Plenty of fun was had at Super Bock em Stock: running around a beautiful city and checking out new venues (a former Moorish palace! A train station! An art deco cinema!), discovering new bands, eating pork sandwiches, and of course drinking the namesake Super Bock beer made for a memorable weekend.

Australian psychedelic titans Tame Impala – led by the talented and affable Kevin Parker – made their galvanizing return to Austin, Texas. Fans were left mesmerized by the trippy vibes, eye-popping lights, lasers galore, and an endless stream of hits. Scroll through the full experience.

The quartet from Provo, Utah, finally kicked off their tour this month in support of their second record, Under My Influence, released last summer. After opening the tour in Seattle, they hit August Hall in San Francisco.
19-year-old alt-pop newcomer Madeline the Person opened the show decked out in blue hair and fairy wings, and delivered a winning set of vivid, personal songs.

Despite Iceland Airwaves’ late cancellation, there was still plenty of awesome live music to take in as well as incredibly beautiful sights to see. Scroll through to check it all out.

British rock band Idles played the Warfield in San Francisco on November 6th, ahead of the release of their fourth record, Crawler. New York art-punk band opened the show. Check out the gallery of both bands…

The autumn edition of the Outside Lands music festival in San Francisco, moved from August this year to October, closed out the weekend of festivities on Halloween. Check out the gallery for pics from Sofi Tukker, Kehlani, RUFUS DU SOL, TroyBoi, Yves Tumor, Nelly, LP Giobbi, Cam, Cannons, mxmtoon, and Claud.

Last week, vaporwave titan George Clanton and electro pop rising stars Magdalena Bay rolled through San Diego’s Soda Bar, throwing down dazzling sets that galvanized the energetic crowd. MagBay delivered rapturous performances of tracks off their excellent debut LP ‘Mercurial World,’ while George entertained the crowd with an endless string of his greatest hits. Scroll thru for all the visual magic.

Day 2 of Outside Lands featured a headlining set from Lizzo, plus Vampire Weekend, Angel Olsen, Dr. Dog, Hinds, Noga Erez, Jessia, Rico Nasty, 24kGoldn, Andrew McMahon and the Wilderness, Dijon, plus rapper Anime filling in last minute for a no-show Young Thug, and Reggie Watts subbing in for an injured Marc Rebillet.

The Outside Lands music festival returned to Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. After the cancellation of the 2020 dates, the festival came roaring back, shifting from its normal August weekend to Halloween weekend, which added a little more flare for all involved, from the bands to the attendees. Day 1 highlights included Tyler the Creator, Glass Animals, Sharon Van Etten, Khruangbin, JPEGMAFIA, SG Lewis, Buscabulla, The Hu, Remi Wolf, Sofia Valdés, Bartees Strange, and Madeline Kenney.

Wolf Alice played August Hall in San Francisco on October 30th, out on tour in support of their critically-acclaimed third record, Blue Weekend. Being Halloween weekend, the band were decked out in costumes that could best be described as car crash victims/zombies. Despite the show coinciding with the rescheduled Outside Lands music festival in San Francisco, the sold-out show was packed with an unbelievably excited crowd.

Grammy Award-winning producer/singer-songwriter Finneas played to a raucous sold-out crowd at the Fillmore in San Francisco on November 1, 2021.

Sophie Allison knows how to move a crowd to a stratospheric emotional climax. On Wedensday, her band Soccer Mommy cruised into San Diego’s Music Box in Little Italy, treating fans to a searing mix of hits from ‘Clean’ and ‘color theory’ in addition to a beautiful cover of Slowdive’s “Dagger.” It was a set filled with peaks and valleys and staticky crescendos. Scroll through for the highlights.

Sleigh Bells, out in support of their recently-released fifth album Texis, played the Rickshaw Stop in San Francisco on October 24th, the second of a two-night stand in the Bay Area. After playing a set at the New Parish in Oakland while the venue flooded, the atmospheric bomb cyclone continued to pound the area throughout the next day. The weather couldn’t keep the crowd away, though, and Sleigh Bells played hard enough to blow out the power to the sound system multiple times. Punk quartet Kills Birds, whose singer Nina Ljeti directed the video for Sleigh Bells’ “Locust Laced,” opened the show.