Our best stories from the worst year
photo illustration by Makaila Heifner
I don't think any of us are going to be sad to see that clock flip over to 12:00 tonight. However — despite the unmitigated [...]
Gallery“Music is Magic”: PSDSP go analog with ‘Luddite’
By William Wayland and Carolyn McCoy
PSDSP is a band with an uneasy relationship to technology.
Ask singer and guitarist Eli Carlton-Pearson how he feels about digital technology and he doesn’t [...]
GalleryHarry the Nightgown on debut album, cringy influences and analog purists
LA/San Francisco-based Harry the Nightgown is the creative union between Spencer Harting and Cherry Glazerr bassist Sami Perez. Both producer-musicians worked at San Francisco’s Tiny Telephone— it’s no surprise [...]
GalleryUltra Q’s Jakob Armstrong talks ‘In a Cave in a Video Game’ long distance recording, inspirations
Oakland’s own Ultra Q are back with a quick 15-minute EP, entitled In a Cave in a Video Game.
The band, featuring Jakob Armstrong on guitar and vocals, Enzo Malaspina [...]
GalleryA pandemic is the perfect time to listen to Daxma
Words by Adam Hudson
When philosopher Walter Benjamin wrote “On the Concept of History”/“Theses on the Philosophy of History” (which inspired Daxma’s latest album) in Paris in 1940, he had [...]
GallerySupporting BFF.fm keeps the music coming and shines a silver lining
We’ve all been hearing stories of resilience, boundary pushing (in a good way), and communities coming together in new ways.
One of our biggest sources of togetherness during the times [...]
Gallery‘Murder in the Front Row’: An interview with director Adam Dubin
When Adam Dubin set out to film Murder in the Front Row, a documentary about the beginnings of the Bay Area thrash metal scene, it wasn’t supposed to be [...]
GalleryVideo Premiere: Drift through Steinhart Aquarium with W.O.E.
Out of the current crisis will emerge a large quantity of artistic output, most certainly. For many musicians, isolation is not new: There's always another chord to loop, another [...]
GalleryHalf Stack’s Pete Kegler talks ‘Wings of Love,’ quarantine music and country roots
Cowboys have long sat at the center of the mythos of colonized America, serving simultaneously as a relic of the past and a potent symbol of self-reliance. In a [...]
GalleryStories from Slim’s, Part 1: My last show at Slim’s ended in the tow yard
(Source: Slim's Facebook)
So yeah, Slim's closed down. In a normal world, that would have been the most bummer thing to have happened last week. I use that term "normal world" [...]
GalleryPan(dem)ic! in San Francisco: Indy Cindie’s WFH playlist
As the Bay Area slips into the lull of its third week of shelter-in-place due to the COVID-19 outbreak, the city settles into an eerie new semblance of normalcy. [...]
GalleryHawke makes dark art, light work, and books
Words by Lily Moayeri
Is the quote, “Everyone has a book inside of them, it’s just a matter of getting it out?” Or, “Everyone has a book in them, but [...]
