A jester’s surprise: The Garden hits The Regency Ballroom Maya Banuelos December 3, 2022 Columns and Opinions, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews In one of their final stops on the Horseshit on Route 66 tour The Garden gave their first of two nights at San Francisco’s Regency Ballroom on November 29th. Despite a notably lackluster energy from the band ...
Turnstile – bringing intimacy to the festival stage Sam Jameson April 17, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Multimedia, Photos, Reviews Festivals are fantastic in the way that they expose attendees to a wide variety of bands spanning across many genres. In combination with warm weather, overpriced parking, massive crowds, overpriced vegetarian ...
Knocked Loose – An insight about the importance of genre diversification Sam Jameson March 8, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Multimedia, Photos, Reviews A band's classification within a specific genre is always an integral part of their self-identification as who they are as an artist. The concept of genre classification is a topic that holds an extreme amount ...
Talking Please Help Me with Funeral Advantage’s Tyler Kershaw Ally Mason February 23, 2017 Album Preview, Interview, Previews After releasing an initial demo in 2013 and a few split 7”s (including one with labelmates Former Ghosts) Funeral Advantage's debut LP Body Is Dead (2015) and subsequent Body Is Dead (Demos) (2015) found its ...
Code Orange – The only thing to fear is Forever Sam Jameson January 31, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Multimedia, Photos, Reviews, Videos Music has always existed as one of the greatest methods of conjuring a particular feeling within the mind. And the forefront of these conjured feelings lies happiness, sadness, and anger. A wide variety of comm...
An Interview with a Band Called Death Grip. No, Not That One. Matt Sater January 22, 2017 Interview They say you learn something valuable from every mistake you make. Sometimes, a mistake teaches you a life lesson, reveals a solution to a problem, or shows you how to become a better person. Other times, a mi...
Riding Above A Bad Wave – Turnstile Moves Thru California Sam Jameson December 6, 2016 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Multimedia, Photos Turnstile returned to California to close out the final dates of their fall tour promoting the release of their new 7-inch entitled "Move Thru Me". Turnstile played 4 sold-out dates throughout California, playi...
Noise Pop 2015: Director Scott Crawford talks punk rock doc Salad Days Audrey Gertz February 19, 2015 Film, Interview, News Though he may not be doing stage dives at Kingface shows anymore, director Scott Crawford is still a devout punk pundit. His recent feature Salad Days: The Birth of Punk Rock in the Nation’s Capital docu...
Modern Baseball, Crying, and co. prove they’re ‘punk enough’ at 924 Gilman Atreyue Ryken December 4, 2014 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos On Friday November 21, 924 Gilman (Berkeley’s famous punk rock mecca) was filled to the brim -- fans of (nearly) all ages came out for Walter Mitty and his Makeshift Orchestra, Somos, Crying, Knuckle Puck, an...