Finding salvation with Crosses at The Chapel Sofia Biagio December 8, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, Rock, San Francisco, Shoegaze 1 Comment The musical group ✝️✝️✝️ (Crosses) is rightfully named, because Tuesday night’s show was a religious experience. It felt like the stars aligned perfectly for me to be there—the last time they to...
Freak the Freak Out! Nico Chodor and Sophia Shen November 13, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Metal, Rock, Shoegaze Last weekend, right on the heels of San Francisco’s multi-day, multi-venue Psyched! Fest, we crossed state lines for a Pacific Northwestern analogue: Freakout Fest in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle. The ...
Battling Titans: Pallbearer and High on Fire at UC Theatre Joshua Morse November 8, 2023 Berkeley, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Local Metalheads are no strangers to the concept of giving up sleep in order to see their favorite bands live. However, there is something beautiful about a concert on a Saturday night. Everyone is able to let go of ...
Trashed and thrashed: Municipal Waste will fuck you up Lily Ramus and Tyler Harding May 2, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews Photo by Lily Ramus With finals season approaching, legions of stressed metalheads graduating sometime between 3 weeks from now and 40 years ago, descended upon the UC Theatre on Friday, April 28th. The cre...
Doom metal legends Candlemass triumph over technical difficulties at the DNA Lounge Lily Ramus and Tyler Harding March 18, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews Photo by Lily Ramus A gloomy storm-tossed Tuesday is a miserable time to leave the house, but a perfect time for some occult doom metal. It was immediately apparent that this verdict reverberated across the...
“Reach for Me:” Worshipping SASAMI at The Chapel Piper Samuels April 24, 2022 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, music, Reviews “SASAMI has something for everyone,” the bouncer explained to a pair of tipsy yet inquisitive passers-by. It’s true— whether your home is in the mosh pit of the artist’s signature metal anthem “Skin...
Metal for Halloween! Tyler Harding October 29, 2020 Album Review, Reviews Halloween is celebrated through disparate traditions by cultures around the world. Globalization in the United States has turned the season into an amalgamation of customs from across the world, the simulacrum...
Top Metal EPs of 2020 (So Far) Tyler Harding July 24, 2020 Album Review, Reviews The metal underground has seen a massive revival in the digital age, and it can be daunting to parse through dozens of terrible one-man basement black metal groups to find a gem. I can attest to this, as the 1...
Hexenbrett’s Happy Haunting Tyler Harding May 30, 2020 Album Review, Reviews 1 Comment Horror is paradoxically uncool: the elements of horror are ubiquitous and mainstream, and yet the genre itself remains insular and weird, the torch passionately carried by modern directors like Robert Eggers a...
Malokarpatan: Slovakian Witchery Tyler Harding March 30, 2020 Album Review, Reviews 1 Comment You find yourself in a cabin in a forgotten wood, and the grizzled wanderer across the fire tells stories about the dense, hushed forest outside your warm sanctuary. Through his bawdy, gruff guise, the strange...
Ways to trip sober: isolation tanks, white noise, and attending a King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard concert Veronica Irwin October 17, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews If you’re a young person in the Bay Area, especially in Berkeley, it’s very possible you might be surrounded by people who never outgrew their teenage fascination with psychedelia. A random (and undeniably ...
Aftershock Festival lineup promises a rock utopia Rebekah Gonzalez October 5, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, Previews In just 15 days, on October 21 and 22, Aftershock Festival is returning to Sacramento, CA. This is the sixth year in a row that the hard-rock festival will take place at Discovery Park in downtown Sacramento. T...
Desert daze preview and ticket giveaway Veronica Irwin August 25, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, Previews Coming back for their sixth installation, Desert Daze is set to rock out Joshua Tree October 12th-15th. To celebrate the start of the new semester, we will be giving away tickets to the event. The “ritual ...
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...
Drain – the waves aren’t the only thing slamming Sam Jameson October 30, 2016 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Multimedia, Photos, Reviews This weekend I had the pleasure of going back to Santa Cruz to catch the rockers in Drain playing their hometown date of their west coast run with Momentum (LA Crossover) and No Right (SF Hardcore). This show ...