The 2019 Bay Area Noise Pop Festival Welcomes Crumb Tovah Popilsky March 11, 2019 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews As the 2019 Bay Area Noise Pop Festival came to a close, Crumb, comprised of members Lila Ramani (guitar/vocals), Jesse Brotter (bass), Brian Aronow (synth/keys, percussion, reeds), and Jonathan Gilad (drums), ...
Longstreth’s newest formation of the Dirty Projectors still puts on a good show Jack Austin November 9, 2018 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos, Reviews, Uncategorized I have to confess, I was terrified the Dirty Projectors would put on a mediocre show filled with good moments. I had heard a couple tracks off their latest album, Lamp Lit Prose (2018), and was thoroughly unimp...
Windhand and Satan’s Satyrs host an occult ritual at the Starline Social Club Clementine Zimmer October 21, 2018 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews It was a quiet, foggy night in Oakland. The students were studying; the working folk had all gone home. Not a single automobile was in any one of the normally crowded intersections. A few drifters loped across ...
Kikagaku Moyo: a mystic midweek jaunt Celia Davalos October 18, 2018 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Uncategorized October 10th was the 10th stop for psychedelic rock/folk five-piece band, Kikagaku Moyo’s North America tour. All the way from Tokyo, the band lent the Wednesday night a gentle hand easing the transition to t...
GOODFest: Solange and fellow storytellers nurture Oakland solidarity Myra Farooqi December 19, 2016 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews On the night of Friday, December 16, a line of shivering guests braved the winds for entrance into Starline Social Club in anticipation for GOODFest's headliner: Solange Knowles. Equality was the theme of the...
Frankie Cosmos Would Prefer Staying in Bed, If Possible Matt Sater September 30, 2016 Interview Greta Kline wishes she’d written “Good Intentions Paving Company” by Joanna Newsom. Greta Kline says that Eminem’s “Stan” is the greatest song of all time. Greta Kline is Frankie Cosmos, and Greta K...
Mitski, Japanese Breakfast demonstrate the highs and lows of life on tour HR Huber-Rodriguez July 19, 2016 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews Last Friday (4/8) the Starline Social Club in Oakland played host to two of the best working songwriters in indie rock: New York’s Mitski and Philadelphia’s Japanese Breakfast. While the former is a rapidly...
TICKET GIVEAWAY: Mitski at Starline Social Club Oakland Valerie Law June 19, 2016 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, Contests If you missed Mitski on Upper Sproul this semester, you're in luck. We're giving away a pair of tickets to her all-ages show at the Starline Social Club in Oakland on Friday, July 8, which also features San Fr...
Allah-Las impress a familiar crowd at Starline Social Club Jacob Elsanadi December 13, 2015 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos, Reviews The line remained out the door at 9:15pm for those awaiting to see the Los Angeles-based Allah-Las. Wide-eyed and eager concertgoers were welcomed into the Starline Social Club, an Oakland bar/restaurant/venue,...