Powerfest Lineup Announced Ft. Ripship, The Biscuits, Jang + More Annabel Kean / Tuesday 4th May, 2021 2:18PM
Powertool Records are making a big to-do of their 20th anniversary, dusting off a top-shelf 38-piece tool box of local rockin rabble-rousers to celebrate twenty years of alt-rock and almost 200 releases.
Powerfest is an expansion of the label s Kaleidoscope World Series showcase that they ve been putting on since 2003, but this time they ve got nearly 40 bands, four stages and are linking up with the New Lynn record fair. Sunday 6th June, save the date and lock in your spot.
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Featuring. X-Features, Loud Ghost, Mary, The Fuzzies, The Changing Same, Vorn, Avondale Spiders, Gold Medal Famous, The Holy Loner, Ripship, Headlock Grave, The Biscuits, Sandtrap, Universal Authors, Cloudy, Art Wank, Stacked, Mariner, Melanie, Quaint, Crossroads Dirt, Enshrine, Jennie La Bombe, Shady Brain Farm, Wear You Wig Out, Cootie Cuties, Superturtle, Video Nast
Chronicle Staff March 10, 2021Updated: March 15, 2021, 8:15 am
Sign of encouragement on Castro Theatre marquee in San Francisco on March 15, 2020. Photo: Scott Strazzante, The Chronicle
When attending the arts is a cornerstone of your life, what do you do without showtimes to schedule your weeks around?
Over the past year, Bay Area arts super fans those marathon concertgoers, cinephiles and Shakespeare stans have made major adjustments as in-person performances halted and the art world began experimenting with digital services and outdoor stopgap measures.
Now that we’re coming up on the anniversary of shelter-in-place, The Chronicle caught up with some of the art community’s biggest fans about how they’ve subsisted in the meantime. What they all had in common: hope for a safe return, nostalgia for the camaraderie of live audiences filled with friends and a longing for that thrill when the house lights go down and the show starts.
This yearâs Sundance Film Festival going virtual has no doubt been a godsend for accessibility. Countless world class films, previously confined to snowy Park City, are temporarily made available to anyone in the country, anywhere, including my cramped apartment in Ridgewood, Queens. Despite the lack of a centralized on-site venue for New Frontier, the festivalâs annual virtual reality and new media showcase, the Sundance Institute overhauled their interface in order to support a platform perfectly suited for innovative works at the intersection of moving image and burgeoning technology. One of the perks of being awarded this yearâs Press Inclusion Initiative fellowshipâaside from a standard press pass and bragging rights (of which I am eternally grateful!)âis receiving a complimentary Oculus Quest 2 VR headset. A week before the festival started, I received a brand-new Oculus in the mail like it was a tipsy late-night online shopping purchase. When the initi