Japanese Breakfast puts the punk in indie rock Veronica Irwin February 26, 2018 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews Since the release of her 2017 record Soft Sounds from Another Planet, Japanese Breakfast’s Michelle Zauner has risen from the fairy-like starlett listeners were introduced to with catchy single “Everyone Wa...
Finding epicenters of acceptance with Palehound Adrienne Lee February 25, 2018 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews Noise Pop’s Thursday night lineup this year was, in a word, stacked. From quickly emerging artists Jay Som and Japanese Breakfast, to seasoned vets Madlib and Jeff Rosenstock, I was torn on who to see that ni...
Five indie artists under 21 you should listen to Benjamin Micallef February 25, 2018 Columns and Opinions Are you in your college years? Are you somehow not already famous? Have no fear! These emotions will only deepen as we go over five young artists that have already reached significant fame. Gus Dapperton (19)...
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah bring the Thunder to SF Leka Gopal February 19, 2018 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos, Reviews The Rickshaw Stop is not the biggest venue. It can hold 400 people probably, if you try hard enough, but it doesn’t seem like the place you’d find a band that’s been around for the past 14 years, already ...
Weedhead weirdos: a night with Jerry Paper and Mild High Club Devyn White January 29, 2018 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews On Wednesday, January 24th, I made the trek from Berkeley to Mill Valley across the Richmond Bridge in the pouring rain to experience some good times with Mild High Club. I was really committed to this concert ...
Hippo Campus charms at the Fillmore with soulful set Desiree Diaz and Kayla Kettmann January 28, 2018 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos Hippo Campus, formed in 2013, has performed the likes of South by Southwest, Lollapalooza, and Bonnaroo. But on Tuesday night, they seemed happy to grace the stage of The Fillmore in front of an eager audience ...
Surveying the scene: how Low End Theory has recovered since parting ways with The Gaslamp Killer Veronica Irwin January 9, 2018 Uncategorized 1 Comment A weekly Wednesday night event in a seedy pocket of East Los Angeles, Low End Theory has always been cooler than it should have been: with better-than-thou fashionable attendees despite its un-instagrammable ae...
Homeshake Slows It Down At The Observatory Annie Nguyen December 30, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Multimedia, Photos, Reviews Peter Sagar, former Mac Demarco guitarist, started Homeshake in 2013. Since then, Homeshake has released three albums, their newest one titled Fresh Air (2017). It seems like I've been seeing Homeshake everywhe...
Chad VanGaalen’s Wordsworthian approach at the Chapel Rebekah Gonzalez November 21, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews On a Tuesday night, the Chapel opened its doors to a lukewarm audience that trickled in over the span of two hours. So lukewarm, in fact, that I was able to successfully save the two stools next to me for a fat...
Tennis time travels in San Francisco Annie Nguyen November 21, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Multimedia, Photos, Reviews If Tennis’s music is good at one thing, it’s traveling back in time to the warm, breezy summers of the early 70’s. Their retro sound features balmy keyboards, pronounced bass lines, and soothing harmonies...
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. ...
Going hard at the Jay Som show: Melina and friends return to the Bay with unbridled fun Adrienne Lee October 26, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews “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!”...
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...
At The Greek, Mac DeMarco does his thing, takes it easy, celebrates Christmas Jordan Aronson September 13, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews Last Friday night, Canadian-born, LA-based slacker-rock musician Mac DeMarco rolled through Berkeley’s Greek Theater, playing before a sold out crowd to kick off the North American leg of his tour in support ...
Lo Moon keeps The Masonic grounded as Air heads for stars Jordan Aronson June 29, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews Lo Moon There’s a strange phenomenon in the Bay Area where concert-goers, more often than not, skip the opening act. As a Los Angeles native, I’m accustom to seeing most of a crowd line up before the do...