Live Review: Yeasayer, Smith Westerns, Hush Hush, Philadelphia, PA, June 17, 2011

Live Review: Yeasayer, Smith Westerns, Hush Hush, Philadelphia, PA, June 17, 2011

Aside from consistently showcasing a musically snug live act and a light show that calls for a mandatory acid drop,
/ LIVE REVIEWS
Live Review: Architecture In Helsinki, Hooray For Earth, San Francisco, CA, June 3, 2011

Live Review: Architecture In Helsinki, Hooray For Earth, San Francisco, CA, June 3, 2011

For a long time, I felt that the notion of “music brings people together” was reserved for Raffi concerts and
/ LIVE REVIEWS
Live Review: Lykke Li, San Francisco, CA, May 30, 2011

Live Review: Lykke Li, San Francisco, CA, May 30, 2011

Nordic crooner Lykke Li’s show at the Regency Ballroom in San Francisco sold out more than six months ago. While
/ LIVE REVIEWS

ADVERTISEMENT

ADVERTISEMENT

Live Review: Lee Fields, Charles Bradley & The Menahan Street Band, Brooklyn, NY, April 1, 2011

Live Review: Lee Fields, Charles Bradley & The Menahan Street Band, Brooklyn, NY, April 1, 2011

It was another funky Friday night at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn, as singer Charles Bradley & The
/ LIVE REVIEWS
Live Review: Röyksopp, San Francisco, CA, March 28, 2011

Live Review: Röyksopp, San Francisco, CA, March 28, 2011

During the Röyksopp show at the palatial Regency Ballroom in San Francisco, Murphy was my unexpected plus-one. After parking on
/ LIVE REVIEWS
Live Review: The Pogues, Chicago, IL, March 3, 2011

Live Review: The Pogues, Chicago, IL, March 3, 2011

The fact that the classic lineup of the Pogues performed at the Congress Theater in Chicago on Thursday night mattered
/ LIVE REVIEWS
Live Review: The Get Up Kids, San Francisco, CA, Jan. 29, 2011

Live Review: The Get Up Kids, San Francisco, CA, Jan. 29, 2011

When I heard the Get Up Kids were doing a show at Slim’s in San Francisco, my thoughts drifted back
/ LIVE REVIEWS
Live Review: Gogol Bordello, Philadelphia, PA, Dec. 29, 2010

Live Review: Gogol Bordello, Philadelphia, PA, Dec. 29, 2010

Fans stomping around in combat boots and military gear too stylish to ever be permitted at an Army base crammed
/ LIVE REVIEWS

ADVERTISEMENT

Live Review: Pretty Lights, Oakland, CA, Nov. 24, 2010

Live Review: Pretty Lights, Oakland, CA, Nov. 24, 2010

At the ritzy Fox Theater in downtown Oakland, Calif., the glow-stick-festooned crowd was on a collision course with a Mack
/ LIVE REVIEWS
Live Review: The Apples In Stereo, The Orange Peels, San Jose, CA, Oct. 31, 2010

Live Review: The Apples In Stereo, The Orange Peels, San Jose, CA, Oct. 31, 2010

If somebody had figured out the calendar right in the beginning, we would now be about a month into what
/ LIVE REVIEWS
Live Review: Gorillaz, Oakland, CA, Oct. 30, 2010

Live Review: Gorillaz, Oakland, CA, Oct. 30, 2010

The virtual band created by Blur frontman Damon Albarn and cartoonist Jamie Hewlett has burgeoned into a real-life phenomenon, with
/ LIVE REVIEWS

ADVERTISEMENT

Live Review: Of Montreal, Janelle Monáe, San Francisco, CA, Oct. 29, 2010

Live Review: Of Montreal, Janelle Monáe, San Francisco, CA, Oct. 29, 2010

The members of Of Montreal were not the only ones bedecked in wigs, drag and glitter tonight. On the eve of
/ LIVE REVIEWS

ADVERTISEMENT

R.I.P. MAGNET Senior Writer Jonathan Valania