In a Shoegaze Daze: A Night with Slowdive at The Warfield Anna Armstrong October 21, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Shoegaze 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...
50 years of The Velvet Underground Erika Badalyan April 23, 2019 Album Review, Columns and Opinions The Velvet Underground was an American rock band from New York City consisting of singer Lou Reed, guitarist Sterling Morrison, and drummer Moe Tucker. The band was notably managed by pop artist Andy Warhol for...
Desert Daze 2018: a sonic oasis Marta Meazza October 31, 2018 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews It is hard to find the right place to start any narrative of this year’s Desert Daze; one could try to start chronologically, but they would be forced to start with a four-hour long wait in the car to just ge...
After 27 years, Slowdive finally share their intense shoegaze beauty with Oakland Dylan Medlock November 4, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews 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...
We came, we saw, we Slowdive-d: band shines on reunion tour Darius Kay November 10, 2014 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews 1 Comment On Saturday night, a British band whose last release graced the revolutionizing musical world in 1995 played the elegant Warfield in San Francisco, with just about every possible kind of person in attenda...