Patti Smith’s tribute to generations of musical icons at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2024 Annie Wynner October 12, 2024 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, prog-rock, Punk, Reviews, Rock, San Francisco, women in music San Francisco boasted a striking 97 degrees on Sunday, the last day of the annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival and the warmest October 6th the city had ever seen. Despite the excessive heat, the streets s...
An audience’s view of Haley Heynderickx Gianna Caudillo October 12, 2024 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Country, indie, San Francisco Haley Heynderickx is always up. Her speaking voice curls up at the corners, lilting and genuine, like peeling wallpaper about to reveal something greater hidden behind. Delightful sentiments drift out of her mo...
Sleater-Kinney: Navigating a “Modern Girl” sound with 30-year punk roots Peri Zoe Yildirim-Stanley October 10, 2024 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Indie-Rock, Punk, Rock, San Francisco My experience on Friday, October 4th, Day 1 of San Francisco’s annual Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival starts with a harrowing journey, full of twists and turns (literally, physically turning around and w...
I can go deaf now that I’ve seen Deftones live with System of a Down at Golden Gate Park Bailey Schroerlucke August 22, 2024 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Uncategorized Following the weekend of San Francisco’s annual festival Outside Lands, the Golden Gate Park hosted 50,000 people for another day of music on August 17, though this time the event attracted a crowd of metal a...
Addison Sartino ‘Pulled it Together,’ Creating a Memorable Show For Fans, Despite Illness, a Broken Trailer, and a New Drummer Cole Haddock and Eliza Scheer November 24, 2022 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, indie, Photos, San Francisco We walked into the police station, and the only other person there had a curly blonde mullet, blue vest, and septum. “Hey, were you just at the Greeting Committee concert?” The guy said yeah...
Ween on the green at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2018 Clementine Zimmer October 11, 2018 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews “The Boognish is smiling down upon us!” After what feels like hundreds of tiny, well-placed footsteps through a seemingly endless floor of blankets and lawn chairs, we rejoice with the joy of plane crash...
Outside Lands 2015 excites, overwhelms, and unwinds on a sunny lawn Edfil Dulay August 19, 2015 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos It was Day One of San Francisco's annual Outside Lands Festival and fans had lined up well before the gates opened. Amongst the sea of selfie sticks and floral crowns were dedicated fans who had paid hundr...
The B-Side Picks: Outside Lands 2015 Joanna Jiang August 5, 2015 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, Staff Pick 1 Comment Each year – and despite drought -- the grass at Golden Gate Park is greener this second week of August, particularly for Bay Area soundhounds out scavenging for as many headliners in three days as possibl...
Hardly Strictly squares: a photo essay Conner Smith October 10, 2014 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos It seems the heat brought out the best in all of us this past weekend at another successful Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival at Golden Gate Park, one of the most exciting and unique annual events in the Bay ...