A trip to Beatopia
Stopping by The Regency Ballroom on Wednesday, November 16, I was lucky enough to be transported by 22-year-old artist beabadoobee to Beatopia (2022). More than just the name of her most recent record, Beatopia...
The Wonderful World of Wolf Alice
On Saturday night of Halloween weekend, I had the pleasure of seeing Wolf Alice at August Hall in San Francisco. As I walked to the venue from the train station, I began to fill with excitement. The streets wer...
A night of catharsis: IDLES unleash at The Independent
“I’m pretty sure we’re going the wrong way!” I yelled to my friend Jack, panting, as we sat on our bikes on top of an utterly ruthless San Francisco hill. After taking BART into the city, we had managed...
Ski masks and religion: Stormzy’s transparent debut
Gang Signs and Prayers (2017) comes at a time when Grime is at it’s strongest. The aggressive, fast paced rap genre has seen exponential success over the past year or so after several Grime acts broke into th...
The Last Shadow Puppets: synopsis of dream or delusion?
Following the release of Everything You’ve Come To Expect (their second album) earlier this year, The Last Shadow Puppets have promised the release of their The Dream Synopsis EP on the 2nd of December 2016. ...
Jack Garratt on debut album, non-genre specificity, and Chance the Rapper
Jack Garratt has effectively proven to the world that he is a jack of all trades (pun sincerely unintended), but more impressively—a master of it all. The British multi-instrumentalist is currently on tour pr...
Chasing Yesterday, listening today, and waiting tomorrow on Noel Gallagher
After months of anticipation, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds has released his second album. Finished on July 13, 2014, fans have had an apparently pointless and agonising wait for this album; howe...