Tag Archives: CHVRCHES
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REVIEW: Chvrches take a ‘field trip for goths’ at Sonoma Harvest Music Festival
Chvrches perform at Sonoma Harvest Music Festival in Glen Ellen, Calif. on Sept. 21, 2019. Photos: Martin Lacey. GLEN ELLEN, Calif. — Alternative rock was the order of the day Saturday at B.R. Cohn Winery on the second weekend of the expanded Sonoma Harvest Festival. The second weekend had…
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Death Cab for Cutie, CHVRCHES headline second Sonoma Harvest Music Festival
Chvrches performs at Golden Gate Park during Outside Lands on Aug. 11, 2018. Photo: Joaquin Cabello. Sonoma Harvest Music Festival producers Monday announced the lineup for the second annual event at Glen Ellen’s BR Cohn Winery. This year’s festival will take place on four days over two weekends in…
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REWIND: Celebrating Scotland with The Proclaimers and CHVRCHES
Happy Tartan Day! On April 6, 1320 the Declaration of Arbroath, demanding Scottish independence from Pope John XXII, was signed. It didn’t work. But it did potentially influence the Declaration of Independence, which was enough for future Congress-to-Lobbyist-pipeline poster boy Trent Lott to endorse it as a holiday celebrating Scotland and…
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PHOTOS: Thrice and Joaquin Cabello’s 9 other best concerts of 2018
Quicksand performs at the Great American Music Hall on July 18. Dashboard Confessional, Thrice and others also made Joaquin Cabello’s list of favorite shows in 2018. Music has always been something substantial in my life, whether it was playing in bands or taking photos on and off-stage. It has been…
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Joaquin Cabello and Shawn Robbins recap Outside Lands 2018 with photos
Florence and the Machine at Outside Lands in San Francisco on Aug. 11, 2018. Shawn Robbins. I can safely say that Outside Lands is the best large scale music festival running right now. Having been to my fair share of music festivals for about 10 years now, nothing beats…
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Outside Lands: Florence and the Machine, 13 other acts we loved on Saturday
Florence Welch from Florence and the Machine performs at Outside Lands in San Francisco on August 11, 2018. Photos: Shawn Robbins and Joaquin Cabello. SAN FRANCISCO — Touting her new record, High As Hope, Florence and the Machine played her first U.S. show Saturday at Outside Lands with the new…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Chvrches redefine pop punk with Love Is Dead
Scottish trio Chvrches began making waves in the indietronica scene with an energized take on the style in 2011. Though Iain Cook, Martin Doherty and lead vocalist Lauren Mayberry center their music around the most accessible side of keyboard-driven pop and electronic dance music bangers, punk undercurrents manifest through their…
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Photos & videos: CHVRCHES and Wolf Alice at the Fox Theater – April 18
CHVRCHES perform at the Fox Theater in Oakland on April 18, 2016. Roman Gokhman/STAFF. CHVRCHES and Wolf Alice, two bands from the United Kingdom, had some time to kill between two weekends of Coachella and decided to hit the road together for a handful of shows. On Monday at…
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Interview: Glasgow’s Chvrches hurtling over growing pains
CHVRCHES perform at the Fox Theater in Oakland on Sept. 18, 2014. Roman Gokhman/STAFF. Perhaps it’s superstition, but Iain Cook says that his band, Glasgow’s Chvrches, will have a tough decision to make once the trio heads back to the studio to record a follow-up to the critically and…
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Outside Lands: Does Chvrches’ Iain Cook want to remake the soundtrack to ‘Star Wars?’
Iain Cook of Chvrches performs at Golden Gate Park during Outside Lands on Aug. 11, 2018. Joaquin Cabello/STAFF. Glasgow trio Chvrches are big fans of Prince, so Iain Cook was over the wall, recently, to have sold out Minneapolis’ First Avenue for the second consecutive night, and for the…