The venue feels like the big city.  The massive 50ft walls are covered with precise lighting and calculated blackness.  It’s industrial yet inviting, and absolutely possessed by artists.  Standing in line at the bar I notice there are load bearing cables on the walls, weights and measures, elaborate schemes for lighting

Rad Upcoming SF Events CONVERGE | WINTER FOOD AND DANCE CELEBRATION THU. 12/17 | 5:00PM @ YERBA BUENA CENTER FOR THE ARTS All evening long, you’re invited to gather around a communal table featuring bites, beverages, and entertainment by some of the Bay Areas most acclaimed creative makers, including: James

No one talks. Throbbing chanting moves slowly around the room. Outside, through pane glass windows, boats rock in the harbor, birds fly over the bay. Old, drawn-out Latin words run through coils of copper wire and flow out of forty speakers arranged in a circle around the room. Walking up

Some people play a social game where they avoid the Christmas song “Little Drummer Boy”, a song I consider the greatest carol OF ALL TIME. So I went in search the LDB Game’s original inventors to find out why “Little Drummer Boy” — the only Christmas carol that addresses income

  Primus returns on New Years Eve for the first ever performance of Pork Soda in its entirety. Pork Soda was released on April 20th, 1993 and has never been performed live as a complete album although Primus has played Frizzle Fry and Sailing the Seas of Cheese as a complete

  Rancid formed from the ashes of the cult East Bay band, Operation Ivy, in the early 90s and in their 15+ years have sold millions of records. The incomparable punk band Rancid recently began recording in a studio on the California coast with long-time friend, producer and label president Brett

  Fresh off their Pacific tour, Oakland’s Trails and Ways is a band built on plurality. Their songs never shy away from personal and political heavy-lifting, while making some of the most compelling pop music we’ve heard in some time. The sound they cultivated is a fascinating mix of the melancholy of