Spacey Jane Plays a Heavenly Set at The Chapel in San Francisco Eliza Scheer November 11, 2022 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews Last weekend, I was lucky enough to see the two best live performances I have ever been to. Kicking off the weekend with the Jungle Giants on Friday, I thought there was no chance that Spacey Jane’s Saturday ...
Screamin’ Jay Hawkins’ everlasting impact on alternative music Jackie Greene October 24, 2022 Music History, Opinion 1 Comment Shock rock is exemplified by acts like Alice Cooper, Marilyn Manson*, Screaming Lord Sutch, and Arthur Brown. Its foremost derivative, horror punk, is populated by bands like Misfits or The Cramps. The Cure, Si...
HELLTONES AND MACKS AND SPOON BENDERS, OH MY! Nico Chodor November 19, 2021 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews Who? The Helltones, The Macks, and Spoon Benders; What? Oakland Secret Halloween Bash; When? Thursday, October 21st at Oakland Secret - community arts space for live music and vendors, but also home to my good ...
13 spooky songs to serenade your soul this season Piper Samuels October 20, 2021 Blog, Mixtapes, Uncategorized The season of the supernatural is upon us, and it’s been a long time coming. Thou who shall not be named (hint: rhymes with “shmaronavirus”) hindered our chances of celebrating last October’s divine dar...
Trippie Redd’s Pegasus flew a little too close to the moon Amber Ellertson November 19, 2020 Album Review, Reviews Embed from Getty Imageswindow.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'-lPjOlJlRd18qprRcQWwVA',sig:'w6qA_1ZbBPJbPEAOhb2CISM2ALGdk0v5L7VK1k7GcPg=',w:'594px',h:'3...
Psychobilly Monsters: The Cramps’ Threefold Relationship with Horror Cinema Sophie Turovsky November 1, 2020 Columns and Opinions An intentionally amateurish garage band. Soulmates side by side, feeding off of each other’s dark, provocative energy. A sonorously tremorous voice layered over a minor-toned psychobilly melody. Macabre and ...
Metal for Halloween! Tyler Harding October 29, 2020 Album Review, Reviews Halloween is celebrated through disparate traditions by cultures around the world. Globalization in the United States has turned the season into an amalgamation of customs from across the world, the simulacrum...
RL Grime Halloween IX: The holiday tradition lives on Paulette Ely October 28, 2020 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Mixtapes, News, The Weekend Menu Let’s get right into it: Concerts are nowhere on the horizon, dressing up these days means simply wearing something other than sweatpants, and spiced (or spiked) cider just doesn’t hit right when spooky se...
Hexenbrett’s Happy Haunting Tyler Harding May 30, 2020 Album Review, Reviews 1 Comment Horror is paradoxically uncool: the elements of horror are ubiquitous and mainstream, and yet the genre itself remains insular and weird, the torch passionately carried by modern directors like Robert Eggers a...
From the dungeon of Barrows: a B-side Halloween playlist Everett Williams October 31, 2018 Mixtapes With Halloween upon us, we invite you to join us for an unconventional playlist, filled with haunting songs from a wide variety of artists. This playlist is an attempt to avoid the cliche (albeit classic) Hallo...
A “Hot Mess” discothequé: Chromeo x Spookfest 2014 Joanna Jiang November 2, 2014 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos It may have been Halloween, but the only thing scary last Friday was the number of patrons at LIVE 105’s Spookfest who wrote Chromeo off as a “band.” In fact, one patron we spoke with at the end of th...
Show Review: Flaming Lips’ Halloween Bloodbath Myra November 6, 2013 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews Wayne Coyne from The Flaming Lips dressed as "Carrie" for Halloween. Halfway through his set last Thursday, Flaming Lips front man Wayne Coyne declared it was “the greatest Halloween party San Francisco had...
Get Your Freak On: 12 Great Tracks for Halloween 2013 Myra October 31, 2013 Multimedia BOO. It's our first Halloween here at Resound UC Berkeley, and to get Cal on the spook track, our staff submitted the songs that creep them out most, and what they'll be playing as they suit up for those upcomi...