Tagged Bottom of the Hill

I didn’t want to go all the way to San Francisco. It was the first day back from spring break, I was too cold to wear the outfit I’d laid out, and it was starting to rain. I was exhausted and all I wanted t...

Piano-rock/alt-rock band Johnny Manchild and the Poor Bastards is coming to Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco on 03/31. I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to interview Johnny to chat about music, thei...

Tiny Dorm, whose name affectionately plays off the famous NPR web-based concert series Tiny Desk, is a campus club that puts on “cozy, home-style performances by student artists.” Founded in Fall 2022, the...

On May 25th, Chicago musician Tasha performed at the historic Bottom of the Hill, in San Francisco’s Potrero Hill neighborhood. The second to last performance as a part of her Spring 2022 tour, I got the chan...

When I first listened to Chicago musician Tasha’s 2021 sophomore album, Tell Me What You Miss the Most, I was stuck in my childhood bedroom - a bedroom whose personality did not match that of the teenager who...

As the sun began its descent, the often busy Potrero Hill Neighborhood began to transition. What was left of the day’s sunlight was more than enough to slice through the city streets, reflecting off storefron...

After nearly two years without live music and over a year since their last release, Oakland-based punk band Ultra Q has returned to the Bay in anticipation of their third and upcoming EP Get Yourself A Friend,...

While Princess Nokia graced Berkeley’s UC Theater this past Saturday, Jerry Paper took over the Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco and performed soothing, existential zig-zags for Noise Pop Music Festival 20...

It could have been the way Lydia dominated a stage only less than twenty feet wide. Or maybe it was Genessa’s guitar solo in Seashore. Or possibly even the quartet’s cover of "Teenager in Love." Regardless...

Noise Pop’s Thursday night lineup this year was, in a word, stacked. From quickly emerging artists Jay Som and Japanese Breakfast, to seasoned vets Madlib and Jeff Rosenstock, I was torn on who to see that ni...

AJJ, a folk-punk band from Arizona, is on tour and selling out shows left and right. Upon arriving to Bottom of the Hill, and edgy punish venue in San Francisco, Kitty Kat Fan Club was halfway through their...

Some young punk rock bands often derive from the era that they emerge from. Microwave take this derivation a step further and develop a similar base of '00s lyrical themes coupled with impressive instrumentatio...

As the crowd dwindles and their conversations wind away, Raphaelle Standell-Preston of the Montreal-based BRAIDS joins me in a late night, post-show chat at Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco to talk about th...

Well-traveled musician Porcelain Raft (real name Mauro Remiddi) prefaced our pre-show chat last Thursday with, "You'll have a lot of editing to do," but we later realized there was no cause for concern. There w...

Theirs is a far too overused label. The slightest hint of a dreamy synth track, floaty lyrics, and 'ethereal' seems to be the all-too-ready stamp. I was introduced to Eskimeaux just a few days before I sa...