Take a Trip with Moon Boots Connor Tapley October 12, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews It’s a very rare occurrence for someone to captivate the energy of an entire dance floor of any venue, let alone at the Halcyon in San Francisco -- enter Moon Boots. Born Pete Dougherty, Moon Boots is best ...
There’s nothing wrong with living like this: On the road with FIDLAR Natalie Silver and Rosie Davidowitz October 12, 2017 Columns and Opinions, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews It’s kind of like being a 13-year-old who was dragged to Sunday mass….or a frequenter at sex addicts anonymous meetings… or a customer at Berkeley’s iconic adult emporium Good Vibrations... or an inmate...
Oberst in October-st: A Hardly Strictly Photo Essay Circe Ament October 12, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos, Reviews I arrived to the Rooster Stage roughly thirty minutes before Conor Oberst was scheduled to start. The band who played right before him were real gems, First Aid Kit, a Swedish folk duo composed to two sisters. ...
Father John Misty comes to worship at The Greek: A concert review Delaney Gomen October 10, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews The air smelled faintly like marijuana. Behind me, I overheard a conversation about someone’s sister in Vermont ordering sperm from the only non-profit bank in the country, which, naturally, is in Berkeley; a...
L.A. Witch mystifies The Chapel Bianca Lu October 10, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Multimedia, Photos, Reviews I had never attended a show at The Chapel. Doors opened at 7:00 pm. I arrived at the venue exactly two minutes before 7 after stalling for thirty minutes at the Community Thrift Store on Valencia. I was the...
Terror Jr. lights up Rickshaw Stop Leka Gopal October 10, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews Smoke rises up from the shallow stage finds its way to the disco ball slowly circling above. On the left wall, a projector plays collaged images of old Popscene shows; on the right, a DJ that doesn’t look you...
Big Thief and Little Wings share sincere emotion at Anna Head Dylan Medlock October 8, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews Playing their first of three consecutive dates in the Bay Area, Brooklyn indie-rock band Big Thief and supporting indie-folk act Little Wings came to Berkeley on Thursday night, playing an emotional concert at ...
Henry Grace sounds like he’s right at home at The Back Room Noah Bogner October 8, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews Open since April 2016 in Downtown Berkeley, The Back Room Berkeley is a relatively new music venue that welcomes all types of acoustically based genres, including jazz, blues, folk and more. The set-up has abou...
Uh Oh! Watch out for Tennyson’s electric performance and their new EP Anna Nguyen October 8, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews What were you doing the summers you had off from school? Well, probably like me, you weren’t doing a whole lot. But if you were Luke and Tess Pretty, you might have been touring and performing jazz covers...
Experience Fantastic Negrito’s fearless sound at the UC Theatre + Ticket Giveaway Devyn White October 6, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews Fantastic Negrito will be blessing the UC Theatre Saturday, October 14, with other Oakland-based artists, MAD NOISE and The Jamming Nachos. Born to a conservative Muslim family in Massachusetts, Xavier Amin ...
BROCKHAMPTON stops by Social Hall SF twice for their first-ever tour Anthony Vega October 4, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews BROCKHAMPTON is a hip-hop super-collective with 17 members, composed of singers, rappers, producers, designers, and videographers. They are an aggregate of close friends who have come to be a polarizing group o...
California State of Shine: Best Coast Hits Cornerstone Ally Mason October 3, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews Life is full of clichés. When you’re in love, you behave foolishly. When it rains, it pours. When the sun shines, the world feels right. Best Coast revitalizes these tropes to create straightforward narrativ...
Kali Uchis performs for viciously ecstatic fans at The New Parish Vivian Chen October 2, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews “ANDREA, WHERE YOU AT?” “What does DM stand for?” “Damn, I am old.” The New Parish is confusing. Upon entering the venue, there’s a hallway that leads towards an outdoor courtyard of sort...
SALES brings “Jamz” to Great American Music Hall Ally Mason September 30, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews I once read a piece of music journalism which analogized the music of SALES to a Beach House record mistakenly played at 45 rpm. It makes sense — both groups craft superbly minimal pop songs utilizing program...
Moses Sumney starts tour off with a bang after dropping Aromanticism Anna Nguyen September 29, 2017 Album Review, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews Moses Sumney is talented, majorly talented. If the first minute of his show couldn’t tell you that, his features on tracks of big name artists like Flume (“Weekend”) and Solange (“Mad”) should. With...