By Amy Bigelow and Photos by William Wendelman October 30, 2019
As yellow lights scatter patterns of squares all across the 7,700-square-foot venue, onstage, a band is running through their setlist and tuning instruments. At Mezzanine, soundcheck for Ginger Root is...
story and photo by Chloe McDaniels October 30, 2019
A metronomic drum click, guitar feedback, lingering bass chords, screeching guitar riffs and howling vocals are faintly heard outside the closed door of room 304. In the heart of downtown San Francisco,...
In a dark bar illuminated by neon lights, bodies clad in an array of colored leather and latex make their way from the wood-top bar to the front of the stage. A purple light casts down as NEON takes their...
Brayden Deskins (right) and Tyler Boyd (left), singers of the band A Yawn Worth Yelling, perform during their Play Pretend EP Party at Bottom of the Hill. Photos by Qing Huang
Story by Lupita...
Photo by Martin Bustamante
By Oscar Gutierrez
[dropcap size="50px"]O[/dropcap]ne of the most important pieces of advice my mother ever gave me was “It is better to ask for forgiveness than...
Photo by James Chan
By Lupita Uribe
[dropcap size="50px"]W[/dropcap]hen you hear the words “record label,” San Francisco is not the first city that comes to mind --possibly because the commercial...
Photo by Martin Bustamante
By Oscar Gutierrez
I walked into a daytime punk show at a bar in San Francisco where the person at the door took a thick Sharpie marker and drew two huge X’s...
Photo by Martin Bustamante
By Oscar Gutierrez
“Un, dos, tres, cuatro!”
I was shoved into a wall as a sea of punk rockers in leather jackets and colored hair slammed into each other...
Caty McCarthy's latest music column focuses on the positive songs that will brighten your day, and make you briefly forget about all of that end of semester stress.
"I Know What You Scrobbled Last Summer" is an adventure into Caty McCarthy's musical youth, and the pop-punk bands she just can't seem to forget - no matter how hard she tries.
