Tagged Rock

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...

On their latest tour, NYC based Dirty Dishes made a stop in SF last Saturday, February 27,  just in time for the penultimate night of Noise Pop 2016. Also accompanying them in the dimly lit Knockout was Wax Id...

Started by Berkeley alum Chris Chu and friends as The Morning Benders, POP ETC is a sunny songwriting machine that encapsulates its title with their recent fourth record, Souvenir, out January 29 via Rough ...

Indie rock band Deerhunter returns this month with their seventh studio album, Fading Frontier, on October 16 via 4AD. The album arrives in the wake of frontman Bradford Cox’s recovery from a serious car acci...

On the thin line separating grunge and polished rock, there stands Bully: a band that manages to blur, tear, and ultimately distort this distinction. While they render well-produced tracks, the Nashvi...

The fifth studio full-length from Brooklyn duo RATATAT, Magnifique is an album on steroids from a band on steroids. Strengthened by the making of more experimental records LP3 and LP4, Mike Stroud and Evan ...

At first, it was unusual to see a veteran band such as Built to Spill opening in an arena setting; but we later found out the connection was chronological and fitting when Death Cab for Cutie frontman Be...

Zach and Ben Yudin return with the second progression of their cheery surf pop sound in new album Dancing at the Blue Lagoon, two years after their debut, Bigfoot (2013). The twin brothers' sophomore r...

"Banjos... ah that's old news. Old news, banjos." Spoken in 2012, the words of Tarquinius Grossman, aka Mumford & Sons' banjoist Winston Marshall, have sadly become a reality. "Double bass? F**king d...

Portland-by-way-of-Oklahoma trio Other Lives are due to commence a month-long North American tour next week after releasing third full-length album Rituals, due May 4 via TBD Records. This third record, c...

London-based three-piece Happyness embark on their first US tour beginning in Los Angeles this week, having just released Weird Little Birthday with Bar/None Records this past Tuesday. The newer band h...

After months of anticipation, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds has released his second album. Finished on July 13, 2014, fans have had an apparently pointless and agonising wait for this album; howe...

In 1978, Sony introduced the first portable stereo, the Walkman. College kids everywhere laughed their asses off at Animal House, the Bee Gees released “Stayin’ Alive,” and Gang of Four released “...

Capable of capturing the bitter realities of heartbreak and internal struggles of morality, Two Gallants also know how to (simply) create great Americana-style rock music; Adam Stephens and Tyson Vogel cont...

They're always looking out for their fans, unexpectedly self-conscious, and total tea snobs. This is what we learned about local rock outfit The Hundred Days in 90 minutes before the now East Bay (formerly...