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It’s easy to be unimpressed by pop stars. The media often approach them with intense cynicism. Pop stars are assumed to have limited musicianship and pop songs are referred to as “guilty pleasures” and en...

18 year-old Xiuhtezcatl (pronounced "shoe-tez-caht") Roske-Martinez from Denver, known mononymously as Xiuhtezcatl, is a climate reform activist and, now, hip-hop artist. His name translated from the Nahuatl la...

I have to confess, I was terrified the Dirty Projectors would put on a mediocre show filled with good moments. I had heard a couple tracks off their latest album, Lamp Lit Prose (2018), and was thoroughly unimp...

Despite the mushrooming of countless music festivals all over the US, Treasure Island Music Festival put on by Noise Pop and Another Planet Entertainment stirred up something special. This year’s festival...

On the biggest headlining tour of his life, Vancouver-based producer Nathan Shaw, better known as Ekali, delivered a stunning performance to a sold-out crowd at The Warfield. On the back of his recently release...

October 10th was the 10th stop for psychedelic rock/folk five-piece band, Kikagaku Moyo’s North America tour. All the way from Tokyo, the band lent the Wednesday night a gentle hand easing the transition to t...

Hardly Strictly Bluegrass – the annual free festival at Golden Gate park with numerous artists who tip toe in, out, and around bluegrass. From Friday through Sunday, the park sets up five separate stages, eac...

Noah Cyrus, claim to fame holding a decent amount of genetic material to older sister Miley Cyrus, and Lil Xan, whose claim to fame is creating a smear campaign against all benzos in a similar way Taylor Sw...

Jason Isbell challenges what it means to be a country singer. In fact, he doesn’t even consider himself a country singer, and most people would probably agree once they’ve heard his brutally honest lyrics a...

“This place looks poppin’!” our Uber driver announced as she pulled up to a sketchy pool hall that was blasting Latin music and flashing disco lights from within. After checking the place out a bit, we ca...

The Chapel was graced by the presence of Bruno Major and his live band last Tuesday, February 20th as a part of Noise Pop Festival 2018.  Performing for a sold-out crowd, this is Major's first North American t...

I'm two hours early. At an average show, there would be a few thin lines of people against the barricade, the die hard fans that probably waited outside of the venue for most of the day. The rest of the fan bas...

A weekly Wednesday night event in a seedy pocket of East Los Angeles, Low End Theory has always been cooler than it should have been: with better-than-thou fashionable attendees despite its un-instagrammable ae...

Bay area-based band The Seshen has always been hard to pin down. Falling somewhere between dub, R&B, electronica, and synth-pop, their music lies outside of all genre expectations. Groovy without a doubt, t...

Bay area-based R&B group The Seshen is set to grace the Cornerstone stage in Berkeley this Friday. Opening will be LoCura, Space Captain, and DJ Dream Queen. Characterized by Akiyoshi Ehara’s synthy-di...