Taking back stolen time with Odie Leigh Anoushka Ghosh July 20, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Country, folk, indie, LGBTQ+, music, San Francisco I arrived at Cafe du Nord in San Francisco accompanied by the jittery flutter of anxiety that whispered *you're going to miss Odie's set you're going to miss Odie's set you're going to miss Odie's set.* Howe...
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...
August Hall turned Pink Pony Club: Chappell Roan in San Francisco Sinead de Cleir March 19, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, LGBTQ+, Reviews, San Francisco 1 Comment Chappell Roan in her music video for "My Kink is Karma" “It's not fun. It's not hot. It's not interesting. It's boring.” These were the words that Chappell Roan used to describe her experien...
A Night Out With the San Francisco Ballet: The Colors of Dance Josh Jiwanmall March 17, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Music Composition, Opinion, Previews, Reviews, San Francisco Alright. Before I begin, I must preface that I am not an avid ballet or dance observer. However, in the San Francisco Ballet’s opening night performance of their newest show, The Colors of Dance, it honestly ...
Friends and Fauxes: Four Bands in One Night at Cornerstone Nico Chodor February 26, 2023 Berkeley, Columns and Opinions, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews, San Francisco Touring with The High Curbs along their west coast stint, King Shelter breathed OC air into the Cornerstone at Berkeley Tuesday night. “Berkeley, you’re an interesting place," declared lead singer Taylor He...
Masonic Boom: Peach Pit Rocks So Hard That Neil Hurts His Neck Nico Chodor December 6, 2022 Berkeley, Columns and Opinions, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, indie, indie scene, music, Reviews, San Francisco Before Thursday night at the Masonic in SF, the closest I had ever come to seeing Peach Pit live was the Tropicalia Festival in 2019. Their self-titled claim to fame “Peach Pit” garnered extreme views on Yo...
Addison Sartino ‘Pulled it Together,’ Creating a Memorable Show For Fans, Despite Illness, a Broken Trailer, and a New Drummer Cole Haddock and Eliza Scheer November 24, 2022 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, indie, Photos, San Francisco We walked into the police station, and the only other person there had a curly blonde mullet, blue vest, and septum. “Hey, were you just at the Greeting Committee concert?” The guy said yeah...
Love Lives in the Bay: Soft Blue Shimmer Debuts Their New Record at Neck of the Woods Nico Chodor November 22, 2022 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, indie, indie scene, indie-pop, music, Reviews, San Francisco “my dreams always seem concerned with your well-being…i can’t seem to shake…maybe one day we’ll learn to grow separately. maybe one day i’ll grow on my own. maybe one day this piece of you inside of...
One magic hour with Surf Curse at the Warfield Liv Bjorgum November 21, 2022 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos, Reviews, San Francisco “We’re not 18 anymore / But we’ve still got our habits / You’re the creature in my heart / And you’re about to devour it / ‘Cause I remember when” - Surf Curse, “Nostalgia,” Nothing Yet (2017)...
A trip to Beatopia Lucy Hanna November 21, 2022 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, indie-pop, San Francisco Stopping by The Regency Ballroom on Wednesday, November 16, I was lucky enough to be transported by 22-year-old artist beabadoobee to Beatopia (2022). More than just the name of her most recent record, Beatopia...
L.S. DUNES leave San Francisco begging for more at Bimbo’s 365 Club Emmanuelle Mphuthi November 20, 2022 Blog, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, music, Rock, San Francisco This Wednesday, the 13th of November, a friend and I navigated the tumultuous Bay Area public transport system to attend an L.S. Dunes concert in San Francisco. We’d purchased the tickets a few months earlier...