Music
Watching Ta-Nehisi Coates Shadowbox With White Nonsense In San Francisco
Guest Post by Sayre Piotrkowski For most of the past month I have been reading We Were Eight Years In Power by my favorite author, Ta-Nehisi Coates. The book is something like a greatest hits collection culled from Coates’ work in the pages of the Atlantic magazine. Nine essays, eight
This Week’s Events | San Francisco + New York
Rad Upcoming SF Events CREATURES OF THE NIGHTLIFE FT. PEACHES CHRIST THU. 10/26 | 6:00PM @ CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES The creatures come out at NightLife as the Academy partners with Bay Area Science Festival and Peaches Christ Productions to transform the museum into a spine-tingling, supernatural tribute to ’80s horror movies
Northern Waste: Artist You Should Know
Guest post by Genie Cartier If you’re like me, you’re tired of living in a world of mediocre rock bands with mumbled lyrics and confusingly popular 80s dad rock cover bands. Meet Northern Waste, the local rock band you didn’t know you were craving! Northern Waste’s unique yet classic style
How To Survive Riot Fest (Trust Us, You’ll Want To)
Bonnaroo may be in tents but Riot Fest is INTENSE! Pitchfork doesn’t even have pitchforks but Riot Fest is a RIOT! For a long walk in a nice park head to Lollapalooza. For a short walk into a mosh pit stumble into Riot Fest. We were offered the most excellent
Detroit’s Mo Pop Festival is on Fire this Weekend
Some call it Lolla Lite, others call it Bunbury .5, and the rest of us know it as MO POP FESTIVAL! Whatever you call it, but don’t call it passed 11 PM (woo dad joke!), Mo Pop is chock full of fun for everyone and every part of your brain,
Your Festival Girlfriend is Cooler Than All Your Previous Girlfriends
This last weekend I attended Northern Nights Music Festival in Humboldt County. While there I met some of the coolest people and saw some of the most epic bands. On Sunday evening I had an epiphany, that night realized that festival girlfriends are way better than real girlfriends. Festivals generally
Band You Should Know: Abbott Kinney
In anticipation of their upcoming headlining gig at the Great American Music Hall on August 19th, we sent local SF band Abbott Kinney our grueling questionnaire. Will they survive it? Will the answers surprise you? There’s only one way to find out. Read below: Name: Abbot Kinney Medium: Rock Music