band the Monkees sounds a little like this: a Neil Diamond impersonator screaming out to a group of picnicking families, “How many of you remember a Saturday ...

Racist Grrrl: the politics of race and anger in punk feminist movements

Emmanuelle Mphuthi
December 28, 2022
Black Culture, Columns and Opinions, Music History, Opinion, Political, Punk, Rock
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Gunk zine issue 4 by Bikceem Ramdasha Riot grrrl is an underground feminist punk movement that originated in the 1990s in the Pacific Northweast of the United States, although some argue the genre truly sta...

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