Author Archives: Kate Vides
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Noise Pop Review: Jacques Greene, NAVVI look like the past’s future at Starline Social Club
Jacques Greene performs at Starline Social Club in Oakland on February 29, 2020. Kate Vides/STAFF. OAKLAND — Saturday night’s show at the Starline Social Club was what people in 1987 might have imagined music would be like in 2014. Headliner Jacques Greene, bathed in a thick cloud of fog…
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PHOTOS: Pixies find a second gear in Oakland
Pixies perform at the Fox Theater in Oakland on Dec. 7, 2017. OAKLAND — Black Francis took the mic with no pleasantries or any introduction at the Pixies show at the Fox Theater Thursday evening, the first of three Bay Area concerts. In fact, at no point during the two-hour-long show did any member…
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PHOTOS: The All-American Rejects, Revivalists get intimate at Live in the Vineyard
The All-American Rejects perform at the Uptown Theatre in Napa on Nov. 4, 2017. Kate Vides/STAFF. NAPA — The All-American Rejects headlined a five-act lineup Saturday at the Uptown Theatre on the middle day of Live in the Vineyard, a contest-winner-only private music festival. Over the course of 40 minutes, the…
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PHOTOS: Jessie Ware, never sick of San Francisco, delights packed Independent
Photos: Kate Vides SAN FRANCISCO — English singer-songwriter Jessie Ware has a great memory. At her sold-out show at the Independent Wednesday, Ware accurately recounted a story from a previous show in the city, all the way back in 2013. Back at that concert, she was so sick—by then a customary…
