Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

It was a cool Saturday evening when my friend Sabrina showed up to my apartment, white face paint and black eyeliner in hand. We excitedly applied the white base, our eyes flickering between the mirrors in the ...

The shoegaze renaissance is upon us and we can thank Slowdive for that. Shoegaze is a genre of music popularized in the 1980s and 90s and is characterized by its use of distortion, guitar pedals and muddied...

Ryan Albert during Babehoven set Emotions were high. Tears were shed. It was an incredible night in San Francisco, where Slow Pulp graced us with their presence for the first time at The Chapel since openin...

Twelve years after their last album release, alternative indie rock trio Blonde Redhead showcased their most recent work, Sit Down For Dinner (2023), in San Francisco this Monday night. Made to wait for over fi...

Kuromy Teaches Us When To Spit On People Kuromy is a garage punk band from Los Angeles, consisting of guitarist-vocalist Sophia, bassist-vocalist Beef (Grace), and drummer Lani. If you’ve been attending loca...

I distinctly remember the first time I discovered Polyphia. I was stuck at home during the COVID-19 lockdown, mindlessly scrolling the internet in search of anything that would fill the copious amount of time I...

On March 25, 2023, I got the opportunity to witness the blooming and time-suspending band called ALO at the famous Fillmore in San Francisco. ALO, standing for Animal Liberation Orchestra is a rock jam-band clo...

One day during the Outside Lands music festival in August of 2022, my dad and I were walking around with little of a plan. The artists we were interested in seeing were all playing later in the day, so we found...