by Shayan Saalabi As I hurtled toward my college graduation earlier this year, I became consumed by a ceaseless anxiety. I would no longer be a “student” (an English major, no less, floating without aim from semester to semester) but a part of “the workforce.” You know, the unemployed part

Lucy Dacus is an American indie rock singer-songwriter from Richmond, Virginia. She has released two critically acclaimed albums: No Burden and Historian. In 2018, she formed boygenius with Phoebe Bridgers and Julien Baker. Friday, October 25, 2019 | August Hall | Tickets can be purchased here

Daniel Dewan Sewell, known professionally as Danny Brown, is an American rapper and songwriter. He is described by MTV as “one of rap’s most unique figures in recent memory”. In 2010, after amassing several mixtapes, Brown released his debut studio album, The Hybrid. His new show on Viceland is called,

The Edwardian Ball is an elegant, whirlwind, turn-of-the-century festival of music, theatre, dance, fashion, circus, art, gaming, ballroom dance, vending, and the art and stories of Edward Gorey. A Gorey Halloween – The Edwardian Ball 20th Anniversary Begins, on October 23rd at The Chapel, San Francisco. Featuring, from the Edwardian stage, your founding hosts Rosin Coven with Tumbledown House and Earles of Newtown, together

A mutual friend mentioned Eric Burton to Adrian Quesada, saying that he was the best singer he had ever heard. The two musicians connected, but Burton took a while to respond (“My friends were like ‘Dude, you’re a mad man, you need to hit that guy back!’“) Finally, he called Quesada,

There she was, the one and only, the punk rock poet laureate of past, present, and future – Patti Smith. She was dressed in her quintessential baggy clothes – big brown jacket, loose black jeans, booming stringy gray hair – dragging her doc marten’s in a slow-moving gait maintaining the

  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

Celebrate Halloween at San Francisco’s premiere haunted walking tour, the San Francisco Ghost Hunt Walking Tour. Founded in 1998 by local raconteur and paranormal investigator Jim Fassbinder, this decades-old tradition combines San Francisco’s rich haunted history with storytelling, insider gossip, and a magic twist provided by San Francisco Ghost Hunt’s current owner-operator, award-winning magician