Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews

Impossibly tall, wavy hair in its distinctive bun, and bewilderedly shy as if he couldn't believe the throngs of screaming girls were waiting for him, Andrew Hozier-Byrne - known by his stage name Hozier�...

Tuesday night, the crowd was filled with an odd combination of professional forty-somethings and spry, ambitious twenty-somethings, but everyone had something special in common -- utter infatuation with a b...

Nestled in a grove of oak trees and a basin of snow white sandstone, the fourth installment of Lucidity Festival transported us to a magical temporary village, filled with loving individuals who embodied and ...

We're truly in the dark. Can I get a splash of light? Not all bands need to be dark, edgy, or gritty to put on a lively show. Belle and Sebastian demonstrated this on Sunday night at UC Berkeley's Greek T...

On Tuesday night at The Warfield in San Francisco, the room got dark and The Eagles were summoned, softly at first, then blasting thoroughly into the back row. After several openers including Earl Sweatshir...

On a warm, sunny Friday afternoon at UC Berkeley, the ASUC SUPERB-hosted event featuring Twin Peaks and their opener, Criminal Hygiene brought a rock-infused taste of summer to Upper Sproul. Although...

On Saturday, March 21, instrumental post-rock group This Will Destroy You performed at a sold-out Great American Music Hall, filling the venue with their loud, ambient sounds. The evening opened with s...

The list of people qualified to cover Elliott Smith's prolific discography is short. The honesty and blatant realism his songs drip with are not easily found among other artists, much less ones performing s...

These three words are the mantra of the San Diego-based Desert Hearts crew that celebrated their third anniversary this year. Fronted by world renowned DJs such as Mikey Lion and Lee Reynolds, this distinct...

Audiences at Cal Performances on Thursday, March 19 witnessed two seminal jazz composers, Herbie Hancock and Chick Corea, produce an experimental showcase testament to their illustrious and diverse careers as s...

Memorial Glade is often seen as the most serene part of an otherwise frenzied UC Berkeley campus, and Norwegian electro-funk duo Lemaitre's presence helped keep up this reputation. On a Saturday afternoo...

Photo Credit: Eliot Hazel On tour with Kongos and Colony House while promoting their debut album You Haunt Me (2014), Sir Sly stopped by The Fillmore last Tuesday to perform before a packed crowd. Initial...

Mikky Ekko's recorded voice may sound great, but it is nothing compared to the raw energy that seemed to rush out of him in a solid, forceful stream on stage, flooring every last listener at The Regency B...

On Friday night, or rather early Saturday morning, Freddie Gibbs, a formerly Indiana- now West Coast-based rapper, approached the stage at The New Parish in Oakland. Within the first two songs, we knew exac...

On March 5, Viet Cong performed at Rickshaw Stop with supporting group Freak Heat Waves. The unrelenting rhythms and grungy lyricism in Viet Cong's self-titled (2015) encourage the idea that their live pe...