Reviews

Photo by Jamie Chew Macaulay Culkin and his New York clique brought the Pizza Underground (yup, it's still a thing) to The Uptown in Oakland Friday night, and the four-piece, Moldy Peaches alum Toby Goodshank...

It's festival season! Coachella just ended, and Outside lands looks to be sold out, but your next best summer festival is just a trip to Monterey away. The 5th Annual California Roots Festival is heating up fo...

Melbourne’s Strange Talk are the luckiest strikers around, having survived both a label shift and a name change. Prior to gaining recognition from Australia’s Triple J (a radio station that spotlights emer...

Florida-based indie rockers Surfer Blood made their Oakland debut last Friday at The New Parish, taking a quick break between their two Coachella performances to get a taste of the East Bay. French Cassettes...

In a monolith to our generation and all of its quirks, the celestial bodies aligned at the Regency Ballroom this weekend for the two-day Bicycle Day spectacle featuring the artwork of Alex and Allyson Grey. ...

DWNTWN sounds like a fairly ordinary indie pop four-piece. A good indie pop four-piece, though; one that has two EPs under their belt and the Kitsune stamp of approval. The band's formation in 2010 after a bot...

Due out on April 22nd, Neon Trees’s third album, appropriately titled Pop Psychology, is the pre-summer album that will convince you that lead singer Tyler Glenn knows exactly what is going on in that hormon...

Since the breakout of his irresistible, soulful cover of Blackstreet’s “No Diggity” and debut EP Thinking in Textures, Nick Murphy under the moniker Chet Faker found himself riding a viral tide of succes...

“Welcome to the Shaking the Habitual Tour!" cheered The Knife’s opening hype man at the Fox Theater Wednesday night. "I’m here to warm you up!” He bounced onstage to face a full house of plaid shirts,...

“We have one more song,” Mogwai's bassist Dominic Aitchison lied before his band played four more tracks -- three of which were in an encore. “But first, I have a question. Are a lot of you wasted?” ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T99JYIq0Xtk With a new Record Store Day release to come out this Saturday, Surfer Blood are taking over the Bay Area between their two Coachella shows. The Florida-based alterna...

After playing the Oakland Metro Opera House with Hop Along, Waxahatchee played a second East Bay show on Upper Sproul as part of SUPERB's Spring 2014 concert series. Berkeley locals, The New Tenants, opened th...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3SqUUoJjW8 Yesterday, Lana Del Rey premiered her new single “West Coast”, an exquisite, slow-tempo counterpart of “Summertime Sadness.” After surprising Coachella fans ...

Dubbed Britain’s best new band by former Oasis’ member Noel Gallagher and set to perform at the Great American Music Hall on April 14th, Kettering-based Temples has us feeling nostalgic. Perhaps nostalgic ...

A mild Wednesday evening ripened into a crisp, mellow night as The UC Jazz Ensembles delivered a swinging performance at Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse. In their casually confident style, the combos and the...