Tagged folk punk

On a rather uneventful St. Patrick’s Day, I found myself on the 36 (which almost didn’t stop for me) making my way towards Downtown Berkeley for a Sunday evening concert at the Cornerstone. The headliner fo...

(SANDY) Alex G’s name has become recognizable enough that it has typecast a rather unbecoming local association: that he, in the footsteps of Elliott Smith, is the crowned prince of the indie sad boy stereoty...

If you read my last concert review, you know that I think punk rock angst should be taken seriously. Unfortunately, The Front Bottoms are a stellar example of why it is not. This fact is especially disappointin...

“1, 2, 3 will you list it off to me? How you’re sorry you feel weird in a jubilation dream” is what the Girlpool girls whisper at the top of their third full-length -- and, of course, still wonderfully wr...

Last Wednesday night, February 24, folk punk band AJJ (formerly Andrew Jackson Jihad) graced San Francisco. While the adoption of the acronym represented a step away from their old brand of edginess, they’ve ...