GalleryIn Case You Missed It: Justin Seagrave’s debut “Between Lives”
If a story is a thread, and a song is a woven web, Justin Seagrave's debut Between Lives is a museum-quality tapestry. Exquisite attention to production detail meets Seagrave's [...]
GalleryAnnie Bacon: Leaving San Francisco, where music and home became one
Bay Bridged Editor and longtime San Francisco musician Annie Bacon left San Francisco for Michigan weeks ago. In this essay, she says the goodbye she needs to say to [...]
Gallery‘Life on Hiatus,’ a multimedia work at PianoFight this month
Life on Hiatus explores the lives of four characters whose everyday existence has been interrupted.
What does it mean to have your life interrupted? Does it mean to have an [...]
GalleryRogue Wave celebrate 10 years of iconic album with 3 Bay Area shows
Oakland-based Rogue Wave is headed through the Bay Area for three shows starting in Santa Cruz tonight. The indie rock band, which Zach Rogue built out of the ashes [...]
GalleryThey can’t take the spirit from Van William’s heart
Singer-songwriter Van Pierszalowski has started three bands in the past decade: Port O'Brien, an indie-folk favorite of the Bay Area in the late aughts; the power-pop group WATERS, technically [...]
GalleryReview + Photos: The Family Crest + Goodnight, Texas rile up Great American Music Hall
The Family Crest (photo: Kate Haley)
Last Thursday night, Great American Music Hall was a home-grown happy zone for hundreds of eager audience members and longtime fans of the Family Crest. [...]
GalleryLostboycrow croons at Cornerstone Berkeley next week
Electro-pop/R&B crooner Lostboycrow makes his way to Cornerstone Berkeley next week in support of his newest EP, Traveler: The Third Legend. Traveler is a three part journey. The First [...]
GalleryJesse Ray Smith releases single “Easy on Me” off debut solo album
For Jesse Ray Smith, music has always been a catharsis from the heaviness of life. Far from creating escapist bubblegum, however, Smith leans into meaning with a full and [...]
GalleryPremiere: “The Mighty Echo” by the Family Crest
Of the thousands of new songs that have come across my desk in the past few months, few have been so surprisingly grand as The Family Crest's newest track, [...]
GalleryPremiere: Brian Belknap is “Bearing Witness”
If you've ever taken public transit in San Francisco, you've almost certainly seen one-man band Brian Belknap doing his "broke-down folk, junk-country blues, and gut-bucket gospel" thing. He's taken [...]
GalleryKat Robichaud’s “Song for David Bowie” is a tear-jerking tribute
(photo: Mike Lloyd)
For anyone who loved Major Tom, this song rings about as true as it gets. From the first feeling of being radically accepted by David Bowie's music, [...]
GalleryFolk singer-songwriter Dan Blakeslee treks west to the Lost Church
(photo: Michael Winters)
Once upon a time, when I first moved to California and still had a laminated license from Maine, a clerk at the Berkeley Bowl grocery store told [...]
