GalleryPhotos: Hippo Campus at the Independent
Hippo Campus (photo: Lilly Nguyen)
Still riding high off their debut Landmark, St. Paul's own Hippo Campus returned to the bay to perform at the Independent on Monday, July 9, [...]
GalleryReview + Photos: Townes Van Zandt tribute at the Sweetwater Music Hall
Townes Van Zandt Tribute (photo: Carolyn McCoy)
Words by Carolyn McCoy
The late, great Texan songwriter Townes Van Zandt was often considered “a songwriter’s songwriter.” Van Zandt was part of the “outlaw [...]
GalleryReview + Photos: Dead & Company at Shoreline Amphitheatre
Dead & Company (photo: Kate Haley)
Words by Kate Haley
Oteil Burbridge, Jeff Chimenti, Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, John Mayer, and Bill Kreutzmann of Dead & Company are showing no sign of [...]
GalleryPhotos: Let It Bleed featuring Sasami, KERA at the Independent
Sasami (photo: Kaiya Gordon)
"Let it Bleed," Sea Witch Productions' yearly "rock and roll tampon drive," is special — not just because it's designed to collect tampons for houseless people in [...]
GalleryMany photos of both days of Burger Boogaloo 2018
The Damned (photo: Patric Carver)
With Mosswood Park now back to normal, we felt it a good idea to bring out the scene at the park just a week ago [...]
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 [...]
GalleryDown The 5: Frog Eyes announce the end of an era
On July 3, 2018, Frog Eyes played their last show in Los Angeles on their goodbye tour to a modest crowd of fifty fans, including the aforementioned die-hards.
GalleryPhotos: Ani DiFranco at the Rio Theatre
Ani DiFranco (photo: Kate Haley)
Words by Kate Haley
Ani DiFranco has always brought it. Her poetry, delivered in percussive lyrics, makes the personal political and the political deeply personal. Couple that [...]
GalleryReview + Photos: Snail Mail at Swedish American Hall
Snail Mail (photo: William Wayland)
So, here we are: my first San Francisco show since moving away for graduate school one year ago. I'm back for the summer, or at least [...]
GalleryBeyond The Bay: Openair St. Gallen 2018 in Switzerland
Sofi Tukker (photo: Ian Young)
With Outside Lands soon upon us (three-day passes still available!) I decided to check out a music festival that shares many similar ethos to our [...]
GalleryBeyond The Bay: Caleborate at the Old Blue Last, London
Caleborate (photo: Robert Alleyne)
Bay Area rapper Caleborate played to a busy crowd on Friday night for the London stop of his European tour. The Sacramento-raised Berkeley resident, performed a set [...]
GalleryReview + Photos: Belle & Sebastian charm the East Bay
Belle & Sebastian (photo: Joshua Huver)
On Monday night, June 25, an unusually energetic crowd of indie rock fans flocked to the Fox Theater in Oakland for Belle & Sebastian, [...]
