GalleryPremiere: abracadabra channel the ’80s with “Comb Your Hair”
(photo: Kristin Cofer)
If you've been around the Bay Area long enough, you might remember Maus Haus from the early days of this very blog (personally, I remember being told [...]
GalleryHighly Recommended: Oona Ruin, “Don’t Look Down”
I can't stop listening to this new song from Oakland's Oona Ruin. No really, like, I closed the tab so I could paste the link in this draft for [...]
GalleryPremiere: The Witch and the Wizard dive right in on “Headfirst (For Better Or Worse)”
(photo: Deb Leal)
Picture a cauldron. Add eye of newt, maybe lizard's tail, the ashes of a dying star. Oh — and the voices of Allison Kane and AJ McKinley, [...]
GalleryMakeunder come roaring back with “In Between My Dead-End Jobs”
(photo: Ginger Fierstein)
Dear reader, I'm sorry to be the one to tell you this, but you could really use a makeunder. Not a makeover — you look great, smell [...]
GalleryGet a first listen of Perhapsy’s new full-length, ‘Kingdom Starlight Bliss’
You might not know Derek Barber by name. If you're a regular reader of this blog, however, you probably know names like Madeline Kenney, Bells Atlas, and Curls, — [...]
GalleryPremiere: King Willow, “Settled”
Remember back in May, when King Willow sang us (and You're Going To Die) a song about not having your shit together? They're back with a studio version of [...]
GalleryGilberto Rodriguez y Los Intocables released a soundtrack for the Mission
(photo: Fernando Rodriguez Photography)
Gilberto Rodriguez y Los Intocables is a side project led by Almas Fronterizas vocalist Gilberto Rodriguez. When a few members of Almas couldn't make it to [...]
GalleryPat Thomas ain’t buyin’ it — tonight at Amnesia
Photo: Michael Bordelon
San Francisco's Pat Thomas is best known around town for his work in Cool Ghouls, the joyful throwback rock and roll quartet who has been cranking out [...]
GalleryJanel Marisse turns breakup into breakthrough on “Closet of Lies”
There's usually two ways to go about a breakup: Hit rock bottom or bounce back, and thankfully, Janel Marisse chose the latter. After the lead single from her Memoirs [...]
GalleryPremiere: NRVS LVRS remix Quiet Domino’s “Metropelium.” Listen here.
In a case of the SF music scene helping each other out, electro-pop outlet NRVS LVRS have remixed Quiet Domino's debut single, "Metropelium" into a darker, DJ-ier dance track. [...]
GalleryTarnation’s ‘What Is and Was’ is a year old. Now’s a good time to listen.
All too often in this age of music journalism centering on the newest and hottest, gems sometimes slip through the cracks and unfortunately miss that magic window of coverage [...]
GalleryListen to Oakland artist Baeilou’s beautiful “Eleanora”
The cello isn't something you hear a lot in pop music. Enter Oakland's Baeilou, a graduate of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music taking the cello to new and [...]
