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...
100 gecs literally hit with fans Miranda Craig April 9, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, indie-pop, music, Oakland, Photos, Uncategorized 100 Gecs and Machine Girl together in concert is a match made in heaven. Their April 5 show at Oakland’s Fox Theater was no exception. For anyone looking for high-energy music and dancing, it was a must-see s...
Kash’d Out leaves crowd in a daze with “Whiskey and Weed” Tour Kyle Garcia Takata April 5, 2023 Berkeley, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, music, Reviews The Whiskey and Weed Tour from Kash’d Out provided Cornerstone Berkeley with over three hours of uninterrupted satisfaction. Fans were delighted by the calm, cheerful mood provided by the band and their opene...
Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair for Natalie Mering: Weyes Blood Makes Hearts Aglow During Night 2 at the Regency Nico Chodor March 30, 2023 Berkeley, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos Weyes Blood put me under a spell Sunday night at the Regency Ballroom, and I still haven’t fully recovered. Draped in the white billowing fabric of gods and/or ghosts, she breezed onto the stage...
Regina Spektor stands alone, effortlessly Cammie Lambert March 24, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, indie-pop, music I arrived at Regina Spektor’s concert at the Warfield last Sunday, full of excitement and anticipation, spanning back to five months ago when it was announced that due to a bad case of Covid, she would have t...
Punk performance from Otoboke Beaver sends tremors through UC Theatre Kyle Garcia Takata March 19, 2023 Berkeley, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, music, Photos, Reviews The UC Theatre shook with exhilaration from experiencing over an hour of nonstop punk energy from Otoboke Beaver on International Women’s Day. With Accorinrin providing the main vocals, Yoyoyoshie on guitar, ...
August Hall turned Pink Pony Club: Chappell Roan in San Francisco Sinead de Cleir March 19, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, LGBTQ+, Reviews, San Francisco 1 Comment Chappell Roan in her music video for "My Kink is Karma" “It's not fun. It's not hot. It's not interesting. It's boring.” These were the words that Chappell Roan used to describe her experien...