What’s Happening This Weekend? A Guide To Shows Around The Bay, Sept 15 -17
Friday, September 15 Danielle Nicole, Sweet Undertow, Ruby Force @ Hotel Utah Recommending for the whiskey-swillin', shit-kickin' country of Ruby Force. Bone Diggers: The Music of Paul Simon @ The Chapel A surprising number of you entered for this giveaway, TBH. Van Goat, Joan and the Rivers, the Loose, Peggy Bunker and the Bunkmates @ Eli's Mile High Club The wordplay in these band names alone deserves your patronage. A Conversation with Nadya Tolokno @ Herbst Theater A central member of modern punk legends Pussy Riot is in town to discuss art and activism. The Living End @ Slim's Anyone [...]
Review & Photos: Young the Giant, Manchester Orchestra, Minus the Bear @ San Francisco Oysterfest, 6/30/12
The sun peeked out from among the clouds several times Saturday during the 13th annual San Francisco Oysterfest in Golden Gate Park, but by 4 p.m., as headliner Young the Giant was about to take the stage, the fog settled in permanently, setting a mellow mood over the festivities that did not go unnoticed by the performers. “It’s foggy, but it’s peaceful,” frontman Sameer Gadhia remarked a few songs into a set that lasted a little over an hour. Perhaps because of the weather, the relaxed atmosphere or vocal and guitar technical difficulties throughout the SoCal band’s set, there wasn’t [...]