Tagged Oakland

I have to confess, I was terrified the Dirty Projectors would put on a mediocre show filled with good moments. I had heard a couple tracks off their latest album, Lamp Lit Prose (2018), and was thoroughly unimp...

On April 16, 2018, King Krule played an unforgettable show at the Fox Theater in Oakland, and he absolutely rocked the house. Kelsey Lu opened the show with ethereal solos on her cello played softly and with em...

Ask any young music enthusiast if they’ve watched School of Rock and you’ll most likely get a yes. Then ask if watching the film inspired them to start a punk band that would go on to perform on The Late La...

It was a quiet, foggy night in Oakland. The students were studying; the working folk had all gone home. Not a single automobile was in any one of the normally crowded intersections. A few drifters loped across ...

London’s incessantly evolving music scene has produced a new sound, incorporating mellow jazz, uplifting hip-hop, and classic soul and funk. Leading the way is 23-year-old artist and producer, Tom Misch. On O...

October 10th was the 10th stop for psychedelic rock/folk five-piece band, Kikagaku Moyo’s North America tour. All the way from Tokyo, the band lent the Wednesday night a gentle hand easing the transition to t...

George Ezra seems like the boy next door: all smiles, soft sweaters, and a soft almost-Cherub like face. His voice, however, matches that of an old blues singer, a force that could knock the same boy off the ve...

April 5, Starline Social Club, 9:00 p.m.  Natalie— For the second time that day we ascended the dingy Starline stairwell. The first time, three hours prior, we chugged our beers minutes before the clim...

Roger Daltrey may have gotten older, but his voice has not aged one bit. The 74-year-young frontman of infamous British rock band, The Who, proved to the Fox Theater that age is nothing more than a number. Welc...

“This place looks poppin’!” our Uber driver announced as she pulled up to a sketchy pool hall that was blasting Latin music and flashing disco lights from within. After checking the place out a bit, we ca...

Last weekend, Real Estate visited Fox Theatre to play their first show in Oakland, CA. The concert was part of the Noise Pop Music & Arts Festival, the Bay's annual indie arts week, and it was only fitting ...

Attention all angsty people: this piece is for you. There has been a drought of truly invigorating angry music in the 21st century — or at least it seems this way because none of it surfaces beyond the underg...

This past week, I was blessed to see Con Funk Shun at Yoshi’s in Oakland. If you don’t know who Con Funk Shun is - AKA if you aren’t obsessed with funk or born in the ‘50s or ‘60s - they are an old-sc...

Thom Yorke loves the Bay Area more than he loves Los Angeles, maybe more than he loves any other area of this country. Yes, this is a bold claim, but if you were one of the lucky souls that attended his solo sh...

Bay area-based band The Seshen has always been hard to pin down. Falling somewhere between dub, R&B, electronica, and synth-pop, their music lies outside of all genre expectations. Groovy without a doubt, t...