Reviews

The first time I heard the Black Pumas was when their song “Colors”  popped up on my Spotify Discover Weekly. Since then, it’s become an absolute star on my playlists, with its building chorus and messag...

On November 25th, Parliament Funkadelic featuring George Clinton stopped by the Fox Theater on their “Just for the Funk of It” tour, celebrating over 50 years of intergenerational, genre-bending music. Ecle...

“One, two…,” counts Paul McCartney, but he is not about to launch into a rollicking, “Well, she was just seventeen! You know what I mean!” This McCartney count-in is more methodical, of lower timbre, ...

When looking back at my frantically scratched notes in a pocket-sized address book I had brought to the 7pm celebration of Irene Young at the Freight & Salvage on November 19, one sentiment stands out in pa...

Again and again Gao Hu, lead singer of Miserable Faith (痛仰乐队), addressed the crowd: “Do not stop my music (不要停止我的音乐)”. “不要停止我的音乐,” I silently repeated. After shoo...

Friday night at the Chase Center mounted a glorious celebration of Ms. Lauryn Hill’s seminal debut album, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (1998), commemorating its 25th anniversary with the reunion of Lauryn ...

The electrically honest debut album titled Absolutely (2021) moves in mysterious ways and pulsates with such raw emotion that it feels like the music is bursting free from Dijon’s safekept psyche. With th...

“Please no more therapy, mother take care of me.” This was the original plea that snapped my head around and had me scrambling to shuffle Shawn Colvin’s entire discography. From those first strains of ...

Last weekend, right on the heels of San Francisco’s multi-day, multi-venue Psyched! Fest, we crossed state lines for a Pacific Northwestern analogue: Freakout Fest in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle. The ...

When did I start dreaming? Definitely not the day that I met Faye Webster, but that would’ve been so cool for this article. Singer Maye opened the stage for Webster. While I did not feel like her vibe fit ...

With a line wrapped around the block and then some, LA local eaJ’s presence was deep-set in San Francisco Sunday night. August Hall was sold out for the first stop on the In Insomnia tour, the artist's first ...

On March 10th, 2020, Palehound played at Cafe du Nord in San Francisco for their headline tour with Adult Mom. The next day, the COVID-19 pandemic was declared and their tour was canceled. For Palehound, this m...

Metalheads are no strangers to the concept of giving up sleep in order to see their favorite bands live. However, there is something beautiful about a concert on a Saturday night. Everyone is able to let go of ...

I still remember the first time I encountered Stephen Sanchez. I was scrolling through TikTok and a video with Sanchez in a hospital room waiting for his doctor came up on my feed captioned: “POV: You’ve be...

You can’t live in this house anymore. There’s more mold than grout between your bathroom tiles. The foundations are rotting and slowly sinking into the earth. You asked your landlord to do something about i...