Jungle’s Electrifying Performance at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium Eliza Scheer September 25, 2023 Berkeley, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, EDM, indie, indie scene, indie-pop, music, Photos, Reviews, San Francisco On September 9, Jungle, a soul, reggae, and funk inspired dance and electronic band, performed at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium. With bold red lights illuminating the stage, Jungle gave the audience a mem...
High school hallways to sold-out venues, BLACKSTARKIDS discuss the Black coming-of-age experience Zara Koroma November 19, 2022 Black Culture, Interview A few years ago, Ty, Deiondre, and The Babe Gabe were only teenagers, vibing in a basement-turned-bedroom, watching their favorite childhood shows, and making music in Kansas City, Missouri. Now they are the in...
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...
Queens of the Stone Age rule San Francisco Shayan Shirkhodai February 4, 2018 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews Flashy lights, double-neck guitars, drum solos, and an incredible frontman — Queens of the Stone Age delivered on all these fronts (and more) when rocking out at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium this past Th...
A$AP brings the Mob to Bill Graham Noah Bogner October 31, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews A$AP Mob shut down Bill Graham Civic Auditorium on Wednesday night. In support of their most recent album, Cozy Tapes Vol. 2: Too Cozy (2017), the A$AP Mob’s Too Cozy Tour touched down in San Francisco. They ...
Swimming in bass with RL Grime Arnav Chaturvedi October 28, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews San Francisco was elevated last weekend as Henry Alfred Steinway, better known by his stage name RL Grime, took over the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium for two nights, followed by afterparties at 1015 Folso...
A$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...
Get ready for RL Grime’s trap house Arnav Chaturvedi October 16, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews RL Grime is ready to storm the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium this weekend with two performances on Friday and Saturday night. Grime is setting out on his Nova Tour which just started last week in Vancouver...
The xx and Sampha bring all the emotions to SF Matt Sater and Annie Nguyen April 21, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos, Reviews There’s one simple fact about the xx that gets overlooked so often that, frankly, it’s a little upsetting. Before any review of their live show can really begin, we must all accept this one mostly unspoken,...
Ween reunites at Bill Graham Rebekah Gonzalez October 20, 2016 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos This past weekend, October 14 and 15, Ween stopped by the Bill Graham Civic Center Auditorium in San Francisco, on the first tour since their disheartening breakup in 2012. With over two decades under their b...
Flume Closes Out the Weekend at Bill Graham Arnav Chaturvedi September 28, 2016 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews Australian producer and musician Flume camped out in San Francisco for three nights as crowds trudged through dense bass, making their way in and out of the Civic Center. Flume has been preforming for the ma...
Sunflower Bean to open at Bill Graham on Thursday Arnav Chaturvedi June 23, 2016 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews Sunflower Bean, a young Brooklyn trio emerging from the wake of the sounds of TV On The Radio and Here We Go Magic, are set to play a string of performances through the US and Europe accompanying bands like Bes...
Disclosure bring steady dance electronic to Bill Graham Civic Auditorium Edfil Dulay May 30, 2016 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos Sold-out for their two day San Francisco stop, Disclosure was hotly anticipated, their meteoric rise in the music industry dates back to 2012 and spread of their hit single "Latch." The young electronic duo fr...
Kygo blows out Bill Graham Civic Auditorium Arnav Chaturvedi January 19, 2016 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews Norwegian boy wonder Kygo set forth on his Cloud Nine Tour starting in none other than the great city of San Francisco at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium two Thursdays past. The night featured a list of...
Odesza’s live set blooms for In Return tour Arnav Chaturvedi December 23, 2015 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews On a night of rough rain and hailstorms, everyone in the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium completely forgot the world outside its doors. Friday night, Odesza’s unique brand of subtle melodic trap music managed ...