Friends and Fauxes: Four Bands in One Night at Cornerstone Nico Chodor February 26, 2023 Berkeley, Columns and Opinions, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews, San Francisco Touring with The High Curbs along their west coast stint, King Shelter breathed OC air into the Cornerstone at Berkeley Tuesday night. “Berkeley, you’re an interesting place," declared lead singer Taylor He...
A Rockstar Sometimes, A Mommy Forever Brandon Phan December 20, 2022 Berkeley, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, indie, indie scene, LGBTQ+, music, Oakland, Photos, Reviews “Mommy! Yes, mommy! I love you, mommy!!” the crowd cheers on. It’s pitch black out on a Saturday night, and the crowd is ecstatic to see everyone’s favorite mom perform live at the Fox Theater in Oaklan...
Masonic Boom: Peach Pit Rocks So Hard That Neil Hurts His Neck Nico Chodor December 6, 2022 Berkeley, Columns and Opinions, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, indie, indie scene, music, Reviews, San Francisco Before Thursday night at the Masonic in SF, the closest I had ever come to seeing Peach Pit live was the Tropicalia Festival in 2019. Their self-titled claim to fame “Peach Pit” garnered extreme views on Yo...
Destined for superstardom: Rina Sawayama “holds the girl” in Oakland Adrian Ceja November 26, 2022 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Oakland In April of 2020 I stumbled upon an artist who just released their debut studio album. That same artist would soon become one of my favorite artists of all time. Her name is Rina Sawayama. There are so many wor...
Love Lives in the Bay: Soft Blue Shimmer Debuts Their New Record at Neck of the Woods Nico Chodor November 22, 2022 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, indie, indie scene, indie-pop, music, Reviews, San Francisco “my dreams always seem concerned with your well-being…i can’t seem to shake…maybe one day we’ll learn to grow separately. maybe one day i’ll grow on my own. maybe one day this piece of you inside of...
Celebrating local music with sundiver ca Anna Linn November 22, 2022 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, indie scene, music, Oakland, Reviews In an energizing performance, sundiver ca took the stage this past Thursday night at the Starline Social Club in Oakland. Two indie rock openers, Analog Dog and Mind’s Eye, each built up the audience and held...
One magic hour with Surf Curse at the Warfield Liv Bjorgum November 21, 2022 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos, Reviews, San Francisco “We’re not 18 anymore / But we’ve still got our habits / You’re the creature in my heart / And you’re about to devour it / ‘Cause I remember when” - Surf Curse, “Nostalgia,” Nothing Yet (2017)...
A trip to Beatopia Lucy Hanna November 21, 2022 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, indie-pop, San Francisco 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...
A New Era: Jean Dawson Sells Out The New Parish Leah Johnson November 21, 2022 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Jean Dawson, music, Oakland, Reviews Watching Jean Dawson perform is like witnessing a fish swim underwater. In the crowd at an intimate Oakland venue I felt both the tumultuous waves starting in the pit and the serenity of seeing a...
L.S. DUNES leave San Francisco begging for more at Bimbo’s 365 Club Emmanuelle Mphuthi November 20, 2022 Blog, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, music, Rock, San Francisco This Wednesday, the 13th of November, a friend and I navigated the tumultuous Bay Area public transport system to attend an L.S. Dunes concert in San Francisco. We’d purchased the tickets a few months earlier...
A ‘Ginger Fresh!’ performance from Ginger Root at August Hall Kyle Garcia Takata November 8, 2022 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews To kick off the second show in the latter half of their Fall Tour promoting their most recent EP Nisemono (2022), Ginger Root, composed of frontman Cameron Lew, bassist Dylan Hovis, drummer Matt Carney, and cam...
A therapy session with Lexi Jayde Kamieko Goines November 3, 2022 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews, women in music I discovered Lexi Jayde through her single “Oldest Teenager” when it popped up on my Discover Weekly just over 2 years ago. I remember immediately saving the song — it was catchy, and since it came out du...
Three Cheers for the Return of My Chemical Romance: wowing Oakland Arena for the first time since 2007 Emmanuelle Mphuthi October 17, 2022 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews (Gerard Way photographed by Luis Rosales) On October 5th at around 5:30pm, my boyfriend and I made our way towards Oakland Arena to see My Chemical Romance. We’d been waiting for this ...
3 Years for 3 Hours: King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard Melt Minds at the Greek Theatre Lily Ramus October 5, 2022 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews *DISCLAIMER: While I break down much of the setlist I am aware that I do not touch on every song they played. This is a conscious choice.* It had been three years since I bought the tickets in 2019. King G...
Moshing With Your Mom at the Goo Goo Dolls Ally Flygare September 8, 2022 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Creative Writing, Multimedia, music Sunday, September 4th marked the day of my first rendezvous with 90s American rock band, The Goo Goo Dolls. While an innate familiarity with their songs had been unknowingly instilled in me from early morning r...