Tagged Alternative

(SANDY) Alex G’s name has become recognizable enough that it has typecast a rather unbecoming local association: that he, in the footsteps of Elliott Smith, is the crowned prince of the indie sad boy stereoty...

If black coffee and cigarettes on a Sunday morning had a soundtrack, it would be the music of Caamp. Caamp is comprised of Taylor Meier and Evan Westfall, two childhood friends who have been playing music since...

“We are not very good at stage banter,” Portugal. The Man’s backdrop proclaimed in bold white letters as the band began to set up their instruments on a dimmed stage. Unsurprisingly, their mantra proved t...

Upon my first arrival at The Fillmore on April 13th, I noticed a “WOMEN RULE” t-shirt and listened as couples and groups around me spoke Spanish, French, and English. It seemed like a fitting way to start I...

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 ...

  Guitarist Eve Alpert (left) and bassist Gerasimos Livitsanos (right) Palm at the Rickshaw Stop, a classic San Francisco spot termed by Google Maps as a “hip indie music venue” (haha). Conseque...

On March 1st, Now, Now released their third single, “AZ” in support of their newly announced sophomore LP, Saved (2018).  Coming off the coattails of two 2017 singles, “SGL” and “Yours,” and a sma...

In the late 1970s and early 80s, “primal therapy” was all the rage when it came to analyzing and diagnosing neurosis. The method created by Arthur Janov involves bringing back repressed memories from childh...

Since the release of her 2017 record Soft Sounds from Another Planet, Japanese Breakfast’s Michelle Zauner has risen from the fairy-like starlett listeners were introduced to with catchy single “Everyone Wa...

The Rickshaw Stop is not the biggest venue. It can hold 400 people probably, if you try hard enough, but it doesn’t seem like the place you’d find a band that’s been around for the past 14 years, already ...

Hippo Campus, formed in 2013, has performed the likes of South by Southwest, Lollapalooza, and Bonnaroo. But on Tuesday night, they seemed happy to grace the stage of The Fillmore in front of an eager audience ...

If you’re a young person in the Bay Area, especially in Berkeley, it’s very possible you might be surrounded by people who never outgrew their teenage fascination with psychedelia. A random (and undeniably ...

Coming back for their sixth installation, Desert Daze is set to rock out Joshua Tree October 12th-15th. To celebrate the start of the new semester, we will be giving away tickets to the event. The “ritual ...

New York-based electro rock duo Phantogram stopped by the Greek Theater last Saturday, bringing their rocking, rollicking live show to Berkeley. The show was the eighth stop on a 33-city tour in support of thei...

“1, 2, 3 will you list it off to me? How you’re sorry you feel weird in a jubilation dream” is what the Girlpool girls whisper at the top of their third full-length -- and, of course, still wonderfully wr...