GalleryPremiere: Listen to the dark sounds of Teal’s “See Myself to the Door”
James Rodgers of Teal is a busy man. When he's not drumming with Creative Adult, he's been recording and performing as Teal, which began as a solo project but [...]
GalleryMeat Market made a new album, “Dig Deep”
The word "catchy" is weird - I think it describes an ability. A catchy song does something a non-catchy song can't? I call a song catchy, and that's usually the final frontier in [...]
GalleryPremiere: Not the 1’s are “Not the Ones to be Gamed on”
We've heard several songs from Not the 1's off their forthcoming LP, and they seem to a have a pretty great formula: write rhymes that take great joy in [...]
GalleryDancing In the Dark: Abbot Kinney delivers haunting pop on new EP “The Night”
Tell Jared Swanson that his brainchild Abbot Kinney sounds like Radiohead and he'll probably respond with an exasperated sigh.
Every blogger and their mom (and their mom) has compared the [...]
GallerySanta Rosa’s Fussy debut jagged, groove-filled demo
Fussy's In Your Head tape art
Despite their brief existence, Indiana's Coneheads have inspired young punks in distant suburbs. At the end of last year, San Francisco's Outer Sunset gave [...]
GalleryUNITY announce summer release of debut LP
(Unity LP variant by Jeff Cheung)
With demos sneaking online as far back as November 2013, Unity began as a songwriting outlet for Oakland-based artist and musician Jeff Cheung, known [...]
GalleryRoy Ruth’s Oakland Potwashers release ‘Night Man in a Winter Valley’
The Oakland Potwashers originated with the words of Austin poet Roy Ruth, who wrote an autobiographical collection of poetry about a motorcycle journey entitled "Buffalo Thoughts". To really drive [...]
GallerySlow Motion Cowboys release ‘In Exile/On the Mesa’ at Rickshaw Stop
On Thursday, April 21, Slow Motion Cowboys will celebrate the release of their newest album In Exile/On the Mesa, as well as the birthday of Pete Fields - the [...]
GalleryPremiere: The Vibrating Antennas contemplate mundane life on “Westward Drag”
Santa Rosa's The Vibrating Antennas is just about ready to release their second full length State of the Art, set for an April 30 release on San Francisco based [...]
GalleryAn interview with Hudson Bell and first listen of his new album, ‘Yerba Buena’
Hudson Bell has been a musician for longer than I have been alive, starting out like any of us: in his bedroom. Hudson Bell may be also the name [...]
GalleryPremiere: FASIV collect footage of police brutality in raw video for “Police”
Sometimes the truth lies in the details. FASIV , FKA Strange Hotel, tackle this head-on in their new video for song "Police." In the video, they take the song's theme [...]
GalleryChelsea Wolfe releases new 7-inch ahead of North American tour
Acclaimed California songwriter Chelsea Wolfe has released a new 7-inch ahead of her upcoming North American tour. The vinyl release contains the tracks "Hypnos" and "Flame," both of which [...]
