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PHOTO RECAP: EOTO @ The Independent, San Francisco 12.5.14

EOTO once again showed their artistic and collaborative chops this past friday at the Independent in San Francisco. An EOTO show is just something you ha...

PHOTOS: St. Lucia @ The Independent, SF 2/5/14

St. Lucia played The Independent last Wednesday night and were joined by opener Sir Sly. Our friend Justin Yee was on hand to get photos from the show. --Edito...

CONCERT RECAP: Skrillex + Craze + LOUISAHHH!!! @ The Independent, SF 2/3/14

When the news dropped late last year that Skrillex would be doing a set of shows in San Francisco dubbed as a "Takeover", I was pretty amped up at the possibili...

CONCERT RECAP: Surfer Blood @ The Independent, San Francisco, CA 10/22/13

I was confused – very confused. Who was this dude with the 12-string guitar and headset mike? Why were none of the lights on? What was all this electronic crap ...

CONCERT RECAP: J Roddy Walston and the Business @ The Independent, SF, CA 10/10/13

It was a lukewarm southern night in Athens, GA, in the waning months of 2007. As a senior in college, there was nothing better for me to do than to go out drink...

PHOTOS / RECAP / SETLIST: MS MR @ The Independent, San Francisco 10/15/13

MS MR kicked off a mini west coast tour last night in San Francisco in support of their debut album, Secondhand Rapture. Using momentum from their solid Outsid...

CONCERT RECAP: Dumpstaphunk Superjam @ The Independent, San Francisco 8/11/13

To close down another stellar Outside Lands weekend, I carried a NOLA Jazz Fest tradition over to the Bay Area by finishing off the festival weekend with an epi...

Wolfmother Announces Intimate Show at The Independent in SF

After a whole ten minutes advance notice, Bay Area's Another Planet Entertainment (also responsible for bringing Outside Lands to the world) just dropped the ne...

VIDEO: moe. pays tribute to Dave Brubeck with “Take Five”

Legendary jazz pioneer Dave Brubeck passed away at the age of 91 on Wednesday morning and last night moe. paid tribute with a cover of Brubeck's classic tune "T...

Live Music Blog’s Best of 2012: Concerts, Albums, Artists and More (Part Two)

Last week, we rolled out Part One of LMB's Best of 2012 feature, highlighting this year's noteworthy albums (Tame Impala's Lonerism, Jack White's Blunderbuss an...

RECAP: Reggie Watts @ The Independent, SF 6/1/12

Written by Jackson Haddad "Where My Scarecrows At?" Through the ages we've always enjoyed to laugh at entertainers. From court jesters to Vaudeville acts...

PHOTOS / WORDS: Marco Benevento Trio @ The Independent, SF 12/4/11

Marco Benevento did his best to keep a San Francisco audience perfectly satisfied last night as he brought his trio into town (this time with Reed Mathis on bas...

PHOTOS: Lotus @ The Independent, SF 11/12/11

Lotus played to a sold-out Independent on Saturday night and arguably played the best two sets I've ever seen them deliver. The energy in the room was soli...

LMB SF: This Week’s Concert Calendar (Nov. 7-13)

Sorry for the absence of this here column last week; I got hit with an acute case of tonsillitis which definitely killed my Monday pretty badly. Felt like I wa...

LMB SF: This Week’s Concert Calendar – Oct. 24-30

Happy Monday, folks. Everyone out here in the Bay Area is recovering emotionally after the transcendent experience that was this year's Bridge School Benefit c...

REVIEW (via @coventrymusic): Karl Denson’s Sticky Fingers @ The Indy, SF 10/21/11

Karl Denson's Tiny Universe arrived in San Francisco for a two night run at the Independent (one of three venues, the Boom Boom Room and the Fillmore are the ot...