I went to the Michael Seyer show and all I got was farted on Heidy Barrera May 3, 2024 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, indie, San Francisco Where do I begin? I first want to thank my wonderful friend Riya for accompanying me on this journey and for her growing patience. When I asked if anyone knew Michael Seyer, the following story was the la...
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...
Ultra Q Reunites with Hockey Dad for Rickshaw Nostalgia Nico Chodor September 11, 2023 Album Review, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos, Reviews Australian surf rock duo Hockey Dad fathered Jakob Armstrong, Chris Malaspina, Enzo Malaspina, and Kevin Judd through their first full US tour when the boys still went by Mt. Eddy in 2018. Five years later, Jak...
Welcoming SASAMI into your life Dylan Medlock March 1, 2019 Album Preview, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, Previews LA-based and singer-songwriter Sasami Ashworth is a rising musical force. In addition to being the former synth player for indie rock group Cherry Glazerr, she’s also contributed her multi-instrumentalist ...
Gus Dapperton’s pop transcends the bedroom Rebekah Gonzalez December 1, 2018 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos I am always shocked by the number of people that show up for Gus Dapperton shows in San Francisco. The first shock came earlier this year in April at the Rickshaw Stop. I arrived twenty minutes after doors open...
Woozy after Still Woozy Joshua Hauser November 13, 2018 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews After just reaching one million monthly listeners on Spotify, Sven Gamsky, better known by his stage name Still Woozy, made his return home at Rickshaw Stop on November 9th. The Bay Area native was greeted wit...
Do Right: Catching Up with Ash Reiter and Sugar Candy Mountain Gabriel Giammarco June 6, 2018 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Interview Ash Reiter took the stage with a “Happy Wednesday” greeting as her band Sugar Candy Mountain celebrated the release of their new record Do Right (2018) earlier this month at the Rickshaw Stop. Do Right f...
The Syncopated Sun of Palm’s Rock Island Gabriel Giammarco March 12, 2018 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews Guitarist Eve Alpert (left) and bassist Gerasimos Livitsanos (right) Palm at the Rickshaw Stop, a classic San Francisco spot termed by Google Maps as a “hip indie music venue” (haha). Conseque...
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah bring the Thunder to SF Leka Gopal February 19, 2018 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos, Reviews The Rickshaw Stop is not the biggest venue. It can hold 400 people probably, if you try hard enough, but it doesn’t seem like the place you’d find a band that’s been around for the past 14 years, already ...
Billie Eilish swags out at the Rickshaw Stop Adil Siddiqee October 13, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews The Rickshaw Stop is a cozy, snug venue, perfect for indie acts to perform intimate shows at with a small audience. Billie Eilish, given her social media clout and recent explosion in popularity, seems far b...
Terror Jr. lights up Rickshaw Stop Leka Gopal October 10, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews Smoke rises up from the shallow stage finds its way to the disco ball slowly circling above. On the left wall, a projector plays collaged images of old Popscene shows; on the right, a DJ that doesn’t look you...
Bay Area Venue Roulette: Rickshaw Stop Adil Siddiqee October 3, 2017 Blog, Columns and Opinions The San Francisco Bay Area, like any metropolitan zone worth its salt, provides its residents with a healthy concentration of nightclubs, jazz bars, and concert venues. In this series, I’ll be sampling the lo...
The genius of Tom Misch on display at the Rickshaw Stop Nathaniel Wartzman November 27, 2016 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews The windows were down and the cool bay air hit my skin. I asked the uber driver if he had an auxiliary cord, and he did. So I played “The Journey” -- the first song off of Tom Misch’s second project, Beat...
Savoir Adore return for The Love That Remains Joanna Jiang August 16, 2016 Album Review, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews By coincidence, we are perhaps starting to associate Savoir Adore with the end of (holi)days. The last time lead song architect Paul Hammer and company were in town, we were trying to make the most of the final...
Keep Shelly in Athens return to Rickshaw Stop November 19 Joanna Jiang November 16, 2015 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews Two years ago, we interviewed Keep Shelly in Athens before their performance at Rickshaw Stop. The Greek duo were then comprised of producer RΠЯ and a “petite young girl with large eyes that go from worried...