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Trains and Changing Constants: KST’s Theatrical Odyssey at the Great American Music Hall

Yansu Tan
April 2, 2024
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews
KST, or 康士坦的變化球, performed the fifth and last stop of their 2024 US Tour for their latest album, 眠月線 Track to Sleeping Moon (2023) on March 16 at Great American Music Hall in San Francisco. ...

8 DAYS/14 SHOWS/9 VENUES: A Countercultural Halloweek at Psyched! Fest

Nico Chodor
November 6, 2023
Cultural Commentary, Columns and Opinions, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Feature, Multimedia, Music Consumption, News, Photos, Punk, Reviews, Rock, San Francisco
Psyched! Fest - San Francisco's Independent Festival of Arts, Music, Diversity & Counterculture - opened Wednesday, October 25th at Rickshaw Stop. Brought to you by Psyched! Radio, the multiracial nonprofit...

The heartbeat that is black midi

Avery Flieder
November 4, 2021
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews
1 Comment
In my poetry class, I learned of the relationship between breath in occurrence with how we experience a poem. Where we take these breaths, how we take our breaths, and when we take our breaths, influence our re...

True magic: a night with Rayland Baxter

Makaila Heifner
March 22, 2019
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews
Rayland Baxter is the perfect mix of singer-songwriter, psychedelic rock, and country. His songs are sickeningly sweet, a tad-bit whimsical, and just the right kind of rowdy. Baxter brought his eclectic mix to ...

At home in the crowd: Iceage and The Black Lips

Marta Meazza
November 21, 2018
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews
On Friday night, I was welcomed into the Great American Music Hall by the Surfbort’s lead singer’s political outcry: “fuck Trump, fuck white supremacy, fuck rapists.” I felt immediately at home. Blue ey...

Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real bring country to the Bay Area

Shayan Shirkhodai
April 26, 2018
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews
Lukas Nelson remains one of the few singers on this planet whose voice couples a powerful growl with an unignorable natural vibrato… and he makes sure to show it off! Along with his band, Promise of the Real,...

Being human in public with Girlpool

Walker Spence
February 23, 2018
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews
Girlpool exploded onto the indie scene with their debut album Before the World Was Big (2015), and have developed a devoted following in the years since. Their sophomore album, Powerplant (2017), sees the addit...

Yasmine Hamdan in SF: Conversations and Special Guests

Michael Elsanadi
November 18, 2017
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews
Entering the Great American Music Hall, I was welcomed with friendly Arab faces and the soothing choral hymn of a number of Arabic dialects being spoken. With this being one of Yasmine Hamdan’s first times to...

The Babe Rainbow: Saturday night monkey disco?

Bianca Lu
October 26, 2017
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Multimedia, Photos, Reviews
Oh man. What’s up with all the good psych coming from Australia? Tame Impala, Sunbeam Sound Machine, Moses Gunn Collective, Pond, King Gizzard, and The Babe Rainbow all hail from the mysterious land in th...

Going hard at the Jay Som show: Melina and friends return to the Bay with unbridled fun

Adrienne Lee
October 26, 2017
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“People are going hard at the Jay Som show!” someone in the crowd exclaimed. Jay Som, AKA Oakland-based musician Melina Duterte, looked up and beamed. “People are going hard at the Jay Som show!”...

California State of Shine: Best Coast Hits Cornerstone

Ally Mason
October 3, 2017
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews
Life is full of clichés. When you’re in love, you behave foolishly. When it rains, it pours. When the sun shines, the world feels right. Best Coast revitalizes these tropes to create straightforward narrativ...

SALES brings “Jamz” to Great American Music Hall

Ally Mason
September 30, 2017
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews
I once read a piece of music journalism which analogized the music of SALES to a Beach House record mistakenly played at 45 rpm. It makes sense — both groups craft superbly minimal pop songs utilizing program...

Moses Sumney starts tour off with a bang after dropping Aromanticism

Anna Nguyen
September 29, 2017
Album Review, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews
Moses Sumney is talented, majorly talented. If the first minute of his show couldn’t tell you that, his features on tracks of big name artists like Flume (“Weekend”) and Solange (“Mad”) should.  With...

Jorja Smith mesmerizes at Great American Music Hall

Eda Yu
September 8, 2017
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews
Jorja Smith, the 20-year-old R&B English wunderkind, stepped out onto the stage of the Great American Music Hall to the ecstatic cheers of a sold-out crowd last Thursday night. First gaining traction in 201...

The Cactus Blossoms to swoon the crowd at The Great American Music Hall

Brendan Redmond
April 25, 2017
Interview
1 Comment
Seconds into their debut album, You’re Dreaming (2016), The Cactus Blossoms lasso you tightly, tugging you backward in time to a lost sound. Their smooth, 50’s style country resonance lulls you into a peace...
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