At home with Porches Bianca Lu March 9, 2018 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Multimedia, Photos, Videos “Hi hi.” Synth lord, frontman, the brains behind Porches, Aaron Maine, stepped onto the stage with a gentle introduction that easily wooed every being in the venue. Porches had a two-night residency...
The Seshen preview and ticket giveaway Veronica Irwin November 29, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, Previews, Uncategorized Bay area-based R&B group The Seshen is set to grace the Cornerstone stage in Berkeley this Friday. Opening will be LoCura, Space Captain, and DJ Dream Queen. Characterized by Akiyoshi Ehara’s synthy-di...
Keys n Krates storm Cornerstone for Audiotistic afterparty Jordan Aronson July 28, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews On Saturday, July 15, after headlining the Audiotistic festival in Mountain View, Canadian-DJ-trio Keys n Krates travelled up the East Bay for an afterparty set at Cornerstone. Bombastic beats in tow, Keys put ...
Tchami brings the house, tears it down Jordan Aronson March 19, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews French techno/future house producer Tchami rolled through the Bay Area for a Tuesday night stop at the Fox Theater. Fending off the midweek blues and the seemingly ever-present burden of midterms, the packed th...
Nicolas Jaar fills the UC Theatre with dread, dreams, and dance on Halloweekend Brian Grossman November 5, 2016 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews Nicolas Jaar isn’t the type to keep with conventions. With the release of Sirens this past September, he further blurred the line between electronic dance and experimental music, filling its 41-minutes wit...
Basement Jaxx return with energetic set at Public Works Luke Sheard June 30, 2015 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews Source: Public Works SF on Facebook On Friday night Basement Jaxx took a break from their latest tour to entertain the Bay with a quick DJ set at Public Works in San Francisco's Mission District. The Grammy...
DOOMSQUAD enable Christmas in July with a two-part dance suite Joanna Jiang May 20, 2015 Album Review With a moniker like DOOMSQUAD, one can be certain the Blumas aren't the type who take themselves too seriously – their backstory is exactly that. “We’re superserious and at the same time we’re not s...
Stromae steals Fox audience Friday evening, lives up to name Angelica Zocchi April 20, 2015 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews Friday April 10 at the Fox Theater in Oakland, Stromae poured out his raw, gutsy artistic soul in a performance which did not simply delight the audience like one of those cozy, subtly-drunken summer days. N...
Lemaitre electrify Cal students on picturesque Memorial Glade Angelica Zocchi and Luke Sheard March 21, 2015 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, News Memorial Glade is often seen as the most serene part of an otherwise frenzied UC Berkeley campus, and Norwegian electro-funk duo Lemaitre's presence helped keep up this reputation. On a Saturday afternoo...
Local spotlight: The Hundred Days host an EP pre-release party, talk recording and post-show eats Joanna Jiang January 18, 2015 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Interview They're always looking out for their fans, unexpectedly self-conscious, and total tea snobs. This is what we learned about local rock outfit The Hundred Days in 90 minutes before the now East Bay (formerly...
Chaz Bundick’s voice will be missed on his debut as Les Sins Linda Choi November 3, 2014 Album Review 1 Comment Chillwave may not be a canonized genre of music, but Toro y Moi is definitely a canonized name in said genre -- more like, his name has been engraved, by lightning, on the stone slab of said genre. Since f...
The motley foolishness of Mark Morris Dance Group fueled by Beethoven, Cutler, and Cowell Etan Khanal October 27, 2014 Columns and Opinions, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews "The Muir". Credit: Richard Termine. Dance can be funny and whimsical, idiosyncratic and beautiful -- characteristics overlooked or under-appreciated by today’s audiences, particularly by college studen...
Vacationer talks about growing up, prepares for a night at Slim’s Sam Putt October 20, 2014 Interview 1 Comment On a mid-week morning, I sat down to chat with Kenny Vasoli of Vacationer ahead of his headlining tour to promote his band's latest endeavor, Relief, released earlier this year via Downtown Records. We ...
Clean Bandit make an explosive San Francisco debut, violinist Neil Amin-Smith talks writing, touring, and collaborations Luke Sheard September 30, 2014 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Interview, Photos 1 Comment For a group of former students, Cambridge, England’s Clean Bandit went from 0 to 100 real quick. The four-piece (plus-two live) stopped in San Francisco for about twelve hours yesterday in the midst of their...
Nguzunguzu unveils prismatic mixtape Perfect Lullaby Jay Kwok February 27, 2014 Album Review Known as Nguzunguzu, the Los Angeles-based pair of Asma Maroof and Daniel Pineda recently gifted us an immersive sequel to their 2011 mixtape Perfect Lullaby, which has been posted with an accompanying stream ...