A night of catharsis: IDLES unleash at The Independent Everett Williams and Jack Austin October 16, 2018 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews “I’m pretty sure we’re going the wrong way!” I yelled to my friend Jack, panting, as we sat on our bikes on top of an utterly ruthless San Francisco hill. After taking BART into the city, we had managed...
The Regrettes delight at Bottom of the Hill Benjamin Micallef March 21, 2018 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews It could have been the way Lydia dominated a stage only less than twenty feet wide. Or maybe it was Genessa’s guitar solo in Seashore. Or possibly even the quartet’s cover of "Teenager in Love." Regardless...
The Frights: You Are Going To Hate This (Piece) Rosie Davidowitz, Natalie Silver and Bianca Lu December 9, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews A message from Rosie & Natalie, your Curators of Experience: Before reading this piece, please recite after us: “I will not take this piece seriously. I will take these words with a grain of salt. I wil...
Phoenix absolutely dominates BFD stage Annie Nguyen June 14, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos LIVE 105’s Big Fucking Day is the South Bay’s one-day music festival. It’s that one festival that’s kind of like a knock-off version of Coachella, but surprisingly not so hard on your wallet. That last ...
Andrew McMahon does triple duty at the UC Theatre Desiree Diaz May 11, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews Although this show's lineup technically consisted of three bands, the reality is that the Zombies in America tour is a 6-for-3 deal. Andrew McMahon takes us on a tour through his musical journey, taking obligat...
State Champs switch things up at the UC Theatre Desiree Diaz April 23, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Uncategorized Just a few short months after opening for Sleeping With Sirens in San Francisco, State Champs made their way back to the Bay this week on their headlining tour for Around the World and Back (2015). Despite tou...
Punks in a palace: Social Distortion galvanizes the masses at Berkeley’s UC Theatre Natalie Silver March 26, 2017 Columns and Opinions, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews 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...
Punk Rock’s Not Dead: Saturday at Burger Boogaloo 2016 Fiona Duerr July 3, 2016 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos One summer day in Mosswood Park started with a visit from an astronaut on the drums on the Dirty Mouth stage at Burger Boogaloo. The Young Fresh Fellows were neither young nor fresh, but they delivered an ent...
Black Lips and Ariel Pink underwhelm, or deliberate, at Bimbo’s 365 Darius Kay October 16, 2015 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews As college kids and in one way or another, we're all coming of age. We're still having many "first" experiences -- accumulating necessary prerequisites to launch ourselves into uncertainty. We check off checkbo...
Palma Violets to bring the feels Thursday at Bottom of the Hill Jade Theriault June 3, 2015 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6il1Wdqwhs British garage rock four-piece Palma Violets are well-entrenched in a sweaty tour of their fresh-out-of-the-studio sophomore record Danger in the Club. After they ...
Photo Set: Cloud Nothings, Metz, and The Wytches at Great American Music Hall Audrey Gertz July 9, 2014 Blog, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews Metz at Great American Music Hall in San Francisco on July 7, 2014 This is not hyperbole; this is how it went down: a monster lineup of Toronto's Metz, Ohio's Cloud Nothings, and UK band The Wytches endorse...