Rock

I was in my friend's car stumbling along the landscape when “93 ‘til Infinity" by Souls of Mischief trinkled out of the speakers and changed the way that I think about hip hop. Thirty years after its initia...

San Francisco’s glitter-faced, mini-skirted, tailor-made crowd is alive and well, and the place to find them is in the Castro, clad in cheeky Beatles buttons and stomping through neon-lit basements in velvet ...

The musical group (Crosses) is rightfully named, because Tuesday night’s show was a religious experience. It felt like the stars aligned perfectly for me to be there—the last time they to...

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...

“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, ...

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...

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 ...

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...

Psyched! Fest - San Francisco's Independent Festival of Arts, Music, Diversity & Counterculture - opened Wednesday, October 25th at Rickshaw Stop. Brought to you by Psyched! Radio, the multiracial nonprofit...

Working as a stagehand at a music venue, you see enough middle-aged men whose bands you’ve never heard of strut across a stage. Thus, attending the Breeders’ 30th anniversary tour of their 1993 album Last S...

Twelve years after their last album release, alternative indie rock trio Blonde Redhead showcased their most recent work, Sit Down For Dinner (2023), in San Francisco this Monday night. Made to wait for over fi...

I distinctly remember the first time I discovered Polyphia. I was stuck at home during the COVID-19 lockdown, mindlessly scrolling the internet in search of anything that would fill the copious amount of time I...

Commercial rock and roll has always been a boys’ club. From the success of songs that glamorized abuse and the gross fetishization of women, such as the Rolling Stones’ “Brown Sugar” or the Beatles’ �...

Los Cogelones combined brotherhood and Aztec punk Sunday night at Kilowatt Bar, on the heels of what Psyched! Radio SF deems three pillars of this new San Francisco scene: Thank You Come Again, Buzzed Lightbeer...

“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...