GalleryReview + Photos: Matthew Sweet and the Dream Syndicate at the Fillmore
Matthew Sweet (photo: Patric Carver)
There is no better place to see a show in San Francisco than the Fillmore. It’s big but not too big. It’s got great sound. [...]
GalleryReview + Photos: The Joy Formidable at the Independent
The Joy Formidable (photo: Patric Carver)
The Joy Formidable returned to San Francisco Friday night at the Independent. Tancred was orginaly set to join them as the opening act, but [...]
GalleryReview + Photos: Liz Phair at the Fillmore
Liz Phair (photo: Patric Carver)
I think there’s never going to be a moment in history that more perfectly casually intersects than the mid-'90s “Girl Power” movement with the current [...]
GalleryEllisa Sun gives the Bay Area ‘Just a Little More’
(photo: JJ Casas)
Up until recently, Ellisa Sun's base of operations was right here in the Bay Area. That was until she and her partner, percussionist Ken Michienzi, decided to purchase [...]
GalleryReview + Photos: Poster Children at Café du Nord
Poster Children (photo: Patric Carver)
Of all the scenes in The Exorcist, the one that strikes me the most is arguably the least flashy. There’s no contortionism, no projectile vomit. [...]
GalleryPhotos + Review: Love Jerks melt hearts at the Uptown
Love Jerks (photo: Patric Carver)
“This first song...this song comes from a time when I was really yearning. I was very yearnful.”
That’s how Love Jerks kicked things off last Thursday [...]
GalleryReview + Photos: This year’s Boogaloo remained gorgeously grotesque
The Damned (photo: SarahJayn Kemp)
I’ve always loved that punk rock is all spikes and chain-smoking from the outside and arts and crafts from the inside. Burger Boogaloo, the annual [...]
GalleryReview + Photos: Monday Night Hubba presents ‘Black Arts Matter: Juneteenth’
Monday Night Hubba - Blacks Arts Matter: Juneteenth (photo: Patric Carver)Hubba Hubba Revue hosts a cozy burlesque affair in the upstairs annex at DNA Lounge every Monday. This past [...]
GalleryReview + Photos: Johnny Marr at August Hall
Johnny Marr (photo: Patric Carver)
I’m not one for organized religion, but I am starting to believe we are living in the End Times.
It’s not just that things aren’t going [...]
GalleryReview + Photos: Peter Hook and the Light at the Warfield
Peter Hook and the Light (photo: Patric Carver)
Peter Hook and the Light illuminated the Warfield Saturday night with back-to-back performances of New Order and Joy Division’s twin compilations, Substance.
Usually, [...]
GalleryPeter Hook and the Light bring ‘Substance’ to the Warfield Saturday
On Saturday, May 12, Peter Hook and the Light will be returning to the Bay Area to play the Warfield.
The show will take place just six days shy of [...]
GalleryPhotos + Review: LCD Soundsystem at the Greek Theatre
LCD Soundsystem (photo: Jon Bauer)
I heard Kraftwerk’s “The Robots” for the first time at a suburban strip mall coffee shop when I was a kid. I remember thinking that it [...]
