Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews

Before even walking through the doors of The Fillmore, my friend and I turned the corner to stumble on no other than Danni Miller, lead singer of Surfbort, freshly off stage and finishing a drag in a sequined j...

Mannequins and a bust of a woman sit on stage as the scent of marijuana wafts through the air. Dylan fans across six decades are trading stories about the man they have come to see: their first show, when and w...

There are very few bands I would take a solo trip on BART to San Jose on a Thursday night for. Scratch that--there’s definitely only one. Shannon and the Clams is by far the only band I could justify making a...

When I saw Tash Sultana’s name posted on campus a few weeks ago, my heart skipped a few beats and I immediately flashed back to the first time I heard her. I was living out some teen movie love-fling, studyin...

One part of me loved the 12th annual Outside Lands festival, another part of me felt it perfectly encapsulated everything wrong with festivals: a disconnect from the music.  Overall, OSL did succeed in coll...

I smiled at my date and told him, “You know… Matt Shultz (the lead singer of Cage the Elephant) was my boyfriend when I was ten. He didn’t know it, but he totally was.”  He laughed and commented on how...

Vulfpeck kicked off their West Coast “Greek Week” with a performance at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley, CA this past Saturday. In typical eccentric fashion, marketing leader and band member Jack Stratton...

Mac DeMarco is arguably the closest thing we have to a contemporary Jerry Garcia. He lives on the principles of having fun, loving everyone, and making music. His fans remind me of less-committed Dead-Heads: wo...

Up-and-coming NorCal-based indie rock band Carpool Tunnel don’t like to think of themselves as conventional. Instead, they describe themselves on Spotify as “an idea of what it means to be human, and to sha...

Within five minutes of stepping into the venue I was complimented on my outfit, a group of friends offered a shot, and had four new Instagram followers. The non-stop kindness and friendly attitudes persisted th...

The first time I saw Frances Quinlan, the lead singer of Hop Along, was in 2015. Since then I have not missed a chance to see her live. Hop Along have been the favorite band of my household since long before th...

Walking into the New Parish on Tuesday, I had my mental checklist for a weeknight post-punk show going, and those boxes were getting ticked off pretty quickly. Dude in an Idles shirt? Check. Bowl cuts? Check. U...

First thing you need to know — we are not ravers. As much as we like to think of ourselves with “diverse music tastes,” it seems to generally hover around the “My mom used to play me Led Zeppelin a...

As I walked into the Oracle Arena, legendary alt-rock band The Pixies were playing the opening notes of “Cactus.” I had made it just in time for the show. I was shocked that a band as big as The Pixies was ...

I will argue till the day I die that French house music is superior. There’s something that just seems real about it, something that hits you deeper and urges you to move along with it. FKJ, also known as Fre...