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A quintessential fall album: Bon Iver’s For Emma, Forever Ago

Anthony Fig
November 29, 2024
Album Preview, Columns and Opinions, Creative Writing, folk, Opinion
Following the warm weather and constant sunshine of the summer, it is almost ironic how it is followed by autumn, marked with rain, gloom, and for a lot of people, the beginning of a new school year. These elem...

The A-side Sessions presents: No Room No Sweetener

Natalie Gott
October 11, 2020
Interview, Multimedia, Uncategorized
On a Saturday afternoon that felt far too brief, the longing for live music was put to ease as solo artist Juhuhn Kim of No Room No Sweetener plays the debut set of our mutli-media series, The A-side Sessions....

A night of acoustic bliss With Ty Segall

Ella Connor and Natalie Kemper
February 12, 2020
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews
Sprinkled with pockets of scenic lookout points throughout the coast, where passer-byers, tourists and excited concert-goers such as myself can step out and experience the magical vastness through its stunning...

Anti-Folk has a band now: Jon Bunting at the Red Heron

Clementine Zimmer
November 14, 2019
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews
If you just clicked on this article and you don’t know who Jon Bunting is, stop. Don’t you dare make any assumptions because you saw the picture of a dude in a beanie playing acoustic guitar. Go listen to h...

Beautiful and creepy: Metallica’s Helping Hands…Live & Acoustic at The Masonic

Shayan Shirkhodai
February 6, 2019
Album Review, Columns and Opinions, Reviews
“Beautiful and creepy” — these adjectives uttered straight from the mouth of singer (and rhythm guitarist) James Hetfield mid-performance were the perfect words to describe Metallica’s newest album, Hel...
EDEN mixes artistic passion with a humble demeanor

EDEN brings new sound, emotion to the Regency Ballroom

Jacob Green
March 19, 2018
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews
Minutes before the beginning of his highly anticipated performance, 22-year-old Jonathon Ng (stagename EDEN) quickly peaked his head out from backstage to see a sea of fans closely monitoring the stage for any ...

Real Estate brings warmth back to the Bay

Annie Nguyen
February 28, 2018
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Multimedia, Photos, Reviews
Last weekend, Real Estate visited Fox Theatre to play their first show in Oakland, CA. The concert was part of the Noise Pop Music & Arts Festival, the Bay's annual indie arts week, and it was only fitting ...

AJJ @ Bottom of the Hill

Circe Ament
December 20, 2017
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews
AJJ, a folk-punk band from Arizona, is on tour and selling out shows left and right. Upon arriving to Bottom of the Hill, and edgy punish venue in San Francisco, Kitty Kat Fan Club was halfway through their...

Okkervil River Meets Death On Away

HR Huber-Rodriguez
September 20, 2016
Album Review, Reviews
Few bands have maintained the album to album consistency achieved over the last dozen years by Austin’s Okkervil River.  Fronted by Will Sheff - the band’s vocalist, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and ...

Vestiges & Claws reveals the truth beneath José’s messy hair

Kavitha George
February 14, 2015
Album Review, Reviews
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Photo by Malin Johansson Swedish folk artist José González has long been my go-to artist for introspective train rides and flights home. For someone who fell in love with the hit “Heartbeats” and hi...

Fink head south, grow progressive pessimism on Hard Believer

Joanna Jiang
July 15, 2014
Album Review
UK-based, DJ-turned-songwriter Fin Greenall’s orchestral folk trio, Fink, is the Django Unchained of their genre, rooted in a Southwest image of covered wagons and rolling tumbleweed but still progress...

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