Tagged San Francisco

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...

I wait to meet Michelle Zauner of Japanese Breakfast in the darkened game room at the back of Brighton Music Hall.  After some time a woman that was unmistakably her walks in the room. She wore a black crop to...

Sunflower Bean, a young Brooklyn trio emerging from the wake of the sounds of TV On The Radio and Here We Go Magic, are set to play a string of performances through the US and Europe accompanying bands like Bes...

Sold-out for their two day San Francisco stop, Disclosure was hotly anticipated, their meteoric rise in the music industry dates back to 2012 and spread of their hit single "Latch." The young electronic duo fr...

After a five-year long hiatus, indie pop-rock band The Hush Sound continues their comeback tour in San Francisco's Social Hall on June 2nd. Since their last album release Goodbye Blues (2008), band member...

The audience at the Warfield on Saturday night was filled with teenagers. This was no surprise, considering 26-year old Mac DeMarco is a bit of a god in the hipster world. His popularity is in large part...

By the time opener John Grant sang, “I am the greatest motherfucker that you’re ever gonna meet” (from his song “GMF”), the general admission section of The Masonic was spilling over with people waiti...

Multi-instrumentalist Andrew Bird's music is so layered and lushly arranged that it’d be difficult to imagine his live renditions accurately representing his studio creations. But Bird makes excellent use of ...

Amidst the hazy minds, heavy bodies, and red eyes in San Francisco on 4/20, Holly Lapsley Fletcher, otherwise known by her stage name Låpsley, performed a set more addictive than any drug. Clad in a loose deni...

The Last Shadow Puppets returned to the Bay in promotion of their latest album, Everything You've Come to Expect (2016). Alex Turner, of Arctic Monkeys, and Miles Kane, of The Rascals, reprised their world-fam...

Despite having two members encumbered with the flu, Rhye managed to give a stunning performance last Wednesday that immersed the crowd in their sensual, soulful, and powerfully rich sound. Oakland artist I...

The roots of indie-pop band Frankie Cosmos trace back to a collection of numerous online recordings released under the alias Ingrid Superstar. Back in 2010, Greta Kline released a wave of songs online, init...

Father John Misty enamored loyal fans and made believers out of the uninitiated in Oakland this past April Fool’s Day. In an ironic yet undoubtedly genuine performance, the artist preached to and played with ...

"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...

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...