Interview: Bells Atlas release new EP, Hyperlust
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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, [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]