Cupid Deluxe: An Ode to Queer Love
With 11 beautiful, soulful, and intense tracks, Cupid Deluxe (2013) compresses the feeling of giving to someone who can never be pleased—the constant chase for validation, for proof that your love means som...
Raving about this year’s HARD Summer Festival ft. Fisher, Chris Lake, Disclosure, Jamie xx
After 40,000 steps, two missing scarves, and a shredded pair of boots, HARD Summer left us with an echo of beats in our minds and sore bodies from a weekend of dancing. It was acts including Fisher and Chris La...
Only in Your Wet Dreams: A Double Feature on Snow Wife & Wet Leg
Skydiving off of a building. Skinny dipping with your best friend. Committing arson in the dead of night. Have you done any of these actions that I cannot legally condone? No? Well, neither have I. This, howeve...
Between Splendor and Substance: Navigating the Depths of Possokhov’s Anna Karenina Ballet
Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina pirouetted and pliéd gracefully across the stage at Zellerbach Auditorium this Saturday, in a ballet adaptation choreographed by Yuri Posshokhov. The talented dancers of the Joffr...
You Just Had to Be There: San Francisco’s Fake and Gay Boiler Room
Late this past Saturday night, April 29, Boiler Room hosted a sold-out event in collaboration with party-starters Fake and Gay in San Francisco at The Midway. With a sensational line-up of twenty three artist...
Yaeji playfully smashes expectations “With a Hammer” at Fox Theater
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...
Love and Rapture: A Cinderella Fairytale of A Night With the SF Ballet
The San Francisco Ballet’s production of Cinderella takes a modern twist on the classic fairytale, where in place of magic, mice, and wands that go bippity-bobbity-boop, there are Four Fates, colorful spirits...
100 gecs literally hit with fans
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...
A Night Out With the San Francisco Ballet: The Colors of Dance
Alright. Before I begin, I must preface that I am not an avid ballet or dance observer. However, in the San Francisco Ballet’s opening night performance of their newest show, The Colors of Dance, it honestly ...
Still Feeling Woozy after a Night Groovin’ at the Warfield
This past Monday night at the Warfield in San Francisco, Still Woozy and company gave their audience the performance of a lifetime. The night's concert consisted of three hour long sets featuring Legwurk, Walli...
Brijean’s album Feelings makes a dreamy debut
Bay Area locals and UC Berkeley alumni, Brijean Murphy and Doug Stuart released their debut album, Feelings on February 26, 2021 with Ghostly International. The album incorporates various styles with most not...
We Got Lucky with Daft Punk
While most people became familiar with Daft Punk in 2013 with the release of their Grammy-winning album Random Access Memories, the duo has been around longer than I’ve been alive. For a quick refresher, Thom...
FKJ’s electric night at the Warfield
I will argue till the day I die that French house music is superior. There’s something that just seems real about it, something that hits you deeper and urges you to move along with it. FKJ, also known as Fre...
The Weekday Morning Playlist
November is almost over, which means if you are anything like me, you are tired. If you’re a student, you are nearing the end of the semester. Procrastination, lack of motivation, and fatigue are beginning to...
Ekali takes DJing to another level at the Warfield
On the biggest headlining tour of his life, Vancouver-based producer Nathan Shaw, better known as Ekali, delivered a stunning performance to a sold-out crowd at The Warfield. On the back of his recently release...