The current incarnation of Film School — out today with its new CD, “Hideout” — is very different from the one that released a critically acclaimed self-titled album in 2006. Former sound ...

Film School’s big sound and bigger antics quickly outgrew the Hi-Dive’s stage. Photos by Julio Enriquez. You know a set’s ether totally on fire or a complete trainwreck when a band’s ...

"We’ve waited 10 years for this," Film School frontman Greg Bertens cheered, after his wall-of-sound confessionals set the table for Swervedriver’s rugged guitar epics, ...

It’ll probably never happen to you, but it happened to Greg Bertens, the San Francisco–based singer and chief sonic architect behind the band Film School, when My Bloody.

Film School is the brainchild of Greg Bertens, aka Krayg Burton, who started Film School in 1998 as a two-piece band. “It was two people, me and a drummer,” explains Greg, who didn’t quite ...

Despite being perennially in flux, with songwriter/vocalist Greg Bertens seemingly recruiting a new set of members for every release, Film School manages to always sound the same. Now on its third ...

San Francisco’s Film School features five cinephiles cum indie rockers, fronted by mainstay Greg Bertens. Praised for their dreamy pop featuring keyboards and guitars that float by like puffy ...

In one short year, everything changed for Film School founder Greg Bertens. He had been feeling disillusioned and disconnected. In fact, he was questioning whether he wanted to continue making ...

San Francisco’s Film School seems to have had more line-ups than some other bands have had hot dinners, as the saying goes. In the latest carnation, frontman/guitarist Greg Bertens’ vocals are ...

Fronted by Greg Bertens, San Francisco’s Film School made four albums — a couple for Beggars — of superior shoegazy indie rock inspired by a variety of ’80s sounds. (Bunnymen, Cure, MBV ...

When former Film School musicians Greg Bertens and Nyles Lannon reconvened after years apart for a visit to the abandoned Caves of California, the musicians got more than a fun day out. Check out the ...

Indie heavy-hitter Film School has been a band in flux since releasing its stellar second album on Beggars Banquet in 2006. It started out in promising fashion, with the band opening for The Nation… ...