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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...

Photo gallery of Oakland-based band SWMRS performing at the UC Theatre during their fifth annual Uncool Records Fest in Berkeley. Photos shot on digital and 35mm. Article and photos by Josie Ruggeiro...

Last Saturday night, Frankie Cosmos graced the stage of the UC Theatre for the last day of their tour for their fourth studio album, Close It Quietly (2019). Frankie Cosmos is well known for capturing the heavy...

On Monday night, for The Barr Brothers' first ever performance in the East Bay, and for the grand return of The Milk Carton Kids to Berkeley since their Greek Theatre show in 2016, every tier of the UC Theatre...

Yaeji’s performance at the UC Theatre on October 20th was an experience, and a very peculiar one. A bizarre mixture of people was brought together under the high ceiling of the ornate Berkeley venue to witnes...

After a four year streak of producing consistently pleasant, thoughtful, charming bedroom-pop, Frankie Cosmos’ latest album Vessel (2018) tops the rest of her catalogue. Making up for moments that felt unfini...

Fantastic Negrito will be blessing the UC Theatre Saturday, October 14, with other Oakland-based artists, MAD NOISE and The Jamming Nachos. Born to a conservative Muslim family in Massachusetts, Xavier Amin ...

During the first year since the UC Theatre’s opening, the venue has already gained significant recognition in our community. From attracting hip concert-goers to shows like Deerhunter and Toro y Moi, costume-...

One foot on the monitor, surveying the crowd, Thursday’s Geoff Rickley gestured to the giant decorations covering the venue’s wall behind him. The seminal emo act’s logo — a stenciled dove in flight —...

Barracuda was written out of absurd circumstances. When an industry sleazeball in Heart's dressing room insinuated that lead singer Ann Wilson and her sister, Nancy, were lovers, Wilson retaliated by writing....

James Vincent McMorrow captures that foggy, dreamlike folk reminiscent of early Bon Iver, but with the gravelly rumbles of an Irish accent hidden under layers of falsetto, floaty synths, and the kind of sentime...

I can’t recall a single political lyric on any Toro y Moi release. Toro y Moi, formerly the solo project of Chaz Bundick and now the name for his full band, has never been one to protest loudly. A modest Amer...

Nicolas Jaar isn’t the type to keep with conventions. With the release of Sirens this past September, he further blurred the line between electronic dance and experimental music, filling its 41-minutes wit...

Con Brio's music is a dynamic collaboration of funk, soul, R&B, and jazz elements, elements that appear in infectiously groovy compilations of tracks on both their EP Kiss the Sun (2015) and newly released...