GalleryPremiere: Battlehooch releases new single “Grace of Lace”
Battlehooch is known to break the boundaries of musical genres, crossing psychedelia, pop and rock n' roll into a mutant-like sound that is epic and undefinable. Coming off of [...]
GalleryLil Dowager’s new EP offers some of the Bay’s best noise
‘Never Too Late To Hate’ album cover (art: Brendan B. Larsen aka Wigboiler)
Lil Dowager made their debut a year and a half ago with their EP Attorney at Law, which featured the now [...]
GalleryFlesh World (ex-Brilliant Colors, Limp Wrist) to release new LP this June, play Knockout end of month
In June, San Francisco's Flesh World will release their second LP, The Wild Animals in My Life, a glassy collection of trembling, swollen guitars, and primal drumming. Flesh World's primary songwriters [...]
GalleryArcade Fire’s Will Butler to hit San Francisco’s Great American Music Hall next week
After ten years, Arcade Fire's Will Butler is finally treading his own path. The multi-instrumentalist (who plays bass, drums, synthesizer, and guitar) was nominated for his first Academy Award [...]
GalleryKendra McKinley releases new single “Fine As A Vine”
You know that light-headed, dizzying sensation that comes when you realize you're about to fall in love? When you know you can't stop it, when the crude inevitability of [...]
GalleryGet to know: Dead Recipe
If you like your pop music a bit on the weird side, Santa Cruz duo Dead Recipe may be for you. Formed by Austin natives Kyle Albrecht and Camille [...]
GalleryNightLife LIVE 2015 series kicks off with Machinedrum and B. Bravo
NightLife LIVE returns to California Academy of Sciences tonight with Machinedrum Vapor City Live and B. Bravo, presented by DJ Dials. The monthly series is part of the Golden [...]
GalleryMakeunder shares “Great Headless Blank”, receives NPR love
Photo: Ginger Fierstein
We've been telling you about Oakland's Makeunder for quite some time, but now people outside the Bay are starting to pay attention. Their latest release, "Great Headless [...]
GalleryPlush releases shimmering new record Pine
(photo: Zack Wise)
Plush are a new four-piece from San Francisco that play guitar driven pop music with angsty undertones. Their music harkens back to when SF had a thriving [...]
GalleryListen to French Cassettes and Waterstrider’s contributions to OIM Records’ Vol. 1 compilation
OIM Records, Vol. 1
As we told you a couple weeks ago, Oakland booker and promoter Sarah Sexton, musician Angelica Tavella, and producer Jeff Saltzman recently joined forces to create [...]
GalleryScalped to bring their “spinkick-metal” across States, debut new EP
San Francisco hardcore outfit Scalped announced a full U.S. tour and a new EP on Video Disease. The last time I caught this band, the vocalist had already ditched [...]
GalleryTerry & Louie release second single, plan Oakland show
Fresh off their debut release as a duo, Oakland's Terry Six and New Orleans' King Louie, aka Terry & Louie, are back with another 45 single that continues their [...]
