Tag Archives: Oakland
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Free wellness services for hip-hop artists and workers available Saturday
MusiCares, courtesy. MusiCares and East Bay outreach and social services organization Kingmakers of Oakland have partnered to hold a health and wellness event on Saturday for established Bay Area hip-hop music professionals. The event will include complimentary wellness services like vision screenings and eyewear, hearing exams with custom ear…
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Interview: Oakland’s Super Cassette finds the right tech for its message
Super Cassette: Max Gerlock (L) and Nick Gerlock. Courtesy Gene Ang. OAKLAND — Pop outfit Super Cassette sings about moving through darkness rather than dwelling in it. Continue? Super Cassette Dad Shirt Records, out now Get the album on Amazon Music. “Even in the more depressive songs, there’s a…
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Introducing Satya: Oakland-born artist flourishing in the Big Easy
Satya, courtesy. Satya has a gorgeous voice and an original sound that effortlessly crosses and synthesizes genres. The Oakland native’s lyrics come from authenticity, examining her feelings and experiences with honesty and grace. Satya and friends 7 p.m. (Doors), Thursday, May 26 The New Parish Tickets: $10-$12. “Writing has…
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Concertgoer struck by stray bullet in front of the Fox Theater
The Fox Theater, closed, on the afternoon of March 17, 2020, the first day of a shelter-in-place to combat coronavirus. UPDATED on Nov. 11, 10:15 a.m. — A woman waiting for doors to open for a concert at Oakland’s Fox Theater was struck by a stray bullet Wednesday afternoon,…
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The Uptown nightclub to stay shuttered permanently
The Uptown Oakland. STAFF. For the second time since first opening its doors in 2005, The Uptown nightclub in Oakland has closed. The club, across the street for the Fox Theater on Telegraph Avenue, had already been shuttered since March. Its owners, Robbin Green-Yeh and Ray Yeh, announced the…
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Oakland’s Damian Lillard on how we can be allies to Black people in the Bay Area
Damian Lillard walks arm in arm with other Black Lives Matter protestors on the Morrison Bridge in Portland, Oregon on June 4, 2020. Photos courtesy: Bruce Ely/Trail Blazers. A day prior to getting his first on-court action in more than four months in the Portland Trail Blazers’ first scrimmage…
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REVIEW: KISS and David Lee Roth say goodbye to Oakland (maybe)
KISS performs at the Oakland Arena in Oakland on March 6, 2020. Gary Chancer/STAFF. OAKLAND — The Centers for Disease Control was likely not happy with KISS if one of its inspectors happened by Friday night’s show at Oakland Arena. At one point, bassist and professional gross demon-man Gene…
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After 2018 controversy, Burger Boogaloo and homeless camp to coexist
Mosswood Park in Oakland, the site of Burger Boogaloo, photographed on June, 26, 2019. Photo: Karen Goldman. OAKLAND — Attendees at this year’s Burger Boogaloo music festival in Oakland’s Mosswood Park will have some neighbors: The park’s homeless residents. After the controversial eviction of the park’s homeless encampment for…
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Noise Pop REVIEW: Carla dal Forno haunts the Starline Social Club
Photos: Alessio Neri OAKLAND — Around the time she began writing her own songs for the first time, Melbourne singer-songwriter Carla dal Forno lived in a house that was supposedly haunted. Her music reflects that haunted feeling, and she put that on full display at her Noise Pop show at the…
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Photos and Review: Passenger shares his life’s stories at Fox Theater
Photos: Johan Doornenbal OAKLAND — Michael David Rosenberg has dedicated half of his life to singing and connecting with people under the moniker Passenger. The 32-year-old English singer-songwriter performed at Fox Theater Thursday, supporting his 2016 album Young as the Morning, Old as the Sea. Ominous backlight illuminated Rosenberg for the majority of his songs,…
