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Mitski, Japanese Breakfast demonstrate the highs and lows of life on tour

HR Huber-Rodriguez
July 19, 2016
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews
Last Friday (4/8) the Starline Social Club in Oakland played host to two of the best working songwriters in indie rock: New York’s Mitski and Philadelphia’s Japanese Breakfast. While the former is a rapidly...

Interview: Glass Atlas chat about upcoming show, climate change, and coast rock

Vivian Chen
July 11, 2016
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, Interview
If you were around at The B-Side's original launch, you'll remember Glass Atlas. We caught up with them recently, after a long time no see and ahead of a show this Thursday at The Night Light, to discover the...

Mitski slays happiness with guitars on Puberty 2

HR Huber-Rodriguez
June 26, 2016
Album Review
Too often, single female musicians are lumped in with some amorphous singer-songwriter genre that encompasses any female vocalist with some combination of guitars, pianos, and strings sans band. Puberty 2, the ...

West Coast welcomes back Rogue Wave at Teragram Ballroom

Vivian Chen
June 24, 2016
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos
Last Friday night, Rogue Wave and Floating Action performed at Los Angeles's Teragram Ballroom. Floating Action, hailing from North Carolina, displayed their lo-fi indie folk-rock style through their two gu...

BRONCHO deliver bold set at Teragram Ballroom

Fiona Duerr
June 15, 2016
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos
After first stumbling upon BRONCHO a few months ago I was excited to see they would be on tour in my hometown. The Teragram Ballroom, located on the edge of downtown Los Angeles can be described as a more intim...

Andrew Bird promises to wow at SF’s Masonic

HR Huber-Rodriguez
May 16, 2016
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews
Multi-instrumentalist Andrew Bird's music is so layered and lushly arranged that it’d be difficult to imagine his live renditions accurately representing his studio creations. But Bird makes excellent use of ...

The blurring line between hip-hop and indie rock

Brendan Gibson
April 10, 2016
Columns and Opinions
Hip-hop and indie rock have always existed as largely separate genres, complete with their own musical touchstones, cultures, and roles in society, outside of the odd collaboration or sample. However, despite t...

Somebody call a doctor

Meaghan Allen
March 31, 2016
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews
Next to an overpass of the 101 Freeway in San Francisco is a music venue called the Brick & Mortar Music Hall. It is the evening of Easter Sunday, the day of Jesus’ resurrection, yet in this darkly lit h...

Wet cry and dance with debut record, Don’t You

Brendan Gibson
February 10, 2016
Album Review
Wet’s debut was a long time coming. Kelly Zutrau, Joe Valle, and Marty Sulkow have been creating and playing music together in different incarnations for nearly a decade. After coming together in Brooklyn...

Dr. Dog welcomed back to the Bay Area with open arms

Jacob Elsanadi and Sofia Duarte
February 8, 2016
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos
West Grove, Pennsylvania-based sextet Dr. Dog’s bona fide sound has permeated the ears and hearts of countless adoring fans for years. The band have been a mainstay of the American indie rock scene for more...

Kishi Bashi is dynamic, lively on new live album

Leka Gopal
November 15, 2015
Album Review
You may not have heard of Kishi Bashi, but you probably have heard him. Since 2011, he has recorded with and opened for artists like Sondre Lerche, Regina Spektor, of Montreal, and Alexi Murdoch. He is also a f...

Mac DeMarco captivates the Bay Area

Jack Hendershott
October 30, 2015
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews
Mac DeMarco doesn't just play, he performs. And on Monday night, the whole Bay Area was on hand to see it. One got the sense that this show was destined to be a special experience when, nearly an hour before hi...

Django Django animate and energize crowd in San Francisco

Valerie Law
October 24, 2015
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews
Django Django was nothing but electricity at the Regency Ballroom Friday night. On tour for their second album Born Under Saturn (2015), the performers came out in a cloud of smoke, greeted to enormous cheer. B...

Django Django to start vibrations at the Regency Ballroom

Valerie Law
October 20, 2015
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews
October 24, British art rock band Django Django make their way to San Francisco's Regency Ballroom. Earlier this year they released their second album, Born Under Saturn (2015); Friday marks their third to...

Palma Violets to bring the feels Thursday at Bottom of the Hill

Jade Theriault
June 3, 2015
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6il1Wdqwhs British garage rock four-piece Palma Violets are well-entrenched in a sweaty tour of their fresh-out-of-the-studio sophomore record Danger in the Club. After they ...
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