Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews

On the back of recent sophomore album Underflow, UK alt-rock duo Drenge performed at Leo's on Sunday night with support from Stalls and The New Regime. The New Regime (Ilan Rubin) was able to get the audience c...

Sufjan Stevens’s latest record, Carrie and Lowell (2015), a devastatingly beautiful tribute to his late mother, forgoes Stevens's usual ornate orchestration in favor of stripped-back acoustics. Each song is...

M.C. Schmidt posed an important question last Sunday during a live Song Exploder event at the fourth annual Megapolis Audio Festival. Schmidt, one half of formerly-local-now-Baltimore-based experimental mus...

Late evening. The Fox Oakland was full of its usual audience -- noncommittal Bay Area music-goers loitering in and around the theater while an opener occupies the stage. This Thursday evening, it was a quiet...

Dan Vidmar, or Shy Girls as he's better known, seemed a little roadworn when we spoke to him backstage last Friday, but he didn’t show it in his performance two hours later at Rickshaw Stop’s weekly POP...

With its quiet suburbs, swarms of bicycles, and (of course) cow population -- Davis may seem like an unlikely place to host one of electronic music's rising stars. However, thanks to the ASUCD Entertainment...

On Monday night, New York songstress Lana Del Rey delivered a tempestuous performance at LA's Hollywood Bowl that kept a flower-crowned, Coachella-withdrawn audience exhilarated. Or, to say the least, her...

Sunday was an afternoon marked by carefree, dancing crowd members decked in tie-dye; bluegrass, folky funk, and psychedelic guitar opening bands; competing lines for vegan burger and juice bar food trucks; ...

Scottish post-punk legendaries The Jesus and Mary Chain recently celebrated the 30th anniversary of their 1985 debut album Psychocandy with a string of tour dates throughout the UK and US. To end their US...

Born in Sweden after his family fled Argentina in 1976, José González is easy to pick out from the legions of folk singers reviving the genre in recent decades. His musical past in a hardcore punk band se...

Who knew, right? Listening through Kodaline's albums, I'd expected an offbeat Irish indie rock band, but upon entering The Fillmore, I instead found scores of high school girls pressed against the stage, s...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHMcrfXxlDM Los Angeles-native Henry Laufer, better known as Shlohmo, performed at The Fillmore last Thursday, returning to the West Coast in the final leg of his tour for rec...

April 13 UK quartet Clean Bandit played at San Francisco's Regency Ballroom, bringing a club night vibe and unreal energy to the venue despite coming straight from a wild set at Coachella. Having interviewe...

In the midst of their North American Tour and between Coachella weekends, Alt-J made a return to the Bay Area last week with a set of two shows at the Greek Theatre. With support from fellow Brits, Jungle, and ...

Friday April 10 at the Fox Theater in Oakland, Stromae poured out his raw, gutsy artistic soul in a performance which did not simply delight the audience like one of those cozy, subtly-drunken summer days. N...