Ty Segall ends Noise Pop and Fox Theater’s speakers Ally Mason and Fiona Duerr March 3, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews Who better to close out Noise Pop’s 25th year than Ty Segall? The former staple of the Bay Area music community delivered an explosive and dynamic end to the ten day festival that makes a point to highlight l...
Shannon and the Clams’ rockabilly revival at the Fox Abby Blaine March 3, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews Courtesy of Harry Leath Sandwiched between White Fence, the psychedelic rock group with a gangly frontman in white face paint, and Ty Segall, the prolific poster boy for modern California garage rock, Oakla...
Nav stays ten toes down Edrees Fazel March 1, 2017 Album Review, Reviews Nav has been a darling of hip-hop forums and blogs for a while now, but is a relative newcomer to the charts. The "first brown boy to get it poppin'” ("Some Way," NAV) drew a crowd, and after murmu...
Bringing back the ’60s with Temples Arnav Chaturvedi March 1, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews Courtesy of Ed Miles The four-piece British rock group Temples began their tour across the western US at The Chapel in San Francisco this week. The band is touring not only in support of the release of th...
BADBADNOTGOOD makes SF move with dynamic performance at The Fillmore Dylan Medlock February 28, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews While opener London O’Connor’s Casio beats and playfully simple melodies were nostalgic and innocently satisfying, and follow-up act rapper Hodgy (of Odd Future fame) gave an engaging and commanding perform...
FUTURE by Future sounds like a Future album Adil Siddiqee February 23, 2017 Album Review, Columns and Opinions, Reviews It swims like a Future album, quacks like a Future album, and slaps like a Future album. FUTURE is a Future album. So it goes. The Atlanta trap lord has nothing to prove to his masses, and has no desire to s...
Interview with pop soul’s Valentine, Kevin Garrett Kavitha George February 20, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Interview Kevin Garrett is an authentic young/old soul, incredibly talented, and a little bit of a dork. His music (just two EPs so far) is a modern iteration of Sam Cooke, Robert Johnson-era soul beats and vocal dexte...
Migos warm hearts at sold-out show at The Warfield Eda Yu February 17, 2017 Album Review, Reviews The Warfield buzzed with an alacrity rarely seen so late during a Tuesday night on Market Street, February 14. It was Valentine’s Day, but few people seemed to pay that any mind as groups of people hoarded ou...
Michael Lanza’s “Touch” – a Bay debut George Green February 16, 2017 Album Review, Columns and Opinions, Interview, News, Reviews, Uncategorized Courtesy of Michael Lanza Courtesy of Michael Lanza Since the age of three, Michael Lanza has been playing the violin classically; since age 12, he has been playing the saxophone; since age 14, the guit...
Teen Daze awakens from utopic dreams on ‘Themes,’ to play NP25 at Hemlock Tavern Joanna Jiang February 16, 2017 Album Review, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews Sometime in the last couple of years, British Columbia’s Teen Daze (Jamison) disclosed his last name (Isaak) and relocated to Abbotsford, a quieter part of the Fraser Valley he’s called home the entire time...
The Revivalists bring New Orleans to life at the Fillmore Brendan Redmond February 13, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews Walking up the stairs of a historic venue, it’s surreal realizing how many famous artists have walked the same steps. The walls of the Fillmore in San Francisco are lined with action shots of music’s most p...
Sofar Sounds: Secret shows in unexpected places Eda Yu February 10, 2017 Blog, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews Just off Telegraph Avenue, across from the perennially busy Whole Foods that dominates the Berkeley area, sits Savvy Rest Natural Bedroom, a worker-run, eco-friendly mattress store. Late on a Thursday night, a ...
Surfer Blood holds mass at The Chapel Ally Mason February 9, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Multimedia, Photos, Reviews Surfer Blood is on tour fresh off the release of their new album Snowdonia (2017). They stopped by The Chapel in San Francisco Tuesday night, drawing the largest crowd I've seen at the venue since Real Esta...
Run the Jewels storm Oakland Arnav Chaturvedi February 8, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews The destructive East Coast duo of Killer Mike and El P shook the Fox Theater in Oakland last Friday (2-3-17), to mark the halfway point of their “Run the World” tour. Run the Jewels is touring to usher ...
Will Wiesenfeld is a big-haired beach boy in new Geotic video Matt Sater February 7, 2017 News, Reviews, Videos Will Wiesenfeld has a bonkers sense of humor, but it's never been all that evident in his music. Under the moniker Baths, Wiesenfeld's songs have tended towards masochism and darkness far more than they...