Patti Smith’s tribute to generations of musical icons at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2024 Annie Wynner October 12, 2024 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, prog-rock, Punk, Reviews, Rock, San Francisco, women in music San Francisco boasted a striking 97 degrees on Sunday, the last day of the annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival and the warmest October 6th the city had ever seen. Despite the excessive heat, the streets s...
Get ready to go HARD with Mochakk, Jyoty, and Channel Tres Natasha Thussu Dhar July 26, 2024 dance, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, dj, EDM, women in music Are you ready to go HARD next weekend? Taking place this year on Aug 3rd and 4th at Hollywood Park in Los Angeles, HARD Summer Music Festival dishes a summer refreshment of EDM with hot new DJs and producer leg...
BRAT: a shiny, lime green breakdown Gwen Tam July 23, 2024 Pop, Album Review, Reviews, women in music 1 Comment “Who the fuck are you? I'm a brat when I'm bumpin' that.” This summer has been colored lime green and it’s all Charli xcx’s fault. Charli xcx’s latest album BRAT (2024) has taken over the pop mu...
Governors Ball: NYC’s unofficial start to summer splashes away expectations with SZA, 21 Savage, and Post Malone Natasha Thussu Dhar June 24, 2024 music, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Local, Photos, Pop, R&B, Rap, Reviews, women in music 1 Comment What would a summer in NYC be without a music festival luring in audiences from all across the Tri-State area? The sun could not shine as bright around here without Gov Ball each year! As a local growing up ...
DoLab’s Lightning in a Bottle fosters community, art, immersive experiences, and wellbeing for attendees Eliza Scheer June 1, 2024 Uncategorized, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, dance, Disclosure, EDM, Hyperpop, Mixtapes, Multimedia, music, Photos, Reviews, women in music Last week, I attended DoLab’s Lightning in a Bottle (LIB) festival. The festival was located at Buena Vista Lake, California and spanned a whole five days from May 22-27, 2024. Dubbed “mini-Burning Man,” ...
Only in Your Wet Dreams: A Double Feature on Snow Wife & Wet Leg Jenai Johns-Peterson April 17, 2024 dance, EDM, indie scene, Indie-Rock, LGBTQ+, Pop, Reviews, women in music Skydiving off of a building. Skinny dipping with your best friend. Committing arson in the dead of night. Have you done any of these actions that I cannot legally condone? No? Well, neither have I. This, howeve...
Love like religion: A Dollface album review Katie Hulse March 18, 2024 Creative Writing, Album Preview, Album Review, Columns and Opinions, folk, indie, indie scene, indie-pop, music, Music Composition, Opinion, Pop, Reviews, women in music, women's music Hana Bryanne released her debut album titled Dollface on September 15, 2023, at twenty years old. It was written entirely by Bryanne and produced by Carter Jahn and Maxwell Bienert. Its namesake deriv...
“Stuffed and Ready” for Cherry Glazerr Heidy Barrera March 18, 2024 indie, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, Rock, women in music How long can you hold onto your teenage angst? More specifically, how long can you hold onto the image of being a teenage angst band? If you’re looking for a quintessential rock sound, Cherry Glazerr is th...
A therapy session with Lexi Jayde Kamieko Goines November 3, 2022 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews, women in music I discovered Lexi Jayde through her single “Oldest Teenager” when it popped up on my Discover Weekly just over 2 years ago. I remember immediately saving the song — it was catchy, and since it came out du...
Serotonin with Girl in Red Layla Mahmoud April 19, 2022 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, women in music It’s with electric guitars and flashing red lights that Girl in Red opened her sold-out concert in San Francisco on the 11th of April. At the Regency Ballroom, in front of a crowd of mostly young women, s...
After darkness comes light: an interview with Sh8peshifter Erika Badalyan November 25, 2019 Interview, women in music Rare is the quality of an artist who so purely and cohesively inhabits the persona they have created for themselves. Sh8peshifter is the artistic project of Zakiya Harris, a California native who has worn ma...
Behind the scenes: women and music management Alice Markman October 1, 2019 Columns and Opinions, women in management, women in music When Paloma Macias walks into a room, she is hard to miss. She struts in, clad in a faux fur coat and bright pink hair as if straight out of a Doors song. She’ll introduce herself as if she’s famous, and li...
Women in Music takeover the Bay Area Eda Yu April 14, 2017 Blog, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews, women in music Last Thursday evening, the Pandora headquarters buzzed with a warm, excited energy despite the torrential downpour outside. A DJ in the back corner of the meeting room played chill, mellowed-out beats as people...