The Tallest Man on Earth gives intense performance at the Fox Sam Putt May 28, 2015 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews Late evening. The Fox Oakland was full of its usual audience -- noncommittal Bay Area music-goers loitering in and around the theater while an opener occupies the stage. This Thursday evening, it was a quiet...
Stromae steals Fox audience Friday evening, lives up to name Angelica Zocchi April 20, 2015 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews Friday April 10 at the Fox Theater in Oakland, Stromae poured out his raw, gutsy artistic soul in a performance which did not simply delight the audience like one of those cozy, subtly-drunken summer days. N...
TICKET GIVEAWAY: Lord Huron at The Fox Oakland Joanna Jiang April 16, 2015 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, Contests If you’ve grown up in a temperate climate on the east coast or rural Europe, you’ll know there’s something about the low-hanging moistness of morning fog rolling over soft hills and valleys. Moors: si...
Bay Area’s Never Young present a standout sophomore effort with self-titled EP Patricia Villon March 30, 2015 Album Review, Staff Pick In the world of noise rock, it’s easy for artists to adhere to recurring structures when attempting to craft an avant-garde tone, resulting in music that tends to fall flat and indistinguishable. However...
Freddie Gibbs gets emotional, divides crowd at The New Parish Darius Kay and Dan Savo March 10, 2015 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews On Friday night, or rather early Saturday morning, Freddie Gibbs, a formerly Indiana- now West Coast-based rapper, approached the stage at The New Parish in Oakland. Within the first two songs, we knew exac...
Noise Pop 2015 to re-establish historic city venue, host first record label showcase Joanna Jiang February 13, 2015 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, News 2 Comments Now in its 23rd year, San Francisco’s celebrated annual Noise Pop festival returns next week with over a hundred artists at about 50 shows in 18 venues in San Francisco and the East Bay. In addition to live m...
Icelandic treasure Ásgeir forges a chillout at The New Parish Isaac Yi February 11, 2015 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews Whenever any mention of Ásgeir is made in the media, a few claims are typically brought up. Like the fact that his debut album Dýrð í dauðaþögn (2012) was very successful in his native Iceland (10% ...
London Grammar, Until the Ribbon Breaks deliver stunning debut performances at the Fox Joanna Jiang and Luke Sheard February 10, 2015 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews “In our live career, we really are inexperienced,” admitted London Grammar vocalist Hannah Reid in an interview with the Guardian this past summer. In other instances, they have displayed a frankly aver...
“Veni, vidi, vici”: RL Grime hosts a rager at the Fox Friday night Joanna Jiang January 31, 2015 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews Critics of the modern electronic music scene (myself included) need often be reminded just how young its purveyors are. Just shy of 24, Henry Steinway (better known by his stage name RL Grime and former mon...
Interview: TastyTreat reveal new EP and CATHEDRALS remix, discuss URL friends and tastemakers Joanna Jiang January 19, 2015 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Interview, News Rising San Luis Obispo electronic tag team TastyTreat returned to the Bay Area Friday night for a single show with Madeaux at Leo’s. Their set was a thick, heavy one (material-wise) spanning sampled vocal...
Samantha Crain, First Aid Kit charm Fox, yet lack depth Ane Skjoelaas November 18, 2014 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews Swedish sister duo, First Aid Kit, have experienced unprecedented success in America these last couple of years with their woodsy folk/country-inspired pop music. With a modest yet hearty voice, Oklahom...
Flatbush Zombies discuss collaborations, 2015 plans, the future Atreyue Ryken November 16, 2014 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Interview, Photos Flatbush Zombies will be the first to tell you that they haven’t got their big break yet. But they still know how to party. On Tuesday, November 4, the Zombies of Brooklyn sold out the Metro Operahouse in ...
Gallery: Giraffage gets personal at local Bay Area takeover Peter Phan November 15, 2014 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos 1 Comment November 6th, the night began at Leo's Music Club in San Francisco with two openers, Chad Salty and AViDD. The local producers possessed styles distinct from one another, yet both complementary to Giraffage...
Rhye mesmerize the Fox, “Open” up about musical identity and transitioning Logan Hansen and Joanna Jiang November 14, 2014 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Interview You may know Rhye from their critically-lauded album Woman (2013): upon release, its beautifully-crafted intimacy rendered any makeout playlist without at least one or two choice tracks instantly obsolete. To...
Delicate Steve to play the Fox, Steve Marion talks about touring and sandwiches Penelope Leggett November 14, 2014 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, Interview, Previews Embodying a sound both foreign and familiar, nostalgic and futuristic, Delicate Steve's music is like running through a field saturated in Technicolor to reach some triumphant, yet humble achievement. Th...