Ladies, gentlemen, nonbinaries, and bottoms: Lil Nas X at the Bill Graham Lily Ramus October 26, 2022 Black Culture, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews Photo by Jane Tyska/Bay Area News “Old Town Road” blew up during my last semester of high school. As the longest-running No. 1 in Billboard chart history it may as well have been the song my class walke...
Eat, rave, love with Viv & Leka (feat. Excision) Leka Gopal and Vivian Chen April 22, 2019 Columns and Opinions, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Multimedia, Reviews First thing you need to know — we are not ravers. As much as we like to think of ourselves with “diverse music tastes,” it seems to generally hover around the “My mom used to play me Led Zeppelin a...
alt-J lights up Bill Graham Sahil Chawla April 25, 2018 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews alt-J lit up San Francisco’s Bill Graham as a part of their world tour this past Wednesday. Despite their confessed love of triangles on the hit song “Tesselate,” which helped propel the band to stard...
A$AP Mob is cozying up in SF + ticket giveaway Celia Davalos October 22, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews A$AP Mob is making a stop in San Francisco at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium on Wednesday, October 25th for their Too Cozy tour. A$AP Mob is a hip hop collective from Harlem, formed in 2007. They are touri...
Billie Eilish swags out at the Rickshaw Stop Adil Siddiqee October 13, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews The Rickshaw Stop is a cozy, snug venue, perfect for indie acts to perform intimate shows at with a small audience. Billie Eilish, given her social media clout and recent explosion in popularity, seems far b...
The Revivalists bring New Orleans to life at the Fillmore Brendan Redmond February 13, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews Walking up the stairs of a historic venue, it’s surreal realizing how many famous artists have walked the same steps. The walls of the Fillmore in San Francisco are lined with action shots of music’s most p...