Pond Hopping with Dry Cleaning and Fake Fruit at the Chapel Stanley Quiros November 24, 2021 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews An appropriate name for a venue. A San Franciscan hole-in-the-wall expanded in shadow, my first concert in the Bay since March of 2020 welcomed me into a secret service. A sacred offering from two spiritually b...
Chad VanGaalen’s Wordsworthian approach at the Chapel Rebekah Gonzalez November 21, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews On a Tuesday night, the Chapel opened its doors to a lukewarm audience that trickled in over the span of two hours. So lukewarm, in fact, that I was able to successfully save the two stools next to me for a fat...
Ariel Pink fools around at The Chapel Rebekah Gonzalez October 20, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews Ariel Pink loves champagne, Charles is his girlfriend–not his friend–and he claims he’s not a misogynist. Those were the surface level takeaways from the opening night of Pink’s four night residency at ...
No encores: Ceremony at The Chapel SF John Lawson March 5, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews Ceremony never plays an encore. That didn’t stop the packed house at The Chapel from stomping their feet until the floor of the converted mortuary shook last Sunday. Still, there was something lukewarm...