What So Not takes The Fox to a new world Jacob Green April 8, 2018 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews Just past 9:30, the lights on the stage went dim. Slowly, each light fixture turned on and off, flashing between white, red and blue colors before moving to the next. First, the overheads. Next, the massive pan...
Roger Daltrey defies age at the Fox Theater Shayan Shirkhodai March 20, 2018 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews Roger Daltrey may have gotten older, but his voice has not aged one bit. The 74-year-young frontman of infamous British rock band, The Who, proved to the Fox Theater that age is nothing more than a number. Welc...
Real Estate brings warmth back to the Bay Annie Nguyen February 28, 2018 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Multimedia, Photos, Reviews Last weekend, Real Estate visited Fox Theatre to play their first show in Oakland, CA. The concert was part of the Noise Pop Music & Arts Festival, the Bay's annual indie arts week, and it was only fitting ...
BREAKING: B-Side editor-in-chief pops mosh cherry Natalie Silver February 26, 2018 News Pomona, CA — On Feb. 25, The B-Side received an anonymous report that Sofia Duarte, one of the Editors-in-Chief of The B-Side, the premier music magazine of the number one public university in the world,...
Broken Social Scene prove their resilience with arms wide open Dylan Medlock October 31, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews Right now, if I were to mention Broken Social Scene to the friends I listened to music with a few years back, the sad reality is that many would probably dismiss them as a band they “listened to in high schoo...
Living Ultralife with Oh Wonder Desiree Diaz October 23, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Multimedia, Photos, Reviews From a small show at Rickshaw Stop in January 2016, to a sold out concert at the Fox Theater, indie electro-pop duo (and couple) Oh Wonder have come a long way. Before they hit the stage, opener Jaymes Y...
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...
Run the Jewels storm Oakland Arnav Chaturvedi February 8, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews The destructive East Coast duo of Killer Mike and El P shook the Fox Theater in Oakland last Friday (2-3-17), to mark the halfway point of their “Run the World” tour. Run the Jewels is touring to usher ...
Two Door Cinema Club keeps momentum with new tour, third album Jacob Elsanadi December 7, 2016 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews At the first prospect of attending the Two Door Cinema Club show this past week at the Fox Theater Oakland, I was enamored. Even though I may have fallen off the Two Door bandwagon a couple times over the years...
Stuck in a Room with Mac Miller Arnav Chaturvedi November 21, 2016 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews In light of the recent election, the people of Oakland that weren’t protesting on the night of November 9th, gathered in The Fox Theater to hear Mac Miller on his Divine Feminine tour. The once child rapper o...
Young the Giant light up the Fox Theater Oakland, remind us they’re “just getting started” Jacob Elsanadi October 30, 2016 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews Young the Giant seem to represent the best of the all-too pervasive “indie rock” branding. For a band playing within a genre that in recent years has been taken over by overtly corporate efforts at making a...
Grouplove is a Big Mess – in the best way possible Michelle Cho October 20, 2016 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Multimedia, Photos, Reviews Thursday night in Oakland on the evening of October 6th was a little more vibrant than usual, thanks to the presence of indie-pop band Grouplove. The five members performed at the Fox Theater on a stage of brig...
Foals Provide the “Rock” in Indie Rock Brendan Redmond October 4, 2016 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews As the Uber neared the flashing welcome sign of the Fox Theater, my mind began to race. I was unsure what atmosphere Yannis Philippakis and the remainder of Foals would create. As soon as I walked into the Fox,...
Explosions in the Sky exactly that in Oakland Edfil Dulay May 16, 2016 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos Swaying bodies reminiscent of oceans currents, a mystifying curtain of hazy fluorescent lights, and colossal booms and beats dazzled the Fox, filled with eager spectators there to see Explosions in the Sky thi...
Father John Misty Gives Us His Blessings Jacob Elsanadi April 9, 2016 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews Father John Misty enamored loyal fans and made believers out of the uninitiated in Oakland this past April Fool’s Day. In an ironic yet undoubtedly genuine performance, the artist preached to and played with ...