On Shadowglow Deluxe, Touring with Shakey Graves: An Interview with Flipturn Anna Armstrong October 8, 2023 Interview It's been just over a year since indie rockers, Flipturn, released their debut album, Shadowglow (2022). Since then, the band has released a deluxe version of the album and played packed shows at iconic venues...
Trashed and thrashed: Municipal Waste will fuck you up Lily Ramus and Tyler Harding May 2, 2023 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews Photo by Lily Ramus With finals season approaching, legions of stressed metalheads graduating sometime between 3 weeks from now and 40 years ago, descended upon the UC Theatre on Friday, April 28th. The cre...
British Post-Punk at its Finest: Black Midi Charms The UC Theater Sabrina Herrera May 3, 2022 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Multimedia, music, Photos, Reviews I arrived just as opener Injury Reserve began their set on April 19th at the UC Theater. The crowd already seemed promising with both pit and balcony getting filled by people intently watching the duo composed ...
A New Orleans night with Tank and the Bangas Rebekah Gonzalez December 1, 2018 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Photos It’s devastating to think about all the music you will never get to hear before you die. I often wonder who are the artists changing the world at underground venues and hole-in-the-wall bars. Where are they f...
Stagehands: out of sight, not completely out of mind Rebekah Gonzalez April 10, 2018 Interview, Photos 1 Comment The average concert goer's experience usually occurs within a four hour time frame, starting with their arrival to the venue once doors open, and ending with the artist’s exit from the stage and the house lig...
Saharan soul sweeps UC Theatre Conner Smith April 4, 2017 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews, Reviews Music moves. Mind-body binaries begin to melt away, hands form foreign structures in the air above heads, and blood begins to course through veins with a different weight. The Saharan sounds of African rock gro...
Punks in a palace: Social Distortion galvanizes the masses at Berkeley’s UC Theatre Natalie Silver March 26, 2017 Columns and Opinions, Concerts, Festivals, and Live Reviews In a sense, he and I were not so different. Sure … one of us had sagging gauges, a belligerently drunk wife, and the stale breath of 50 years of cigarettes on his lips. One of us stood out among the rest o...
Interview: Life, New Music, and Inspiration with Jade Castrinos Jacob Elsanadi and Sofia Duarte September 19, 2016 Interview 4 Comments Following a soulful and powerful performance as the opener for Cat Power at The UC Theatre, we had the supreme pleasure of speaking with the wonderful Jade Castrinos. Two years have passed since Castrinos’ de...
M. Ward to bring sleepy, bluesy folk to UC Theatre Friday night Valerie Law July 5, 2016 Concerts, Festivals, and Live Previews, Previews Hailing from Portland, M. Ward is on tour for his eighth studio album, More Rain (2016). Matthew Ward has performed as a solo artist for more than fifteen years and is known for being half of She & Him with...