Meat Puppets
April 5, 2019
The Independent
San Francisco, CA
But Then I Saw Meat Puppets
By Sean Sanford
Until now, I’d only seen Meat Puppets in the gleams of recollection. Childhood, man. When I found out they were coming here, to San Francisco, I hopped upon the opportunity. Hell, I thought I’d take it […]
Chuck Mosley & Friends, Faith No More, Coffin Boy Crow
August 18, 2016
The Great American Music Hall
San Francisco, CA
A Pairing That Means Caring
By Sean Sanford
A couple weeks ago a dear friend, who works at The Great […]
Alabama Shakes, Kurt Vile
August 13, 2016
The Greek Theatre
Berkeley, CA
Alabama Takes the Shake
by Sean Sanford
Candice and I are Unamazing Racers. Typically, whenever we set out to do something, we end up somehow falling into the […]
Violent Femmes
May 10, 2016
Amoeba Music
San Francisco, CA
The Balm of Violence
I glanced at the diabolique of my treacherous foe: the clock. Er, maybe I meant work. Either way, the two were a team of weights bearing down on my chances of […]
Fred and Toody, Jesus Sons
March 21, 2016
The Chapel
San Francisco, CA
Fred and Toody Pierce the Moon
Its funny the way music finds its way to you. (Books too.) But I feel that a lot of times a band or a singer will […]
Pins Of Light, The Birth Defects, Dirty Denim
February 27, 2016
Benders
San Francisco, CA
Early To Rise
Going from rusted to ruined can feel seamless sometimes, at this age of mine. I’m not that old (I keep telling myself) but shit, dude, old enough to feel […]
Pins Of Light, Hornss, Robbery
January 22, 2016
Elbo Room
San Francisco, CA
Pins Of Light Release the Hounds
A ghastly figure hunches over a button, the fire of his intentions rivaled only by that in his eye. Yes, singular: he has but […]
Metallica, Cage the Elephant
February 6, 2016
AT&T Park
San Francisco, CA
For Whom the Cove Tolls!
The Super Bowl’s coming. Did you hear? Well, the actual Bowl or whathaveyou is down where techies tread but since San Francisco still claims ownership of…goddamnit […]
Trans Am, Mammatus, Dirty Ghosts
July 9, 2015
The Chapel
San Francisco, CA
Universal Solitude
By Sean Sanford
It’s funny how alone you can feel in a big city, surrounded by people. But there’s a beauty in the isolation when you can share […]
Nikki Corvette, Guantanamo Baywatch, Jonathan Richman, John Waters
July 5, 2015
Mosswood Park
Oakland, CA
Burger Boogaloo 2015 (Episode 2)
By Sean Sanford
The morning light squirmed in through our bedroom blinds like call waiting: mysterious and irritating. Caller ID being […]
Thunderroads, The Gories, Shannon and the Clams, The Mummies, John Waters
July 4, 2015
Mosswood Park
Oakland, CA
Burger Boogaloo 2015 (Episode 1)
By Sean Sanford
I must admit we were a bit apprehensive about going to Burger Boogaloo this year. We […]
Big Business, Pins of Light, Worship
July 3, 2015
Bottom of the Hill
San Francisco, CA
All That Pins Business
By Sean Sanford
Candice and I hold Pins of Light very close to our hearts. The band that is. We were […]
For The Ladies
June 18, 2015
Milk Bar
San Francisco, CA
An Evening For The Ladies…the Band
Under the guise of solemnity I was silent and staring, the trees of Golden Gate Park taking on the grey hew of twilight. (Side […]
Thrasher SOTY, Shannon and the Clams, Bass Drum of Death, Naughty By Nature
December 13, 2014
The Public Works
San Francisco, CA
Award to the Wise
Blow the dust off the needle and set it spinning. Or, to the spinning. We’re all trying to put the […]
Ancient Rites, Cloak, Agata
December 9, 2014
The Knockout
San Francisco, CA
The Rite To Remain Violent
Twas the week of Candice’s birthday. Okay, so it turns out that birthdays can be tiresome when you have a shitload of friends who love you. […]
Stevie Wonder, India Arie, Sheila E.
December 5, 2014
The Oracle Arena
Oakland, CA
The Magic Remains
I feel that everyone has, within their plethora of concert-induced memories, one or two shows that stand incomparable to anything else. Maybe it was simply your first arena-rock show, or the […]
Pins of Light, Wild Eyes
August 26, 2014
The Hemlock
San Francisco, CA
The Tracks of My Beers
San Francisco is experiencing a sort of mass exodus. I feel like every day I hear of somebody awesome moving to Oakland or Los […]
The Dwarves, The Queers, Masked Intruder, The Atom Age
July 15, 2014
Bottom of the Hill
San Francisco, CA
Queer Things in Small Packages
Sure, all us elderly folk are familiar with Mtv Unplugged. But only true music enthusiasts know about NU Unplugged, where budding […]
Color Me Rad with McRad, Drunk Injuns, Free Beer and Motorhome
By Sean On August 5, 2014 · In Bottom of the Hill, Punk Rock, Show Reviews, Skateboarding, Uncategorized
McRad, Drunk Injuns, Free Beer, Motorhome
August 2, 2014
Bottom of the Hill
San Francisco, CA
Color Me Rad
With Candice out of town, my thumbs were beginning to grow tired of twiddling. The wolves were trotting rabid and I wanted to rock out. By the sheerness of […]
D.I., Bum City Saints, Rockfight
April 19, 2014
Thee Parkside
San Francisco, CA
It’s the D.I. of the Tiger
Have you noticed how stylish bacon has become lately? I don’t mean that metaphorically either. I mean bacon. All over the place. It’s kinda fuckin annoying. Did I […]
The Sword, Big Business, O’ Brother
March 20, 2014
Slim’s
San Francisco, CA
Sword-of Tragic…But Not Really
The night was ripe with the fruits of potential. Two of our favorite bands were sharing a bill at the illustrious Slim’s Rock-N-Roll Dance Hall. […]
Russian Circles, Helms Alee, KEN Mode
March 7, 2014
Great American Music Hall
San Francisco, CA
Russian to See Some Good Music
Guess what: you know who’s a bundle of agro crimson fist-stomping in every mosh pit he goes to? Pounding and pounded […]
Pentagrammatically Correct: Featuring Odd Salon, Pentagram and Radio Moscow
February 25,2014
DNA Lounge
San Francisco, Ca
Pentagrammatically Correct
I am a failure at computers. It’s true. I don’t even know what the diarrhea I’m doing right now. Does ignorance necessarily establish failure? Or is it more like, […]
Magic Trick, Kevin Morby, Joseph Childress
February 22,2014
The Chapel
San Francisco, Ca
Folkin Shit Up With Magic Trick, Kevin Morby and Joseph Childress
We love to headbang, but we also enjoy a little variety from time to time. Candice proposed we mellow […]
Red Fang, The Shrine, Indian Handcrafts
November 30,2013
Slim’s
San Francisco, Ca
Fangs Running Red! There should be metal programs in school. I feel that today, some metal bands are the equivalent of classical piano ticklers from the days when dudes wore crimped wigs. I suspect that the ways in […]
I See Death, People: Death, Pure Bliss and Disappearing People at The New Parish
By Sean On November 5, 2013 · In Punk Rock, Rock and Roll, Show Reviews, The New Parish, Uncategorized
Death, Pure Bliss, Disappearing People
October 31,2013
The New Parish
Oakland, Ca
I See Death, People
Saying we were seeing Death on Halloween felt like kind of a Who’s On First sort of situation, but it was true. As a part […]
Hardly Strictly Bluegrass (Part 1)
Jon Langford & Skull Orchard Acoustic/Freakons, Sallie Ford and the Sound Outside
October 5,2013
Golden Gate Park
San Francisco, Ca
That’s Hardly What She Said
Every year in the fall San Francisco puts on the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival and oh how […]
Kylesa, Torche, Ruby The Hatchet
August 29, 2013
The Chapel
San Francisco, Ca
Kylesa, Torche and Ruby The Hatchet Converse About Life
The best things in life are free? What a cute idea. Sadly we live in a world where this is pretty much only true in the reality depicted by […]
From Relapse Records:
Red Fang: Premiere First Single of Upcoming Album ‘Whales and Leeches’
The Portland, OR-based group Red Fang have debuted the lead single–“Blood Like Cream,” from their third studio album, Whales and Leeches– on SPIN.com. Listen to the song which SPIN hails “a gruff, flesh-hungry challenge to Queens of the Stone […]
Band: Pins of Light
Shane Baker – Vocals and bass
Jake Palladino – Guitar
Ravi Durbeej – Guitar
Phil Becker – Drums
Interview Date: May 3, 2013
A little over a year ago, on a night of pajama laden boredom, I was lazing around browsing through my Twitter feed when I […]
Man Or Astro-Man?, Terry Malts and The Chucklberries
May 8, 2013
Bimbo’s
San Francisco, Ca
Man Or Astro-Man? Touches Down in the Non-Football Variety
I got pretty flippin tickled with I heard Man Or Astro-Man? would be landing their rocket ship at Bimbo’s in the North Beach quadrant of […]
Heavy Glow Interview
Neck of the Woods
April 10, 2013
“If you forget about it, play your music,
and people dig it, then everybody’s happy”
– Jared Mullins
Sean and I were super stoked when we received and email from Heavy Glow’s manager. They […]
Mudhoney and Hot Lunch
April 12, 2013
Slim’s
San Francisco, Ca
In the Dreams of Mud and Honey
Candice and I were excitedly yearning to be elevated beyond the valley of youth via goddamn kick-ass music. Remember Grunge? It used to be a genre. It seems to not […]
Leonard Cohen
March 2, 2013
The Paramount Theater
Oakland, Ca
…Then We Take Oakland.
Remember the days when you used to watch a movie and part way through it you’d be like, “I’m totally gonna go down to My Local Record Store and get this soundtrack after I get […]
Noise Pop 2013
E V Kain, The She’s, Dirty Ghosts and The Thermals
March 1, 2013
The Rickshaw Stop
San Francisco, Ca
Did You Hear That Pop?
Wait, shhh. That Noise, did you hear it? It was the same shit that the weasel goes. It created a whole litter,
Noise Pop 2013
The Fresh & Onlys, R. Stevie Moore, Plateaus, and Burnt Ones
February 27, 2013
Bottom of the Hill
San Francisco, Ca
I had my first introduction to the Noise Pop festival while I was […]
“Wizard Bloody Wizard”
Bad Shit and Rock Bottom
February 10, 2013
Thee Parkside
San Francisco, Ca
Skating Drunky Radness (The Blood Wizard Video Premier)
I guess there are a couple different kinds of wizards. There’s those pussies like the ones in all the Lord of the Rings-type […]
Tomahawk with Retox
February 16, 2013
Great American Music Hall
San Francisco, CA
Faith Regained
My bones were weary, but my psyche sure as shit wasn’t. In the proceeding twenty-four hours, I’d skated three skate parks and a backyard ramp, driven to my hometown, had insomnia, driven back and eaten […]
Negative Approach, Bad Antics and Guantanamo Dogpile
February 9, 2013
Great American Music Hall
San Francisco, CA
Tickets. We had them. Two of them. Yes. Yet (sadly) our jitters of excitement turned to puh-shaws of despair: Candice and I had tickets to see Off!, the amazing manifestation of Keith Morris (of […]
Sunday night, the tele was on E! as we were getting ready to head out to the Blood Wizard video premiere with the bands Rock Bottom and Bad Shit playing. These bands probably will not get any Grammy awards (sorry, dudes), but most of the bands we go see are not going […]
Black Cobra, Glitter Wizard, and Lecherous Gaze
January 18, 2013
Brick and Mortar Music Hall
San Francisco, CA
Where the Black Glitter Shines
The night started as many end, with me alone in my room, drinking a beer and watching a skate vid. It being a Friday though, […]
The Terry Malts, Toys that Kill and Pins of Light
Saturday, December 31, 2012
The Hemlock Tavern
San Francisco, CA
If 14-Me Could Be Me Now
This may be some weird bi-product of Candice and my late affinity for Hitchcock flicks but let me begin with the ending: […]
Recent Comments
- 2 day lingzhi on I See Death, People: Death, Pure Bliss and Disappearing People at The New Parish
- Rock Stiffly on I See Death, People: Death, Pure Bliss and Disappearing People at The New Parish
- Mike on Man Or Astro-Man? Touches Down in the Non-Football Variety
- admin on Hightower, Walken, and Rock Bottom
- Edmundo on Hightower, Walken, and Rock Bottom
Archives
- April 2019
- August 2016
- May 2016
- March 2016
- February 2016
- July 2015
- June 2015
- December 2014
- September 2014
- August 2014
- May 2014
- March 2014
- February 2014
- January 2014
- November 2013
- October 2013
- September 2013
- August 2013
- June 2013
- May 2013
- April 2013
- March 2013
- February 2013
- January 2013
- December 2012
- November 2012
Categories
- (((folkYeah!)))
- Amoeba Music
- AT&T Park
- Benders
- Bimbo's 365 Club
- Bluegrass
- Bottom of the Hill
- Brick and Mortar Music Hall
- Burger Boogaloo
- Comedy
- deals
- DNA Lounge
- Elbo Room
- Flashback Fridays
- Folk
- Great American Music Hall
- Hardly Strictly Bluegrass
- Hip-Hop
- Indie Rock
- Interviews
- Metal
- Mezzanine
- Milk Bar
- Motown
- Neck of The Woods
- News
- Noise Pop
- Punk Rock
- Rants
- Record Store Field Trips
- Rock and Roll
- Seaman's Lodge
- Show Reviews
- Skateboarding
- Slim's
- SOTY
- Surf Rock
- The Chapel
- The Greek Theatre
- The Hemlock
- The Independent SF
- The Knockout
- The Lost Church
- The New Parish
- The Oracle Arena
- The Paramount Theater
- The Public Works
- The Rickshaw Stop
- Thee Parkside
- Uncategorized
