Steve Lacy debuts Apollo XXI at the Fillmore Annie Nguyen November 2, 2019 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Multimedia, Photos, Reviews LA-based artist Steve Lacy played a sold out show at San Francisco's Fillmore last Saturday performing his debut album, Apollo XXI (2019). Upon crunching down a Red Delicious Fillmore apple during intermission,...
Gary Clark Jr. transports us out of this world at the Fillmore Makaila Heifner October 11, 2018 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews Night one of Gary Clark Jr.’s four-night residency at the Fillmore was a smashing success. Fresh off of his recent tour with Lenny Kravitz, the singer showed no sign of fatigue. On the contrary, Clark brought...
Wordless stories with Khruangbin Brendan Redmond May 5, 2018 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews Walking in to the Fillmore on Tuesday night, I did not know what to expect from Khruangbin’s live performance. The Texas based, groovy instrumental trio packs a lot of punch on their albums. I had doubts thei...
COIN has an existential realization at the Fillmore Desiree Diaz March 12, 2018 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Multimedia, Photos, Reviews It’s about 4 o’clock, four hours before the show starts, and the line is already 50-people long. Just minutes before doors open, the crowd wraps along Geary Blvd and around the corner. COIN fans come out i...
Enjoying a late night with Saint Motel Arnav Chaturvedi November 2, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews Remember being 12, up past midnight on a weekday when you couldn’t sleep, turning on the TV and scanning through all the strange commercials and reruns? It was always the shows that never played...
There’s nothing wrong with living like this: On the road with FIDLAR Natalie Silver and Rosie Davidowitz October 12, 2017 Columns and Opinions, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews It’s kind of like being a 13-year-old who was dragged to Sunday mass….or a frequenter at sex addicts anonymous meetings… or a customer at Berkeley’s iconic adult emporium Good Vibrations... or an inmate...
The Revivalists bring New Orleans to life at the Fillmore Brendan Redmond February 13, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews Walking up the stairs of a historic venue, it’s surreal realizing how many famous artists have walked the same steps. The walls of the Fillmore in San Francisco are lined with action shots of music’s most p...
Dancing Away with Rüfüs du Sol Arnav Chaturvedi December 6, 2016 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews Australian trio, Rüfüs du Sol turned the Fillmore into a tropical nightclub last week during their North American Fall Tour. On the second of two nights in San Francisco, the band brought out the growing,...
Lucius Takes us Halfway to Heaven Conner Smith November 29, 2016 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews It was full speed right from the start. The murmur of casual conversations beneath the warm glow of the Fillmore’s chandeliers and the crunching of house-provided scarlet apples between teeth were immedia...
The Last Shadow Puppets: A certain bromance rouses the Bay Sofia Duarte April 25, 2016 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos The Last Shadow Puppets returned to the Bay in promotion of their latest album, Everything You've Come to Expect (2016). Alex Turner, of Arctic Monkeys, and Miles Kane, of The Rascals, reprised their world-fam...
What we expect from Last Shadow Puppets at the Fillmore Jacob Elsanadi April 15, 2016 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, Previews The Last Shadow Puppets will be bringing their signature Brit-rock style to the historic Fillmore this coming Sunday. Fronted by Arctic Monkey’s lead singer Alex Turner and the Rascal’s Miles Kane, the band...
Show of the Week: Black Joe Lewis at the Fillmore Myra December 3, 2013 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wa8v7VsH0IM Black Joe Lewis is having a party, and he wants you to come. The Austin-based musician and his backing band are bringing their funky brand of blues rock to the Bay at...
Austra Ignites the Fillmore, Shows Love for SF Audrey Gertz September 9, 2013 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos, Reviews Katie Stelmanis sings with her band Austra at the Fillmore in San Francisco. Toronto-based band Austra returned to San Francisco on Saturday for the second time this year to promote their well praised sophomo...