Oakland-based Trails and Ways will be performing at The Independent tonight to celebrate the release of their debut full-length album, Pathology, and you should be losing your mind.
Initially formed [...]
Photo by Theodore Maider
Every Thursday at 8am, a group of musicians, music industry professionals, and everything in between meet up at San Francisco's Piano Fight for Balanced Breakfast, a [...]
There are, and will be, bands whose sole purpose seems to push and pull genre in new directions. But I don't think Bells Atlas is really one of those [...]
(photo: Autumn DeWilde)
Scan the discographies of the many promising bands that failed to meet their potentials and you’ll see a landscape littered with disappointing sophomore albums.
Debuts are easy. They’re [...]
Childhood, for many siblings, is a very competitive time. Sisters and brothers try to out-do each other, which leads to fighting, and eventually, many can’t stand being in a [...]
The test runs are over. With a full year to plan, this year’s BottleRock Napa Valley is finally expected to reach the level producers – both current and original [...]
“See the world through apathetic eyes / love is useless when I die,” Emily Whitehurst of Survival Guide sings on “January Shock,” the lead single off her debut LP, [...]
How does a band known for its grungy riffs get its start as a folk duo? In the case of London quartet Wolf Alice, it’s out of necessity.
In 2010, [...]
I expected more than three people when Growwler took the stage at the Night Light in Oakland a few Sundays ago. Their new LP Even Tenor, after all, sounds [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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