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Through the Veil: 070 Shake’s Cinematic Soundscape at the Petrichor Tour

Bailey Schroerlucke and Mary Luce
February 23, 2025
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews
The 070 Shake concert on February 19 at the Oakland Fox Theater marked another stop on the tour for the artist’s newest album Petrichor (2024). With one of us, Bailey, being a long-time Shake fan and one, Mar...

93 ‘til Infinity: Bay Area hip hop and punk rock revolutions in 1993

Katie Hulse
March 6, 2024
Berkeley, Local, Music History, Oakland, Punk, Rap, Rock, San Francisco, Uncategorized
I was in my friend's car stumbling along the landscape when “93 ‘til Infinity" by Souls of Mischief trinkled out of the speakers and changed the way that I think about hip hop. Thirty years after its initia...

“There’s Something About the Women!:” Warmth pervades Irene Young’s book release at the Freight & Salvage

Gianna Caudillo
November 27, 2023
Reviews, Berkeley, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Contemporary Folk, Jazz, Local, Music History, Women's Music Movement
When looking back at my frantically scratched notes in a pocket-sized address book I had brought to the 7pm celebration of Irene Young at the Freight & Salvage on November 19, one sentiment stands out in pa...

There Must Be Something About Stephen Sanchez: The Troubadour Performs His Biggest Show To Date

Andrew Zendejas
November 8, 2023
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Oakland, Pop
I still remember the first time I encountered Stephen Sanchez. I was scrolling through TikTok and a video with Sanchez in a hospital room waiting for his doctor came up on my feed captioned: “POV: You’ve be...

Ultra Q Reunites with Hockey Dad for Rickshaw Nostalgia

Nico Chodor
September 11, 2023
Album Review, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos, Reviews
Australian surf rock duo Hockey Dad fathered Jakob Armstrong, Chris Malaspina, Enzo Malaspina, and Kevin Judd through their first full US tour when the boys still went by Mt. Eddy in 2018. Five years later, Jak...

From Gay Head to Goldenrod: the first decade of the Women’s Music Movement in song

Gianna Caudillo
September 5, 2023
Album Review, Berkeley, folk, music, Music History, Oakland, Reviews, Rock, women's music, Women's Music Movement
Commercial rock and roll has always been a boys’ club. From the success of songs that glamorized abuse and the gross fetishization of women, such as the Rolling Stones’ “Brown Sugar” or the Beatles’ �...

The End of The End of the Movie: Lizzy McAlpine in Oakland

Sinead de Cleir
May 19, 2023
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, folk, indie, Oakland, Reviews
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The air on May 13th, 2023 held a tinge of finality. College graduates, fresh out of the commencement ceremony, walked the streets of Berkeley with flowers and their families, bidding farewell to their undergrad...

Maybe Love is Real: Mr. and Mrs. Tennis at the Fox

Nico Chodor
May 3, 2023
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos
In tennis (the sport), love means zero. In Tennis (the band), that is hardly the case. Husband-and-wife duo Alaina and Patrick Riley have been spreading their love through music since 2010. They met as philosop...

Yaeji playfully smashes expectations “With a Hammer” at Fox Theater

Kyle Garcia Takata
April 26, 2023
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, dance, Oakland, Photos, Reviews
After 3 years of delays and postponement, Yaeji finally took the stage at Fox Theater in Oakland to a full venue. The building excitement from the years of waiting filled the room with a feverous buzz. Everyone...

Floating through “Icy Blue”: new Chammeili album contemplates change

Sophia Shen
January 2, 2023
Album Review
Characterized by dreamy doubled vocals and temperamental time signatures, Berkeley-based indie band Chammeili’s 2022 record Icy Blue provides listeners with a bird’s eye view of the trials, tribulations, an...

A Rockstar Sometimes, A Mommy Forever

Brandon Phan
December 20, 2022
Berkeley, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, indie, indie scene, LGBTQ+, music, Oakland, Photos, Reviews
“Mommy! Yes, mommy! I love you, mommy!!” the crowd cheers on. It’s pitch black out on a Saturday night, and the crowd is ecstatic to see everyone’s favorite mom perform live at the Fox Theater in Oaklan...

Destined for superstardom: Rina Sawayama “holds the girl” in Oakland

Adrian Ceja
November 26, 2022
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Oakland
In April of 2020 I stumbled upon an artist who just released their debut studio album. That same artist would soon become one of my favorite artists of all time. Her name is Rina Sawayama. There are so many wor...

Celebrating local music with sundiver ca

Anna Linn
November 22, 2022
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, indie scene, music, Oakland, Reviews
In an energizing performance, sundiver ca took the stage this past Thursday night at the Starline Social Club in Oakland. Two indie rock openers, Analog Dog and Mind’s Eye, each built up the audience and held...

Give me my ticket stub or give me death!

Jackie Greene
November 21, 2022
Creative Writing, Oakland, Opinion, Satire
Photo by Gary Friedman I had the wonderful pleasure to see Grace Jones at the Fox Theater for the immensely convenient price of zero dollars. As instructed by the contest-holders, I went to the box office ...

A New Era: Jean Dawson Sells Out The New Parish

Leah Johnson
November 21, 2022
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Jean Dawson, music, Oakland, Reviews
Watching Jean Dawson perform is like witnessing a fish swim underwater.    In the crowd at an intimate Oakland venue I felt both the tumultuous waves starting in the pit and the serenity of seeing a...
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