GalleryReparations Rock: FUPU brings joy and power to punk
“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,” [...]
GalleryNear Dark Fest brings a globally diverse scene to Oakland this weekend
Attention Bay Area: one of the most diverse festival lineups in the typically white male dominated world of punk rock is coming to Oakland this weekend for Near Dark [...]
GalleryAvi Vinocur is always someone else
(photo: Scott Padden)
Avi Vinocur has a few people he wants to thank. A San Francisco judge, whose name he can't remember, is one of them. Rachel Maddow is too, [...]
GalleryBands In Portrait: Eko Zu
“For six months, we were literally just living as nomads,” recalls Zu'RI while we discuss her challenges as an artist in the Bay Area. She is a singer songwriter [...]
GalleryFavorite Haunts: Hazel English on Beauty’s Bagel Shop, East Bay comforts
Hazel English (Illustration: Rob Goodman)
I first saw Hazel English when she performed a stripped-down set this past spring opening up for Thao Nguyen at Gundlach Bundschu Winery in Sonoma. [...]
GalleryPalm give each other sonic space, play SF this weekend
Words by Jordan Martich
About two years ago, eccentric pop band Palm made their debut with Trading Basics, their first full-length. In the wake of its release, the band was [...]
GalleryFinding Happyness in San Francisco
Some months ago, I had found my way into one of those hyperlinked rabbit holes that the Internet seems engineered to lead you down, clicking through a flickering procession of music [...]
GalleryPhono del Sol Profile: The Coathangers
The Coathangers (photo: Erika Reinsel)
The members of The Coathangers are bold, loud and do what they want.
"The reason that we're so blunt and upfront is because what you see is [...]
GalleryPhono Del Sol: Rayana Jay is the new Bay Area sound
In the past eight months, Richmond singer Rayana Jay has seen her career trajectory go from strictly local to national — and even international — recognition. Her latest EP, [...]
GalleryPhono Del Sol: Sean Hayes on San Francisco’s grown-up scene
Words by Annie Bacon
Seven or eight years ago in the Mission District, there was a sweet and eccentric folk music scene that buzzed around Amnesia, the Mission District venue [...]
GalleryUnderCover Presents makes musicians’ dreams come true, one album at a time
Lyz Luke (photo: Jon Bauer)
Thank God Lyz Luke realized she hated Care Bears.
She says this — almost exactly this — one sunny Sunday afternoon at Zoo Labs in West [...]
GalleryJAMS: Join Against Multiple Sclerosis at Doc’s Lab
One of the most rewarding and gratifying characteristics of the Bay Area music scene is the interconnected willingness to share, hurt, and heal together.
Local musician Eric DiBerardino is no exception [...]
