The chaos of catharsis: Doom Loop Festival, starring Yeule Rushaad Mistry and Selina Yang March 21, 2024 indie, indie-pop, Rock, San Francisco, Shoegaze Doom Loop at the Regency Ballroom wasn't your standard music festival—some six-stage, three-day festival with name-brand flags and sponsored water stations. Instead, Doom Loop was a one-night, five-act festiv...
Angel Olsen at Regency Ballroom: Return/Rebirth in Earnest Emily Putnam October 25, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews, San Francisco Angel Olsen walks out in white tulle, glorious bouffant, and unselfconscious grin. She is merry and (titularly) angelic. The set begins and drool appears on my chin. The rest of the audience is similarly en...
Poppers to Poppy Vicente Angel Saavedra September 4, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews Hi, I am not Poppy. But the person who stood in front of me, in the flesh, on August 22nd was. My first introduction to Poppy was in 2017, when their ominous videos went viral. The videos were shrouded by a v...
Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair for Natalie Mering: Weyes Blood Makes Hearts Aglow During Night 2 at the Regency Nico Chodor March 30, 2023 Berkeley, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos Weyes Blood put me under a spell Sunday night at the Regency Ballroom, and I still haven’t fully recovered. Draped in the white billowing fabric of gods and/or ghosts, she breezed onto the stage...
A trip to Beatopia Lucy Hanna November 21, 2022 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, indie-pop, San Francisco Stopping by The Regency Ballroom on Wednesday, November 16, I was lucky enough to be transported by 22-year-old artist beabadoobee to Beatopia (2022). More than just the name of her most recent record, Beatopia...
Bills in the air and a t-shirt cannon at the Regency Ballroom with Electric Guest Stephanie Enciso and Annie Nguyen November 8, 2019 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Multimedia, Photos, Reviews Electric Guest took the music world by storm with their first album Mondo (2012). Mondo worked as an introductory album into the 2012 rage of indie bands. It fit into the mold of popular Indie Top 100 charts th...
Let’s go!!! Matt and Kim with Beach Goons at the Regency Ballroom Stanley Quiros November 7, 2019 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos Matt and Kim’s breakout album GRAND (2009) just turned ten years old, and to celebrate, the duo is touring the album in its entirety, including tracks never before part of their live shows’ repertoire. On M...
EDEN brings new sound, emotion to the Regency Ballroom Jacob Green March 19, 2018 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews Minutes before the beginning of his highly anticipated performance, 22-year-old Jonathon Ng (stagename EDEN) quickly peaked his head out from backstage to see a sea of fans closely monitoring the stage for any ...
Mogwai crafts a patient, explosive build at The Regency Ballroom Dylan Medlock November 30, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews The crowd was relatively calm. Some bobbed their heads lightly to the dark synths of opener Xander Harris, and others gave contained although more full-bodied attempts at grooving to the electronic pulse. But t...
LANY Romances at The Regency Ballroom Michelle Cho December 7, 2016 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Multimedia, Photos, Reviews On the evening of November 17th at The Regency Ballroom in San Francisco, front man Paul Klein of indie-pop band LANY opened the show in an unusual manner. Without any explanation, he sat down cross-legged on t...
“A moment for escapism:” Classixx shuts the world out of the Regency Ballroom Jordan Aronson November 14, 2016 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews Last Thursday at the Regency Ballroom in San Francisco, a different type of protest formed - a passive one, marked by joy, color, and music. The perpetrators? Classixx, the Los Angeles-based DJ duo of Michael D...
Danny Brown blesses the mic at Regency Ballroom Eda Yu October 15, 2016 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews The lights dimmed as Danny Brown’s DJ took the stage, quietly setting up his deck in the faint hue of red-blue light. Everyone cheered loudly as he looked out and acknowledged the plethora of excited faces lo...
Keys N Krates raise spirits at the Regency Isaac Yi February 23, 2016 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Multimedia, Photos, Reviews With just a few stops remaining on their "Midnite Mass" tour, Canadian trio Keys N Krates led service last Thursday, February 18, at the Regency Ballroom. The idea that the "Midnite Mass" tour is supposed to "f...
Keys N Krates to stage a Bay Area return at the Regency tomorrow night Isaac Yi February 17, 2016 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews Toronto-based Keys N Krates are set to make an appearance at the Regency Ballroom tomorrow, February 18, as part of their month-and-a-half long tour following the January 15 release of their latest EP, Midnite ...
Django Django animate and energize crowd in San Francisco Valerie Law October 24, 2015 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews Django Django was nothing but electricity at the Regency Ballroom Friday night. On tour for their second album Born Under Saturn (2015), the performers came out in a cloud of smoke, greeted to enormous cheer. B...