Pranav splits his time between recording homemade Run the Jewels covers with his best friend and striving to become a regular at his local sandwich shop. He will defend his position that The Haunted Mansion is the peak of late-era Eddie Murphy (barring Shrek) until he passes out from getting too worked up.
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 [...]
By Pranav Trewn|February 23, 2017|Comments Off on Noise Pop: Rediscovering Dawes at The Fillmore
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 [...]
By Pranav Trewn|February 20, 2017|Comments Off on Review + Photos: Angel Olsen’s immaculate performance at The Fillmore
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 [...]
By Pranav Trewn|February 6, 2017|Comments Off on A conflict guide For Noise Pop’s massive 2017 lineup
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 [...]
By Pranav Trewn|January 18, 2017|Comments Off on The captivating Lydia Loveless will play The Independent this month
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 [...]
By Pranav Trewn|January 17, 2017|Comments Off on Imerald Brown set to further Berkeley’s ascent as a hip-hop capital on new album
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 [...]
By Pranav Trewn|December 20, 2016|Comments Off on Best of 2016: Pranav Trewn’s Bay Area Rap Hall of Fame
“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 [...]
By Pranav Trewn|December 12, 2016|Comments Off on Sorority Noise raised heavy hearts at Swedish American Hall
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 [...]
By Pranav Trewn|November 15, 2016|Comments Off on A safe space to get lit: Rae Sremmurd at 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 [...]
By Pranav Trewn|October 31, 2016|Comments Off on Rae Sremmurd bringing their idiosyncratic party to The Warfield
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