An elusive new project from composer Alan Palomo, Neon Indian delivers equal parts synthetic nostalgia, dreampop lullabies, and grinding guitar noise to create something eerier than the sum of its parts. They’ve been compared to New Order, Future Bible Heroes, and most recently said to sound like a saw-wave cutting

Riot Fest has been around for 15 years, that’s a decade and a half (yay math)! If you aren’t aware, it’s festival that caters to the punk, metal, hip-hop, and alternative crowd with all the accouterments their band t-shirt clad hearts could desire with a carnival twist. Spending the weekend

San Francisco can be a lonely city for musicians and others focusing on creative endeavors. We had 1 summer of love, but since then it’s been a challenging city to stay in and not get pushed out. The average person lives here for 2 years before moving on. In 2013

This Tuesday started like any other, a drowsy morning filled with fumbling around in my Walnut Creek apartment, trying not to wake my sleeping boyfriend as he snored through the morning.  I took my pills and walked into my “beauty room,” the den I’ve converted into a space reserved for

Here we see the Rev. Cecil Williams holding court at the Glide Legacy Gala, one of the biggest annual charity extravaganzas on the San Francisco social calendar. This year’s 10th annual Glide Legacy Gala is Saturday, September 7, and the fabulous folks at the Glide Legacy Committee have offered the Broke-Ass

There is a festival tradition which started in the rave culture. It involves attendees making signs, now known as totems, that they raise on a stick above their heads. What originally started as a way for your friends to find you in a crowd of people, has become something much

Your friends’ Burning Man posts are already freaking relentless on Facebook, and you’re the sad sack who’s stuck at home. But don’t trip! There are plenty of Bay Area events if you’re not at Burning Man from August 25 – September 2, and it turns out San Francisco and Oakland