Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews

November 6th, the night began at Leo's Music Club in San Francisco with two openers, Chad Salty and AViDD. The local producers possessed styles distinct from one another, yet both complementary to Giraffage...

Sunday night, patrons at The Regency Center were engaged in a ballroom dance soiree downstairs. It was a wonder those aristocrats waltzed along, oblivious to the tripped-out rock sabbatical above them. Upsta...

You may know Rhye from their critically-lauded album Woman (2013): upon release, its beautifully-crafted intimacy rendered any makeout playlist without at least one or two choice tracks instantly obsolete. To...

Foster the People held every single member of the audience in their grip on Saturday evening at the Fox Theater in Oakland. From opening song "Pseudologia Fantastica" to the closer "The Truth," everyone wa...

The LED lights might have spelled DANNIC at the beginning of the evening, but by the end, they really said "worship me." The Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, notorious for hosting a line ten years long, housed ...

The line dragged across the lawn at Civic Center Plaza to Polk and McAllister, a grab-bag mix of candy ravers, skate punks, mild metalheads, and Giants memorabilia -- yes, this last one, even a week after t...

On Saturday night, a British band whose last release graced the revolutionizing musical world in 1995 played the elegant Warfield in San Francisco, with just about every possible kind of person in attenda...

We're still reeling from the hypnosis that The Black Keys left us in. Monday night in Oakland, the duo demonstrated their incredible ability to stay true to their blues rock roots -- fittingly still turning th...

"Burger Kids," a term floating around the Southern California music scene as of late, refers to the youthful, cassette-wielding crowd that religiously follows Fullerton-based label Burger Records, which was fo...

On Monday night, South London’s Fat White Family took to Rickshaw Stop as they neared the end of their US tour. It was a night of orgasmic rock and enticing performances that left the crowd completely in...

Fond reminiscence and good vibes were all that the audience felt at Slim's this Sunday when Weezer played two different sets that spanned across their entire discography. Even before doors opened, fans had a ...

Kyle Thomas, aka King Tuff, visited Great American Music Hall last week with his power neo-garage pop (or what you will), bringing surf-pop sweetheart Katy Goodman as La Sera on his team. Not surprisingly...

The San Francisco Giants parade last Friday, coupled with Halloween, may have slowed the city down for the weekend, but that didn't stop fans from attending Flyleaf Saturday at Slim's. Early-bird fans were gr...

Broken Bells, in all their space-themed glory, hit the stage of The Masonic this week and played a fantastic end to their North American tour. Front and center was a metallic hemisphere that projected the f...

On October 23, San Francisco Symphony concertmaster Alexander Barantschik, Principal Second Violin Dan Carlson, and Principal Keyboard Robin Sutherland starred as soloists at the Davies Symphony Hall in a p...