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Content warning: Mention of suicide A decade after the release of his critically acclaimed debut mixtape 1999, Brooklyn rapper Joey Bada$$ embarked on a cross-country summer tour to promote the long awaited sequel to 1999, the album 2000. Joey Bada$$ wore a nondescript outfit consisting of a sweatshirt bearing his
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You might also have a festival or two booked for the summer, and for many of you, it may be your very first one. Well, let me tell you that festivals aren’t always what they seem on social media as here are some things no one tells you about music festivals.
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Once the digital screen background began to flash “keshi,” the audience knew that at last they were freed from their hell of palpable anticipation. Keshi finally walked onto the stage, welcoming everyone into the hour-long heaven that is his HELL/HEAVEN tour. Wearing a stylish black long sleeve with white graphics,
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Sporting a matching orange set and white sneakers, Rex Orange County graced the Greek Theatre as part of his “Who Cares?” tour June 5, beckoning people from all over the Bay Area to Berkeley. The stage’s colorful design shifted thematically as the alternative singer’s setlist moved through albums. As he
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On tour to promote its new album “Sirenler” (Sirens), the Turkish alt-rock band Mor ve Ötesi created perhaps the most intimate environment it could have, making the 200 fans in the crowd now former strangers. Rickshaw Stop was a rather simple and small venue, with casual red and blue lighting
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Even after producing 2010s mainstays such as “Breezeblocks,” alt-J has proven its ability to adapt to the alternative scene’s ever-shifting ecosystem.
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The band members bounced erratically around onstage, at times perfectly in sync and other times engrossed in their own worlds, careless and chaotic under colored lights.
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Beyond the music, Claud’s easygoing charm helped make the show especially memorable.
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“It’s really important to us to keep the love in the air at our shows,” Guldemond said. “To look these people in the eye and take the space between songs to say things that bring us together.”
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Undeterred by screaming fans being replaced with the silence of racing chat threads, The Aces radiated enthusiasm.
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