Words by Juli Fraga
As musicians in a local band, the Silhouette Era, San Francisco State students Sean Thompson and Carlos González have already recorded an EP and toured together. [...]
(photo: Emily Dulla)
Words by Michelle Kicherer
I’ve had lots of conversations over the years in the anguished I-was-born-in-the-wrong-decade vein. We’ve sat there daydreaming about what it must have felt like [...]
Become the Disease album art
Words by Adam Hudson
Some people say that rock music is dead, but it’s still being kept alive in underground circles in the Bay Area. One [...]
On this segment of news you already know: SXSW is massive.
It’s a beast of a festival-conference-party-networking-a-thon where over 2,000 artists vie for the attention of press, publicists, labels, industry [...]
Noise-obsessed band from Rhode Island, Daughters, might seem like a part of the recent series of half-hearted reunion shows or the string of overwrought 'ten-year-anniversary-of-our-seminal-album' tours that we bore [...]
(photo: Nikki Pratchios)
Words by Michelle Kicherer
We are all such tiny, programmed machines
Stuffing more and more stones up our sleeves
Zelma Stone released their first LP Layla with Honey [...]
(photo: Matt Hogan)
Words by Erin Lyndal Martin
Caroline Rose copes through the magic of dark humor, and there’s a lot of coping on her 2018 album LONER. On it, she [...]
Words by Erin Lyndal Martin
On her solo debut Lionheart, H.C. McEntire blends the country music and hymns of her youth to create a winsome album full of the queer [...]
(photo: Christian Dao)
Christian Francisco, the guitarist and de-facto manager for Wander, and I arranged to meet at the Shooting Star Cafe in downtown Oakland. In our emails, Christian had [...]
Jay Stone could be cut from a cloth of the “last real MCs,” except his swatch would be some thrifted, metallic, purple-and-gold synthetic hemp (despite being born and raised [...]
(photo: Lindsey Byrnes)
Words by Erin Lyndal Martin
Listening to Le Butcherettes’ albums is not the same as being in the crowd when Teri Gender Bender pulls out a pig’s head [...]
Safia Mafia is a vibe. Her latest project, Love Kills is a kaleidoscope dream of R&B hinged upon the early influences of Motown soul, '80s synth pop, electronica, and [...]
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