The new face of folk: an interview with Caamp Makaila Heifner May 2, 2018 Interview If black coffee and cigarettes on a Sunday morning had a soundtrack, it would be the music of Caamp. Caamp is comprised of Taylor Meier and Evan Westfall, two childhood friends who have been playing music since...
Oberst in October-st: A Hardly Strictly Photo Essay Circe Ament October 12, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos, Reviews I arrived to the Rooster Stage roughly thirty minutes before Conor Oberst was scheduled to start. The band who played right before him were real gems, First Aid Kit, a Swedish folk duo composed to two sisters. ...
Welcome to Redgate Ranch Fiona Duerr September 26, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Multimedia, Photos, Reviews Save the Waves is a nonprofit organization with a mission to protect coastal ecosystems around the world. For a couple years now, they have been putting on a small music festival involving good tunes, DIY campi...
Desert daze preview and ticket giveaway Veronica Irwin August 25, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, Previews Coming back for their sixth installation, Desert Daze is set to rock out Joshua Tree October 12th-15th. To celebrate the start of the new semester, we will be giving away tickets to the event. The “ritual ...
Arroyo Seco Weekend Meaghan Allen July 19, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews Running for twenty-five miles along the foot of the San Gabriel Mountains in Los Angeles County is a strip of water called the Arroyo Seco, meaning “dry stream” in Spanish. As a seasonal river, the Arroyo S...
Phoenix absolutely dominates BFD stage Annie Nguyen June 14, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos LIVE 105’s Big Fucking Day is the South Bay’s one-day music festival. It’s that one festival that’s kind of like a knock-off version of Coachella, but surprisingly not so hard on your wallet. That last ...
For Whom the Festival Rolls HR Huber-Rodriguez October 31, 2016 Columns and Opinions, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews I stood in a crowd of about 20,000, waiting for the man who might very well go down as the best rapper of all time. Earlier that day, I had previously been harangued into seeing The Chainsmokers, and their bran...
Make America Grateful Again Natalie Silver October 6, 2016 Columns and Opinions When American author and countercultural leader Ken Kesey said “You’re either on the bus or off the bus,” he was referring to the Merry Pranksters….or acid…or the combination of the two on the psyched...
A Day at Hardly Strictly: Where the young and old dance as one Fiona Duerr October 5, 2016 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, Photos, Uncategorized Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Music Festival is a beautiful gift to San Francisco. The free, three-day music festival draws a diverse group to Golden Gate Park with the purpose of dancing, singing, and watching liv...
Symbiotic Stoke Conner Smith September 10, 2016 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, Previews Grab your orca inflatables, heart-shaped sunglasses, and decorated parasols because the incredible Symbiosis team is calling us back to Woodward Reservoir for this year’s Family Tree celebration in two s...
Punk Rock’s Not Dead: Saturday at Burger Boogaloo 2016 Fiona Duerr July 3, 2016 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos One summer day in Mosswood Park started with a visit from an astronaut on the drums on the Dirty Mouth stage at Burger Boogaloo. The Young Fresh Fellows were neither young nor fresh, but they delivered an ent...
Serenity Gathering 2016: Safe in the sands Conner Smith March 30, 2016 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews The desert did us dirty at this year’s Serenity Gathering. With around-the-clock live art and opportunity for exploration in the stunning and stark Joshua Tree landscape, this communal coalescence hail...
House, Techno, Love: Desert Hearts 2015 Conner Smith April 3, 2015 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews These three words are the mantra of the San Diego-based Desert Hearts crew that celebrated their third anniversary this year. Fronted by world renowned DJs such as Mikey Lion and Lee Reynolds, this distinct...
Noise Pop 2015: Orchid Tapes showcase proves a sincere success Joanna Jiang March 4, 2015 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews Saturday evening at the newly reopened Swedish American Hall began as an excruciatingly slow, sit-down affair. The picturesque venue, Noise Pop headquarters for this year’s festival, was exactly as descri...
Noise Pop 2015: Flight Facilities lands safely at The Regency, thanks San Franciscans for travelling with them Isaac Yi February 28, 2015 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews As one of the early headlining acts for this year's Noise Pop Festival, Flight Facilities transported the crowd to elevated heights last Tuesday at The Regency Ballroom, the second US stop on their Down ...