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 [...]
GalleryPremiere: Van Goat’s swing-punk “Willie the Weeper” electrifies
Van Goat is making a name for itself as one of San Francisco's funnest bands. Their newest release, "Willie the Weeper," a ska-styled swing-punk take on the classic tune, [...]
GalleryCalifornicorns release new album at Great American Music Hall next week
Next Thursday, funk-rock band Californicorns headline Great American Music Hall to release their newest album, Warm Oakland Nights. Originally the in-house band of beloved local performance arts mecca PianoFight, [...]
