GalleryIn third year, BottleRock Napa Valley attempts to move into the black
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 [...]
GalleryInterview: Emily Whitehurst on the dark pop of Survival Guide
“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, [...]
GalleryInterview: Wolf Alice lets the songs write themselves
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, [...]
GalleryInterview: Thriving on change with the eccentric sound of Growwler
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 [...]
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 [...]
