Tagged Rock

Brooks Nielsen is not a good dancer. The Growlers frontman shuffled around The Warfield stage for over two hours this Friday on their City Club tour, his back straight, arms gesticulating casually to the thu...

“Drum machine way up,” local favourite Xiu Xiu requested of The Chapel’s sound technician last Sunday, two songs into their set. With or without cranked monitors, they were predictably noisy. But the s...

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...

Slim’s in San Francisco was absolutely packed on Tuesday night for the sold-out Hippo Campus concert. The four-person indie rock band, made up of high school friends from Twin Cities, Minnesota, just released...

Walking up the stairs of a historic venue, it’s surreal realizing how many famous artists have walked the same steps. The walls of the Fillmore in San Francisco are lined with action shots of music’s most p...

Vancouver garage rock duo Japandroids have made a name for themselves as the best guitar/drums act since the late White Stripes. Amassing heaps of critical praise following their 2009 commercial debut Post-Noth...

Don’t be turned away by the 48,000 plays on their top song. Creature Comfort’s talent and originality are not reflected in their current popularity (or lack thereof). I had a chance to Skype with two member...

When you’ve been following the independent music scene for long enough, you start to see the same story-lines play out over and over again.  There’s the classic “first album was solid, got signed to a bi...

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. ...

On October 22, Opeth stopped by the Warfield in San Francisco. The Swedish band opened with the titular track from their new album Sorceress and went straight into a face melting performance of "Ghosts of Perdi...

The most difficult aspect of being an opening band is drawing in the crowd. In my experience, openers are usually perceived as background music before the headliner. With intriguing arpeggiated acoustic rif...

As the Uber neared the flashing welcome sign of the Fox Theater, my mind began to race. I was unsure what atmosphere Yannis Philippakis and the remainder of Foals would create. As soon as I walked into the Fox,...

Following the disappointment and criticism that followed her experimental pop album ARTPOP, Lady Gaga took a substantial amount of time off from the pop music scene. Despite having hinted at new music in Janu...

“Do you need a reason we should commit treason and bring into this world a son?” Andrew Bird asks on “Valleys of the Young,” the penultimate track on his newest LP, Are You Serious, out last week via ...

"You're fucking vocal. I like it." A few nights ago, Welsh rock trio The Joy Formidable continued the US tour for their recent Hitch (2016) in San Francisco's Great American Music Hall. Manchester's Every...