Boy Band welcomes Oakland to the new Neighbourhood Isaac Yi October 29, 2015 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews With a late start and a line that wrapped around the block, the Fox Theater was abuzz with excitement for The Neighbourhood’s show last Saturday. With their sophomore album, Wiped Out (2015), dropping at ...
Django Django animate and energize crowd in San Francisco Valerie Law October 24, 2015 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews Django Django was nothing but electricity at the Regency Ballroom Friday night. On tour for their second album Born Under Saturn (2015), the performers came out in a cloud of smoke, greeted to enormous cheer. B...
Django Django to start vibrations at the Regency Ballroom Valerie Law October 20, 2015 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews October 24, British art rock band Django Django make their way to San Francisco's Regency Ballroom. Earlier this year they released their second album, Born Under Saturn (2015); Friday marks their third to...
Gallery: Two nights of Psychocandy at The Warfield with The Jesus and Mary Chain Patricia Villon May 21, 2015 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos Scottish post-punk legendaries The Jesus and Mary Chain recently celebrated the 30th anniversary of their 1985 debut album Psychocandy with a string of tour dates throughout the UK and US. To end their US...
Gallery: February Final Friday at Thorsen House Maddy Smith March 5, 2015 Photos Final Friday, hosted by Sigma Phi Society, featured The Drambles, Kemo Kemoss, and Bermuda Love Triangle. Peruse the gallery from the performance, and for more, read our interview with The Drambles. P...
Little Comets are ablaze, in a way that is everything but blasé Emilie Dylewski February 17, 2015 Album Review "All is burning now”, including the unquellable flame that is Tyne and Wear-based trio Little Comets, if we may borrow a phrase from their song, “My Boy William.” Matthew Hall (bass) and brothers R...
Q&A: Norwegian rockers Level & Tyson to play Culture Collide Ane Skjoelaas October 14, 2014 Interview, News Hailing from the great capital of Norway, Oslo, Level & Tyson are an alternative rock band with an experimental vibe. Their sound stretches from noisy, punky howls to sweet-as-sugar ballads. Th...
Echo explores his past, the Bunnymen help, and Meteorites grows up Joanna Jiang June 2, 2014 Album Review 2 Comments Had Echo and the Bunnymen not split for six years in the 90s, they might today possess the same immortal status as Irish greats U2. With their psychedelic, New Wave tint, the prog-rock veterans have more or l...
Q&A: Kyle Wilson of Milagres on Violent Light, Prince, and fedoras Joanna Jiang March 8, 2014 Interview Milagres Brooklyn phenomenon, Milagres, released Violent Light, a follow-up to 2011’s Glowing Mouth last week. The new album embodies the same lo-fi Brooklyn glitz of their first album, with big falsetto cho...
Beck reflects on growing up and loneliness with Morning Phase Myra March 1, 2014 Album Review 1 Comment Early reports that Beck’s new album Morning Phase would be a sequel to 2002’s melancholy classic Sea Change sent many fans of sad Beck into a state of delirious excitement. “Blue Moon,” the single rele...
Fiona Apple and Blake Mills: Anything We Want at Zellerbach Hall Jade Theriault October 17, 2013 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos, Reviews October 8, 2013. 6:30 p.m. U.C. Berkeley. I raced out of class at the pinpoint of sunset. I was about 100 feet from Zellerbach Hall’s infamous theater, where Fiona Apple was scheduled to perform with SoCal ...
