Singer/songwriter/historian Lucy Dacus played the Rickshaw Stop in San Francisco, touring behind her excellent second record, Historian. The show ended late by SF standards, around 1AM, but even those waiting outside in the rain before the show stayed through the end. Massachusetts indie rock back And the Kids, who one might call “hardcore dreampop” if that were thing, played a fantastic opening set. Continue reading
Nashville R&B/soul singer Anderson East played a sold-out show at the Fillmore in San Francisco on March 2nd. Minneapolis-based Nigerian singer/songwriter JS Ondara played a great opening set as well. Pics below… Continue reading
Gypsy punks Gogol Bordello played two sold-out shows at the Fillmore at the end of February, with NYC funky brass band The Lucky Chops in tow. Photos from both extremely raucous sets below… Continue reading
Brooklyn indie rock band San Fermin played the Fillmore in San Francisco for the annual Noise Pop festival. Check out photos below… Continue reading
Burger Records’ Burger A-Go-Go tour stopped through San Francisco as part of the city’s 2018 Noise Pop festival, with a great quadruple bill of mostly girl rock, headlined by The Coathangers. LA’s Feels also played a standout set, followed by Death Valley Girls and Flytraps. Check out photos from all the sets below… Continue reading
Indie rock vet Mary Timony dusted off songs from her beloved, long-defunct ’90s band Helium last year for a short East Coast tour, behind the Matador Records’ reissue of the band’s two LPs and a new 2-LP, 19 song singles & rarities compilation. Continue reading
The un-retired Brooklyn dance-rock outfit LCD Soundsystem played two sold-out nights at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium in San Francisco on November 14th and 15th, touring behind their fourth (and first post-reactivation) record, American Dream. Continue reading
New York (and now LA) garage rock trio Yeah Yeah Yeahs continued their mini tour in celebration of the reissue of their first record Fever to Tell, with a sold-out show at the Fox Theater in Oakland. Continue reading
LA-based indie-pop trio LANY (who are not bicoastal despite the name), played two sold-out shows at the Fillmore at the end of October. Continue reading
Long Island rapper Hoodie Allen played the Fillmore in San Francisco on October 28th, 2017, in support of his third studio album, The Hype. Check out photos of the set below… Continue reading
