The Limousines are going it alone. The San Jose-based electronic-indie duo of Eric Victorino and Giovanni Giusti have booted the record company execs from their neon stretch Lincoln and grabbed hold of the wheel, so that they [...]
Two Gallants stopped by Live 105’s Sunday-night indie/local music program, Soundcheck, on August 26, to chat with DJ Aaron Axelsen and treat listeners to an in-studio performance of a [...]
Somewhere around the middle of the band's set on August 29 at the Regency Ballroom, a long-haired Conor Oberst addressed the audience.
"I've been watching the Republican National Convention," he [...]
Ever woken up — on a stranger's couch, or hardwood floor, surrounded by empty beer cans and cigarette butts — surprised to be alive?
Listening to Oakland-based Wallpaper, you would [...]
Oakland-based Birds & Batteries have been and continue to be many things: indie-folk, Americana, electronic, pop — often all at the same time. For the uninitiated the thought of [...]
One of my most recent obsessions, DIIV, are scheduled to play The Rickshaw Stop this Wednesday, August 1. The Brooklyn-based band plays a laid-back, reverb-soaked brand of upbeat indie pop [...]
Photos by: Nicole L. Browner
For about a minute, as the crowd stood in the dim light, raucously cheering and applauding after the Dirty Projectors walked off stage July 27 [...]
Against a backdrop of Christmas lights and surrounded by a carefully curetted collection of vintage threads, San Jose indie rockers Ugly Winner took to the stage around 11 p.m., [...]
For the second year in a row, San Jose will be home to the Think and Die Thinking Festival, a celebration of punk rock, alternative culture and the DIY [...]
Around the time I was beginning to get the hang of tiresome and underdeveloped adolescent sarcasm, which I would ultimately deploy in an all-out war to control the radio [...]
Ty Segall is a man of his word. The local garage rock revivalist has announced his third (and final) record of the year, Twins, will be available October 9 [...]
"What’s in a name?" The query is posed in the very first sentence of Mwahaha's official bio. The band, formed in 2011, "answers that question with a smirk." And [...]
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