Tagged Oakland

The line remained out the door at 9:15pm for those awaiting to see the Los Angeles-based Allah-Las. Wide-eyed and eager concertgoers were welcomed into the Starline Social Club, an Oakland bar/restaurant/venue,...

Stringing together all of the most desirable elements of Appalachian Folk, 90's Hip-Hop, Southern Soul, and World Music, Rising Appalachia had the New Parish howling (literally) for more on Friday night. ...

Mac DeMarco doesn't just play, he performs. And on Monday night, the whole Bay Area was on hand to see it. One got the sense that this show was destined to be a special experience when, nearly an hour before hi...

With a late start and a line that wrapped around the block, the Fox Theater was abuzz with excitement for The Neighbourhood’s show last Saturday. With their sophomore album, Wiped Out (2015), dropping at ...

“Why do you like Marina?” my friend asked the two 15-year-old girls standing behind us, half an hour before the show started. “She’s perfect,” one of them said. “Everything about her is just, perfec...

Twenty One Pilots gave an outstanding performance at the Fox Oakland Theater Saturday, on the first night of two. The tag team duo, Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun, played not only to a packed audience, but also to ...

In Colour -- two words that encapsulate the sensational performance laid down by Jamie xx at the Fox this past Friday. This London producer has breathed -- or rather, jolted -- new life into the contemporary...

"Live, it can be really powerful just to have an acoustic guitar and a voice, to be able hear all the lyrics and present the songs in a really intimate way." Mike Rosenberg, better known by his stage name P...

Mike Rosenberg, better known by his stage name Passenger, is defined by his music's honesty. While "Let Her Go" shot Rosenberg into worldwide fame, his realism and truthful storytelling style has continued to...

Considering the number of raucous die-hard fans who filled the Fox Theater last Thursday, it can be hard to believe that Bleachers (Jack Antonoff) has only been around for about a year and a half. We attr...

Burger Records recently celebrated their sixth annual Burger Boogaloo festival this past Fourth of July weekend. Youngsters with colored hair and clad with an array of Burger Records pins joined older fans t...

Guantanamo Baywatch recently released their album Darling... It's Too Late (2015) via Suicide Squeeze Records and are playing Burger Records' Burger Boogaloo festival in Oakland once again. The festival ret...

Regardless of their position in the another eternity / “Purity Ring sound” debate, patrons at Purity Ring’s Fox Oakland debut could agree that Purity Ring’s live show is fully-developed and leaves �...

On the back of recent sophomore album Underflow, UK alt-rock duo Drenge performed at Leo's on Sunday night with support from Stalls and The New Regime. The New Regime (Ilan Rubin) was able to get the audience c...

Sufjan Stevens’s latest record, Carrie and Lowell (2015), a devastatingly beautiful tribute to his late mother, forgoes Stevens's usual ornate orchestration in favor of stripped-back acoustics. Each song is...