Walk The Moon, courtesy. Last week MTV declared Cincinnati dance-pop quartet Walk The Moon’s “Anna Sun” its official song of the summer. The same song was also chosen as the official song of the summer by Esquire – in 2011. Walk the Moon has been riding the “Anna Sun”…

Still friends: Collective Soul, the Atlanta band that broke out in 1992, is playing the 1999 album “Dosage” in its entirety at the Fillmore on Wednesday. Courtesy. Twenty years after their platinum debut, Atlanta rockers Collective Soul are still touring and recording with most of the band’s original lineup…

At the final of three sold-out shows at The Fillmore, Sunday, keyboardist Kenny Hensley of Seattle folkies The Head and the Heart was positioned far stage-left — out of the prime real-estate controlled by vocalist Jonathan Russell and vocalist-guitarist Josiah Johnson. The band may want to rethink that strategy, as…

Grouplove, courtesy. In 2008, painter Hannah Hooper moved from San Francisco to Brooklyn, where she scraped by on infrequent commissioned jobs. It was before she got her big artistic break — not with a brush, but with Grouplove, in front of a microphone. Being in an unfamiliar place during…

K.Flay, courtesy. There is a duality to San Francisco rapper K.Flay. There’s Kristine Flaherty, who graduated from Stanford with majors in psychology and sociology, and the hip-hop artist who signed with RCA Records. There’s a 26-year-old woman who identifies with San Francisco, yet moved to Brooklyn last year to…

The Head and the Heart, courtesy: Sub Pop. Seattle folk-pop ensemble The Head and the Heart may be headlining three consecutive shows at The Fillmore next week, but it has not wandered too far away from its street busking, house party origins. Don’t count them out as the entertainment…

Seemingly timeless songstress Patti Smith’s 11th studio album, her first original material since 2004, is a mixed bag. “Banga,” (June 5, Columbia Records) is sometimes contemplative, with soft melodies; sometimes hard-driving, with lyrics chanted to enforce Smith’s message. Spoken word meditations on life and dreams bridge the two extremes…

OAKLAND — How could a garage band – a duo, no less – rise from basement shows to stadiums? In the case of The Black Keys, who sold out Oracle Arena Friday, it’s the blues. For many of the young pop and rock-bred fans who bought tickets, the blues…

Yukon Blonde, courtesy. Doing his best to ignite a thinning Tuesday night crowd at Café Du Nord, shaggy Yukon Blonde frontman Jeff Innes turned to one of the few good things about the day following the one with the worst reputation (Mondays): Cheap fast food. That didn’t seem to…

Snow Patrol, Courtesy. Snow Patrol is still best known in the U.S. for “Chasing Cars,” which played over a tearjerker moment on “Grey’s Anatomy” a half-decade ago. That’s why the Irish-Scottish band made a purposeful attempt to prove Gary Lightbody and co. can create more than the masterful ballad…