Sun Room: The Final Breaths of a Carefree College Lifestyle Megan Darzynkiewicz and Eliza Scheer April 22, 2024 Berkeley, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, indie scene, Indie-Rock, Local, music, Reviews Last Thursday (April 11, 2024), I had the privilege to catch a performance by the band SUN ROOM as they made a pit stop in Northern California, playing two shows in Sacramento and Berkeley. This weekend, th...
Partying like it’s the late 1900s: the Breeders and Belly at the Warfield Sophia Shen October 27, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Rock, San Francisco 1 Comment Working as a stagehand at a music venue, you see enough middle-aged men whose bands you’ve never heard of strut across a stage. Thus, attending the Breeders’ 30th anniversary tour of their 1993 album Last S...
Garage Rock Legend, Ty Segall, Reawakens San Francisco Skylar Heyveld February 7, 2022 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Multimedia, Photos, Reviews The night of Wednesday, February 2nd in San Francisco appeared hushed and lethargic–few pedestrians scattered the sidewalks and the skyscrapers towered above, quiet and dim. A growing crowd gathered outside A...
The Regrettes delight at Bottom of the Hill Benjamin Micallef March 21, 2018 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews It could have been the way Lydia dominated a stage only less than twenty feet wide. Or maybe it was Genessa’s guitar solo in Seashore. Or possibly even the quartet’s cover of "Teenager in Love." Regardless...
The Frights: You Are Going To Hate This (Piece) Rosie Davidowitz, Natalie Silver and Bianca Lu December 9, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews A message from Rosie & Natalie, your Curators of Experience: Before reading this piece, please recite after us: “I will not take this piece seriously. I will take these words with a grain of salt. I wil...
Ty Segall ends Noise Pop and Fox Theater’s speakers Ally Mason and Fiona Duerr March 3, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews Who better to close out Noise Pop’s 25th year than Ty Segall? The former staple of the Bay Area music community delivered an explosive and dynamic end to the ten day festival that makes a point to highlight l...
Lyrical banality dooms Japandroids’ Near to the Wild Heart of Life HR Huber-Rodriguez February 2, 2017 Album Review, Reviews Vancouver garage rock duo Japandroids have made a name for themselves as the best guitar/drums act since the late White Stripes. Amassing heaps of critical praise following their 2009 commercial debut Post-Noth...
Sleigh Bells mine their sound for fresh ideas, find none on Jessica Rabbit HR Huber-Rodriguez November 19, 2016 Album Review, Reviews When you’ve been following the independent music scene for long enough, you start to see the same story-lines play out over and over again. There’s the classic “first album was solid, got signed to a bi...
Black Lips and Ariel Pink underwhelm, or deliberate, at Bimbo’s 365 Darius Kay October 16, 2015 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews As college kids and in one way or another, we're all coming of age. We're still having many "first" experiences -- accumulating necessary prerequisites to launch ourselves into uncertainty. We check off checkbo...
EZTV debut with Calling Out on Captured Tracks Arnav Chaturvedi July 12, 2015 Album Review Frontman Ezra Tenenbaum, bassist Shane O'Connell, and drummer Michael Stasiak comprise Brooklyn-born trio EZTV, who released their debut record Calling Out this past Friday. Tenenbaum had brought the group...
Palma Violets to bring the feels Thursday at Bottom of the Hill Jade Theriault June 3, 2015 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6il1Wdqwhs British garage rock four-piece Palma Violets are well-entrenched in a sweaty tour of their fresh-out-of-the-studio sophomore record Danger in the Club. After they ...
