As San Francisco’s Noise Pop festival entered its 22nd year, New Parish hosted–to my knowledge–the very first Oakland Noise Pop show. San Francisco’s Social Studies and Portland’s aan added another notch to their Noise Pop belts while Farallons and Max & the Moon opened. In January, aan dropped their debut Amor Ad Nauseum LP via Party Damage […]
Oakland’s Trails and Ways delivered a homecoming show of sorts last Friday at New Parish. The Berkeley grads played several Bay Area shows this spring and summer before embarking on an extensive national tour and dropping their new Trilingual EP this fall. Friday’s show marked their first Oakland show since Trilingual and it didn’t take long to prove those […]
As Tame Impala closes out it current tour with a final string of West Coast dates, a handful of folks in Oakland were treated to a rare, intimate show with the Aussie psyche rock group. Given that Tame Impala played to thousands of people just two nights before, across the bay at San Francisco’s Bill […]
Cult Records’ featured artists Har Mar Superstar and The Virgins swung by Oakland’s New Parish on Friday March 22. Admittedly, I had only stumbled into both bands and their music earlier in the day. Har Mar Superstar’s excellent “Lady, You Shot Me” (below) lured me in. While the Virgins headlined and their 184,000 Facebook fans […]
Southern Californian, instrumental duo El Ten Eleven began their new west coast tour in San Louis Obispo and brought their technical, feel-good jams to Oakland last night. We recently covered their show at Rickshaw Stop in San Franciso, check that for more photos. Always nice to catch a show in Oakland and avoid cutting a […]