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These Nerds Can Rock! Band Night at the Thorsen House

Jessica Balderas
March 18, 2025
Local
This was my first time at the Thorsen House, a very historic home that houses the Sigma Phi Society. Walking down to the house was quite a venture within itself. My friend and I started at Dwight and Piedmont, ...

8 DAYS/14 SHOWS/9 VENUES: A Countercultural Halloweek at Psyched! Fest

Nico Chodor
November 6, 2023
Cultural Commentary, Columns and Opinions, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Feature, Multimedia, Music Consumption, News, Photos, Punk, Reviews, Rock, San Francisco
Psyched! Fest - San Francisco's Independent Festival of Arts, Music, Diversity & Counterculture - opened Wednesday, October 25th at Rickshaw Stop. Brought to you by Psyched! Radio, the multiracial nonprofit...

Decolonial Punk at Kilowatt

Nico Chodor
September 1, 2023
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos, Punk, Rock, San Francisco
Los Cogelones combined brotherhood and Aztec punk Sunday night at Kilowatt Bar, on the heels of what Psyched! Radio SF deems three pillars of this new San Francisco scene: Thank You Come Again, Buzzed Lightbeer...

Friends and Fauxes: Four Bands in One Night at Cornerstone

Nico Chodor
February 26, 2023
Berkeley, Columns and Opinions, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews, San Francisco
Touring with The High Curbs along their west coast stint, King Shelter breathed OC air into the Cornerstone at Berkeley Tuesday night. “Berkeley, you’re an interesting place," declared lead singer Taylor He...

A New Era: Jean Dawson Sells Out The New Parish

Leah Johnson
November 21, 2022
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Jean Dawson, music, Oakland, Reviews
Watching Jean Dawson perform is like witnessing a fish swim underwater.    In the crowd at an intimate Oakland venue I felt both the tumultuous waves starting in the pit and the serenity of seeing a...

Mannequin Pussy power: Philadelphia punk band takes Upper Sproul

Sophia Shen
May 31, 2022
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews
On Thursday, April 14, indie punk group Mannequin Pussy rocked Upper Sproul, sparking a daytime mosh that triumphed over the gloomy weather conditions and chased the rainy day blues away. This was an unexpected...

How to Not DYE in the Pit: Together Pangea Takes San Francisco By Storm

Nico Chodor
May 3, 2022
Columns and Opinions, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos, Reviews
Together Pangea, Sad Park, and Reckling brought out all the stops Thursday night at Cafe Du Nord for the 29th show of Pangea’s How to DYE tour. Reckling kicked things off as the crowd trickled into the Market...

When in doubt, see the The Regrettes live again – Photo Gallery

Kian Maple
November 30, 2021
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Multimedia, Photos, Reviews
Despite seeing the Regrettes perform live thrice before, I still found myself in awe of the energy and enthusiasm the four-piece group brought on stage with them to the Voodoo Room at House of Blues San Diego o...

YUNGBLUD’s weird! is a testament to individuality

Amber Ellertson
February 1, 2021
Album Review, Columns and Opinions, Reviews, Uncategorized
YUNGBLUD’s recent album is a tale for the ages. The UK-based singer-songwriter’s sophomore album, weird!, is an ode to the lost youth of today’s society. With tracks about polyamory, depression, and suici...

¡Yo te quiero infinito! 40 years of London Calling

Stanley Quiros
December 14, 2019
Album Review, Columns and Opinions
In the first few seconds of the first song on London Calling (1979), The Clash drags you into a punk post-apocalypse and refuses to let you go. The title track is a statement, a story, a prophecy, and an irrev...

The allure of punk rock women

Makaila Heifner
December 4, 2019
Columns and Opinions
Music has always been a man’s world. Rock music especially has been and remains a boy’s club. Prior to the 1970s, in fact, any woman who tried to enter the rock scene was easily dismissed. Women like Sister...

Talking backyard parties, “tactical” stuff, and not actually wanting to be a lo-fi band with The Missionaries

Clementine Zimmer
May 2, 2019
Interview
If you’ve ever drunkenly ended up at a backyard house show during any point at your time at Berkeley, there’s a pretty solid chance you’ve seen The Missionaries play. The quartet plays songs that you’ll...

I drew three vials of blood and went to a Bear Hands concert

Sunny Sangha
April 2, 2019
Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews
Before I start, I should clarify: I did not draw blood then decide to go to the Bear Hands concert. I also didn’t decide that the perfect day to draw three vials of blood would be the day of the concert. It k...

Revisiting the bizarre career of Jello Biafra

Alice Markman
April 1, 2019
Columns and Opinions
Nothing screams punk rock louder than ripped denim, raw vocals and an unapologetically volatile frustration with the “man.” No one brought this to the US with the same success and political charge as the De...

My mom’s guide to punk rock

Sophie Turovsky
March 28, 2019
Mixtapes, Multimedia
Circle Jerks, through the repetitive, almost mesmerizing guitar riffs, the destructive, even childlike drum beat, and the crass vocals of “World Up My *ss,” “rip” the rules of their society to pieces an...
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