Tagged San Francisco

Nika Roza Danilova (or Zola Jesus) stands at most five feet tall, but her sound is at least twice that. On Taiga (2014), we discovered boundlessness; at Bimbo’s 365 Club in San Francisco two evenings ago,...

Most records begin at one point and end at another: they chauffeur their listeners from a departure point to a destination, with or without purpose. Mutual Benefit’s The Cowboy’s Prayer EP (2011, re-issue...

Milo Greene played the fifth night of their tour with Luxley and Bombay Bicycle Club at The Warfield in San Francisco on Sunday. Started in 2010, Milo Greene is a "self-described cinematic pop band" with...

The good folks over at SPIN Magazine can’t seem to get over Bahamas (real name Afie Jurvanen) and his geographic diversity. Exhibit A: “Bahamas distills his brand of breezy soul... with summer-ready...

For a group of former students, Cambridge, England’s Clean Bandit went from 0 to 100 real quick. The four-piece (plus-two live) stopped in San Francisco for about twelve hours yesterday in the midst of their...

Continuing their extensive touring -  by October they will have spent the last eight months relentlessly on the road in both Europe and North America - Glasgow-based punk band PAWS stopped by Rickshaw S...

Wednesday, September 24 in San Francisco, The Fillmore welcomed Fever The Ghost, Wampire, and Temples to its stage. The crowd that night was an eclectic mix, comprised of teens headbanging, twenty-something...

Clearly from a different era, The Deslondes jumped on stage Saturday night, unironically sporting cowboy boots and rolled up sleeves -- even the guitarist wore a pair of overalls and a trucker hat. Not ...

Laying down eight incessant hours of bass-blasting, soul-grabbing house beats, the boys (and girl, singular) of San Francisco’s own Dirtybird Records provided the plunder for the patrons of this afternoon...

"Are the beach balls the only thing that make this feel like a festival?" William Benssussen (otherwise known as The Gaslamp Killer) confronted the crowd Saturday night at the third annual Summersalt Festiv...

As I approached The Warfield on Saturday night, fans with blinking necklaces and bracelets engulfing their arms in every neon colour imaginable asserted that I was in the right place. About a year ago, a ...

If free barbecue and the juiciest of beats from the likes of Claude Von Stroke and Justin Martin doesn’t make your mouth water and heart beat a little bit faster, you may want to get that checked out at you...

Slow Magic is "not from around here," but he won't be unknown for long. The elusive, mask-donning producer / "imaginary friend" releases his debut full-length album, How to Run Away, September 9th via Downt...

There are nights when the openers steal the show, but Saturday was not one of them. A loose pack at The Chapel transformed into a rowdy dance floor when LA-based husband-wife electro-psycho-"ACID" duo Pe...

Two rising artists took the stage in San Francisco’s Mezzanine on Saturday August 9th: Doseone swept the crowd with a bass-infused melodic current from the very beginning and Gold Panda ended the show cha...