The A-side Sessions presents: No Room No Sweetener Natalie Gott October 11, 2020 Interview, Multimedia, Uncategorized On a Saturday afternoon that felt far too brief, the longing for live music was put to ease as solo artist Juhuhn Kim of No Room No Sweetener plays the debut set of our mutli-media series, The A-side Sessions....
Existential zig-zagging with Jerry Paper Annie Nguyen March 8, 2019 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos While Princess Nokia graced Berkeley’s UC Theater this past Saturday, Jerry Paper took over the Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco and performed soothing, existential zig-zags for Noise Pop Music Festival 20...
Wordless stories with Khruangbin Brendan Redmond May 5, 2018 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews Walking in to the Fillmore on Tuesday night, I did not know what to expect from Khruangbin’s live performance. The Texas based, groovy instrumental trio packs a lot of punch on their albums. I had doubts thei...
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...
AJJ @ Bottom of the Hill Circe Ament December 20, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews AJJ, a folk-punk band from Arizona, is on tour and selling out shows left and right. Upon arriving to Bottom of the Hill, and edgy punish venue in San Francisco, Kitty Kat Fan Club was halfway through their...
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...
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...
MNL to SFO: Manila Killa swings through the Regency Ballroom Jordan Aronson July 27, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews On Saturday, July 8, 24 year old Filipino DJ Manila Killa brought some of his future bass stylings to the Regency Ballroom, delivering a 90-minute set of this year’s EDM staples. Manila Killa – who takes hi...
Hippo Campus debuts fresh, new album at Slim’s Annie Nguyen March 4, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos, Reviews Slim’s in San Francisco was absolutely packed on Tuesday night for the sold-out Hippo Campus concert. The four-person indie rock band, made up of high school friends from Twin Cities, Minnesota, just released...
Foals Provide the “Rock” in Indie Rock Brendan Redmond October 4, 2016 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews As the Uber neared the flashing welcome sign of the Fox Theater, my mind began to race. I was unsure what atmosphere Yannis Philippakis and the remainder of Foals would create. As soon as I walked into the Fox,...
The War on Drugs captivates San Francisco Penelope Leggett April 2, 2014 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos Yesterday, The War on Drugs played The Independent for the first of two sold-out San Francisco shows. The Philadelphia-based band has been touring for the past few weeks promoting their new album, Lost in Th...
