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 c...
An audience’s view of Haley Heynderickx Gianna Caudillo October 12, 2024 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Country, indie, San Francisco Haley Heynderickx is always up. Her speaking voice curls up at the corners, lilting and genuine, like peeling wallpaper about to reveal something grea...
Reflecting on Sidney Gish’s “No Dogs Allowed” as an anxious and awkward 20-year-old Irem Kurtdemir October 11, 2024 Creative Writing, Album Review Your morning begins with a day-old cup of coffee. The bitter taste of hardwood and ruthlessly closed doors. You scrub the floorboards of your mind, tr...
Sleater-Kinney: Navigating a “Modern Girl” sound with 30-year punk roots Peri Zoe Yildirim-Stanley October 10, 2024 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Indie-Rock, Punk, Rock, San Francisco My experience on Friday, October 4th, Day 1 of San Francisco’s annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival starts with a harrowing journey, full of ...
Space Jam: Bay Area band night hosted by Berkeley B-Side & friends Marcella Welter October 4, 2024 From The Archives, Berkeley, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Local, Reviews Editor's Note: This piece comes from our concert review archives. This event originally took place August 29, 2024. On the night of SDoC (Second Da...
Ticket for one! Why you should go to a concert alone Bailey Schroerlucke October 1, 2024 Columns and Opinions I am someone who takes attending concerts very seriously. Foraging through the endless ticket selling sites, checking artists’ Instagrams, and updat...
Faye Webster: cultivating community at the Greek Theater Elena Levin October 1, 2024 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews September 27th was beginning to feel like a pleasant evening for live music, as UC Berkeley students and Bay Area locals, alike, flocked to the Greek ...
Mitski: the woman you are Samantha Malilay September 26, 2024 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, folk, indie There are so many things that can be written about Mitski’s innate ability to create art, and yet so little at the same time. Mitski captured the he...
In the (back) pocket: a night with Vulfpeck at the UC Theatre Roxanne Bostian September 22, 2024 Jazz pop, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Funk, Local, Soul The energy was electric on the sidewalk outside the UC Theatre on Wednesday night, the air buzzing with excitement as attendees thronged at the entran...
Seattle reeks Katie Hulse September 17, 2024 Columns and Opinions, Cultural Commentary, Music Consumption, Music History There’s a corner of the Pacific Northwest that stands to be an incubator for everlong brazen creativity. Washington has and continues to be a place ...
The 27 Club: glorified graves Elena Levin September 17, 2024 Cultural Commentary, Music History *Content Warning: This piece contains subject matters such as depression, suicide, and substance abuse. Sex, drugs, and rock and roll seem like t...
Kikuo: A rainbow fever dream of a concert Gwen Tam September 13, 2024 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, Previews I had convinced (not that it took much convincing) a close friend of mine to attend Kikuo’s concert with me, on September 8th in San Francisco. For ...
My thoughts on “When a Thought Grows Wings” Sophia Shen September 13, 2024 Album Review What happens when the Asian-Canadian thought daughter of our generation goes through a breakup? Luna Li's latest and greatest LP When a Thought Grows ...
RACE SELLS RECORDS: An observational study of jazz album art in the mid-1950s Gianna Caudillo September 4, 2024 Music History, Black Culture, Jazz, Musicology, Print Edition The jazz section in a used record store. Haphazardly sorted bins. Thin cardboard smooth against your fingers as you shuffle the albums like playing ca...
Why I hate pop punk Annie Wynner September 4, 2024 Opinion, british post-punk, music, Music History, Print Edition, prog-rock, Punk I have always hated pop punk. A hatred rooted in watching friends undergo their Fall Out Boy eras in middle school and my traumatic viewing of Blink...
