Blonde Redhead Proves Sit Down For Dinner Was Worth The Wait Lucy Gleeson October 19, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos, Rock, San Francisco Twelve years after their last album release, alternative indie rock trio Blonde Redhead showcased their most recent work, Sit Down For Dinner (2023), in San Francisco this Monday night. Made to wait for over fi...
Moshing and Mortality: ‘America’s Band’ Polyphia Enthralls at The Warfield Ivonne Liang and Sravani K October 16, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos, prog-rock, Rock, San Francisco I distinctly remember the first time I discovered Polyphia. I was stuck at home during the COVID-19 lockdown, mindlessly scrolling the internet in search of anything that would fill the copious amount of time I...
A silver Saturday at The Fillmore with ALO Katie Hulse October 15, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, indie scene, Reviews, San Francisco On March 25, 2023, I got the opportunity to witness the blooming and time-suspending band called ALO at the famous Fillmore in San Francisco. ALO, standing for Animal Liberation Orchestra is a rock jam-band clo...
A Bewitching Night With the Reviver of Jazz: Laufey Ashley Mauldin October 11, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos, Reviews Girls in lacy skirts and dresses were standing next to their friends or partners in crewnecks, hair ribbons flowing in the Sunday night breeze. According to my friend William in the photo pit, this crowd had st...
In Holy Flux with Weyes Blood Dorothy Eck September 30, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, music Hearts were aglow at the Warfield on Wednesday night where Natalie Mering, aka Weyes Blood, took the stage for her "In Holy Flux: Unleashed Tour." As the venue lights dimmed, gothic candelabras glowed on stage....
HANNAH SHARES APERTURE WITH THE BAY Nico Chodor September 25, 2023 Album Review, Columns and Opinions, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, indie-pop, Photos, Reviews, San Francisco Support from Miloe & Lance Redeker primed what became Hannah Jadagu’s stage through and through. She breezed into the city Wednesday night, immediately following her show at the Echo 24 hours prior, to pl...
An Enthralling Monday Evening with Bruno Major Ashley Mauldin September 13, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Multimedia, Photos, Reviews You wouldn’t expect for a line to be all the way around the block filled with young adults dressed in flowy skirts, florals, and oversized sweaters to be in SF on a Monday night in September. But with Bruno M...
Ultra Q Reunites with Hockey Dad for Rickshaw Nostalgia Nico Chodor September 11, 2023 Album Review, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos, Reviews Australian surf rock duo Hockey Dad fathered Jakob Armstrong, Chris Malaspina, Enzo Malaspina, and Kevin Judd through their first full US tour when the boys still went by Mt. Eddy in 2018. Five years later, Jak...
Decolonial Punk at Kilowatt Nico Chodor September 1, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos, Punk, Rock, San Francisco Los Cogelones combined brotherhood and Aztec punk Sunday night at Kilowatt Bar, on the heels of what Psyched! Radio SF deems three pillars of this new San Francisco scene: Thank You Come Again, Buzzed Lightbeer...
“Good Tone and Emo Shit:” Ridgeway Ends My Summer Right Nico Chodor August 20, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Interview, Reviews I have been gunning to see Ridgeway again since first catching their set with bands Soft Blue Shimmer and Downard last August… Timing just so happened to work out perfectly this final week before classes s...
The End of The End of the Movie: Lizzy McAlpine in Oakland Sinead de Cleir May 19, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, folk, indie, Oakland, Reviews 1 Comment The air on May 13th, 2023 held a tinge of finality. College graduates, fresh out of the commencement ceremony, walked the streets of Berkeley with flowers and their families, bidding farewell to their undergrad...
A Night Out With Pixies Josh Jiwanmall May 7, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Oakland I’m going to preface this write-up with one crucial piece of information that must be said: I am not an 80s-90s alt-head. Nirvana, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Breeders, Sonic Youth: my partner loves that stu...
Maybe Love is Real: Mr. and Mrs. Tennis at the Fox Nico Chodor May 3, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos In tennis (the sport), love means zero. In Tennis (the band), that is hardly the case. Husband-and-wife duo Alaina and Patrick Riley have been spreading their love through music since 2010. They met as philosop...
Yaeji playfully smashes expectations “With a Hammer” at Fox Theater Kyle Garcia Takata April 26, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, dance, Oakland, Photos, Reviews After 3 years of delays and postponement, Yaeji finally took the stage at Fox Theater in Oakland to a full venue. The building excitement from the years of waiting filled the room with a feverous buzz. Everyone...
Phish phood phor thought: Don’t knock em’ till ya see em’ Lily Ramus April 20, 2023 Berkeley, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews, Rock 2 Comments “Shrooms, molly, ketamine, pre-rolls!” As soon as we stepped in line, the Phish experience was off to a raging start. After almost fifteen years, Phish returned to the Greek Theatre in Berkeley Califor...