Reviews

In harmony with his usual tendencies, Jack White has electrified us with a bolt of lightning in the raucous  “High Ball Stepper” off upcoming album Lazaretto. Housing many dissonant shifts and explosions...

Spring is here, the sun is out, and love is in the air, but Florida's Matt Hires is too familiar with the charming games that arise with spring romance. Hires is a heartache machine and "all knows is to br...

It's a Sunday night and they’re thirty minutes behind schedule. Christopher Heinz walked straight from the bar to his seat behind the drum kit, and Walking Shapes took off, running headlong into “Whoa Tig...

Representing the East Bay at SFSU, Berkeley’s own Art Nikels lulled The Depot into an experimental indie reverie of alternating beats and chordal melodies. Within their dynamic six-song set, the five-piece...

  While the immediate catchiness of Mac DeMarco’s first two albums gained him a well-deserved following, the 23-year-old tries to escape his shadow and earn a slightly more serious reputation as a song...

Yesterday, The War on Drugs played The Independent for the first of two sold-out San Francisco shows. The Philadelphia-based band has been touring for the past few weeks promoting their new album, Lost in Th...

Indie contortionists Walking Shapes traverse a variety of genres on their sophomore effort, Taka Come On. It’ll be their debut album, however, as the band’s prior release was a 13-track mixtape. They wan...

Raising their slightly less-than-traditional Dixie flag, Atlanta’s alt-rock group Manchester Orchestra comes out with guns blazing on their latest, Cope. Full of viscous guitars, distortion, and head-bangi...

Thievery Corporation gives universal meaning to saudade, an exclusively Portuguese word, in their newest album. Thievery Corporation's Saudade Since the mid-90s, Thievery Corporation, a D.C.-based duo consis...

Editor’s note: It’s Spring Break at Cal, and we’re honoring this week’s heed to unwind by posting our music news with a touch of personality. Welcome to Blog Week. After falling 36 feet from a scaffol...

There are nights when the openers are openers; there are nights when the openers steal the show. Tuesday night’s stacked lineup at Rickshaw Stop could’ve gone either way. During local one-man act Yalls, we...

Seahaven If there’s one thing about the new Seahaven record that cannot be stressed enough, it’s that listeners should leave all expectations at the door. As for weathered Seahaven fans, a change of pace ...

Yesterday night, San Franciscans could simultaneously go out and feel at home, hugged by the fuzzy timbre of layered keys and sweet falsetto. Milagres waxed and waned on The Brick & Mortar stage, opening fo...

It was a long march. Like pilgrims, we spectators took slow steps down the street to our destination: Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in SF. The line circled the block for Tool. Inside, metal heads of every col...

Shit Robot Irish producer Marcus Lambkin, aka Shit Robot, creates club dance tracks with late twentieth-century throwback sounds. His nostalgic style fits perfectly with the aesthetic cultivated by his label, ...