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Springtime Carnivore, Generationals feed off crowd enthusiasm, generate joy

Arnav Chaturvedi
November 18, 2014
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews
Term it a team effort. A positive feedback loop. Cosmic alignment. There are always those moments. As The Chapel's signature double umbrella of w...

Gardens & Villa to bring lush fuzz and glitter to SF this weekend

Joanna Jiang
November 17, 2014
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews
Even the most investigative sound junkie will know that worthwhile music arrives from all avenues. We first stumbled across Gardens & Villa's ...

Flatbush Zombies discuss collaborations, 2015 plans, the future

Atreyue Ryken
November 16, 2014
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Interview, Photos
Flatbush Zombies will be the first to tell you that they haven’t got their big break yet. But they still know how to party. On Tuesday, November ...

TICKET GIVEAWAY: TOKiMONSTA at The Regency Ballroom

Edfil Dulay
November 15, 2014
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, Contests, News
Jennifer Lee, better known by her stage name TOKiMONSTA, is best known for her unrelenting ingenuity in the DJ scene. The Korean-born and LA-rais...

Gallery: Giraffage gets personal at local Bay Area takeover

Peter Phan
November 15, 2014
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos
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November 6th, the night began at Leo's Music Club in San Francisco with two openers, Chad Salty and AViDD. The local producers possessed styles di...
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Julian Casablancas+The Voidz take San Francisco by storm, recreate debut album live

Jade Theriault
November 15, 2014
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews
Sunday night, patrons at The Regency Center were engaged in a ballroom dance soiree downstairs. It was a wonder those aristocrats waltzed along, obliv...

Rhye mesmerize the Fox, “Open” up about musical identity and transitioning

Logan Hansen and Joanna Jiang
November 14, 2014
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Interview
You may know Rhye from their critically-lauded album Woman (2013): upon release, its beautifully-crafted intimacy rendered any makeout playlist witho...

Delicate Steve to play the Fox, Steve Marion talks about touring and sandwiches

Penelope Leggett
November 14, 2014
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Embodying a sound both foreign and familiar, nostalgic and futuristic, Delicate Steve's music is like running through a field saturated in Techni...

Fox Theater concert-goers embrace Foster The People’s newest sound Saturday night

Luke Sheard
November 13, 2014
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Foster the People held every single member of the audience in their grip on Saturday evening at the Fox Theater in Oakland. From opening song "Ps...

The Weekend Menu, Volume 29

Atreyue Ryken
November 13, 2014
The Weekend Menu
Each week, The B-Side serves you The Weekend Menu. We’ve tapped the Bay Area shows we’re definitely going to and hoping to catch you at. Follow @b...

DJ Hardwell proves superior at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium Friday

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November 11, 2014
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos
The LED lights might have spelled DANNIC at the beginning of the evening, but by the end, they really said "worship me." The Bill Graham Civic Audi...

Bassnectar closes tour in San Francisco with noise, beauty

Joanna Jiang
November 11, 2014
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews
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The line dragged across the lawn at Civic Center Plaza to Polk and McAllister, a grab-bag mix of candy ravers, skate punks, mild metalheads, and G...

Springtime Carnivore to play The Chapel with debut album

Arnav Chaturvedi
November 10, 2014
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Springtime Carnivore released their debut album Springtime Carnivore on November 4th earlier this week via Autumn Tone Records. The all-female t...

Generationals remain a youthful contagion over the years, will infect San Francisco on Thursday

Joanna Jiang
November 10, 2014
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, News
Once upon a time, Generationals wrote music they would listen to themselves. If this is still the case, first: they have excellent taste; and seco...

We came, we saw, we Slowdive-d: band shines on reunion tour

Darius Kay
November 10, 2014
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews
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On Saturday night, a British band whose last release graced the revolutionizing musical world in 1995 played the elegant Warfield in San Francis...
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