Tagged San Francisco

I’m still not sure how Muni or cable cars work, but that sure as hell didn’t stop me from following the call of Shannon Shaw like a siren. The trek to Bimbo’s 365 from the East Bay on a Thursday night is...

I think idolizing others is a dangerous game. It creates a false sense of normalcy and places people on a pedestal that is unreachable and ridiculous. With this being said, I am also fully aware of my own idoli...

I’ve recently reached the age where I’m no longer young enough to believe that my big break is coming. When you’re 18 or 19, you can always say, “Oh yeah, I just need to hustle a little harder, I’m su...

Electric Guest took the music world by storm with their first album Mondo (2012). Mondo worked as an introductory album into the 2012 rage of indie bands. It fit into the mold of popular Indie Top 100 charts th...

Oakland native mxmtoon, aka Maia, played a sold-out show at the Great American Music Hall in San Francisco this Halloween. The show, framed by an intimate venue, featured many of the songs from Maia’s debut a...

LA-based artist Steve Lacy played a sold out show at San Francisco's Fillmore last Saturday performing his debut album, Apollo XXI (2019). Upon crunching down a Red Delicious Fillmore apple during intermission,...

Before even walking through the doors of The Fillmore, my friend and I turned the corner to stumble on no other than Danni Miller, lead singer of Surfbort, freshly off stage and finishing a drag in a sequined j...

One part of me loved the 12th annual Outside Lands festival, another part of me felt it perfectly encapsulated everything wrong with festivals: a disconnect from the music.  Overall, OSL did succeed in coll...

Mac DeMarco is arguably the closest thing we have to a contemporary Jerry Garcia. He lives on the principles of having fun, loving everyone, and making music. His fans remind me of less-committed Dead-Heads: wo...

Within five minutes of stepping into the venue I was complimented on my outfit, a group of friends offered a shot, and had four new Instagram followers. The non-stop kindness and friendly attitudes persisted th...

I will argue till the day I die that French house music is superior. There’s something that just seems real about it, something that hits you deeper and urges you to move along with it. FKJ, also known as Fre...

Mt. Joy is in good company. They drift within the same waters as The Head and the Heart and the Lumineers, and are quickly establishing themselves as a household name in the folk-pop genre. On March 30th, Phila...

Conan Gray is a prime example of Generation Z’s obsession with normalcy and reality packaged in a faded VSCO filter with overlaid contour doodles. With vlogs and sit-down Q&As about his life in Texas subu...

Rayland Baxter is the perfect mix of singer-songwriter, psychedelic rock, and country. His songs are sickeningly sweet, a tad-bit whimsical, and just the right kind of rowdy. Baxter brought his eclectic mix to ...

While Princess Nokia graced Berkeley’s UC Theater this past Saturday, Jerry Paper took over the Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco and performed soothing, existential zig-zags for Noise Pop Music Festival 20...