Floating on a cloud of love with Alice Phoebe Lou Sophia Shen April 16, 2024 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews Friday, April 12, just before the latest round of rainfall would begin to kiss the streets of San Francisco, synth pop princess Alice Phoebe Lou deliv...
Matt Maltese delights while “touring just to tour” Ashley Mauldin April 9, 2024 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews On the first Friday in April, my B-Side bestie Sam and I stumbled our way out of the Powell Street BART station and towards my favorite venue in San F...
Danny Brown smiles on San Francisco Liv Bjorgum April 9, 2024 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Rap, San Francisco It takes a uniquely seasoned artist to easily command a stage without force, smile at his own lyrics, and communicate the same reverence for his audie...
Top 5 Best Heartbreak Anthems: Sadness Across the Genres Annie Wynner April 8, 2024 indie, Opinion, R&B, Rap, Reviews, Uncategorized After a breakup, any music lover immediately takes to Spotify to begin crafting a flawless playlist that truly encapsulates the pain of heartbreak. On...
Green Day’s celebratory homecoming at the Fillmore in San Francisco Dorothy Eck April 5, 2024 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Local, Punk, Rock, San Francisco Green Day by Jax Samsell The brisk San Francisco air felt refreshingly chilly to the red-faced, sweaty bodies spilling out of the Fillmore on Tues...
Tales from the road: A night with Hurray for the Riff Raff Rushaad Mistry April 4, 2024 Contemporary Folk, folk, Uncategorized The morning of April 1st, Alynda Segarra, lead singer of Hurray for the Riff Raff, tweeted: used to sleep in golden gate park, playing au...
Trains and Changing Constants: KST’s Theatrical Odyssey at the Great American Music Hall Yansu Tan April 2, 2024 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews KST, or 康士坦的變化球, performed the fifth and last stop of their 2024 US Tour for their latest album, 眠月線 Track to Sleeping Moon (2023)...
Between Splendor and Substance: Navigating the Depths of Possokhov’s Anna Karenina Ballet Dorothy Eck March 22, 2024 Classical, Ballet, dance Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina pirouetted and pliéd gracefully across the stage at Zellerbach Auditorium this Saturday, in a ballet adaptation choreog...
The chaos of catharsis: Doom Loop Festival, starring Yeule Rushaad Mistry and Selina Yang March 21, 2024 indie, indie-pop, Rock, San Francisco, Shoegaze Doom Loop at the Regency Ballroom wasn't your standard music festival—some six-stage, three-day festival with name-brand flags and sponsored water s...
I can’t help but to groove: Bas at The Fillmore Catherine Li March 19, 2024 San Francisco, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, R&B, Rap, Reviews A Sudanese-American rapper born in France, Bas or Abbas Hamad born May 27, 1987, is a star in the rap world. With mentorship from world renowned rappe...
Gayathri Krishnan: Rockstar Shit, Genre-Bending R&B, and Manifesting Dreams Andrew Zendejas March 19, 2024 R&B, Interview, LGBTQ+, Ones to Watch, Pop, Womens History Month Gayathri Krishnan is an artist on the rise hailing from the City of Angels who is capturing the attention of audiences everywhere with her luscious, c...
RAEGAN, Pigeon Pit, and Autoheart bring Queer Joy to the Cornerstone Ashley Mauldin March 18, 2024 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos, Reviews On a rather uneventful St. Patrick’s Day, I found myself on the 36 (which almost didn’t stop for me) making my way towards Downtown Berkeley for a...
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 pro...
“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 l...
Arlo Parks’ Performance at the Fox Theater Was “Too Good” Eliza Scheer March 16, 2024 Berkeley, Black Culture, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, indie-pop, Oakland, Photos, Womens History Month On March 5, Arlo Parks performed at Oakland’s Fox Theater. To kick off the show, Chloe George opened. Her 30 minute set was filled with gratitude...
