From now until the start of Noise Pop, we'll be profiling some of our favorite artists playing the festival this year.
This time we're profiling Father/Daughter, the now-legendary SF label [...]
Vagabon (photo: Kaiya Gordon)
Lætitia Tamko made one of the most empathetic, deft albums of 2017 with Infinite Worlds. Yet somehow, if possible, Tamko's talents shine even brighter in her live [...]
Photo by Jess Garten
Much has changed since the last time I spoke with Chasms. Last October, I met the duo of Jess Labrador and Shannon Sky Madden in a [...]
“You can’t like FUPU if you aren’t physically doing something to make the world a place of access and equality for Black humans; femme humans; LGTBTQ humans; poor humans,” [...]
Green Day (photo: SarahJayn Kemp)
Two years ago, I injured my knee screaming “Basket Case” at a karaoke party. The lingering injury is just one of countless ways Green Day has [...]
(photo: Peter Prato)
San Francisco's NRVS LVRS have been a Bay Area fixture 2014. On their latest album, Electric Dread, the duo skillfully plays with intersections between hard rock, haunting vocals, [...]
(photo: Chris Sikich)
MIRROR
After I ask Mars Dixon and Jade Payne of Aye Nako to confirm the pronouns used by each member of the band, they ask me about my [...]
"Have you ever felt that someone was mysterious and strange?" Emma Witmer of Gobbinjr sings on the title track of Vom Nite, the band's latest EP. "When you get too [...]
“I’m just trying to encourage other people to be their best selves,” Xiomara tells me, as we chat over the phone. She’s babysitting for a friend, and throughout our [...]
Mitski (photo: Robert Alleyne)
The first time I saw Mitski belt straight into her guitar strings was two years ago, during a shattering Audiotree Live Session I devoured through my computer screen. [...]
Sigur Rós (photo: Jon Bauer)
Sigur Rós are consistently billed as a post-rock band — but while listening to them in a contemporary context, their music reminds me less of [...]
(Hazel Reading Series banner, designed by Diana To.)
“We have no prescribed identities,” Sara Marinelli of San Francisco's Hazel Reading Series says to me over the phone. For us, [womanhood] is [...]
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