The Yolk: The moment a song hits just right
The 2:02 mark of Lorde’s “Buzzcut Season,” off of Pure Heroine (2013) fills me with an inexplicable emotion. The way she harmonizes behind the chorus is heavenly. It‘s a combination of euphoria, mela...
Reverend Hort Heat and The Buttertones bring together generations of surf-rock
On the night of January 25th, 2020, Reverend Horton Heat had Slim’s swelling with pin-ups and psychobillies for a sold-out show. A line stretched out the door well before the show was set to begin, crowding ...
Shannon Shaw and drunken Santas: A winter wonderland
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...
Brittany Howard: a god amongst us
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...
The British are coming: black midi at Rickshaw Stop
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...
Bills in the air and a t-shirt cannon at the Regency Ballroom with Electric Guest
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...
mxmtoon plays a charming show at the Great American Music Hall
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...
Steve Lacy debuts Apollo XXI at the Fillmore
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,...
A night of punk and love with IDLES at The Fillmore
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...
Up in smoke – Outside Lands 2019
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...
Here comes Mac DeMarco
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...
Boss ass bitch – Lizzo’s lesson on empowerment
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...
FKJ’s electric night at the Warfield
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’s infectious joy at the Fillmore
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...
The night is young: Conan Gray and girl in red
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...