Author Archives: Karen Goldman
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SLIDESHOW: No lonely times at Carly Rae Jepsen album release show at the Greek
Carly Rae Jepsen performs at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley, Calif. on Oct. 21, 2022. Karen Goldman/STAFF. BERKELEY — Carly Rae Jepsen picked a good night to play the Greek on Friday. Hours after dropping her new album, The Loneliest Time, the pop singer-songwriter played several of the newer songs at her…
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SLIDESHOW: Bauhaus glitters for two nights at The Masonic in San Francisco
Bauhaus performs at the Masonic Auditorium in San Francisco on May 22, 2022. Karen Goldman/STAFF. SAN FRANCISCO — Making their first Bay Area appearance since 2006, Bauhaus electrified audiences during their two-night stint at The Masonic in San Francisco. The band is currently in the midst of a short…
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PHOTOS: Murs, The Grouch and friends still Living Legends at Cornerstone
Murs performs with The Grouch, Eligh and DJ Fresh at the Cornerstone in Berkeley on July 8, 2021. Karen Goldman/STAFF. BERKELEY — West Coast underground hip-hop legends Murs, The Grouch and Eligh played to a packed house at The Cornerstone on Thursday, with a crowd eager to welcome their…
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SLIDESHOW: Lord Huron, Shakey Graves and Julia Jacklin at the Greek Theatre
Lord Huron performs at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley on Aug 2, 2019. Click the photo to begin the slideshow. BERKELEY — Lord Huron returned to the Bay Area on Friday, following performances at BottleRock and Treasure Island music festivals over the past nine months. Given the opportunity to…
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SLIDESHOW: The Jesus and Mary Chain and 7 punk bands highlight Burger Boogaloo Day 1
The Jesus and Mary Chain performs at Mosswood Park for Burger Boogaloo in Oakland on July 6, 2019. Click the photo to start the slideshow. OAKLAND — Day one of the tenth annual Burger Boogaloo was held in Oakland’s Mosswood Park on Saturday. Hosted by legendary filmmaker and counterculture icon John…
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PHOTOS: RJD2 goes crate-digging at Berkeley’s Cornerstone
RJD2 performs at the Cornerstone in Berkeley on Feb. 1, 2019. Photos: Karen Goldman. BERKELEY — Ramble Jon Krohn didn’t remember the last time he performed in Berkeley as RJD2, but he has a connection to the East Bay all the same. At his show at Cornerstone Friday, Krohn…
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PHOTOS: FIDLAR preps for third album release at Oakland show
FIDLAR performs at The Fox Theater in Oakland on Nov. 2, 2018. Photos: Karen Goldman OAKLAND — FIDLAR stopped at the Fox Theater Friday for the penultimate show of a tour leading up to the release of the Los Angeles punk band’s forthcoming album, Almost Free. The band played a…
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PHOTOS: Dan Auerbach brings his Easy Eye Sound Revue to SF
Photos: Karen Goldman SAN FRANCISCO — It became clear at Dan Auerbach‘s show at the Fillmore on Thursday, the second of two sold-out gigs, that the Black Keys’ guitarist was at some point in his life fascinated by the revue tours of the ’50s and ’60s. Touting not only his…
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PHOTOS: Tori Amos gets creative at the Paramount
Photos: Karen Goldman OAKLAND — Singer-songwriter and piano aficionado Tori Amos played the Paramount Theatre Sunday as part of her Native Invader Tour. The Oakland concert consisted of three parts, with seven original songs, followed by an interlude called “Fake Muse” — a play on fake news — that included two cover songs (the Police’s “Wrapped…
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PHOTOS: Tedeschi Trucks Band bring Southern soul to the Fox
Photos: Karen Goldman OAKLAND —The Tedeschi Trucks Band played to a near-sell-out-crowd Friday at the Fox Theater, the first of two Bay Area shows. Hailing from Jacksonville, Florida, home of bands like the Allman Brothers, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Molly Hatchet and .38 Special, Tedeschi Trucks follow firmly in the tradition of blues and Southern rock. Tedeschi Trucks…
