Tagged psychedelic

Peter Sagar, former Mac Demarco guitarist, started Homeshake in 2013. Since then, Homeshake has released three albums, their newest one titled Fresh Air (2017). It seems like I've been seeing Homeshake everywhe...

If you’re a young person in the Bay Area, especially in Berkeley, it’s very possible you might be surrounded by people who never outgrew their teenage fascination with psychedelia. A random (and undeniably ...

I had never attended a show at The Chapel. Doors opened at 7:00 pm. I arrived at the venue exactly two minutes before 7 after stalling for thirty minutes at the Community Thrift Store on Valencia. I was the...

Last Friday night, Canadian-born, LA-based slacker-rock musician Mac DeMarco rolled through Berkeley’s Greek Theater, playing before a sold out crowd to kick off the North American leg of his tour in support ...

Go see a Zombies live show in 2017, and you’ll only see two of the core original members of the British band behind classic songs like “She’s Not There”. If the show you see is anything like the UC Thea...

Since 2010’s success with sophomore record Odd Blood, Yeasayer have been denounced as consistently underwhelming. Even then, between the trio’s first two albums, there stood a path of thorny critics calling...

The desert did us dirty at this year’s Serenity Gathering. With around-the-clock live art and opportunity for exploration in the stunning and stark Joshua Tree landscape, this communal coalescence hail...

On their latest tour, NYC based Dirty Dishes made a stop in SF last Saturday, February 27,  just in time for the penultimate night of Noise Pop 2016. Also accompanying them in the dimly lit Knockout was Wax Id...

Vocal hocketing is a musical technique in which singers share melodies by alternating notes at measure, word or even syllable frequency. I define it here because this technique exists all over the experimental ...

After releasing his fifth album this summer, LA-based White Fence came to Rickshaw Stop last Thursday October 9 to celebrate For the Recently Found Innocent (2014) -- Timothy Presley’s first White Fenc...

A looping wave like something out of a dream, it’s almost impossible to appreciate “Infinite Trips,” the first track off of Cosmic Logic, without telling yourself “this is the first track off of Cos...