Reviews

The War on Drugs' latest album Lost In The Dream While the real war on drugs is raging outside, Pennsylvania-based experimental indie group The War on Drugs is grappling with an internal subconscious on the...

Ledisi returns to spread the The Truth, which celebrates love and the reclaiming of the self. Ledisi Born in New Orleans, artist Ledisi’s musical talents effloresced with her when she moved to Oakland. Fr...

photo by Gregoire Alexandre Capitalizing on the modern revival of the British Invasion, Metronomy has synthesized a haunting electropop gem in Love Letters. The group's fourth installment is rooted in drum m...

Two weeks ago and amid a touring break, indie rock band The Kooks surprised fans with the announcement of a concert at The Great American Music Hall in San Francisco. Unsurprisingly, the show sold out. On Sun...

Four Tet at Mezzanine in San Francisco Four Tet, the moniker of electronic artist Kieran Hebden, delivered a hypnotic, sample-based performance at the Mezzanine in San Francisco Saturday night, mixing element...

Scott Mescudi as Kid Cudi has been pushing boundaries since the launch of his six-year Man on the Moon series, but with last week’s surprise 10-track album, the Cleveland astro-rapper has reached a new altit...

photo by Reuben Wu Tycho is driving music. The swirling, forward-moving, polyphonic symphonies on his latest album, Awake, couple with the static horizon of the Mojave desert in the distance, the boulders and...

Promoting their new album, BADILLAC, LA garage punkers together PANGEA headlined at the Bottom of the Hill on Wednesday night, playing for a packed house of fans who belted lyrics and orchestrated stage dives ...

The Weekend Menu Every Thursday The B-Side serves you The Weekend Menu. We’ll tap select Bay Area shows we’re definitely going to and hope to catch you at. Follow @berkeleybside on Instagram and Twitter an...

Max Cooper has a Ph.D., a real affinity for Twitter, and a critically acclaimed music career that seemed to come out of nowhere. The UK producer showcased his raw, but expert chops with an electrifying perfo...

photo credit: Dominio Faris Gilbert Attending a concert solo elicits a spectrum of emotions, from self-determination to utter solitude. At the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco on Monday night, those ...

The ability to construct timeless recollections is perhaps the closest portal we have to fourth-dimensional travel. Summers at the local pool, polaroid photographs, zebra printed slap bracelets, and the aroma...

Natural Child's Dancin' With Wolves Nashville-based band Natural Child shows some serious growth with their latest release, Dancin’ With Wolves. The new album sees the typically gritty blues rockers explori...

On Sunday night, Noise Pop came to a close with its five final installments. But if the festival had ended with Saturday's Dr. Dog show at The Warfield, we would’ve been just fine; their explosive performanc...

Early reports that Beck’s new album Morning Phase would be a sequel to 2002’s melancholy classic Sea Change sent many fans of sad Beck into a state of delirious excitement. “Blue Moon,” the single rele...