GalleryNoise Pop: Rediscovering Dawes at The Fillmore
Dawes (photo: Brittany O'Brien)
A ubiquitous facet of music radio is "live sessions" — those intimate mini-performances that artists do for stations that get uploaded straight to YouTube to add to [...]
GalleryReview + Photos: Angel Olsen’s immaculate performance at The Fillmore
Angel Olsen (photo: Patric Carver)
Like any contemporary magnum opus, Angel Olsen’s My Woman feels both inextricably defined by its immediate context and yet wholly timeless. The singer-songwriter’s third studio LP [...]
GalleryReview + Photos: Tove Lo at The Fox Theater made me want to make bad decisions
Tove Lo (photo: Estefany Gonzalez)
“Some people say I came out of nowhere,” Tove Nilsson sighed, taking a moment to pause before the onset of the second half of her performance [...]
GalleryA conflict guide For Noise Pop’s massive 2017 lineup
OK Noise Pop, we see you. The Bay Area’s premier indie music festival went off this year, their 25th Anniversary, releasing a seemingly endless number of lineup announcements, all [...]
GalleryOut of mind and losing sight at Lydia Loveless
"Let's have a horrible fucking time tonight!"
Lydia Loveless’ first words to the audience during her Saturday night show at The Independent captured well my feelings up to that moment, [...]
GalleryThe captivating Lydia Loveless will play The Independent this month
My first introduction to Columbus, OH singer-songwriter Lydia Loveless was "Clumps," the hypnotic, unadorned penultimate track off Real, her most recent and finest studio album to date. Struck by [...]
GalleryImerald Brown set to further Berkeley’s ascent as a hip-hop capital on new album
The East Bay has proven itself in recent years as the modern mecca of Bay Area hip-hop, stealing the crown from Vallejo through the come-ups of Kamaiyah, Rexx Life [...]
GalleryBest of 2016: Pranav Trewn’s Bay Area Rap Hall of Fame
You’ll probably hear that 2016 hip-hop belonged to Atlanta.
This is the year the region’s most prominent ambassadors cemented their status as national icons. Young Thug released three increasingly excellent [...]
GallerySorority Noise raised heavy hearts at Swedish American Hall
“Maybe I'm not the person that I never wanted to be,” Cameron Boucher affirms as the music quells momentarily beneath him, before roaring back scuzzy, peppy, and potent. The [...]
GalleryBlink-182 close out Night 1 of Live 105’s Not So Silent Night
blink-182 (photo: SarahJayn Kemp)
The Blink-182 Greatest Hits CD was the first album I ever purchased on my own. I downloaded the LP from the iTunes Store after my sister took [...]
GalleryA safe space to get lit: Rae Sremmurd at The Warfield
That Rae Sremmurd put on a wildly animated performance this past Thursday at The Warfield should come as no surprise. For the past two years, the young sibling duo [...]
GalleryRae Sremmurd bringing their idiosyncratic party to The Warfield
The very first sound you hear on SremmLife 2, the second studio LP by Mississippi rap siblings Rae Sremmurd, is an abrasive industrial drone, one reminiscent of a bone-sawing [...]
