You Just Had to Be There: San Francisco’s Fake and Gay Boiler Room Sravya Gadepalli May 3, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, LGBTQ+, Reviews Late this past Saturday night, April 29, Boiler Room hosted a sold-out event in collaboration with party-starters Fake and Gay in San Francisco at The Midway. With a sensational line-up of twenty three artist...
Maybe Love is Real: Mr. and Mrs. Tennis at the Fox Nico Chodor May 3, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos In tennis (the sport), love means zero. In Tennis (the band), that is hardly the case. Husband-and-wife duo Alaina and Patrick Riley have been spreading their love through music since 2010. They met as philosop...
Trashed and thrashed: Municipal Waste will fuck you up Lily Ramus and Tyler Harding May 2, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews Photo by Lily Ramus With finals season approaching, legions of stressed metalheads graduating sometime between 3 weeks from now and 40 years ago, descended upon the UC Theatre on Friday, April 28th. The cre...
A celebration of Asian culture: WeBRIDGE’s inaugural expo & festival Kamieko Goines April 27, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, International, K-pop, Reviews Asian culture and music filled the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Nevada as WeBRIDGE put on their inaugural 3-day expo and music festival the weekend of April 21-23. I was able to check out the expo, which greeted ...
Yaeji playfully smashes expectations “With a Hammer” at Fox Theater Kyle Garcia Takata April 26, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, dance, Oakland, Photos, Reviews After 3 years of delays and postponement, Yaeji finally took the stage at Fox Theater in Oakland to a full venue. The building excitement from the years of waiting filled the room with a feverous buzz. Everyone...
Phish phood phor thought: Don’t knock em’ till ya see em’ Lily Ramus April 20, 2023 Berkeley, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews, Rock 2 Comments “Shrooms, molly, ketamine, pre-rolls!” As soon as we stepped in line, the Phish experience was off to a raging start. After almost fifteen years, Phish returned to the Greek Theatre in Berkeley Califor...
A Night Out with Key Glock, TiaCorine, Kenny Muney, and Jay Fizzle Josh Jiwanmall April 15, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Previews, Reviews, San Francisco, Uncategorized Alright so I feel like I have to explain this concert through a different lens because I wouldn’t be able to effectively communicate the host of events that I went through Tuesday night. Key Glock performe...
Love and Rapture: A Cinderella Fairytale of A Night With the SF Ballet Dorothy Eck and Nico Chodor April 12, 2023 Columns and Opinions, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Opinion, Reviews, San Francisco The San Francisco Ballet’s production of Cinderella takes a modern twist on the classic fairytale, where in place of magic, mice, and wands that go bippity-bobbity-boop, there are Four Fates, colorful spirits...
Miya Folick bares her soul at the Fox Theater, Oakland Anoushka Ghosh April 8, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, indie, indie scene, indie-pop, LGBTQ+, Multimedia, music, Oakland, Photos I arrived just in time to hear the first strums of her acoustic guitar. I hurried to the front of the general admission floor and then I saw her in all her beauty, dressed in the coolest yellow corset top desig...
Kash’d Out leaves crowd in a daze with “Whiskey and Weed” Tour Kyle Garcia Takata April 5, 2023 Berkeley, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, music, Reviews The Whiskey and Weed Tour from Kash’d Out provided Cornerstone Berkeley with over three hours of uninterrupted satisfaction. Fans were delighted by the calm, cheerful mood provided by the band and their opene...
Alt-J’s Immersive Light and Sound at the Fox Theater Eliza Scheer April 2, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, indie scene, indie-pop, music, Oakland, Photos Alt-J performed an unforgettable show at their second of two consecutive shows at the Fox Theater in Oakland on March 24. The show was packed with audience members of all ages coming to hear their experimental ...
Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair for Natalie Mering: Weyes Blood Makes Hearts Aglow During Night 2 at the Regency Nico Chodor March 30, 2023 Berkeley, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos Weyes Blood put me under a spell Sunday night at the Regency Ballroom, and I still haven’t fully recovered. Draped in the white billowing fabric of gods and/or ghosts, she breezed onto the stage...
Stompin’ and Hollerin’: Joy Abounds at Birdtalker’s Cornerstone Show Anna Armstrong March 27, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Uncategorized (Note: This review is from November 2021. You can stream Birdtalker's latest EP 'Thunder' (2023) anywhere you listen to music.) If you are in a time in your life where you feel shrouded in darkness, allow Na...
SASAMI thinks that nature has feelings too!! Samantha Friedland March 24, 2023 Album Review, folk, indie, indie scene, LGBTQ+, music Take a large scoop of heavy metal, a teaspoon of electronic demon sounds, a dash of indie rock and folk music, blend it all together on the floor in a cabin in the woods, and you get the sophomore album, Squeez...
Regina Spektor stands alone, effortlessly Cammie Lambert March 24, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, indie-pop, music I arrived at Regina Spektor’s concert at the Warfield last Sunday, full of excitement and anticipation, spanning back to five months ago when it was announced that due to a bad case of Covid, she would have t...