Ray LaMontagne and The Belle Brigade lullaby Oakland Tuesday night Sam Putt October 17, 2014 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos Ray LaMontagne, along with the Los Angeles based duo, The Belle Brigade, turned the Fox Theater into an encapsulating and classy affair complete with ushers, mirrors, end tables, and a stand-up bass in the alr...
Kasabian make it look ‘Eez-Eh’ at the Fox Luke Sheard October 11, 2014 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Multimedia, Photos, Reviews It’s safe to say that Kasabian are used to playing bigger venues, much bigger than the Fox Theater in Oakland. Ahead of the release of 48:13 the band spent a summer touring festivals, headlining Glastonbu...
Thievery Corporation: earthly enigma infused with musical genius Nikos Zarikos October 7, 2014 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews Generally speaking, it seems that bands aim to transport their audiences to alternate universes or spacial realms through their music, to transport them anywhere but here on this planet. It is very rare fo...
The spiritual promise of Thievery Corporation comes to the Fox this Thursday Nikos Zarikos September 29, 2014 News Perhaps it takes more than a thief to be a good artist. Picasso would reply with contentious conflagration, but then again Picasso wasn't challenged with the brutality of technology. The onset of streami...
Passenger confidently orates the Fox Theater, brings friends Stu Larsen and The Once Sam Putt and Luke Sheard September 13, 2014 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos 1 Comment Eclectic human masses slowly oozed into the historic Fox Theater in Oakland on a Thursday evening. The opening acts of the night were short bursts of vocally-driven songs that filled the entire theater with...
Rodrigo y Gabriela set fire to the Fox Conner Smith May 21, 2014 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos, Reviews Roaring through Oakland on their roots rock revival tour for recently released 9 Dead Alive, Mexican acoustic duo Rodrigo y Gabriela took Oakland’s Fox Theater on a wild ride on Friday, May 9. Opening the ...
The Knife deliver dynamic act in rare Bay Area performance Audrey Gertz April 20, 2014 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews “Welcome to the Shaking the Habitual Tour!" cheered The Knife’s opening hype man at the Fox Theater Wednesday night. "I’m here to warm you up!” He bounced onstage to face a full house of plaid shirts,...