Tagged post-punk

Green Day by Jax Samsell The brisk San Francisco air felt refreshingly chilly to the red-faced, sweaty bodies spilling out of the Fillmore on Tuesday night. On an evening that will go down in Bay Area music...

In one of their final stops on the Horseshit on Route 66 tour The Garden gave their first of two nights at San Francisco’s Regency Ballroom on November 29th. Despite a notably lackluster energy from the band ...

On Tuesday September 27th, the night was young and a large group lined up at the New Parish 15 minutes before doors in anticipation of the Viagra Boys show. The opening acts were socal based band Militarie Gun ...

An appropriate name for a venue. A San Franciscan hole-in-the-wall expanded in shadow, my first concert in the Bay since March of 2020 welcomed me into a secret service. A sacred offering from two spiritually b...

In the last quarter of the 20th century, the strength of punk-rock’s influence began to wither away. The caustic demeanor embodied by the genre’s forefront lead singers left something to be desired among Am...

On October 25th, 2019 The Growlers released their latest album, Natural Affair, as if to tell listeners that, yes, they did indeed peek in 2014 and it has been all downhill from there. It lacks the luster of th...

On Friday night, I was welcomed into the Great American Music Hall by the Surfbort’s lead singer’s political outcry: “fuck Trump, fuck white supremacy, fuck rapists.” I felt immediately at home. Blue ey...

“Here goes nothing…” The crowd collectively holds their breath. The next two words ricocheting off the backs of their teeth and around their closed mouths. Is anyone going to say it? “Wild Nothi...

In a sense, he and I were not so different. Sure … one of us had sagging gauges, a belligerently drunk wife, and the stale breath of 50 years of cigarettes on his lips. One of us stood out among the rest o...

Ceremony never plays an encore. That didn’t stop the packed house at The Chapel from stomping their feet until the floor of the converted mortuary shook last Sunday.  Still, there was something lukewarm...

In high school perhaps you knew a friend or acquaintance in a band and made the pilgrimage to the local all ages venue, got your hands X'ed and swayed alongside your classmates. Maybe you even had your own band...

The stars collided for a weekend as Peter Hook & The Light, Day Wave, and Hazel English’s paths all fell to San Francisco. After a career spanning multiple decades and genres as founding member and bass...

In a time where much of popular music labors to be compelling, offbeat, and innovative, it is comforting to know that an artist who describes themselves as “part alien, part mime, part priestess”, is dispen...

Under normal circumstances, the English language tends to lose regional intonation and rhoticity when singing. But due to their shouty vocals, Prinzhorn Dance School remain distinctly British and angsty. Na...

Scottish post-punk legendaries The Jesus and Mary Chain recently celebrated the 30th anniversary of their 1985 debut album Psychocandy with a string of tour dates throughout the UK and US. To end their US...