GalleryInterview: Anthony D’Amato jumps with no safety net
There are those who wait for their big break, and those who put themselves right in its crosshairs. Singer-songwriter Anthony D’Amato was not content to keep making music in [...]
GalleryLive This Month: May 2015 — an audio guide to upcoming SF concerts
Download: Live This Month: May 2015 (Podcast #362)
In Live This Month, we sample some of the great local and out-of-town bands performing in the coming month in the San [...]
GalleryThe procrastinators: Seminal act The Sonics return with new album after 50 years away
The band often credited for creating garage rock, influencing punk and inducing grunge has spent the better part of the last five decades as an insurance adjuster, a schoolteacher, [...]
GalleryGetting played: the false promise of music opportunity sites
It kinda sucks being a musician today. Actually, let’s not start waxing nostalgic for a past we never experienced – it always kinda sucked to be a musician. Whether [...]
GalleryInterview: Lila Rose on the passion that inspired her new LP ‘We Animals’
Before meeting Lila Rose at a cozy coffee shop in Oakland I was, admittedly, feeling a bit apprehensive. I was expecting a particularly intimidating persona based on her haunting, [...]
GalleryInterview: Royal Blood blends wire and wood for desired effect
What makes a “guitar band,” anyway? Much has been made of U.K. rockers Royal Blood consisting of nothing more than a rhythm section. There’s drummer Ben Thatcher and bassist-vocalist [...]
GalleryThe tourist: George Ezra’s career picks up steam
George Ezra is a sightseer. If Ezra’s radio hit “Budapest” doesn’t give that away on its own, his debut album, Wanted On Voyage, also has a tune called “Barcelona.” [...]
GallerySeasons of the Witch: Blue Cheer & the so-called San Francisco Sound
San Francisco is always weathering a Season of the Witch, oscillating somewhere between liberal idealism and cold reality. Whether that reality is in the form of sadistic violence or [...]
GalleryMagic Man sows crops, reaps music career
There must be something artistically inspirational in the water of rural France. Lifelong friends Sam Vanderhoop Lee and Alex Caplow spent a summer working on farms in exchange for [...]
GalleryFresh off Grammy win, Pentatonix kick off tour in Oakland, look ahead
Winning a reality television competition doesn’t guarantee career success. Just ask the majority of celebrated American Idol victors. It’s even more incredible for success to a group of five [...]
GalleryPremiere & Interview: Listen to Tidelands’ new track “Dog Named Bart” off forthcoming Old Mill Park EP
Bay Area duo Tidelands is set to release a new EP, Old Mill Park, on March 3. The new record – the band's first since their 2012 sophomore full-length [...]
GalleryInterview: Geographer, philosophy, and Ghost Modern (plus a ticket giveaway!)
With a unique reconciliation between live instrumentation and electronic innovation, Mike Deni of Geographer has forged a name for himself in the Bay Area, becoming one of its most [...]
