Raving about this year’s HARD Summer Festival ft. Fisher, Chris Lake, Disclosure, Jamie xx Bailey Schroerlucke and Natasha Thussu Dhar August 10, 2024 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews 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 Jenai Johns-Peterson April 17, 2024 dance, EDM, indie scene, Indie-Rock, LGBTQ+, Pop, Reviews, women in music 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 Dorothy Eck March 22, 2024 Classical, Ballet, dance 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 Sravya Gadepalli May 3, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, LGBTQ+, Reviews 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 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...
Love and Rapture: A Cinderella Fairytale of A Night With the SF Ballet Dorothy Eck and Nico Chodor April 12, 2023 Columns and Opinions, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Opinion, Reviews, San Francisco 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 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...
A Night Out With the San Francisco Ballet: The Colors of Dance Josh Jiwanmall March 17, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Music Composition, Opinion, Previews, Reviews, San Francisco 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 Tovah Popilsky March 16, 2022 Reviews, Uncategorized 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 Kennedy Rogers March 5, 2021 Interview 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 Nikita Bhatia December 2, 2019 Columns and Opinions 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 Makaila Heifner April 14, 2019 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews 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 Madeline Rohner November 27, 2018 Mixtapes 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 Jacob Green October 20, 2018 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews, Uncategorized 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...
A gentle introduction to Resident Advisor’s authority on taste Ismail Salim April 9, 2018 Blog, Columns and Opinions It’s safe to say that Resident Advisor is one of the highest authorities in the electronic music world. The brand has come a long way since Nick Sabine and Paul Clement launched their Australian-focused onlin...