Esther Huang

Cunningham’s full-bodied vocals evinced an uncanny ability to marry with the band’s verve-imbued groove, at times in unexpected ways.

Gone is the melancholic, oneiric Blue Neighborhood that defined Sivan’s past — in his relocation to a new landscape of unabashed revelry and excess, the artist has packed up his electro-pop sensibilities and packed away his poignance.

Though IMYA + IHLY at times romps around with the same bright, fervent production that characterized its predecessor, at heart, it brims with thoughtful reminiscence and an evolved thematic purview.

Listeners can finally graduate from Ed Sheeran’s 12-year math class after the release of the singer’s sixth studio album, – (Subtract).

Rather than act as a magnum opus, Eat Your Young serves as the musician’s creative playground, allowing him to build on his multivariate exigences in ways that hone his craft, define his artistic boundaries and extend a hand to his waiting audience.

Surfacing charts and selling out stadiums in Reid’s fictional timeline, the 11-track album, sung by Daisy Jones (Riley Keough) and Billy Dunne (Sam Claflin), is an attempt to realize the band that tragically bites off more than it can chew.

All of San Francisco’s mercurial chill was forgotten on Feb. 25 as crowds gathered at the War Memorial Opera House to witness "Giselle," one of classical ballet’s most infamous romantic works.

The lion dances, fortune-telling and rabbit petting zoo in Davies Symphony Hall were all mere prologues to the San Francisco Symphony’s sweeping Lunar New Year festivities on the night of Feb. 5th.

Seong-Jin Cho’s airline may have lost the luggage carrying his concert suit on the way to Berkeley, but the world-class pianist was no less dazzling on the stage of Zellerbach Hall.

At times, the novel appears to reach outward from the page and wrap around the reader, blurring the boundary between fiction and reality.