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These Nerds Can Rock! Band Night at the Thorsen House

Jessica Balderas
March 18, 2025
Local
This was my first time at the Thorsen House, a very historic home that houses the Sigma Phi Society. Walking down to the house was quite a venture within itself. My friend and I started at Dwight and Piedmont, ...

Through the Veil: 070 Shake’s Cinematic Soundscape at the Petrichor Tour

Bailey Schroerlucke and Mary Luce
February 23, 2025
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews
The 070 Shake concert on February 19 at the Oakland Fox Theater marked another stop on the tour for the artist’s newest album Petrichor (2024). With one of us, Bailey, being a long-time Shake fan and one, Mar...

Soul, Sparkle, and Stardom: Molly Grace Preaches in Berkeley

Sailor Hill
December 17, 2024
Berkeley, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Funk, LGBTQ+, Local, music, Pop, Reviews, Soul, women in music, women's music
“It’s a shame I’m not a religious person because I think I would’ve made a great preacher. So, Berkeley, will you let me take you to church?”  With those electrifying words in the latter half of her...

Sidebangs and smudged waterlines for Toro y Moi at the Greek

Jessica Alano
November 18, 2024
Reviews, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews
“Who cares about the party? I came to see the band play…” Toro y Moi, you took the words right out of my mouth. The decision to make the solo venture to the Greek Theatre on October 25th was an easy one. ...

Space Jam: Bay Area band night hosted by Berkeley B-Side & friends

Marcella Welter
October 4, 2024
From The Archives, Berkeley, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Local, Reviews
Editor's Note: This piece comes from our concert review archives. This event originally took place August 29, 2024. On the night of SDoC (Second Day of Class), Tatum and I slung back vanilla vodka, sprinted ...

Ticket for one! Why you should go to a concert alone

Bailey Schroerlucke
October 1, 2024
Columns and Opinions
I am someone who takes attending concerts very seriously. Foraging through the endless ticket selling sites, checking artists’ Instagrams, and updating my extensive notes app page of upcoming concerts has bec...

In the (back) pocket: a night with Vulfpeck at the UC Theatre

Roxanne Bostian
September 22, 2024
Jazz pop, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Funk, Local, Soul
The energy was electric on the sidewalk outside the UC Theatre on Wednesday night, the air buzzing with excitement as attendees thronged at the entrance to Vulfpeck’s late show. Inspired by the session musici...

Don’t know what music to study to? A geographical guide to the best study soundtracks

Megan Darzynkiewicz
May 6, 2024
Columns and Opinions, Berkeley, Opinion
It is officially finals season here at UC  Berkeley, and sometimes it seems the only thing tougher than finding a free seat in one of Berkeley’s twenty-seven libraries is choosing the soundtrack to your stud...

Sun Room: The Final Breaths of a Carefree College Lifestyle

Megan Darzynkiewicz and Eliza Scheer
April 22, 2024
Berkeley, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, indie scene, Indie-Rock, Local, music, Reviews
Last Thursday (April 11, 2024), I had the privilege to catch a performance by the band SUN ROOM as they made a pit stop in Northern California, playing two shows in Sacramento and Berkeley. This weekend, th...

Panchiko rocks the real world after digital domination

Sofia Biagio
April 20, 2024
indie, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, Indie-Rock, Shoegaze
This week, I had the unbelievable privilege of attending the sold-out Panchiko show at the UC Theater. Panchiko’s lore runs deep. In the late nineties, they were a British indie band with a dream. They made t...

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 ...

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...

“There’s Something About the Women!:” Warmth pervades Irene Young’s book release at the Freight & Salvage

Gianna Caudillo
November 27, 2023
Reviews, Berkeley, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Contemporary Folk, Jazz, Local, Music History, Women's Music Movement
When looking back at my frantically scratched notes in a pocket-sized address book I had brought to the 7pm celebration of Irene Young at the Freight & Salvage on November 19, one sentiment stands out in pa...

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...

Your New Favorite Hour of the Week: UC Jazz’s Noon Concerts

Julian Shea
November 5, 2023
Jazz, Berkeley, Local
Every Thursday, if you are lucky, you might hear music flowing out of lower Sproul, just audible above the tablers and unexpected meetings between friends. And if you have the time to follow your ears down into...
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