At home with Porches
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
"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
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
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
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 ...