Listen to My Spotify Playlist: How Streaming Affects Music Consumption and Culture Ellie Nguyen August 9, 2023 Columns and Opinions, Cultural Commentary, Music Consumption, Opinion, Political 3 Comments The winter season has become synonymous with Spotify Wrapped season, wreaking havoc upon us trembling listeners, fearful of what our Wrapped will unearth. Maybe you listened to Your Best American Girl by Mitski...
PARTYING WELL WITH BRAXE + FALCON Annie Bush November 14, 2022 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews There’s this flimsiness about a party that makes a good one so memorable. It’s hard to name the variable that, when provoked with the right agitator, catalyzes that sort of hazy euphoria that makes going ou...
San Francisco, Where’s Your Disco?: Dom Dolla Headlines Day To Night Festival Eliza Scheer October 22, 2022 Berkeley, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, EDM, Multimedia, music, Photos, Reviews, Uncategorized Day To Night Festival Day 1 Thousands of people traveled to Treasure Island on October 15 for Day To Night Festival. Only a 15 minute drive from Berkeley, I was at the festival in no time. There was onl...
Dancing your troubles off with Yaeji Marta Meazza October 29, 2018 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews Yaeji’s performance at the UC Theatre on October 20th was an experience, and a very peculiar one. A bizarre mixture of people was brought together under the high ceiling of the ornate Berkeley venue to witnes...
20-ish questions with DJ Harvey Ismail Salim March 13, 2018 Interview Harvey Bassett is one of the few DJs in the world that you could reasonably call a “rockstar” — Rolling Stone once described him as the “Keith Richards of the DJ world.” It might be his charming grin,...
Tijana T talks politics, raves, and her path to becoming Serbia’s foremost DJ Ismail Salim February 19, 2018 Interview Earlier this month, San Francisco was lucky enough to hold Tijana T with the As You Like It crew for one night. Tijana’s been in the game for over a decade now, and she's done pretty much everything you could...
Retrospective: Ten years later, Daft Punk’s Alive 2007 remains a masterclass in live albums Jordan Aronson November 19, 2017 Columns and Opinions Looking at an artist’s discography in retrospect, live albums often don’t stand out as particularly important works. For fans, live albums are a nice bonus, a different take on music they already enjoy; but...
Quinn XCII is as real as it gets Annie Nguyen November 10, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Multimedia, Photos, Reviews There’s pop, there’s electronic, there’s hip-hop, there’s reggae, and then there’s Quinn XCII, who somehow can effortlessly combine all of those four into his own unexpected, exciting, vibrant sound. ...
Tchami brings the house, tears it down Jordan Aronson March 19, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews French techno/future house producer Tchami rolled through the Bay Area for a Tuesday night stop at the Fox Theater. Fending off the midweek blues and the seemingly ever-present burden of midterms, the packed th...
All the colours of Alle Farben George Green March 18, 2017 Interview “Hallo” a distinctly German accent breaks the silence. Moments earlier, I was preparing my workspace for an interview with the highly successful and very talented German DJ-Producer, Alle Farben. I was scro...
“A moment for escapism:” Classixx shuts the world out of the Regency Ballroom Jordan Aronson November 14, 2016 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews Last Thursday at the Regency Ballroom in San Francisco, a different type of protest formed - a passive one, marked by joy, color, and music. The perpetrators? Classixx, the Los Angeles-based DJ duo of Michael D...
Jamie xx brings late-century rave music, In Colour to mid-century Bimbo’s 365 Club Joanna Jiang July 29, 2015 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews If any a place in San Francisco could conceal a Shoreditch club, it would be Bimbo’s 365. The mid-sized mid-20th century concert hall doesn’t often see electronic acts, so Jamie xx’s first Bay Area ap...
Carlson spins a dizzying loop with solo debut record, Never Easy Never Been Easier Joanna Jiang June 22, 2015 Album Review Last year, Venezuelan producer Arca made waves when he released a solo record after working with the likes of FKA twigs, Kanye West, and Hudson Mohawke. In a similar pattern, Carlson (first name Al) drops hi...
Gallery: Clean Bandit at The Regency Ballroom Maddy Smith April 28, 2015 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos April 13 UK quartet Clean Bandit played at San Francisco's Regency Ballroom, bringing a club night vibe and unreal energy to the venue despite coming straight from a wild set at Coachella. Having interviewe...
Clean Bandit’s Jack Patterson on songs, styles, strings, and singers Maddy Smith April 10, 2015 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, Interview 1 Comment Clean Bandit are just blowing up internationally. With their recently won Grammy and success of New Eyes (2014), they are getting more and more renowned throughout the world. The album’s fourth single ...