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Ween reunites at Bill Graham

Rebekah Gonzalez
October 20, 2016
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos
This past weekend, October 14 and 15, Ween stopped by the Bill Graham Civic Center Auditorium in San Francisco, on the first tour since their dishea...

Lower Dens: romance, dystopia, and 80s synth

Brian Grossman
October 19, 2016
Columns and Opinions
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Sherman Oaks, California is not the most enchanting place. For those unfamiliar (which is probably most of you), it is a neighborhood in Los Angeles t...

Treasure Island 2016: Photos won’t do it justice

Fiona Duerr
October 19, 2016
Multimedia, Photos
Photos won't do Treasure Island Music Festival 2016 justice, because you can never experience torrential downpour and hazardous winds through a photo...

Tears were shed at The Tallest Man on Earth

Brendan Redmond
October 17, 2016
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews
The most difficult aspect of being an opening band is drawing in the crowd. In my experience, openers are usually perceived as background music be...

Cash Money’s J-Soul is Up Next

Matt Sater
October 16, 2016
Album Review, Reviews
It’s an instantly recognizable two-note sequence. It ascends from the song’s dominant key to the song’s minor third, every time, without variati...

Talkin’ bout my generation: reaching enlightenment at oldchella

Natalie Silver
October 15, 2016
Columns and Opinions
A large, wrinkled, slightly trembling hand, decorated with, like, 19 rings and black sparkly nails, crept from my periphery and into my direct li...

Danny Brown blesses the mic at Regency Ballroom

Eda Yu
October 15, 2016
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews
The lights dimmed as Danny Brown’s DJ took the stage, quietly setting up his deck in the faint hue of red-blue light. Everyone cheered loudly as he ...

The Head & The Heart make Berkeley family

Kavitha George
October 15, 2016
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews
West coast Americana at its finest, The Head & The Heart finally made their return to Berkeley on Saturday, a whirlwind of infectious energy and f...

Treasure Island 2016 Preview

Conner Smith
October 15, 2016
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, Previews
  If you haven’t yet mustered the curiosity to pull off onto that mysterious government island beside the Bay Bridge, this weekend is yo...

Con Brio on spirit, soul, and Paradise

Vivian Chen
October 11, 2016
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, Interview, Previews
Con Brio's music is a dynamic collaboration of funk, soul, R&B, and jazz elements, elements that appear in infectiously groovy compilations of tr...

Joyce Manor (the band you will never get out of your head) rocks Great American Music Hall

Sam Jameson
October 6, 2016
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Multimedia, Photos, Reviews
Joyce Manor kicked off their Fall 2016 tour on October 5th at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco. After roughly a 3 month break since the...

Proper Art or Propaganda: On Nicolas Jaar’s Sirens

George Green
October 6, 2016
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A coin sits on a hospital-grey album sleeve. What to do? Anyone that has had the fleeting anxiety when thumbing through a couple of fresh scratch card...

Make America Grateful Again

Natalie Silver
October 6, 2016
Columns and Opinions
When American author and countercultural leader Ken Kesey said “You’re either on the bus or off the bus,” he was referring to the Merry Prankste...

A Day at Hardly Strictly: Where the young and old dance as one

Fiona Duerr
October 5, 2016
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, Photos, Uncategorized
Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Music Festival is a beautiful gift to San Francisco. The free, three-day music festival draws a diverse group to Golden Gate...

Foals Provide the “Rock” in Indie Rock

Brendan Redmond
October 4, 2016
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews
As the Uber neared the flashing welcome sign of the Fox Theater, my mind began to race. I was unsure what atmosphere Yannis Philippakis and the remain...
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