Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews

Editor’s note: It’s Spring Break at Cal, and we’re honoring this week’s heed to unwind by posting our music news with a touch of personality. Welcome to Blog Week. After falling 36 feet from a scaffol...

There are nights when the openers are openers; there are nights when the openers steal the show. Tuesday night’s stacked lineup at Rickshaw Stop could’ve gone either way. During local one-man act Yalls, we...

Yesterday night, San Franciscans could simultaneously go out and feel at home, hugged by the fuzzy timbre of layered keys and sweet falsetto. Milagres waxed and waned on The Brick & Mortar stage, opening fo...

It was a long march. Like pilgrims, we spectators took slow steps down the street to our destination: Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in SF. The line circled the block for Tool. Inside, metal heads of every col...

Two weeks ago and amid a touring break, indie rock band The Kooks surprised fans with the announcement of a concert at The Great American Music Hall in San Francisco. Unsurprisingly, the show sold out. On Sun...

Four Tet at Mezzanine in San Francisco Four Tet, the moniker of electronic artist Kieran Hebden, delivered a hypnotic, sample-based performance at the Mezzanine in San Francisco Saturday night, mixing element...

Promoting their new album, BADILLAC, LA garage punkers together PANGEA headlined at the Bottom of the Hill on Wednesday night, playing for a packed house of fans who belted lyrics and orchestrated stage dives ...

The Weekend Menu Every Thursday The B-Side serves you The Weekend Menu. We’ll tap select Bay Area shows we’re definitely going to and hope to catch you at. Follow @berkeleybside on Instagram and Twitter an...

photo credit: Dominio Faris Gilbert Attending a concert solo elicits a spectrum of emotions, from self-determination to utter solitude. At the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco on Monday night, those ...

On Sunday night, Noise Pop came to a close with its five final installments. But if the festival had ended with Saturday's Dr. Dog show at The Warfield, we would’ve been just fine; their explosive performanc...

Digital Mystikz A night doused with precipitation and subsonic frequencies arrived at 1015 Folsom in San Francisco this Thursday, where footwork and dubstep duo DJ Rashad and Digital Mystikz (UK producers Mal...

Cibo Matto Sporadic showers and behind-schedule buses didn’t stop dedicated Cibo Matto fans, many of whom have been devotedly following them since the late-90’s, from flocking to Slim’s on Wednesday to ...

Last week, Night Riots brought their first headlining tour of the year to Bottom of The Hill in San Francisco, with support from The Epilogues, Ghost Parade, and Kiven. Night Riots have come a long way from hum...

Noise Pop 2014 Going on 22 years strong, Noise Pop will again unpack its annual festival around San Francisco this week, and everyone from hometown indie hero Mark Kozelek to Michigan up-and-comers Lord Huron ...

Every Thursday The B-Side serves you The Weekend Menu. We'll tap select Bay Area shows we're definitely going to and hope to catch you at. Follow @berkeleybside on Instagram and Twitter and send us the best sn...