Tagged The Masonic

Before Thursday night at the Masonic in SF, the closest I had ever come to seeing Peach Pit live was the Tropicalia Festival in 2019. Their self-titled claim to fame “Peach Pit” garnered extreme views on Yo...

Following her 2020 release of Before Love Came to Kill Us, Jessie Reyez has finally blessed us with a long-awaited national tour for her 2022 release Yessie. On October 27, Jessie performed after supporting act...

It’s easy to be unimpressed by pop stars. The media often approach them with intense cynicism. Pop stars are assumed to have limited musicianship and pop songs are referred to as “guilty pleasures” and en...

She is standing at the top of a pearly white set of front angled stairs. The crowd at San Francisco’s The Masonic auditorium roars beneath her. Just half an hour ago, Janelle Monáe seemed cooler than ice. In...

I went in expecting the worst, expecting to be disappointed. It would be easier that way. A new female artist with good music and a distinct vocal style has been long overdue in the pop industry. Although artis...

When I heard that Austin indie rock band Spoon would be playing a show in SF, I fondly reminisced about when I was just starting to discover indie music. Subtly experimental and minimal, yet also driven and cat...

Lo Moon There’s a strange phenomenon in the Bay Area where concert-goers, more often than not, skip the opening act. As a Los Angeles native, I’m accustom to seeing most of a crowd line up before the do...

Kaleo, or as the internet appears to regard them, "Jökull Júlíusson and some other guys," carved a permanent spot for themselves in the heart of San Francisco Thursday night. There were your usual declar...

By the time opener John Grant sang, “I am the greatest motherfucker that you’re ever gonna meet” (from his song “GMF”), the general admission section of The Masonic was spilling over with people waiti...

Sometime between Our Nature (2013) and "Lovers Wake," dream pop outfit Savoir Adore were put on hiatus by the media. Though we were unaware of the news then, it was shortly after their critically-acclaimed soph...

Impossibly tall, wavy hair in its distinctive bun, and bewilderedly shy as if he couldn't believe the throngs of screaming girls were waiting for him, Andrew Hozier-Byrne - known by his stage name Hozier�...

Clearly from a different era, The Deslondes jumped on stage Saturday night, unironically sporting cowboy boots and rolled up sleeves -- even the guitarist wore a pair of overalls and a trucker hat. Not ...