Tagged shoegaze

On their latest tour, NYC based Dirty Dishes made a stop in SF last Saturday, February 27,  just in time for the penultimate night of Noise Pop 2016. Also accompanying them in the dimly lit Knockout was Wax Id...

At 8:11pm on a Monday night in in the heart of San Francisco, the Rickshaw Stop slowly generates a palpable buzz. Bodies busy themselves with the gentle stirring of ice cubes in highball glasses or chatter indi...

With a dreamy half-hour set, Valerie Teicher, also known by her stage name Tei Shi (pronounced Tay-She), opened the stage Monday night at The Fillmore for British electropop band Years and Years. Tei Shi s...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edpYl_3p6O8 Upon haphazardly encountering Flesh World’s music while browsing bandcamp, we were welcomely surprised to find that they were far more local than our internet di...

Tuesday night, the crowd was filled with an odd combination of professional forty-somethings and spry, ambitious twenty-somethings, but everyone had something special in common -- utter infatuation with a b...

On October 16, The Horrors and Moon Duo played a pair of mesmerizing sets at the Fillmore, a venue with a cool atmosphere augmented by chandeliers lit up in blue and purple. Moon Duo started off the nigh...

On a mid-week morning, I sat down to chat with Kenny Vasoli of Vacationer ahead of his headlining tour to promote his band's latest endeavor, Relief, released earlier this year via Downtown Records. We ...

As writers and wordsmiths, we can relate to The History of Apple Pie’s sweet-nothing of a moniker. The London band’s 2010 inception story is most akin to that of a local jam band, one that plays the sho...

PS I Love You’s third album, For Those Who Stay, out July 22nd via Paper Bag Records, will certainly warrant the Canadian indie rock duo yet another Polaris Prize nomination. Fronted by multi-instrume...

COPENHAGEN, DENMARK* -- The Pains of Being Pure at Heart performed in Denmark this past Monday, June 23, on one of their European tour dates following the release of Days of Abandon (2014). They played with ...

Electropop duo Maria Lindén and Fredrik Balck of I Break Horses have been making a scene since 2011, when they appeared with their misty debut album Hearts. Their prowess and years of hard work landed them a s...

Yesterday night, San Franciscans could simultaneously go out and feel at home, hugged by the fuzzy timbre of layered keys and sweet falsetto. Milagres waxed and waned on The Brick & Mortar stage, opening fo...

Milagres Brooklyn phenomenon, Milagres, released Violent Light, a follow-up to 2011’s Glowing Mouth last week. The new album embodies the same lo-fi Brooklyn glitz of their first album, with big falsetto cho...