GalleryGo behind the song with Owl Paws’ premiere of “Keep On”
Welcome to Behind the Song, our new illustrated series where we talk to Bay Area artists and get the backstory to your next favorite song.
For our first installment, I [...]
GalleryGreat Star Rising: Behind the revival of a classic San Francisco theater
Kat Robichaud's Misfit Cabaret at The Great Star in December. (photo: Patric Carver)
Words by SarahJayn Kemp
The Great Star Theater is the last of a dying breed of uniquely San [...]
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 [...]
GalleryThe Bay Bridged Band-To-Band Relay: Abbot Kinney to Kev Choice
Words by Annie Bacon
If you missed it last month, the Band-to-Band Relay is part of The Bay Bridged’s ongoing desire to curate and deepen your awareness of your local [...]
GalleryVideo Feature: 112 years of the Phoenix Theater
Crowd at the Phoenix Theater (photo: Estefany Gonzalez)
The Bay Area is full of amazing venues, but (likely) only one can say it survived three fires and has hosted acts as diverse [...]
GalleryThe Singing Limbs will shake up San Francisco with their new EP
Words by Sarah Leighton
The Singing Limbs’ music is music for the brain and the booty.
The band recently played on the historic stage at the Great American Music Hall, giving [...]
GalleryProfiles In Protest: How the Bay’s music community is responding to the inauguration
After the 2016 election, the nation seemed sharply divided. With inauguration day rapidly approaching, we wanted to give musicians from our community a space to voice how they felt [...]
GalleryThe Independent’s Allen Scott on his favorite SF haunt, Nopalito
The Independent's Allen Scott (Illustration: Rob Goodman)
Over the past few years, Divisadero Street in San Francisco’s Alamo Square neighborhood has been a hotbed of amazing new restaurants, bars, cafes, [...]
Gallery77 albums the TBB staff loved in high school
If you've been on Facebook any time in the last week or so, you might have seen that "10 Albums I Loved In High School" thing going around. The [...]
GalleryHamilton Leithauser brings something old, something new to The Indy next week
(photo: Josh Goleman)
Throughout his perennially-underrated musical career — first as the lead singer of The Recoys, then as the frontman for beloved indie rockers The Walkmen, and now as [...]
GalleryBest of 2016: Will Reisman’s favorite musical moments
Growing up in Maine, without any hip older brother to speak of, my exposure to cool music was about as limited as one could imagine. I listened to the [...]
GalleryJody’s Best Of 2016: Everything* non-local I loved this year
That's right. I've been keeping a list.
Julia Jacklin
Sydney, Australia
If you asked me at any point after March of this year what I was listening to, know that I was [...]
