Tagged Punk

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...

Before discussing Together PANGEA’s show, I want to talk about punk a little bit. All subgenres of punk get slapped with the stigma of being childish, whiny, and adolescent. Ask your friend about their punk p...

SWMRS are returning back home to the Bay Area bringing punk sounds to liven up Halloween weekend. The event is their second annual Uncool Halloween fest at the UC Theater in Berkeley on Saturday, October 28...

Small Crush formed when lead-singer, songwriter, and rhythm guitarist Logan Hammon (age 17, pink hair — now eggshell blue) felt that her band wasn’t giving her enough freedom to write her own songs. She too...

This Fourth of July weekend, happy punks of all ages gathered in Oakland's Mosswood Park for the eighth annual Burger Boogaloo. While patriotism was scarce (we hardly found any), ink was in abundance. ...

It's that time of the year again. July 1-2, Oakland's Mosswood Park will be the site of the 8th annual Burger Records' Burger Boogaloo. Dreamlanders' cult cinematographer John Waters returns to host the eve...

A band's classification within a specific genre is always an integral part of their self-identification as who they are as an artist. The concept of genre classification is a topic that holds an extreme amount ...

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...

Music has always existed as one of the greatest methods of conjuring a particular feeling within the mind. And the forefront of these conjured feelings lies happiness, sadness, and anger. A wide variety of comm...

They say you learn something valuable from every mistake you make. Sometimes, a mistake teaches you a life lesson, reveals a solution to a problem, or shows you how to become a better person. Other times, a mi...

On Saturday afternoon Joe Corré — son of former Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren and designer Vivienne Westwood, as well as founder of infamous punk shop SEX — began sending piles of punk memorabilia to...

This weekend I had the pleasure of going back to Santa Cruz to catch the rockers in Drain playing their hometown date of their west coast run with Momentum (LA Crossover) and No Right (SF Hardcore). This show ...

Following the release of Everything You’ve Come To Expect (their second album) earlier this year, The Last Shadow Puppets have promised the release of their The Dream Synopsis EP on the 2nd of December 2016. ...

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...

Next to an overpass of the 101 Freeway in San Francisco is a music venue called the Brick & Mortar Music Hall. It is the evening of Easter Sunday, the day of Jesus’ resurrection, yet in this darkly lit h...