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 3 Comments 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...