Live Music: Alt-J at the Fillmore, San Francisco
Alt-J (so named for the neato triangle you can make using your keyboard—∆) headlined a sold-out show at the Fillmore the other night. The band got together in 2007 at...
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Live Music: Midge Ure Live in Cleveland, January 16, 2013
Midge Ure has engendered quite a bit of goodwill over the years, thanks to a long musical career spanning myriad genres. In the ‘70s and ‘80s alone, the Scotland native...
SnowGlobe Music Festival: 13 Highlights for 2013
Partying for three days straight in single digit temperatures? Who wouldn’t be at least a wee bit trepidatious about uncomfortable at best, unbearable at worst, conditions for a music festival?...
Live Music: The Motet in San Francisco
Just before Christmas, the Motet lit up a little pocket of San Francisco, bringing a much-needed boost of merriment to a holiday season that felt to me more sad and...
Live Music: Leonard Cohen @ HP Pavilion, San Jose
Only Leonard Cohen could transform a space as impersonal and corporately stamped as the HP Pavilion into a dazzling concert hall on a tired Wednesday night. Suburban yuppies filed in...
Woods at the Preservation Jazz Hall West at the Chapel, San Francisco
Last week, Woods had the honor of being among the first bands to play San Francisco’s newest venue: The West Coast outpost of New Orleans’ legendary Preservation Jazz Hall. “The...
Live Music: Future Islands @ Bottom of the Hill, November 15, 2011
Straight out of Baltimore by way of Greenville, North Carolina, Future Islands brought their own brand of crazy to Bottom of the Hill on Tuesday night. The show, headlined by...