Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews

The UC Theatre shook with exhilaration from experiencing over an hour of nonstop punk energy from Otoboke Beaver on International Women’s Day. With Accorinrin providing the main vocals, Yoyoyoshie on guitar, ...

  Chappell Roan in her music video for "My Kink is Karma" “It's not fun. It's not hot. It's not interesting. It's boring.”  These were the words that Chappell Roan used to describe her experien...

Photo by Lily Ramus A gloomy storm-tossed Tuesday is a miserable time to leave the house, but a perfect time for some occult doom metal. It was immediately apparent that this verdict reverberated across the...

Alright. Before I begin, I must preface that I am not an avid ballet or dance observer. However, in the San Francisco Ballet’s opening night performance of their newest show, The Colors of Dance, it honestly ...

Skegss came to the Fillmore in San Francisco last Wednesday night, stopping in the Bay Area on their tour of the United States. A line formed outside the venue before doors were opened, where fans waited in exc...

Touring with The High Curbs along their west coast stint, King Shelter breathed OC air into the Cornerstone at Berkeley Tuesday night. “Berkeley, you’re an interesting place," declared lead singer Taylor He...

“Mommy! Yes, mommy! I love you, mommy!!” the crowd cheers on. It’s pitch black out on a Saturday night, and the crowd is ecstatic to see everyone’s favorite mom perform live at the Fox Theater in Oaklan...

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith is an American composer, producer, and performer originally from Northwest Washington. The artist, who is currently based in Los Angeles, spent her former years at the Berklee college of m...

August Hall stood as a perfect anachronism, bringing different time periods and age groups together. Clashing decorations unapologetically revealed a timeless feel to the audience. The bar and upstairs areas ha...

Before Thursday night at the Masonic in SF, the closest I had ever come to seeing Peach Pit live was the Tropicalia Festival in 2019. Their self-titled claim to fame “Peach Pit” garnered extreme views on Yo...

The Lonesome Crowded West (1997) is considered by many to be one of the greatest indie albums of all time; last Wednesday, Modest Mouse came to the Fox Theater in Oakland to celebrate 25 years since its release...

In one of their final stops on the Horseshit on Route 66 tour The Garden gave their first of two nights at San Francisco’s Regency Ballroom on November 29th. Despite a notably lackluster energy from the band ...

In my six months of traveling, and after watching four seasons of Atlanta on FX, I’ve begun to feel more and more that life isn’t real, or at least parts of it. Music has helped me tremendously with homesic...

In April of 2020 I stumbled upon an artist who just released their debut studio album. That same artist would soon become one of my favorite artists of all time. Her name is Rina Sawayama. There are so many wor...

We walked into the police station, and the only other person there had a curly blonde mullet, blue vest, and septum.  “Hey, were you just at the Greeting Committee concert?” The guy said yeah...