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 delivered a heartfelt and cathartic set to an entranced audience ...
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 rapper, J. Cole, and fellowship with Dreamville Records, Bas has ...
93 ‘til Infinity: Bay Area hip hop and punk rock revolutions in 1993 Katie Hulse March 6, 2024 Berkeley, Local, Music History, Oakland, Punk, Rap, Rock, San Francisco, Uncategorized I was in my friend's car stumbling along the landscape when “93 ‘til Infinity" by Souls of Mischief trinkled out of the speakers and changed the way that I think about hip hop. Thirty years after its initia...
Freak the Freak Out! Nico Chodor and Sophia Shen November 13, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Metal, Rock, Shoegaze Last weekend, right on the heels of San Francisco’s multi-day, multi-venue Psyched! Fest, we crossed state lines for a Pacific Northwestern analogue: Freakout Fest in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle. The ...
A Triumphant Return: Palehound at The Chapel Sinead de Cleir November 9, 2023 Rock, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, indie scene, Photos, Reviews, San Francisco, Shoegaze On March 10th, 2020, Palehound played at Cafe du Nord in San Francisco for their headline tour with Adult Mom. The next day, the COVID-19 pandemic was declared and their tour was canceled. For Palehound, this m...
8 DAYS/14 SHOWS/9 VENUES: A Countercultural Halloweek at Psyched! Fest Nico Chodor November 6, 2023 Cultural Commentary, Columns and Opinions, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Feature, Multimedia, Music Consumption, News, Photos, Punk, Reviews, Rock, San Francisco Psyched! Fest - San Francisco's Independent Festival of Arts, Music, Diversity & Counterculture - opened Wednesday, October 25th at Rickshaw Stop. Brought to you by Psyched! Radio, the multiracial nonprofit...
Partying like it’s the late 1900s: the Breeders and Belly at the Warfield Sophia Shen October 27, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Rock, San Francisco 1 Comment Working as a stagehand at a music venue, you see enough middle-aged men whose bands you’ve never heard of strut across a stage. Thus, attending the Breeders’ 30th anniversary tour of their 1993 album Last S...
Kuromy Teaches Us When To Spit On People Samantha Friedland October 16, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Interview Kuromy Teaches Us When To Spit On People Kuromy is a garage punk band from Los Angeles, consisting of guitarist-vocalist Sophia, bassist-vocalist Beef (Grace), and drummer Lani. If you’ve been attending loca...
HANNAH SHARES APERTURE WITH THE BAY Nico Chodor September 25, 2023 Album Review, Columns and Opinions, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, indie-pop, Photos, Reviews, San Francisco Support from Miloe & Lance Redeker primed what became Hannah Jadagu’s stage through and through. She breezed into the city Wednesday night, immediately following her show at the Echo 24 hours prior, to pl...
Ultra Q Reunites with Hockey Dad for Rickshaw Nostalgia Nico Chodor September 11, 2023 Album Review, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos, Reviews Australian surf rock duo Hockey Dad fathered Jakob Armstrong, Chris Malaspina, Enzo Malaspina, and Kevin Judd through their first full US tour when the boys still went by Mt. Eddy in 2018. Five years later, Jak...
From Gay Head to Goldenrod: the first decade of the Women’s Music Movement in song Gianna Caudillo September 5, 2023 Album Review, Berkeley, folk, music, Music History, Oakland, Reviews, Rock, women's music, Women's Music Movement Commercial rock and roll has always been a boys’ club. From the success of songs that glamorized abuse and the gross fetishization of women, such as the Rolling Stones’ “Brown Sugar” or the Beatles’ ...
Decolonial Punk at Kilowatt Nico Chodor September 1, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos, Punk, Rock, San Francisco Los Cogelones combined brotherhood and Aztec punk Sunday night at Kilowatt Bar, on the heels of what Psyched! Radio SF deems three pillars of this new San Francisco scene: Thank You Come Again, Buzzed Lightbeer...
From indie pop to Afrobeat: The Listening Dolls at Neck of the Woods Sophia Shen August 16, 2023 Afrobeats, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, indie, indie scene, indie-pop, Music History, Rock, San Francisco The Devil works hard, but LA-based music organization The Listening Dolls works harder. The Listening Dolls, co-founded and directed by SF native Martine Kolderup-Lane, was born late last year through the jo...
Believe the Hype: ALG at Rickshaw Stop Sophia Shen July 5, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews On Thursday night, after submitting my two half-baked Session A finals and thus closing the door on a veritable lifetime of summer school, I slicked my hair back, donned a blazer, and set off towards Rickshaw S...
The End of The End of the Movie: Lizzy McAlpine in Oakland Sinead de Cleir May 19, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, folk, indie, Oakland, Reviews 1 Comment The air on May 13th, 2023 held a tinge of finality. College graduates, fresh out of the commencement ceremony, walked the streets of Berkeley with flowers and their families, bidding farewell to their undergrad...