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Gao Hu, lead singer of Miserable Faith, crowdsurfing

The Homeward Road: Miserable Faith Unites Bay Area Chinese-Speaking Diaspora in One Glorious Chorus

Yansu Tan
November 24, 2023
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, International, Rock
Again and again Gao Hu, lead singer of Miserable Faith (痛仰乐队), addressed the crowd: “Do not stop my music (不要停止我的音乐)”. “不要停止我的音乐,” I silently repeated. After shoo...

Ms. Lauryn Hill and the Fugees in San Francisco

Dorothy Eck
November 21, 2023
Black Culture, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, R&B, Rap, San Francisco
Friday night at the Chase Center mounted a glorious celebration of Ms. Lauryn Hill’s seminal debut album, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (1998), commemorating its 25th anniversary with the reunion of Lauryn ...

“Shawn-y Came Home”: Shawn Colvin at Sweetwater Music Hall

Roxanne Bostian
November 16, 2023
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews
“Please no more therapy, mother take care of me.” This was the original plea that snapped my head around and had me scrambling to shuffle Shawn Colvin’s entire discography. From those first strains of ...

Freak the Freak Out!

Nico Chodor and Sophia Shen
November 13, 2023
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Metal, Rock, Shoegaze
Last weekend, right on the heels of San Francisco’s multi-day, multi-venue Psyched! Fest, we crossed state lines for a Pacific Northwestern analogue: Freakout Fest in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle. The ...

I won’t quiet down for Faye Webster… even if she wanted me to

Heidy Barrera
November 12, 2023
indie, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews
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When did I start dreaming? Definitely not the day that I met Faye Webster, but that would’ve been so cool for this article. Singer Maye opened the stage for Webster. While I did not feel like her vibe fit ...

eaJ’s Energetic Entrance into his first Headlining NA Tour

Ashley Mauldin
November 10, 2023
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos, Reviews
With a line wrapped around the block and then some, LA local eaJ’s presence was deep-set in San Francisco Sunday night. August Hall was sold out for the first stop on the In Insomnia tour, the artist's first ...

A Triumphant Return: Palehound at The Chapel

Sinead de Cleir
November 9, 2023
Rock, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, indie scene, Photos, Reviews, San Francisco, Shoegaze
On March 10th, 2020, Palehound played at Cafe du Nord in San Francisco for their headline tour with Adult Mom. The next day, the COVID-19 pandemic was declared and their tour was canceled. For Palehound, this m...

Battling Titans: Pallbearer and High on Fire at UC Theatre

Joshua Morse
November 8, 2023
Berkeley, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Local
Metalheads are no strangers to the concept of giving up sleep in order to see their favorite bands live. However, there is something beautiful about a concert on a Saturday night. Everyone is able to let go of ...

There Must Be Something About Stephen Sanchez: The Troubadour Performs His Biggest Show To Date

Andrew Zendejas
November 8, 2023
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Oakland, Pop
I still remember the first time I encountered Stephen Sanchez. I was scrolling through TikTok and a video with Sanchez in a hospital room waiting for his doctor came up on my feed captioned: “POV: You’ve be...

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...

A Drug-Free Trip: Psychedelia & Hip-Hop at The Masonic with Lil Yachty’s The Field Trip Tour

Harrison Peters
November 5, 2023
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, music, Photos, Rap, Reviews, San Francisco
As I walked the near vertical climb up Powell Street on my way to The Masonic, I couldn’t help but wonder what to expect from this concert. After releasing his 2023 project “Let’s Start Here.”,  Lil Ya...

Billie Marten Ascends to New Heights at August Hall

Ashley Mauldin
October 29, 2023
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos, Reviews
I remember the first time that I listened to Billie Marten: sitting in the dark of my room in April 2020, the soft yellow glow of Christmas lights over my desk blinking before me. I was transported into a new w...

Partying like it’s the late 1900s: the Breeders and Belly at the Warfield

Sophia Shen
October 27, 2023
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Rock, San Francisco
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Working as a stagehand at a music venue, you see enough middle-aged men whose bands you’ve never heard of strut across a stage. Thus, attending the Breeders’ 30th anniversary tour of their 1993 album Last S...

Angel Olsen at Regency Ballroom: Return/Rebirth in Earnest

Emily Putnam
October 25, 2023
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews, San Francisco
Angel Olsen walks out in white tulle, glorious bouffant, and unselfconscious grin. She is merry and (titularly) angelic. The set begins and drool appears on my chin. The rest of the audience is similarly en...

Warm shower, hot show: Warmduscher with TREASVRE at Cornerstone Berkeley

Stanley Quiros
October 22, 2023
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews
That special mid-October heatwave hit Wednesday night, in time for Warmduscher’s first time playing in Berkeley. A warm evening for a band whose name means “warm showerer.”  I was excited to see the band...
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