Bloc Party @ Fox Theater, Oakland 12/6/12
Bloc Party encountered a crowd chomping at the bit in Oakland, but fell just short of meeting everyone’s unrealistically high expectations.
ALBUM REVIEW: “End of Daze” by Dum Dum Girls
Explore a journey from loss to the hopeful light at the end of the tunnel through End of Daze, the new EP from Dum Dum Girls.
FREE TICKETS: Dum Dum Girls, Tamaryn, Young Prisms @ Slim’s, SF 5/22/12
Two FREE tickets to see Dum Dum Girls at Slim’s in San Francisco, and all you have to do is tell us who influences your life, art, or music.
LIVE REVIEW: Frankie Rose @ Brick and Mortar, SF 4/21/12
Rose seemed happy to be back in San Francisco and was flanked by friends from the local SF music scene.
NXNE Recap, Part 1: Stranger in a Strange Land
For a little over a decade, the city of Toronto has thrown their hat into the music festival ring, presenting North by Northeast, an answer to the over-saturated festival landscape of their fatter friends to the South.
LIVE REVIEW: Dum Dum Girls @ Sky Bar 2/17/11
The girls give Indie-punk in fancy places a go.
LIVE REVIEW: Dum Dum Girls @ Bottom of the Hill 6/30/10
Music fans have always loved a good girl group. From the Supremes to The Runaways, and especially in the days of punk and grunge with Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Go-Gos, X-Ray Spex, Bikini Kill and Sleater Kinney.
FROM THE NEWS NEST: Vampire Weekend announces U.S. tour and more.
Vampire Weekend will be hitting the road this summer for a U.S. tour, though they won’t be passing through the Bay Area.