Tagged shoegaze

This week, I had the unbelievable privilege of attending the sold-out Panchiko show at the UC Theater. Panchiko’s lore runs deep. In the late nineties, they were a British indie band with a dream. They made t...

Doom Loop at the Regency Ballroom wasn't your standard music festival—some six-stage, three-day festival with name-brand flags and sponsored water stations. Instead, Doom Loop was a one-night, five-act festiv...

On March 10th, 2020, Palehound played at Cafe du Nord in San Francisco for their headline tour with Adult Mom. The next day, the COVID-19 pandemic was declared and their tour was canceled. For Palehound, this m...

The shoegaze renaissance is upon us and we can thank Slowdive for that. Shoegaze is a genre of music popularized in the 1980s and 90s and is characterized by its use of distortion, guitar pedals and muddied...

I have been gunning to see Ridgeway again since first catching their set with bands Soft Blue Shimmer and Downard last August… Timing just so happened to work out perfectly this final week before classes s...

Parannoul defies definition. The mastermind behind the Seoul-based project lurks beyond shadows, basking in an anonymity that sheds further intrigue onto a project that is more than able to attract it based sol...

“Mommy! Yes, mommy! I love you, mommy!!” the crowd cheers on. It’s pitch black out on a Saturday night, and the crowd is ecstatic to see everyone’s favorite mom perform live at the Fox Theater in Oaklan...

On Saturday night of Halloween weekend, I had the pleasure of seeing Wolf Alice at August Hall in San Francisco. As I walked to the venue from the train station, I began to fill with excitement. The streets wer...

Spotify Blend is the newest feature on Spotify. It syncs your music taste with whoever you send the Spotify blend link to and generates a playlist with similar songs you each would like. It has a song compatibi...

The 90s were a great decade for dark lipsticks, greasy hair, and movies about hackers. While a lot of that should be left in the 90s (greasy hair, I’m looking at you), I’m definitely excited about one ...

A drawn-out scream collides with a new crescendo, elevating you to a state susceptible to the pounding drums, giving you a new pulse that follows the rhythmic guitar. Behind you, bodies clash. Each shoulder-to...

Girlpool exploded onto the indie scene with their debut album Before the World Was Big (2015), and have developed a devoted following in the years since. Their sophomore album, Powerplant (2017), sees the addit...

When writing about concerts, I can typically rely on the personalities of the band members, the stage setup, crowd interactions, and a plethora of other unpredictable qualities to illustrate why the show was un...

Sometime in the last couple of years, British Columbia’s Teen Daze (Jamison) disclosed his last name (Isaak) and relocated to Abbotsford, a quieter part of the Fraser Valley he’s called home the entire time...

Jefre Cantu-Ledesma has been keeping himself busy. Between running the experimental Root Strata label, producing a ton of impressive ceramic art, re-releasing two of his essential ambient drone recordings from...