Tagged Rock

UK-based, DJ-turned-songwriter Fin Greenall’s orchestral folk trio, Fink, is the Django Unchained of their genre, rooted in a Southwest image of covered wagons and rolling tumbleweed but still progress...

OWLS are back. The melodic emo band from Chicago once known as Cap’n Jazz-minus-Davey-von-Bohlen-plus-Sam-Zurick has grown up and returned to the West Coast to showcase their new sounds. Two, OWLS’ seco...

TORONTO, ON*--If you ever wondered what your favorite pop punk band would sound grown up, look no further. Royal Tusk are two parts members of the (now-defunct) band Ten Second Epic, supplemented by a weathe...

Gearing up for his next world tour, the consistently impressive if controversial Jack White has unfurled another napalm inferno with “Lazaretto.” This title track catapults Lazaretto (Third Man Records, ...

Power pop meets optical illusion science project in alt rock outfit OK Go's latest filmographic stint. Directed by vocalist Damian Kulash and 1stAveMachine's Aaron Duffy and Bob Partington, the video captu...

LONDON, ENGLAND* -- Beneath transformative flashing lights and a mobile ceiling of mirrors, Arcade Fire staged a breathtaking coup of London’s Earls Court on Friday and Saturday night. The expansive hall was...

What happens when members of one the most eccentric prog-rock groups rise from the ashes of band fallout to combine with the likes of the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Atoms for Peace’s Flea? Antemasque, a creat...

Failure in the 90s After that epic Tool concert at the Bill Graham, we caught up with opening band Failure to get the scoop on their own comeback and future exploits. They'll be headlining two nights back-to-...

Due out on April 22nd, Neon Trees’s third album, appropriately titled Pop Psychology, is the pre-summer album that will convince you that lead singer Tyler Glenn knows exactly what is going on in that hormon...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aX4ohIN4UA Remember that guy from that old post-punk band from the early 2000s? "Last Nite" was played all over the radio at one point. They revamped the New York underground ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T99JYIq0Xtk With a new Record Store Day release to come out this Saturday, Surfer Blood are taking over the Bay Area between their two Coachella shows. The Florida-based alterna...

After playing the Oakland Metro Opera House with Hop Along, Waxahatchee played a second East Bay show on Upper Sproul as part of SUPERB's Spring 2014 concert series. Berkeley locals, The New Tenants, opened th...

Spring is here, the sun is out, and love is in the air, but Florida's Matt Hires is too familiar with the charming games that arise with spring romance. Hires is a heartache machine and "all knows is to br...

It's a Sunday night and they’re thirty minutes behind schedule. Christopher Heinz walked straight from the bar to his seat behind the drum kit, and Walking Shapes took off, running headlong into “Whoa Tig...

Representing the East Bay at SFSU, Berkeley’s own Art Nikels lulled The Depot into an experimental indie reverie of alternating beats and chordal melodies. Within their dynamic six-song set, the five-piece...