For three days Gold Gate Park is the home of 5+ stages and more than 50,000 fans. The festival organizers do an amazing job of completely transforming and manipulating the park to accommodate the festival and its fansContinue Reading

I have been to a lot of music festivals. While most of them have been amazing, none of them have been as organized as High Sierra Music Festival. This is the 27th year that the festival has existed, and it shows. In addition to being a well-run festival, I also found the staff, musicians, and attendees...Continue Reading

When I turn off the freeway to enter the festival, I’m always excited to discover the upgrades introduced to the festivals flow. Each year the festival has discovered its problem areas and fixed themContinue Reading

I was talking with my friend the other day about how The Chainsmokers killed EDM. All the rage in the early 2010s (yes, we’re actually in the late 2010s now – holy shit!), EDM is suffering the blowbacks of shameless consumerism, and while The Chainsmokers catalyzed that by unabashedly stripping the genre of its artistry...Continue Reading

ID10T was a nerd festival experiment that turned into a huge success. Chris Hardwick had the goal to create a new festival that featured music and comedy. I feel like he did that and more. The festival was a melting pot of nerdism. Attendees came from all parts of California to celebrate comic books, cosplay, stand up comedy, and...Continue Reading

Set Phasers to Rock. I’m really excited about this upcoming show: “Spaced-Out America” lands at Slim’s on Saturday, July 1st, at 8PM. The most anticipated space rager this summer, “Spaced-Out America” features a stacked lineup. The Damn Fanatics, Mannequin Planet, Doctor Striker, and The Phenomenauts will blitz the stage with massive sound and thrilling live...Continue Reading

The whole show felt like one long anthem ... each song kept building on the previous song. I was thrilled at the way Liam and his band brought so much energy to the stageContinue Reading

LEX Presents: APARTY … and it was a party. I went to the Asian Pacific American party and had a good time. We have a big new upcoming artist in the Bay Area. Her name is The Lexicon Artist. Babii Cris was good. She had a lot of energy. Super Fun. Eddy Shin brought his...Continue Reading

BottleRock 2017 had approximately 40,000 attendees each day celebrating the opportunity to drink wine and hear music from major acts like Foo Fighters, Tom Petty, The Roots, Modest Mouse, and other local favorites like Serf and James, Hibbity Dibbity, and Con Brio.Continue Reading

Gallery from Freq Fest SF Day 1 at DNA Lounge. Artists Featured: Curious Quail, Doctor Popular, Space Town, Together We Are Robots, & Kevyn Gnartinez Band SPACE TOWN Doctor Popular Together We Are Robots Kevyn Gnartinez Band Curious QuailContinue Reading

Your Fearless Leader is aptly named, as their leader Marcus Ghiasi is truly fearless: leading his 7 piece band into a headlining slot at The Rickshaw Stop. They have a genuinely unique sound in the Bay, combining an eclectic lineup of sax, trumpet, violin, keyboard, drums, guitar, and bass. It may sound like the lineup...Continue Reading

The band began their set with a mysterious musical fragment: something warm and reverberant that sounded all at once strange and familiar.Continue Reading