Alanis Morissette + Garbage at Shoreline Amphitheatre - August 6, 2022
The last night of the Jagged Little Pill tour was a tour de force by icons. Opening with Garbage with Shirley onstage killing it with her...
Song of the Week - "Treasure of My Heart" - Spanish Fly
The other day I'm in a store and this song comes over the speaker and instantly I'm back in time at a high school dance in the hot...
Machine Gun Kelly + Avril Lavigne + Willow at Oakland Arena - July 19, 2022
MGK, Avril, and Willow came to Oakland Oracle Ring Central Arena on July 19th and put on a big show. Even without Travis Barker mashing...
Song of the Week - "Domino" - Myd
Too bad some of the kids say mid meaning bad not bad meaning good these days, because this Myd song's not mid, and a couple of remixes of...
Song of the Week - "Just When I Thought" - Jacob Banks
Jacob Banks' voice is sublime, just really special, and then paired with the rumbling slow techno-pop bass in this song the whole thing...
Song of the Week - "Run" - Joji
We're not only about the latest and greatest most recent music around here - if you want the newest Joji this isn't it - but two years...
Song of the Week - "i4goturbirthday" - Esty
This unpredictable summer banger is the brainchild of Dominican-American Esty, not Etsy - she doesn't sell crafts, she makes crafty songs...
AJR and BoyWithUke at Concord Pavilion, June 17th 2022
At 9pm sharp, to the east of San Francisco in the dry hilly lands of Concord, the AJR show came to life, and it was big. Big lights, big...
Song of the Week - "Not Even Close" - Tina Dico
Tina Dico lives in Iceland but is Danish, and her latest material (Bitte Sma Ryk) is a Danish album recorded in her native tongue. As an...
Tears For Fears and Garbage at Shoreline Amphitheatre - June 2, 2022
June 2 found the darlings of the 80s and the darlings of the 90s together on a 2022 match made in heaven ticket at Shoreline, the second...
Song of the Week - Valley - "CHAMPAGNE"
Catchy catchy catchy with sad little undertones make this a perfect summer pop song. I want to open my sunroof and turn it up and let...
Song of the Week - Orlando Weeks - "Way To Go"
This song came on, I hit Shazaam to identify it, and was 100% sure it was going to be a late 80s song I'd never heard before. Well I...
Song of the Week - NIN - "Where is Everybody? (remix version)"
You're probably a Nine Inch Nails fan, right? I mean it's unlikely you aren't if you're reading a music blog. But if for some silly...
Bob Moses at The Warfield SF, May 12, 2022
These favorite sons of the festival circuit stopped off in San Francisco to play the Warfield on this sunny day in May, and put on an...
Song of the Week - JJ & The Mood - "How Many Times"
This came to my ears via KCRW and Travis Holcomb's Freaks Only evening radio show, and at first I thought "Is this new Scroobius Pip? Is...
Song of the Week - Andy Bell - "The View From Halfway Down"
With so many talented Andy Bells in the world, how is one to choose a favorite song of the week from one of them? Easy this time, because...
Song of the Week - Bob Moses - "Love Brand New"
In honor of Bob Moses playing The Warfield in SF next month, and in honor of this song continuing the tradition of banging Bob Moses...
Song of the week - Yumi Zouma - "She's Electric"
I enjoy a good cover, but if it's an Oasis cover played shoegaze style-- which, my 1992 friends, is now called Dreampop-- it's impossible...
Cellists On Tour - Zoe Keating, Vanessa Freebaim-Smith
Cellists aren't usually associated with pop music, yet a couple of them have had and are having current success touring with pop acts....
Tessa Violet @ The Fillmore - April 13, 2022
Musician/writer/director/socials star Tessa Violet is touring with Cavetown as an opener and rocked the crowd at the Fillmore SF with...